Repair Your Xbox 360 DVD Drive

Published at: 10:03 am - Monday March 23 2009

DrNathan demonstrates how a couple of dollars and a few minutes can turn your broken Xbox 360 DVD drive into a fully functioning unit again by tackling a common point of failure – the drive belt that runs the tray mechanism.

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Xbox 360 Controller Thumbstick Replacement

Published at: 01:03 pm - Monday March 09 2009

Forum member snorkle256 didn’t let a stepped-on Xbox 360 controller ruin his night of gaming.  He took the challenge of replacing the broken thumbstick head-on, using a controller from the original Xbox as an ‘organ donor’.  Head on over to his blog to see how he got his Franken-controller up and running again.

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Enabling ICH10R SATA RAID After Installing Windows

Published at: 01:03 pm - Monday March 09 2009

Typically, changing your BIOS’ SATA configuration to enable AHCI or RAID after you have already installed Windows results in a BSOD each time you reboot the machine. DrNathan shows us how he solved that problem on an Intel board with an ICH10R SATA controller using a little manual driver installation magic.

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