OXM Demo Disk Problems

[GLOCKGLOCK]

Is anyone else having problems with the demo discs from OXM? The last two I have received are giving me a number of different issues. For example, sometimes the disc spins up and you can hear it abruptly stop, the system hesitates for a sec and then it tries to spin the disc up again. It keeps doing this 4 or 5 times until a "Disc is not recognized" error shows. Another error is that the disc just shows up as a Mixed Media Disc on the dash and clicking on it does nothing. When I finally get the disc to load up it seems like half the time it does not recognize that I'm signed in and it makes running through the demos/videos/etc in order to get the gamerpics, etc very cumbersome. I used to be able to get through everything in 10 minutes or so, now it takes much longer.

Is anyone else having these troubles? Is this a problem with the discs or is my 360 causing this?

 

[goukill1120]

I just encountered this problem, scared the crap outta me. Hoping a bump will get some sort of answer.

 

[fieldkillah]

Did you try boiling the disc (put the disc in boiling water for a few seconds then taking it out and wiping it off)? Whenever I had an OXM disc that didnt work that seemed to fix it.

 

[help1]

[quote name='fieldkillah']Did you try boiling the disc (put the disc in boiling water for a few seconds then taking it out and wiping it off)? Whenever I had an OXM disc that didnt work that seemed to fix it.[/quote]

You are absolutely correct. The reasoning behind this is that the discs are slightly bent, thus making them harder to spin in the 360. Boiling the disc for a couple of seconds flattens it.

 

[Haggar]

Go to their website, click on the link, request a replacement disc. You'll have another in a week or so.

I got bum discs twice recently, the first time I returned it to Target (Really!) I just wanted a new disc, but the girl refunded me the price of the mag, and I bought another.

The second time I didn't want to go back to Target, so I got a replacement through OXM.

 

[Spybreak8]

Yea I've done the online replacement form but I didn't know about boiling the disc! That's so cool. Anyway my last disc works except one of the demos just stalled my system. Oh well.

 

[help1]

[quote name='Spybreak8']Yea I've done the online replacement form but I didn't know about boiling the disc! That's so cool.[/quote]



I remember the first time I heard the boiling disc thing, I thought people online were trying to fool poor souls into boiling discs.

http://www.google.com/search?q=oxm+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[LilPaintballer]

does boiling discs work with all games, cause i got saints row off of amazon market place broken and i cant get it to work, i tryed brasso and glass cleaner, it doesnt have that many scratches on it.

 

[akilshohen]

brasso and glass cleaner? Are you serious??

 

[V Illuminati V]

Boiling works with everything I've fixed like 5 games by doing it

 

[help1]

[quote name='LilPaintballer']does boiling discs work with all games, cause i got saints row off of amazon market place broken and i cant get it to work, i tryed brasso and glass cleaner, it doesnt have that many scratches on it.[/quote]

Uh oh. Glass cleaners usually have certain chemicals that can actually destroy the data. You could try boiling the disc, and if it still doesn't work get a refund.