Xbox 360 Liteon DVD Rom Drive DG-16D2S 74850C - 360 Spare Parts - Xbox 360 - ModTraders.co.uk

Discs not reading correctly ? Cheaper Blank Media Not Working ? Games Crashing ?

These are a replacement LITEON DG-16D2S DVD drive for the Xbox 360, with the market drying up on brand new drives we thought it a good time to stock these Liteon's, as they are hard to get hold of brand new (many sold online are actually refurbs).

Well we finally have been able to get supply of LITEON DG-16D2S Xbox 360 DVD drive. We are excited about the LITEON DG-16D2S for a few reasons. Ffirstly it’s the quietest out of all the 360 drive types found in consoles. An Elite console with a LITEON DG-16D2S is substantially quieter then an Elite console that comes with a Samsung drive. Another major reason we prefer the LITEON DG-16D2S because of it’s build quality and simplicity of design, there is much less that can go wrong with them when compared to the function and design of the other drives. Another good thing about these drives is the fact that new lasers are easy and cheap to come by, so eventually when the laser starts to become week and your disks are not longer reading like they used to, it won’t be a problem finding new lasers for these drives, and at a decent price too.

For the guys installing the LITEON DG-16D2S the other big bonus is the fact that it easy to recover a bad flash error. If the power goes out while flashing the drive, or communication between the pc and the drive fails for whatever reason during a flashing, you are able to just use Jungle Flasher to erase the bad flash and start the procedure over again. This is something the older drives do not possess, in short a built in safety mechanism that means no longer having to remove the tsop from the board to recover a bad flash. Once understood, the LITEON DG-16D2S is a much easier drive to be working with in regards to flashing when compared with the Samsung or Hitachi. In all, we believe that if you’re repairing Xbox 360 consoles and need a solid Xbox 360 replacement DVD drive, the LITEON DG-16D2S is the best option out there to date.

General Warning About Changing 360 Drives

With all 360 drives you need to extract the DVD key from your old drives bios and flash that key into this new drive, you may also need to spoof the drive if you're not replacing a drive with the exact same brand or model. This is all not a simple procedure and should only be performed by people that know what they are doing with 360 repair and flashing the drive firmware. It is not possible to just take out the old drive and install this new one without flashing the key from your old drive in to the new one.

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