what was wrong with the old one?

I don't think the power chip has anything to do with the dreaded disk read error, most problems with it seem to arise from people either failing to clean the lens, or, improperly cleaning it and then trying to recalibrate the laser and such until it finally craps out. Anyway, it's too bad you got rid of it, like I mentioned a while ago, the bigger ones have a lot more potential than the little ones do. Either way, though, it was probably a good decision in the end, the little ones have the ethernet jacks built in, and I'm not sure you can connect to the KZ servers through HDL from the big ones. After I finish with my case mod, I'll see if I can connect and play against you, though I'm not too sure I'll be good competition.

Out of curiousity, how active is the online community for KZ right now, anyway?

Rez09 wrote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gah. I don't think the power chip has anything to do with the dreaded disk read error, most problems with it seem to arise from people either failing to clean the lens, or, improperly cleaning it and then trying to recalibrate the laser and such until it finally craps out. Anyway, it's too bad you got rid of it, like I mentioned a while ago, the bigger ones have a lot more potential than the little ones do. Either way, though, it was probably a good decision in the end, the little ones have the ethernet jacks built in, and I'm not sure you can connect to the KZ servers through HDL from the big ones. After I finish with my case mod, I'll see if I can connect and play against you, though I'm not too sure I'll be good competition. Out of curiousity, how active is the online community for KZ right now, anyway?

well i go onto the US/Eastern server and it usually has like 50-100 people on it, the lowest ive seen is in the 30's 
but ya its pretty active
so if anyone wants to play me just put up your online ID's and ill send  you guys friend requests