My 360 died about six months ago, and I'm finally going to have the cash to fix it within the next month. $90 through Microsoft seems way too steep though... are there cheaper alternatives? Does Best Buy's Geek Squad do Xbox repairs? What about Radio Shack?
Unless they are now selling a 360 for under $90 then I have no clue why I'd want to spend extra on a new one. I'm looking to spend the LEAST amount of money hereJust buy a new one.
Unless they are now selling a 360 for under $90 then I have no clue why I'd want to spend extra on a new one. I'm looking to spend the LEAST amount of money here
But by then I'll have my mad fresh backwards compatible Xbox 720!Well, considering it's probably going to break again in less than a year, might as well just buy a new one.
Unless they are now selling a 360 for under $90 then I have no clue why I'd want to spend extra on a new one. I'm looking to spend the LEAST amount of money here
You could try the towel trick and while it's running ok deactivate the account. Towel trick simply means overheating it (can also use plastic bags or open it and plug out the fans) which warps the motherboard and for a short period of time makes it work.So my 360 just died. 3 red lights. I don't want to pay to have it fixed or replace it. I'd rather just sell it off as non-working on ebay and get whatever I can get for it. Is there any way I can deactivate my XBL account without access to the console itself?
You could try to get rid of dust. If you open it then a paper fan shroud for the GPU could also help.I'm getting overheating on my 360 despite it, and the power supply, being more than satisfactorily ventilated. I can't play for longer than 10 mins. It's an old 20gb unit, but my PS3 was my main console so I've actually used it very little.
Any ideas? It can't be dying surely....?
This was happening to me and it red ringed yesterday. I rarely play it. If anyone knows a good guide to open the case, that would be helpful since I think cleaning the dust inside would help a lot.I'm getting overheating on my 360 despite it, and the power supply, being more than satisfactorily ventilated. I can't play for longer than 10 mins. It's an old 20gb unit, but my PS3 was my main console so I've actually used it very little.
Any ideas? It can't be dying surely....?
Just a word of warning, back up your 360 data often. Last year - around August I guess - my 360 made this strange clicking noise. It was on at the time, so I turned it off an back on again and I got some error message. Looked up the error, turns out my hard drive had died. 5 years of saves, gone! I wasn't too happy, especially given that cloud saves for the 360 were a month or two around the corner. I had a few saves backed up onto another hard drive, but not many. I pretty much gave up on my 360 from that point and moved to the PC, where I am much happier.
My hard drive that died came with the Slim, so it was under warranty and they exchanged it at least. Still, I own 3 360's and they all have had problems. Two of them won't read discs and yeah, my Slim's hard drive died. Terrible reliability issues. It's funny, I still bust out my Mega Drive and NES from time to time and they run like champs...
what did you expect? that is magically knows your login?
What the hell's wrong with my controller? I run it from normal AA batteries but it keeps giving me the "please connect controller" message way before you'd expect the batteries to run out. After a while of it randomly doing this, I think it happens right before the controller is supposed to rumble (I'm playing Skyrim a lot, and it always seems to disconnect after starting a fight, but not always). Is there a loose wire in there or something?