From his other video = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgts5V_0yG4BigNastyCurve said:
About 28 secs in, you can read the manufacturing date and which HDD it has...it is a launch unit, not a Jasper. No HDMI. I know the Jasper is quieter then this.
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About 28 secs in, you can read the manufacturing date and which HDD it has...it is a launch unit, not a Jasper. No HDMI. I know the Jasper is quieter then this.
Beer Monkey
Member
My Jasper (that I just traded in) whines like a motherfucker and I'm 42 years old. It is definitely a Jasper because it has the lower spec power supply that only works with Jasper systems.
I'm 99.9% sure that some Jaspers use shittier fans (cheap bearings) than others.
I'm 99.9% sure that some Jaspers use shittier fans (cheap bearings) than others.
antiquegamer
Member
Beer Monkey said:
Yeah, those Jaspers are still pretty noisy (due to cheap ass fans Microsoft used), I have a recent Jasper (Final Fantasy edition) and they are as noisy as my old launch Elite unit that I traded in. It really is depend on the unit you get, my brother in law got a 360 last year and his is as quiet as the 360S I got last week.
But yeah, I really enjoy the new model. It's a joy to watch movies espeically on Netflix and not hearing the constant whining of the fans.
Here's how my falcon, jasper and jasper units I tested sounded like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgpxksMso4
Not much different from the video linked by agent and that ever-present whine noise was the reason why I got a 360s.
Not much different from the video linked by agent and that ever-present whine noise was the reason why I got a 360s.
Haha. I'm not quite as old as you are but yeah that 12 years old comment was rather unnecessary.Beer Monkey said:
Sending it back to amazon for a refund. My old 2007 360 is still going strong, but it's my brother's now and was formatted. I just lost all of my save files, sigh. I was almost through dragon age and bioshock 2. Annoying to say the least... My first 360 death, I made sure to get pictures, lmao. The hdd started making horrible grinding noises and then kaput.
LongDongJunon
Member
SonComet said:
Wow E 68 error? Hard Drive failures are usual the very last thing to worry about.
Lighting Gels
Member
It's HDD what is broken.
Maybe there is a way to recover your data.
Console itself is not broken though.
Good luck
Maybe there is a way to recover your data.
Console itself is not broken though.
Good luck
a Master Ninja
Member
Wait, the harddrive crapped out? Over the years I've heard of tons of 360s having overheating issues, broken DVD drives, etc, but this is the first time I've ever seen an Xbox 360 harddrive failure.SonComet said:
ups is picking it up tomorrow and I'll buy a new one at frys after work. I forgot to mention the fans were randomly going into psychotic turbine mode yesterday and the console froze a few times. Fans were fine today, but hdd was making the worst scratching and grinding noises. Incredibly loud grinding and the console was vibrating really bad. Now when it turns on the hdd doesn't even start, I think the hdd is dead permanently.Lighting Gels said:It's HDD what is broken.
Maybe there is a way to recover your data.
Console itself is not broken though.
Good luck
sweetvar26
Member
Weird that you lose all your saves. I wonder if there is any way that you can recover them.
supermackem
Banned
Beer Monkey said:
Mine is also pretty loud, not as loud as some of the xboxs ive had but i can hear it. Ill be trading it in for a slim in a few weeks when they come out over here.
UltimateIke
Member
I traded in my 360 on the 21st, and my GameStop still claims they haven't gotten any Slims in stock. I've supposedly been the first one on the list to get one when they arrive the whole time, so have they really not gotten any in or are they selling them without letting me know?
Valkyr Junkie
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expy said:
It works, but you gotta use the freezer and make sure to put the drive into a ziplock bag obviously. It only works when the HDD issue is unrelated to the electronics themselves and has to do with the platter and head.
Google "freezer trick"
Vigilant Walrus
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DeathNote said:
T-360 says...
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Machado said:
did you just write "lol bro, you mad lol"?
I don't speak spanish/portugise, but that's what I got from it.
Skiptastic
Member
Just ordered my own Slim. Should arrive in about a week, just as my MBA for the summer ends. Good times for me!
Zeouterlimits
Member
Pre-orderded my S today (PAL), what's this about saves getting deleted when transferring? Is there a clear guide to succesfully moving stuff across by usb?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
PhatSaqs said:
Well technically it WILL be available later this week .. and the next and the next and so forth.
AgentOtaku
Member
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Why are you all preordering these things? Get to your local Walmarts, peoples!
AgentOtaku
Member
BigNastyCurve said:
Yeah I was crazy suprised they had them.
BigNastyCurve said:
Or Best Buy. Last time I went to a Best Buy to grab some games they had a bunch of them(probably like 20) just sitting there for people to take. It's amazing how these retailers have so many yet apparently some gamestops still can't get decent stock on them.
UltimateIke
Member
Those of us that preordered took advantage of GameStop's trade in deal to get rid of our old, loud, multi-refurb units.BigNastyCurve said:
Son of Godzilla
Banned
For being the default videogame specialty store, Gamestop has never had anything to write home about in terms of supply presence. Probably on account of dividing it's stock through 10x the amount of stores retail warehouses have to.
Picked up mine yesterday. Only ended up paying about $40 AUD after trading in my old Elite and 5 PS3 games.
Looks quite nice in person but I still wish it was a matte finish. Wifi works flawlessly but I'm only using G at the moment since I've got an older router. The ding on the disc drive is highly addictive too since I've been hearing it a lot while installing every game under the sun on the 250GB HDD.
The only problem I have is that I kind of screwed myself over with achievements. With my Elite I hadn't used Xbox Live for about a year since my setup changed to wifi only. Of course my achievements hadn't updated for ages because of this. Anyway I did transfer my profile/saves onto USB beforehand and the saves transferred over fine. However when I tried to transfer my profile over it said something had failed and that I need to recover my Gamer Tag again. I did this and it only recovered my old one again (which hadn't been logged on to Live for a year) and overwrote the profile I had moved over form USB. Stupidly I chose "move" instead of "copy" so of course now I have lost it forever. Oh well, its only achievements I guess, but still annoying.
Looks quite nice in person but I still wish it was a matte finish. Wifi works flawlessly but I'm only using G at the moment since I've got an older router. The ding on the disc drive is highly addictive too since I've been hearing it a lot while installing every game under the sun on the 250GB HDD.
The only problem I have is that I kind of screwed myself over with achievements. With my Elite I hadn't used Xbox Live for about a year since my setup changed to wifi only. Of course my achievements hadn't updated for ages because of this. Anyway I did transfer my profile/saves onto USB beforehand and the saves transferred over fine. However when I tried to transfer my profile over it said something had failed and that I need to recover my Gamer Tag again. I did this and it only recovered my old one again (which hadn't been logged on to Live for a year) and overwrote the profile I had moved over form USB. Stupidly I chose "move" instead of "copy" so of course now I have lost it forever. Oh well, its only achievements I guess, but still annoying.
ConradCervantes
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Son of Godzilla said:
This. When I worked for a larger employer, our system shipments would be at least 10-20 at a time. At smaller shops like Gamestop, we see six at most. When we sell those, six more might come in, depending on how quickly we sold them. If it took a while to sell out, they'll send us less because what's the point of us hoarding hundreds of dollars worth of electronics?
Quick question for when i go get mine when its out here.
If im transferring my data over via usb storage, am I gonna need something big or will 2GB suffice? Itd just be my profiles and game saves i transfer. All my games and DLC would be downloaded again on the new console.
Im not sure how big the save files are, and i'll be trading in one XBox for the other, so wont have both consoles at once. (ie data to mem stick > wipe HDD > new XB > transfer data).
If im transferring my data over via usb storage, am I gonna need something big or will 2GB suffice? Itd just be my profiles and game saves i transfer. All my games and DLC would be downloaded again on the new console.
Im not sure how big the save files are, and i'll be trading in one XBox for the other, so wont have both consoles at once. (ie data to mem stick > wipe HDD > new XB > transfer data).