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[Musashi Wins!]

I feel bad for you Stooge. I noticed during Halo 2 that you would often have trouble loading maps.

I had a Thompson drive in my first Xbox, and it started to get a little funky after a year but I had planned on trading it for the HaloBox anyway (and did). That said, if I had problems in the same length of time with my new one (or my PS2's, or a rarely played GC) I would not buy another of either. Good games or not, that shit is unreasonable. Still...so far so good.

 

[Lyte Edge]

For those who are really worried about it, the best thing to do is to buy a system and a 1 year warranty from EB and just keep switching out the systems eveyr year. I have several friends that do that with their PS2 systems.

Thompson drives overheat which causes the disk controller to start reading garbage...try running it with a fan blowing on it or something. Otherwise, you can easily switch the HD out with some help.

Not sure if this is related to having a chip and/or replacing the EEPROM, but there is a risk he can get banned from XBL if he switches hard drives.

 

[Vortac]

The driving factor is how much the game exercises the hard drive...some games will be fine for hours, some will lock up after 15 minutes of playing.

Some developers know this now and purposefully test with Thompson drives to make sure they aren't overloading those drives. Some don't.

 

[carbonbased]

I have both a finicky Xbox Thomson drive and a Gamecube that gives me a disc read error after 5 minutes of play. Neither MS nor Nintendo will repair my consoles for free. =/

 

[hyp]

sorry to hear that stooge. i've had mine since launch and the only problem i've had was a dirty disc error maybe once every 6 months. there must have been a bad batch q/a'ed at one of their manufacturing facilities because i hear of this once in a while. let's hope the xbox 2 doesn't experience the same problems.

 

[Hellraizah]

That's why I dream of GBTC (going back to cartridges).

 

[jmd1]

launch Xbox with thompson drive no problems yet(crosses fingers)

 

[Minotauro]

I've got two launch XBoxes with Thompson drives, a launch PS2, and a launch GC...none of which have given me ANY problems. Is the whole Thompson drive problem just the result of a vocal minority?