My 360 thinks it's a PS2 or something.

Had my 360 for over a year with no problems. Now out of the blue it decides it doesn't want to read disks. Not even giving me an error message or anything.  Anyone else get this problem before?

Looks like you Forgot about DRE.

Had 2 disc drives go out on me within 1st year. Started with gettin random disc read error msgs, would have to try games 2-3x to get them to read. Then could hear the drive die when it went out completely, sounds like a terrible grinding sound. Unfortunately I dont believe the disc drive is covered under the extended warranty, from what i understand its only under a 1 year warranty.

That's exactly what mine sounds like when you close the drive now. A grinding sound that wasn't there before.  Games like Fable 2 and Oblivion give the drive a beating cause they're always loading shit, must have finally taken a toll.

ROTFL!

I think somethings reminding me about DRE, oh yea! The Xbox 360 I was borrowing started to not read disks properly all of a sudden.

Im disapointed, after 20 games its broken? Luckily its not mine!

My old Core 360(made in 2006) would sometimes randomly stop reading the dvd during the game and would give me an error message and boot me back to the blades menu. It would suck if I hadn't saved in awhile or something like that, but it only happened randomly. I think Blue Dragon caused it to do it the most from what I remember. It would only happen sometimes though like I said.
I later (earlier this year) replaced the 360 with a newer Elite 360 and I haven't had any problems. :)

If you have a hard drive you might want to try installing your game on the hard drive and play it off the hard drive. That should be easier on your drive as you won't need the dvd to spin while playing the game. (Well that is if it still can read the dvd's)

I get the DRE message every so often, thankfully most games have auto save features as you go.

I'm keeping my 360 in an enclosed space allowing it to overheat so i can (hopefully) get the RROD and get a new 360 without the DRE.

Damn Commando you freaking win with that post!

OT: that sucks but I've seen it happen before it's not too uncommon to be honest...

Well if you don't really care or whatever you can always "towel" it to get the RROD. Though if MS just replaces your mobo and sends back the same of everything else in your system you'll still have the DRE