What can i do with 6 X-Box's (NOT 360's)

So i've got 6 (six) old skool x-boxes, that have stopped playing games, although most if not all will play a game for a bit if you retry enough times.

I assume it's the laser gone in them, so can i just stick a new laser in them and have 6 working boxes?

If not, is ther anything usefull (or even useless if it is cool) i can do with them?

They do have a HDD in each after all, can they be salvaged and used in a PC?


Any ideas at all welcome


EDIT: these are all my old xbox's, that i have bought as each one started refusing to load games (have tried lens cleaners also to no avail) so each one has, i presume "died" from the same cause. The one im using now (#7) is starting to get a bit ifffy so i might have an extra one soon aswell

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Have you tried posting you problem in Hardware forum http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22 You may get a better response.

 

Not that I'm aware of, but the consoles themselves can be used for all sorts of fun stuff. Do you have enough that you can pull components out and make a single working one?

http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page

Disclaimer: Never used it... my experience is limited to playing around with old Nintendo games on a modded Xbox. So I know it can be done, just won't be able to be of much help.

 

check around, I know when the my ps2 acted like that, it was sort of the laser, but, there was a small dial on teh disk drive that I could give 1/4 turn, in turn, this jacked the laser power back up a bit and presto-bango! it plays fine for a while yet again.
Maybe its possible to that with xbox too ?

 

Holy hell thats seriously unlucky to have 6 fail on you,having one fail on you is unlucky but seven:confused I got my Xbox when it first came out and its never even stuttered,I still use it to watch DVD's occasionally.

Hmmm what to do with them ? Well you can take the hard drives out and put them in your PC for extra storage,take 4 of them out and set up a 4 drive raid 0 array or as individual drives for more reliability,40 gigs of extra space.

Other than than tape some fireworks to a couple and post it on here:-D

 

if they all have network abilities, I would install linux on all 6 then make them into a 6 machine super cluster and start hacking RSA encryption

:-D

 

You could do that, but for Folding@Home.