Originally Posted by donut This deal was dead as of Friday end of day... mods please move

Do you harbour some secret desire to become a CAG Mod ???!?!?!?!?

Originally Posted by soonerdoc Do you harbour some secret desire to become a CAG Mod ???!?!?!?!?

I didn't even notice it was the same person until you pointed that out. I wonder how many times a day donut hits that little report post button.

Originally Posted by jman619 Where you mentioned 512mb memory, and other guy mentioned 256mb. Mines just 256mb, and the console was made August 2009. Weird.

Yeah mine has a 150w power supply also which you only find on Jaspers and also if you look at another post I did with a link(it shows the prongs that match with a Jasper unit). Someone mentioned an older box but then why is there only the Arcade and Elite on the box. I just think it is misprint since I have 332 still left on my machine after initial setup. I'm sure you have Jasper.

Originally Posted by 3rdbass Yeah mine has a 150w power supply also which you only find on Jaspers and also if you look at another post I did with a link(it shows the prongs that match with a Jasper unit). Someone mentioned an older box but then why is there only the Arcade and Elite on the box. I just think it is misprint since I have 332 still left on my machine after initial setup. I'm sure you have Jasper.

Yeah, mine says 256MB on the box, but I've got 322 after the initial setup too. Mine was manufactured on 7/16/09. Is anybody else noticing that their disk drive is really loud? My disk drive is almost constantly clicking and making noise as if its on a loading screen. My other 360 is 2 years old and isn't nearly as noisy.

I am pretty much in the same boat Organ Donor. My disk drive is really loud, what gives? Wal-Mart receive a bad batch of 360s and needed to find a way to unload?

It may be a Jasper, but it could be any one of like three possible DVD-ROM drives - BenQ, Samsung/Toshiba or Hitachi drives.

Some may be quieter or louder than others. Check your disc tray with this: http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/Xbox_3...Comparison.htm (a little out dated, but a good starting point)

Provided you get a hard drive, a work around the noise would be to install your game to the hard drive and just leave the disc inside the tray. The Xbox requires that, while you will be loading/playing the game from the HDD, the physical disc must remain inside the tray.

EDIT: Found a way better DVD drive database @ http://www.360drives.com/list
^ let's you search by team name, prod. date, where you bought it, etc.

Originally Posted by driftmr2 I am pretty much in the same boat Organ Donor. My disk drive is really loud, what gives? Wal-Mart receive a bad batch of 360s and needed to find a way to unload?

This if my first 360, so I can't compare but it does seem kind of loud to me. From what I can tell I have a Jasper with 512MB and a Lite-On drive.

I believe only playing games from the hard drive goes a long way towards preventing system failure. Both times my old system rrod it sounded as if it was struggling to read the disc . Since they allowed the copy to hard drive function, no rrod(knock wood). I think M$'s hand was probably forced to add the copy to hdd by the state of their own hardware. Even the guy in the Xbox 101 video says it causes less stress on the system and makes for a happier, healthier Xbox.

Yes it sucks having to buy an overpriced drive(no fakes either!) and it's a pita if you only have 20gb and always have to delete games but the hard drive is the way to go. Better load times, quieter, more dependable.

Originally Posted by Organ Donor Yeah, mine says 256MB on the box, but I've got 322 after the initial setup too. Mine was manufactured on 7/16/09. Is anybody else noticing that their disk drive is really loud? My disk drive is almost constantly clicking and making noise as if its on a loading screen. My other 360 is 2 years old and isn't nearly as noisy.

Yeah, the DVD drive sounds like a Jet Engine taking off. I didn't think I needed a HD since I wasn't going to play online but now not sure as dl the games to the hd seems to be the way to go. So it isn't normal to sound that loud? My g/f even mentioned what is that sound every time I turn it on. lOL. My PS3 never sounds like that even after playig it for a few hours. I think I'm going to return it as it was an impulse buy.

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I got a Jasper Arcade on the Nov 7 sale from Walmart with a manufacture date of Aug 26 2009. It is whisper quiet even when playing off the disc. I can barely hear the Xbox even with the tv volume off. My launch console it replaced was like a 747 during takeoff, times ten.