What the heck is wrong with my Xbox?
 

Has anyone ever experienced this with an Xbox:

I place HALO into my Xbox and it does not load. It comes back with the message:

"This is an Xbox disk, please place it into your Xbox to play it".

I then proceed to turn my Xbox on and off a few times and it starts working. It used to come up the first time every time with this disk, but now its not. Should I be concerned?

I have yet to experience it with other games, but is this the first sign that my Xbox is doomed? Its only like 4 months old (my 2nd one-- first one broke so i am getting a litte gunshy with these things).

Thanks.

Mine thought PSO was a DVD movie a couple of time, but that's it.

Sounds like your lens may be dirty. I know someone who used a dvd cleaner on theirs and it works fine now.

Sounds like, best case, a dirty lense, worst case a bad drive.

It could also be that the original drives used (thompson i think) were crummy and could fail at some point. Check out the teamxbox forums I believe for other people with that problem (if that is yours or just happens to be the one disk)

Are you absolutely certain you didn't put the disk into your PS2?

don't have a PS2 hooked up to that TV, so I'm fairly certain.

A couple of time mine said something like "please insert an Xbox game or DVD movie" when I had an Xbox game in there already. I ejected the disc, and reinserted it, and all was well. Guess the system just has hiccups every now and then.

I have had my x-box from the beginning and I had something very similar to this happen to me today (first time it ever happened)

I put in NBA STREET 2 and it would not load, eventually a message came up that said something like "Make sure that the disc you put in the xbox is an xbox disc, video cd, or dvd" I took it out and put it back in and got the same message. I repeated this a few times and finally took the game out, looked at it very carefully and it was SPOTLESS, none-the-less I cleaned it with one of those dust rag thingys that are made for cd's, and it worked fine. (but I KNOW it was clean before) :grunt: