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[Michael]

Yeah, that's usually not a good idea.

I am currently chatting with an xbox support agent, unfortunately i was hoping they would sell a new front circuit board, but of course they're jacked up and don't sell pieces individually.

EDIT: The support was crap.

Haha I could have saved you some time* and told you that! 

Might try contacting again and asking for someone who knows about the dang actual xbox from the inside, just not how to use it

[Michael]

Haha! Turns out that the optical drive is so essential it won't work without it o.o I never did short out anything, all I had to do was put the optical back in. And if you can help, my optical drive for da xbox will get stuck and I have to get something to open it with.. how will I correctly clean the dirt out of an optical drive?
~PS: Taking apart my old laptop, seeing if that optical drive fits it (I doubt it).

[Sean]

The slim drives fit like a glove with a little modification, but I don't know if they will work with the Xbox. Maybe you can make a little handle that can let you manually open and close the drive.

[Michael]

The slim drives fit like a glove with a little modification, but I don't know if they will work with the Xbox. Maybe you can make a little handle that can let you manually open and close the drive.

The xbox has two ports for it to connect, my optical drive has only one port to connect, and is much larger than the two xbox ports combined. I guess I will take it all apart and sell

[Stickman Sham]

Don't consider that just yet, I remember I had that problem because I messed with the button switch by pushing it out from the inside because I took out the panel and the pusher couldn't activate the switch because it was mispositioned. That might not be the case here, but I'm just throwing that out here.

[Michael]

Don't consider that just yet, I remember I had that problem because I messed with the button switch by pushing it out from the inside because I took out the panel and the pusher couldn't activate the switch because it was mispositioned. That might not be the case here, but I'm just throwing that out here.

Yeah I did that too xD
I fixed it by stacking items atop (like 4 hammers/mallets) and let it sit for about 30 mins and it got re-positioned.