If once you put a game in the disc tray but it's doesn't load, you still have the dashborad on the screen or its just says "Reading" then "Open tray". You'll need to check first that you didn't set your Xbox 360 to boot to the dashboard.
To check this turn on the Xbox 360 with no discs in the disc tray. Go to the System section then Console Settings then Start up make sure it's set to Disc not Dashborad.
If you select disc the Xbox 360 will play the disc when you turn it on. But if you select dashboard the Xbox 360 will stay on the dashboard when you turn it on.
If you did so and still not loading, try another thing. Make sure this issue isn't with this disc only. Try some other discs and DVDs if you have to make sure is it an issue with this disc specifically and by then you'll need to get another disc or it's the console itself.
You'll need also to make sure that your Xbox 360 is not overheating and it's in a well ventilated place.
Check that the date and time are set correctly. To check this go on the System section then Console Settings then Clock then Date and Time. If it's not set to the correct date and time, set them correctly.
The last step to try is to unplug the Hard Drive and try some discs without the Hard Drive attached just to test is it the Hard Drive or the Xbox 360 itself faulty. If you did so and it worked without the Hard Drive, it'd be obvious that it's the Hard Drive's issue. But if it didn't work it'd be the Xbox itself that needs service so you'll just call the Xbox 360 Cutomer Support to repair it for you.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Xbox 360 Does not Load Games
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
1500 Microsoft Points offer
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Your display settings is set to PAL 50, please change the display settings to PAL 60
If once you turn on the console and try to play any game but you get this message " Your Xbox 360 is set to PAL 50 please change your display settings to PAL 60 " .
You just need to check your display settings and it would differ if you have a normal TV or HD TV.
If you are using Normal TV , follow these steps:
1- Go on the dashboard to System.
2- Select Console Settings.
3- Then select Display.
4- Then select PAL settings.
5- Now select PAL 60.
6- Finally Confirm these settings.
If you are using HD TV , follow these steps:
1- Turn off the Xbox 360 console.
2- On the AV cable , set the switch to TV not HDTV.
3- Turn on the Xbox 360.
4- Go on the dashborad to System.
5- Select Console Settings.
6- Then select Display.
7- Then select PAL settings.
8- Now select PAL 60.
9- Confirm these settings.
10- Turn off the console.
Now reset the switch to HDTV.
Now put the game in the disc tray , Oh ! it's working.........
NOTE make sure the game you are trying to play is a PAL 60 game and the TV itself supports PAL 60.
Labels: change display, pal 50, pal 60, Xbox 360
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Windows Live Messenger Issues
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Labels: Live, spring update, windows messenger, Xbox 360
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Recover Xbox Live Profile to Xbox 360 Hard drive or Memory Unit
It's not lost and sure you can get it back. You only need to recover it on your Hard drive again.
And what would you do if you want to play on your friend's Xbox but using your own gamertag?
You only need to recover it on his Hard drive.
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Labels: gamertag, hard drive, Memory unit, profile, recover, Xbox 360
Migrate Xbox Account From The Original Xbox To The Xbox 360
If you have an account (a gamertag) on the Original Xbox and now you got the Xbox 360 and you want to enjoy the new features of the Xbox 360 Live but you want to keep the same profile. You only need to migrate your Original Xbox gamertag to the Xbox 360, just follow these steps:
1- First make sure the internet connection is ok on the Xbox 360 console.
2- If you are signed in to a profile on the Xbox 360, sign out.
3- In the Live section in the dasboard of the Xbox 360, Select Recover Gamertag from Xbox Live , then press the A button.
4- Follow the directions on the screen untill you complete the account migration.
- If your Xbox Live account has Windows Live ID you need to enter your Windows Live ID and your password.
- If you don't have Windows Live ID (email at hotmail.com,msn.com), you need to create a new one or you can use your own email but you will need to register it with microsoft on passport.net
NOTE : Trial accounts cannot be migrated to Xbox 360.
Accounts having billing issues cannot be migrated to Xbox 360.
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IPOD Update Issue
If you try to connect the IPOD to your Xbox 360 and it seems it won’t work, although it worked before.
Do you try downloading the optional IPOD support from the Xbox 360 Live marketplace, it's failing and you get one of these error messages ?
Status Code: 80070005
Status Code: 80070003
Actually this would be due to special licensing restrictions for this particular piece of content, it can only be downloaded once per profile. So if this is your second time trying to download it using the same profile, it won’t download. Even if you move the profile on another console, it won’t download.
So just to resolve this issue you will need to create a new silver account to download this IPOD update again or use a profile that never downloaded this IPOD update before, and all users will be able to access it.
I believe this would be resolving the issue.
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Labels: ipod, Live, Marketplace, updates
Friday, May 4, 2007
Backward Compatibility
If you have your original Xbox games and you want to play them on your Xbox 360, first you need to make sure that the game you want to play is supported .
1 - Xbox Live update:
This is the best and most efficient way to get it, first sign in to Xbox Live with silver or gold membership, and if you don't have one it will be better if you can create it, using even a free silver profile would be better than using any of the next two options to download the update.
2 - Download the update on the pc and copy it on a disc:
You will need to download the backward compatibility update file from xbox.com on your computer.
1- To download it go to this link.
4- Wait until the update is completed, the system will have the operating system software updated.
3- Order a disc from xbox.com
Wait until the update is completed.
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Labels: backward compatibility, games, Xbox 360
Backward Compatibility Games List
AirForce Delta Storm
Aggressive Inline
Alias
Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
All-Star Baseball™ 2003
All-Star Baseball™ 2005
Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
Amped® 2
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
Army Men®: Sarge's War™
Atari® Anthology™
ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Legend of Aang
Bad Boys 2
Big Mutha Truckers
Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ II
Barbarian
Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Batman Begins™
Battle Engine Aquila
Battlestar Galactica™
BLACK™
BMX XXX™
Breakdown
Brute Force™
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
Burnout® 3: Takedown™
Cabela's® Big Game Hunter™ 2005 Adventures
Cabela’s® Dangerous Hunts™
Cabela’s® Outdoor Adventures™ 06
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Cars
Casino
Catwoman™
Chicago Enforcer
Circus Maximus
Close Combat: First to Fight
Colin McRae Rally 4
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
Conflict: Desert Storm
Constantine™
Conker
Counter-Strike™
Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
Crash Twinsanity™
Crash Nitro Kart™
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
Daisenryaku VII
Dark Angel
Darkwatch™
Dead or Alive® 3
Dead Or Alive Ultimate
Dead to Rights®
Deathrow
Destroy All Humans!
Digimon® Rumble Arena® 2
Dinotopia
DOOM 3®
Drake™
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dynasty Warriors 4 / Shin Sangokumuso3
Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
ESPN Major League Baseball
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
Euro 2004
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
F1 2001
Fable®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
Family Guy
Far Cry: Instincts
Fatal Frame™
Fatal Frame™ II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT
FIFA 07
FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2004
FIFA STREET
Fight Night 2004
FlatOut™
Ford Mustang
Ford vs. Chevy
Forza Motorsport™
Freaky Flyers
Frogger Beyond™
Full Spectrum Warrior
Futurama™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Gauntlet®: Seven Sorrows™
Genma Onimusha
Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
Grabbed by the Ghoulies™
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
Guilty Gear Isuka
Half-Life® 2
Halo®
Halo® 2
Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
Hitman: Contracts™
House of the Dead 3
IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
Incredibles/ Mr. Incredible (J)
IndyCar® Series 2005
I-Ninja
Innocent Tears
Intellivision Lives
Jade Empire™
James Bond 007™: NightFire™
Jet Set Radio Future
Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Kabuki™ Warriors
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
kill.switch
King of Fighters 2002
King of Fighters: Neowave
LEGO® Star Wars®
LEGO® Star Wars™ II: The Original Trilogy
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
Links® 2004
LOONS—The Fight for Fame
Mad Dash Racing
Magatama
Manhunt
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
Max Payne
Max Payne® 2
Maximum Chase
Mech Assault 2
Medal of Honor European Assault™
Medal of Honor™ Frontline
Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
MicroMachines
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Minority Report
MLB SlugFest 20-04
Monster Garage™
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Mortal Kombat® Deception™
MotoGP
MTV Music Generator™ 3
MTX: Mototrax™
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
MX Unleashed
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
Namco Museum™
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
Nascar 2006: Total Team Control
NBA LIVE 2004
Need For Speed™ Underground 2
NFL Blitz 2002
NFL Blitz 2003
NFL Blitz 2004
NFL Fever 2004
NHL® 2004
NHL Hitz™ 2003
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee
Open Season
Outlaw Golf 2
Outlaw Tennis
Outlaw Volleyball
Over the Hedge™
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Petit Copter
Phantom Crash™
Phantom Dust
Pariah
Pinball Hall of Fame™
Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
Predator Concrete Jungle™
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro Race Driver™
Psychonauts
Pump It Up™: Exceed
Pure Pinball
Puyo Pop Fever
Quantum Redshift®
Rainbow Six: Lockdown
RalliSport Challenge
Rapala Pro Fishing
Rayman Arena
Raze's Hell™
Red Dead Revolver
Red Faction® II
RedCard™ 2003
Reservoir Dogs
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Richard Burns Rally
Robotech: Battlecry
Rocky™ Legends
Rogue Ops
Rogue Trooper™
RugbyLeague 2
Samurai Jack
Samurai Warriors™
Scarface
Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
Scrapland
SEGA GT™ 2002
Sengoku Warriors
Serious Sam
Shadow The Hedgehog™
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
Shark Tale
ShellShock: Nam '67™
Shenmue II
Shincho Mahjong
Sid Meier's Pirates!®
Silent Hill® 4: The Room
Smashing Drive
Sneakers™
Sniper Elite
Soccer Slam
Sonic Heroes™
Sonic Riders
Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
Soul Calibur 2
Spawn® Armageddon
Speed Kings™
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
Spider-Man™
Spider-Man 2
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
SpyHunter® 2
SpyHunter:® Nowhere to Run™
Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
SSX 3
Stake™
Star Wars Battlefront™
Star Wars Battlefront™ II
Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
Star Wars: Republic Commando
State of Emergency
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Street Racing Syndicate™
Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
Super Bubble Pop
Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
SX Superstar™
Taz Wanted
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
Tenku
Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
Tetris Worlds™
The Great Escape
The Hulk™
The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
The Legend of Spyro™: A New Beginning
The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
The Punisher™
The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
The Simpsons™ Road Rage
The Suffering
The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
The Thing™
Thief: Deadly Shadows™
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™ 2
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 2 Summit Strike
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Black Arrow™
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Pandora Tomorrow™
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
Tony Hawk’s Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Torino 2006™ Winter Olympics
Tork™: Prehistoric Punk™
Toxic Grind
Trigger Man™
True Crime: Streets of LA
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultra Bust a Move / ULTRA Puzzle Bobble
Unreal Championship 2
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Vexx™
Vietcong™: Purple Haze
Volvo: Drive for Life
Wakeboarding Unleashed: Featuring Sean Murray
Whacked!
Winback 2: Project Poseidon
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
World Series® Baseball 2K3
Worms 4 Mayhem
Worms™ Forts: Under Siege
Wrath Unleashed™
WWE™ Raw™ 2
X2 Wolverine's Revenge
XIII
Xiaolin Showdown
Yourself!Fitness™
Zapper™
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Change Xbox 360 Live Gamertag
If you want to change the Xbox 360 Live gamertag (silver or gold) , just follow the following steps :
1- Go to Xbox Live section in the dashboard.
2- Highlight your gamertag and press the A button.
3- Then select Edit Profile.
4- Select Gamertag.
5- On the Edit Gamertag screen, follow the steps on the screen.
6- Confirm the purchase of 800 points.
Then you'll find your gamertag changed to the new one.
If it is offline gamertag you will change it For Free.
Just sign in to your profile and select Edit Profile, then select Profile Name.
Then edit the current name to the new one.
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Labels: change gamertag, Xbox 360 live
How to Create Xbox 360 Live Profile
If you want to go on Xbox 360 Live, you will need to have Xbox 360 Live enabled profile (online gamertag).
These are the steps to create a profile on Xbox 360 Live :
1- First you need to make sure the Xbox 360 Live is connected to the internet.
2- If you are signed in to a profile, sign out.
3- Then go on the Xbox Live section in the dashboard to Join Xbox Live.
4- Then press the A button twice and follow the steps on the screen.
5 - During the creation of your profile you will be asked to choose the membership type you want either Silver membership or Gold membership.
I'd advise you to choose Silver membership if this is your first, second or third online profile on this console.
As for the first three Xbox 360 Live profiles you are eligible for 1 Free month Gold trial if you choose Silver membership. It will be upgraded automatically to Gold but only for 1 month free.
After this month you will be downgraded to Silver or you can extend your sybscription either for 1 month, 3 month or 12 month using either a credit card ( Visa card, Master card or American Express ) or a prepaid card.
Note if this is your after the third online profile on this console, you can't have this free month gold trial.
And if you create this gamertag on xbox.com you won't have the free month gold trial.
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Labels: gamertag, profile, Xbox 360 live
Xbox 360 Live Friends List does not appear in the dashboard
What would you do if you turn on your console, sign in to Xbox 360 Live but can't find your friends list in the dashboard ?
Don't worry just follow these steps & you will recover your friends list :
1- First turn off the console then turn it back on again.
2- Sign in to Xbox 360 Live using the profile having this issue.
3- Ask someone from your friends list to delete you from his or her friends list.
4- Send friends request to the same person who deleted you before.
5- Sign out from Xbox 360 Live , then sign in to Xbox 360 Live again.
Now you'll get your friends list back !!!
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Labels: Friends list, Xbox 360 live