okay, i have a 360 with a benQ drive in it, and from what hear, it is one of the drives with the least amount of problems, a couple of weeks ago i started getting the open tray message every once and a while, then over the next week it just got worse to the point where it didn't want to play anything, so like anyone who doesn't want to shell out the money to send it in, or buy a new one, i started digging around on youtube and google, looking for a at home solution, i did that whole pounding on the top thing (satisfying as it was) that worked only the first few times, so then i tryed the rubber band trick, waste of time, so then i took the whole damn thing apart and cleaned it with q-tips and a air compressor, well it then read dante's inferno, but not anything else...then not even Dante's inferno would work. at this point i am about to toss the damn thing in a microwave, so again i looked for another idea, yank the power cord out, nothing. do the pot tweak, well that worked long enough to download a couple games to the hard drive, so i still have to fight the thing every step of the way but if i kick the hell out of it enough to recognize the disk, i just have the hdd take over, so i was wondering if anyone had any other solutions to this problem short of replacing anything or flashing the drive, at this point im just wondering how microsoft can charge so much $ for something that is barely worth its weight in dryer lint...