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hello everyone 
I've been having an odd problem with my 360 lately and was wondering if any of you have encountered/fixed it before.
it started when i began playing Assassin's Creed a few weeks ago. i played for a few hours and at one point i was at a loading screen and the game froze up. the console made a clicking noise like you would hear from a cd player that has a bad cd in it and then a system message appeared saying that the disc was unreadable and needed to be replaced.
after much swearing and pleading i restarted the console and the game seemed to work just peachy. the thing is though that its become a recurring problem; and especially so with Mass Effect. Where AC would do it every now and again at load screens (roughly once every few hours), Mass Effect seems to just be random. Whether i'm walking about or at a load screen. I havent tried any other games since this has started happening, but the issue never surfaced until I began playing AC on it.
Both discs are crystal clear, not a mark on them, so this is pretty baffling to me. Perhaps the laser itself is dirty? I also wondered if it could be a heat issue and considered buying one of those extra fans that fits on the back of the machine (on a related note, can anyone tell me if those actually work?); but as to what else could be causing it i'm lost.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
I've been having an odd problem with my 360 lately and was wondering if any of you have encountered/fixed it before.
it started when i began playing Assassin's Creed a few weeks ago. i played for a few hours and at one point i was at a loading screen and the game froze up. the console made a clicking noise like you would hear from a cd player that has a bad cd in it and then a system message appeared saying that the disc was unreadable and needed to be replaced.
after much swearing and pleading i restarted the console and the game seemed to work just peachy. the thing is though that its become a recurring problem; and especially so with Mass Effect. Where AC would do it every now and again at load screens (roughly once every few hours), Mass Effect seems to just be random. Whether i'm walking about or at a load screen. I havent tried any other games since this has started happening, but the issue never surfaced until I began playing AC on it.
Both discs are crystal clear, not a mark on them, so this is pretty baffling to me. Perhaps the laser itself is dirty? I also wondered if it could be a heat issue and considered buying one of those extra fans that fits on the back of the machine (on a related note, can anyone tell me if those actually work?); but as to what else could be causing it i'm lost.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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it doesnt make the games unplayable but its definitely an annoyance. if not for the autosaves in both games i would have had to go far back in progress many times.
The only other thing I can think of is when I was playing Bioshock, it gave me the Unreadable error in the middle of a loading screen, but the disc was unmarked, and I was able to go back and play past that point.
...So yeah, this doesn't help your problem at all, but if there's a solution, I'd like to know it.