My benq drive was working now it has open tray syndrome

Hey new member here. My xbox 360 is over one year old, about a month ago i had a friend from work flash it and it was playing backups perfectly. Two days ago i took it to my brothers house to play madden 2010 and when i brought it back home it said open tray!! i put an original in and it booted up, then put the backup back in and it played. I got off work yesterday wanting to play and it did the open tray again as soon as it booted up, does this with games, originals, backups, dvds and cds!!! I took the xbox apart opened up the drive and tried it like that. The laser turns on and starts to spin for 2 seconds then stops. Then it says open tray! This sucks but if anyone could help it would be appreciated! I have a benq drive.... thanks

 

Try cleaning the laser with a q-tip and some lense cleaner. If that fails search for the term "POT Calibration" which should fix it.

 

is the lens cleaner from walmart ok, and also i looked up pot calibration and when i looked at the pots the one for the dvds looked like it was turned already?

 

I would recommend not attempting the pot calibration without a multimeter.

 

yea i was thinking that too after reading other forums. But does this sound like a bad laser too you?

 

Yeah, sounds like it needs a cleaning and a pot calibration to me.

 

thanks , i cleaned it up and it works just like b4!!! question though, if i copy the games to my xbox harddrive will it save my laser?

 

absolutly!!! if you do that than it will only use the laser to make sure the right disc is inserted, than it will run everything of your hd. saving your laser

 

glad you got it going

 

what did you clean it with mine is suffering with the same problem thanks

 

in the uk you would call them cotton buds for cleaning your ears.
have you tried a cd/dvd cleaning disc??they have the little brushes on the bottom.may be worht a go