Sad news this morning

So after 2 and a half years of faithful service, my original 2005 manufactured 360 finally gave me the 3 red lights this morning (I blame the very long halo3 session last night). I know some of you guys have gone through a couple, but I was really happy to be on my first still.

Updates to come as to how ms process the problem, and to see what I get back.

Ha!

it begins

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

That' s what happens when Microsoft wants to make their own chipset

That' s what happens when Microsoft wants to make their own chipset

Lol, silly nub, you fail.

Anyway, on the topic:
A challenger appears.....

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

My sincere condolences on the lose of your 360, were there any warning signs at all, such as game freezing intermittantly and then carrying on? Mine started doing that yesterday whilst playing GTA

no sign at all. Had a 3 hour co-op session on Halo 3 until about 2am and it was fine. Tried it again at 11am this morning and just got the red lights.

My 360 scare me 2 times before. It did the red ring of death twice but then it work fine. My 360 is not that old. I bought it like around mid January of 2008.
I have a feeling that someday it will do the red ring of death and it will break. I' m scared!

Websers dictionary has this to say about " inevitability" .

Pronunciation: \i-ˈne-və-tə-bəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin inevitabilis, from in- + evitabilis evitable
Date: 14th century

: incapable of being avoided or evaded <an inevitable outcome>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inevitability

ORIGINAL: Agent Ghost

Websers dictionary has this to say about " inevitability" .

Pronunciation: \i-ˈne-və-tə-bəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin inevitabilis, from in- + evitabilis evitable
Date: 14th century

: incapable of being avoided or evaded <an inevitable outcome>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inevitability

It' s not inevitable. You just have to modify your 360 and it won' t break.

Mine has X-clamps replaced, used Arctic Silver 5 instead of the garbage MS uses, and added heatsinks and thermal pads to ram/southbridge as well as a fan mod to improve airflow.

It has been going strong for a while and you can just feel the difference in heat when you have a normal 360 next to mine, a normal one shoots ridiculously hot air, mine doesn' t. It' s no wonder they break, it' s like a ***ing oven inside the 360 with its piss poor cooling.

If it makes you feel better(assuming that you live in America), I sent mine in at the beginning of the month on a Monday and got it back Friday, so it shouldn' t take long to get back.

ORIGINAL: emofag

It' s not inevitable. You just have to modify your 360 and it won' t break.

It may be avoidable for the 5% (max) of the install base capable of doing so, but it' s inevitable for the majority.

Does that mean I' m the last man standing in this forum? I think I should get a free game for that.

Gutted for you ornodeal.

Does that mean I' m the last man standing in this forum? I think I should get a free game for that.

No problems with mine.

R.I.P
X_X

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

ORIGINAL: Nitro

ORIGINAL: emofag

It' s not inevitable. You just have to modify your 360 and it won' t break.

It may be avoidable for the 5% (max) of the install base capable of doing so, but it' s inevitable for the majority.

It' s easy to do. I had to start modifying and fixing my consoles myself cause edddy works at a snails pace even though I pay him a premium ($0.57/hr, his 8th raise)

No problems with mine.

Damn you Zoy. I mean, ah great, I' m glad yours is still working too! *secretly plans sabotage*

and finaly mine is dead.. today at 20h30 june 16th 2008
age : 11 months.


Fack you microshit.

Listen to the wise

and finaly mine is dead.. today at 20h30 june 16th 2008
age : 11 months.


Fack you microshit.

Can you get yours repaired where you live?

...Btw, welcome back Aba.

thanks masta , though i' ve been using more often often the forum lately.

anyway, this is my exact problem, no warranty, but since my box is modified , it won' t matter evenif i live in the US, in my city there is a store that fixes the 360 problem but there is no guarantee that :

1) it' ll be fixed
2) go back to 3red after a couple of months.

so this is borthering me a lot, may be i' ll wait and buy a graphic card or buy a whole new xbox with the new architecture.

Listen to the wise

Ha!

. I had to start modifying and fixing my consoles myself cause edddy works at a snails pace even though I pay him a premium ($0.57/hr, his 8th raise)

Nobody ever said it' s difficult. You' re computer savvy, I' m sure you had no problem with it.

Oh, and how the hell did you manage to spell my name " Edddy" ? There isn' t a single word in the English language with three of the same consecutive letters. WTF man? I thought you were college educated.

Edit:You replaced the X-clamps with 80-10 flathead bolts right? The roundheads will give you grief after a while.

1) it' ll be fixed
2) go back to 3red after a couple of months.

so this is borthering me a lot, may be i' ll wait and buy a graphic card or buy a whole new xbox with the new architecture.

Go do what me and Emo did.

LINK

It' s permanent. My latest 360 has been running better than stock since I got it in January, as is the one I sold Torr.

How much did you rip him off for?

Nobody ever said it' s difficult. You' re computer savvy, I' m sure you had no problem with it.

No problem besides the fact that the 360 is a complete cluster *** in the way it' s assembled. Dissasembly & Reassembly took me longer than soldering those old school 33-wire modchips on the original xbox. That was alot simpler to open, it was like a PC you pretty muched popped that shit open and the motherboard was immediately accessible.

ORIGINAL: Abasoufiane

thanks masta , though i' ve been using more often often the forum lately.

anyway, this is my exact problem, no warranty, but since my box is modified , it won' t matter evenif i live in the US, in my city there is a store that fixes the 360 problem but there is no guarantee that :

1) it' ll be fixed
2) go back to 3red after a couple of months.

so this is borthering me a lot, may be i' ll wait and buy a graphic card or buy a whole new xbox with the new architecture.

Walmart it.

They have gotten smarter and check for serial # so just swap the entire case out.

My 360 still works, so I must be doing something wrong.

Then again I rarely ever turn the damn thing on unless I want a huge helping of boring.

If you never turn it on it doesn' t break, heat is the problem. When you start playing it alot it will break. And you are a moron, Joe.

Walmart it.

They have gotten smarter and check for serial # so just swap the entire case out.

Only in American is Walmart a verb.

In America everything is a verb.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

ORIGINAL: Agent Ghost

Walmart it.

They have gotten smarter and check for serial # so just swap the entire case out.

Only in American is Walmart a verb.

Locopuyo You.

So yesterday got my 360 back. That is 15 days after the original fault happened, and the actual time taken from pick-up of the dead one to receiving the new one back was just 6 working days. When you consider 5 of those 6 were courier transit that is a great turnaround.

So obviously they' ve replaced the motherboard in it, and it is much much quieter, pre-rrod the thing was noisy as hell, now a faint whirr of the fans is all you can hear.

So while the the failure was a bit of a pain the fix was painless and I' ve got a better machine back than I started, and it cost me nowt. That can' t be bad.

Now lets see how long this one lasts.

If you don' t use it, those suckers will last a long time. I see people make the same mistake all the time, you should never press the power button, big mistake. MS should add a clause indicating that turning on the unit will void the warranty.

After a couple of hours on COD4 matches on my friends Xbox, i told him that i wanted to try NG2. After around 30min it started freezing. I told him to turn it off for the night as it may RROD or something. Was i right? Is this a sign for an upcoming RROD? What should be done to avoid that ( apart from not turning on the thing as Agent said )?

No problem besides the fact that the 360 is a complete cluster *** in the way it' s assembled. Dissasembly & Reassembly took me longer than soldering those old school 33-wire modchips on the original xbox. That was alot simpler to open, it was like a PC you pretty muched popped that shit open and the motherboard was immediately accessible.

It' s a clusterfuck on purpose. It' s a modification deterrent. There' s a reason they' ve got those damn clippy things, those Torx-8 security bits and the uber-frustrating aluminum chassis.