Xbox 360 Benq DVD Rom Drive VAD6038

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Discs not reading correctly ? Cheaper Blank Media Not Working ? Games Crashing ?

These are a replacement BENQ VAD6038 DVD drive for the Xbox 360, with the market drying up on brand new drives we thought it a good time to stock these Benq's, as they are SO hard to get hold of.

Well we finally have been able to get supply of BenQ VAD6038 Xbox 360 DVD drive. The reason we are excited about the BenQ VAD6038 is for a few reasons, firstly it’s the quietest out of all the 360 drive types found in consoles. An Elite console with a BenQ VAD6038 is substantially quieter then an Elite console that comes with the Hitachi drive. Another major reason we prefer the BenQ VAD6038 because of it’s build quality and simplicity of design, there is much less that can go wrong with them when compared to the function and design of the other drives. Another good thing about these drives is the fact that new lasers are easy to come by, so eventually when the laser starts to become week and your disks are not longer reading like they used to, it won’t be a problem finding new lasers for these drives, and at a decent price too.

For the guys installing the BenQ VAD6038 the other big bonus is the fact that it can support bad flash recovery using dos flash, none of the older drives have this ability and it is a great safety measure to avoid costly mistakes when a bad flash occurs. If the power goes out while flashing the drive, or communication between the pc and the drive fails for whatever reason during a flashing, you are able to just use dos flash to erase the bad flash and start the procedure over again. This is something the oolder drives do not possess, in short a built in safety mechanism that means no longer having to remove the tsop from the board to recover a bad flash. Once understood, the BenQ VAD6038 is a much easier drive to be working with in regards to flashing when compared with the Samsung or Hitachi. In all, we believe that if you’re repairing Xbox 360 consoles and need a solid Xbox 360 replacement DVD drive, the BenQ VAD6038 is the best option out there to date.

General Warning About Changing 360 Drives

With all 360 drives you need to extract the DVD key from your old drives bios and flash that key into this new drive, you may also need to spoof the drive if you're not replacing a drive with the exact same brand or model. This is all not a simple procedure and should only be performed by people that know what they are doing with 360 repair and flashing the drive firmware. It is not possible to just take out the old drive and install this new one without flashing the key from your old drive in to the new one.

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