Gamecube=Dead

[Zen]

My Gamecube has been around since its launch in the UK, and it has a lot of trouble nowadays reading discs, im in a similiar situation 2 u Zen, and im also considering buying a new GC one day. The amount of errors ive had on Episode III is horrible because it suffers loading up the pictures of Cards! You can hear the disc clicking endlessly in the Gamecube, and im so used to it now its sickly!

That is how the problems started for me. I would hear the disc, and it sounded like the Gamecube was gonna explode. then, I got the Disc Errors, and Yes, Sheik, I used those methods of Cleaning (But when it was too late) and it helped it for a month, I have resently returned from a trip, and when I got home, I turned it on, and it was dead. Every disc I put in was "NO DISC" I was able to boot up PSO two or three times, but then it finally gave in. It couldn't even read PSO anymore. So, now I am playing PSO on my brother's GC, not bad, but i would prefer my own GC ... :S