360 Issues thread

[Jay]

Freezing and especially stuff disappearing / pop-up / stuttering during gameplay is usually a symptom of your DVD drive going I'm afraid. If you've got it stood upright try laying it flat (but only on a top surface, not inside a TV unit or it'll die for sure!) and see if that helps.

Thanks. I've already got it laying flat. 360 #3 on its way out then by the sounds of it. *sigh*

[egparadigm]

I used to get lots of issues through use of Live, at least give it a whirl offline (assuming you play connected). Just something to eliminate.

[Jay]

I used to get lots of issues through use of Live, at least give it a whirl offline (assuming you play connected). Just something to eliminate.

I'll give it a go, cheers.

[Pavey]

Just moved my 360 into the a/v unit, after drilling out the back of it to increase ventilation.

Turned it on with the a/v unit door closed to see if there is much noise reduction, and it seems there is an update.

Did that, the machine rebooted, hung on the opening 'xbox 360' screen, now i have the 3rrod, again.

What's my options? (US machine, modified*)


Buy a new one?





*not flashed, just a few mods, such as led's, x-clamps, and the wind tunnel thing.

[^Katsu]

Mine came back today! The report said duff DVD drive & Mother board...
Lets see how long this one lasts

[Cauterize]

Well my 360 has just given up... Its no longer reading discs...
Ive just about had it with modern consoles for good...
All they are is a collection of **** parts combined into a box. What ever happened to companies using reliable parts for a games console?

I wont be buying another 360, until they start appearing at car boot sales for cheap as to be quite honest, im fed up of getting screwed over. My first Xbox has a near non functional laser, my original PS2 laser burnt out too... Seriously.... Its just not on.
When will these companies learn that the cheaper parts you put inside, means they will break easily...

I keep reading about people saying 'Oh im on my 6th 360 now, however that one too has started to do this n that'
Stop being such a sucker and accept that M$oft is conning you!

Ive heard good things about the build of the PS3, however I shall wait a bit longer...
If im honest, there wasnt many games I even played on the 360... GTAIV bored me within days, I dont care about all these FPS games (which are ALL the same bar Halo) and Im fed up of Chav Racing games where you need to impress sluts at the side of the road with your bling bling alloy wheels n neons...
All i ever played was Eternal Sonata and PES2008...

I have sat near me my Mega CD, 3DO, FM Towns Marty, Amiga CD32, Neo Geo CD.... Theyre god knows how many times the age of the 360 yet theyve all been played alot more and still read discs like theyre new systems.
Long Live the Retro!

[Destrukticor]

Nice,

Machine was freezing up playing geo wars 2
restarted
froze on boot
restarted
got into live
messsaged my friend to say RROD was on the way
froze in geo wars 2
reboot
RROD

elite model too
*SNIFF*

might be buying a new elite and er returning the old one very soon...

[toythatkills]

Oh man, mine is red-ringing for the 20th time. Hopefully it's just a passing phase like all the others were because I want to play Braid! I guess it's not too bad timingwise though, it's a launch model so it's approaching its three year free repair thing - I still want it to work though!

[Matt]

I feel bad. I'd recommended a mate get a 360 quite some time ago. He bought a Premium around Xmas. Took it home, it was dead out of the box. So he took it back, and got an Elite instead as he was told they were more reliable. That died at some point, so he got another.

Just got a photo text of him, his second Elite has just RROD.

Apparently, the some of the new 60gb models in the US have the memory only soldered on one side or something, which may help (I don't know??). No sign of the 65nm GPU yet though.

[AaronBekir]

Yay, my launch day elite has just broken down, 11 days before the warranty expires!! off to gamestation i go to exchange the thing!!

Aaron

[sj33]

Everyone here complaining about RROD. My drive is getting DRE's on some games, and I need it replaced. Since it's a launch console, it's waaaay out of warranty, so I have to pay. If it would only RROD like everyone elses, I'd get a new one for free

[anephric]

Try to make it RRoD then. I did when my drive started dying and throwing up DREs.

[wod]

no problems at all on the 360 i bought second hand, its just loud thats all. maybe its not died because i dont play it for a long straight 5 hours or whatever. touching wooden desk lol

just watch it go break now i said that, to be honest i've never had a faulty console.

[prinnysquad]

I keep getting E68 and one red light. Gash.

[fallenangle]

Every time I get tempted to buy my first XB360 I come here and it strengthens my resolve not to. Thanks guys ;-)