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I chose scratching my discs, because that was the closest thing to my problem.... my dvd drive makes a grinding/scratching noise whenever it tries and fails to load a disc. but the discs don't appear to be harmed when they come out of the machine.

yeah.... this message would definitely fit better in here... (i posted the same in the "sold out" topic) I was up at the midnight lauch getting mine after standing 1.5 hours in the cold. (reseverved mine in May) Rushed home, unpacked that box and WTF?! there was somethign rattling inside when i picked it up... then i look at the machine and i an see that the casing isn't even snapped together properly. I freak out, but i set it up anyway. Get it connected to Xbox live after giving up on retrieving my old gamertag. then i decide to load a game. the grinding noise that arose from my system when it began to spin the disc was truly horrible to hear. and, of course, the game did not load. http://live.xbox.com/member/Forel%20Drake you will notice i don't have any thing that requires a disc on there.

Hey.... maybe you guys should count yourselves lucky to not be in the first shipment... I was up at the midnight lauch getting mine after standing 1.5 hours in the cold. (reseverved mine in May) Rushed home, unpacked that box and WTF?! there was somethign rattling inside when i picked it up... then i look at the machine and i an see that the casing isn't even snapped together properly. I freak out, but i set it up anyway. Get it connected to Xbox live after giving up on retrieving my old gamertag. then i decide to load a game. the grinding noise that arose from my system when it began to spin the disc was truly horrible to hear. and, of course, the game did not load. http://live.xbox.com/member/Forel%20Drake you will notice i don't have any thing that requires a disc on there.