After loading a game...the screen says "reading"

Xbox 360's disk drive is starting to fail.Knocking on the top of the Xbox (when its on its side) while loading a game cansometimes get it to work, but at some point you will need to have your Xbox repaired by Microsoft or replace it.

the fatal "open tray" error im thinking is what you mean. reads for a couple seconds (much longer than usual, up to 30 seconds), then says open tray? i've heard of many many solutions. one is to pull on the tray when its open, and up, if its laying on its side, gently, not to break it. laying it on the side and putting a cd in, hit it gently (not to hard like your knocking on a door) and it might load. ive heard of opening the tray, taking the cd out, unplugging it and plugging it back in, then turning it on with the cd in...but that one didnt work for me. you can open it and do things directly to the laser, but check to see if you xbox is underwarrenty. if it is just send it in and it should get fixed for free.

First Turn your X-box on
Second Take out your game or CD
Third Open tray
Fourth Close tray
Fifth Repeat Third and Fourth a couple times and let it load then open
Sixth Stop when you hear the xbox make a spinning noise like when it is reading a game
Seventh Open tray
Eighth Pit a game in
Ninth Close tray
Tenth Play you game!

try sliding your finger were the disc goes in and once you do that it MAY OR MAY NOT work. it worked for me.

You can check the Open Tray error troubleshooting tip i have put on FixYa, check the link here

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KreativeGeek
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You must open your tray keep it open as you turn it off and back on, then close it and restart your xbox

Just keep closing and opening the tray, sooner or later it should read the disk.

Maybe your button might be screwed up. There may be soe presure on the buttons. check that :)

u should send xbox back to micro center  

try playing a different game *******