Psychotext
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Since an update a while back the fans run for a while after being turned off if the heat in the system is above a certain point.__tia__ said:
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"My Xbox 360 Died and I Lived to tell the story" Official Thread
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Buttonbasher
Member
It got me too.
Sounds like he has a Samsung drive.neoism said:
Simply knock your wrist (like knocking on a door) on the drive tray after you hit eject. This will disrupt the magnetic attraction that is caused by the drive tray with the drive enclosure to keep the disks centered and from scratching. You can prevent this from happening by simply leaving a disk in the tray or doing what I just told you.
As for the 2 ROL, that indicates overheating. 3 ROL means the something is wrong in the system, and it doesn't know why (GPU chip is not on the board).
VibratingDonkey
Member
Put Viva Pinata into the Xbox 360 console and got the somewhat amusing screen telling me to put the disc in an Xbox 360 console. Started up on the second try, but the videos were running choppy as all hell. And ultimately, when I had played the game for about ten minutes, it froze up with a message telling me the disc was unreadable. I didn't think I had played the game on this particular 360 before, so I figured perhaps this drive didn't like regionfree NTSC copies too much. But then again, perhaps the disc actually was dirty? Popped the disc out and woohoo, 3-4 minor scratches. The game will probably still play, but I have previous experience with this problem and there's no doubt in my mind that it eventually can and will render games unplayable. So now I'm not sure if I wish to feed games into my 360 any longer...
Microsoft are still being assholes regarding this issue right? The last time I sent in a 360 they (Microsoft Sweden) had this special response team which basically tossed all policies aside and went far and beyond to make sure their customers were satisfied. But I'm not so sure they're around any longer, and if they're still as lenient if they are. We shall see...
It's a new Premium with a manufacturing date of 2007-02-09. Received it in August 2007 or some such, can't really remember. June according to my e-mail logs. Wow, almost made it a whole year without incident.
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The game won't play, pretty much. After about five minutes it either crashes back to "desktop" with an unreadable disc error or simply freezes, requiring a hard reboot.
Microsoft are still being assholes regarding this issue right? The last time I sent in a 360 they (Microsoft Sweden) had this special response team which basically tossed all policies aside and went far and beyond to make sure their customers were satisfied. But I'm not so sure they're around any longer, and if they're still as lenient if they are. We shall see...
It's a new Premium with a manufacturing date of 2007-02-09. Received it in August 2007 or some such, can't really remember. June according to my e-mail logs. Wow, almost made it a whole year without incident.
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The game won't play, pretty much. After about five minutes it either crashes back to "desktop" with an unreadable disc error or simply freezes, requiring a hard reboot.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
:lolshantyman said:
Best part is that the replacement Elite I got a little over a week ago said 203W on the box but the actual PSU is 175W.
Brizzo24
Member
Brizzo24 said:
UPDATE:
Today is April 7th, a monday. The UPS guy came to my apartment to drop off my empty box at 5:30 in the afternoon/evening. As i signed for the package, he acknowledged the Wii turned on in my living, saying "Oh the Wii, i love those." I then told him my 360 died on me, and that i was sending it back for repairs, and that if he wouldn't mind if i gave him the package as soon as i finished putting it together. "Sure, no problem. We certainly get a lot of those, " he replied. "Great," was all i could think of. So the 35 day-old 360 falcon arcade unit is off to Texas for repairs. I'll let you guys know what happens.
Mine died on March 26th, I called that night and received the box/issue number...
I called today because of NO box/coffin... she says the box is still sitting at UPS and would start a new issue number for me and send a new box... she tells me it will arrive by Friday.
Yeah right... I will be getting a game out of this... mark my words...
I called today because of NO box/coffin... she says the box is still sitting at UPS and would start a new issue number for me and send a new box... she tells me it will arrive by Friday.
Yeah right... I will be getting a game out of this... mark my words...
Whipped Spartan
Member
Anyone have a similar experience:
My brother's 360 had the video output go bad. Black screen when powered on, sound and everything else worked. He sent it in back in February now MS is giving him the run around. Every time he calls now he is directed to call a rep in the service center who is handling his case and she never picks up the phone of course. Goes straight to voice mail.
They first said she would call him but of course it never happened. This is just the latest twist in a long painful fix. MS has had it since 2/22/08 about two weeks ago it turned from showing at the repair center on their site to not showing in their system. The reps wouldn't acknowledge it was sent in one day now they state only this women can talk to him about the status of his xbox. I even got on the phone for him yesterday forced an escalation to a supervisor who at best told me I they admitted they had the system and were working on getting me one back. She couldn't guve me an ETA or any info still and seemed powerless to send me another refurb like they always send or compensate him in any way.
My brother's 360 had the video output go bad. Black screen when powered on, sound and everything else worked. He sent it in back in February now MS is giving him the run around. Every time he calls now he is directed to call a rep in the service center who is handling his case and she never picks up the phone of course. Goes straight to voice mail.
They first said she would call him but of course it never happened. This is just the latest twist in a long painful fix. MS has had it since 2/22/08 about two weeks ago it turned from showing at the repair center on their site to not showing in their system. The reps wouldn't acknowledge it was sent in one day now they state only this women can talk to him about the status of his xbox. I even got on the phone for him yesterday forced an escalation to a supervisor who at best told me I they admitted they had the system and were working on getting me one back. She couldn't guve me an ETA or any info still and seemed powerless to send me another refurb like they always send or compensate him in any way.
Whipped Spartan
Member
They seem pretty hardcore now. Good luck getting anything from those crafty Indians.BojTrek said:
ZootedGranny
Member
FUCKING AWESOME BRO, my 3rd 360 is in the process of dying on me, two days after my friend got his launch 360 back from repair.
Now I just need to find the most efficient way to garrote myself.
Now I just need to find the most efficient way to garrote myself.
Psychotext
Member
I've heard cheese wire is good!ZootedGranny said:
ZootedGranny
Member
While I'm waiting on the phone...
Does the one year full warranty extend to refurbs MS has sent back from repair, or does that only include your original system?
I ask because this time last year, MS did not have the 3 year warranty covering the RROD, so I had to pay to get mine repaired. Along with the repair, I was given a one year warranty.
A short time afterwards, MS enacted their RROD policy, and refunded my money. Now that my system is dying, I'm not sure where I sit. With the refund, did they rescind my one year warranty?
Though last night I got the RROD, today I boot it up and either get the E74 error, or it boots and I get horrendous blocking and pixelation, so I'm sure it's either the scaler or the GPU. The RROD is covered by warranty, the E74 error is not.
Anyone go through something similar?
Does the one year full warranty extend to refurbs MS has sent back from repair, or does that only include your original system?
I ask because this time last year, MS did not have the 3 year warranty covering the RROD, so I had to pay to get mine repaired. Along with the repair, I was given a one year warranty.
A short time afterwards, MS enacted their RROD policy, and refunded my money. Now that my system is dying, I'm not sure where I sit. With the refund, did they rescind my one year warranty?
Though last night I got the RROD, today I boot it up and either get the E74 error, or it boots and I get horrendous blocking and pixelation, so I'm sure it's either the scaler or the GPU. The RROD is covered by warranty, the E74 error is not.
Anyone go through something similar?
monkeycrap
Member
I knew it was going to happen some day. My launch 360 died today after about a week of locking up on me. The only thing that pisses me off is i rarely used the thing. I got it at launch and beat Kameo and NFS: Most Wanted in the first month or so. That was pretty much it until I got a HDTV in October. Even then I just played some Guitar Hero 2 with friends and the odd game of NHL08 until last month when I started to really get back into gaming. I say the thing has about 3 months of real usuage.
Oh well, the coffin shoud be here in a few days.
Oh well, the coffin shoud be here in a few days.
Brizzo24
Member
KarishBHR said:
Do you have a service request #? It should be 10 characters long, and provided to you by microsoft.
Go to https://service.xbox.com/servicehome.aspx
Click on "* Check your Repair Status using Service Request Number"
Other options
* Check your Repair Status using Service Request Number
After entering your # and zip, you'll then be able to view your Repair Status
A UPS tracking number is on this page.
Another one bites the dust...
Launch Unit
11/22/2005 - 04/09/2008
Launch unit has deceased today after a short lived, though successful attack by the Three Red Lights virus. Brief-lived as it was, it provided hundreds of hours of gameplay with numerous games. Launch unit is survived by many arcade games, demos, and videos. It will be greatly missed, until it returns as a Frankenstein or Zombie unit.
Rest In Peace
Launch Unit
11/22/2005 - 04/09/2008
Launch unit has deceased today after a short lived, though successful attack by the Three Red Lights virus. Brief-lived as it was, it provided hundreds of hours of gameplay with numerous games. Launch unit is survived by many arcade games, demos, and videos. It will be greatly missed, until it returns as a Frankenstein or Zombie unit.
Rest In Peace
AtomicShroom
Member
Welp, third time I'm dealing with support now.
The DVD drive is giving me so many Dirty Disc errors it's unbearable anymore. Thanks MS for using the cheapest, loudest drives you could possibly find!
Coffin is on the way.
The DVD drive is giving me so many Dirty Disc errors it's unbearable anymore. Thanks MS for using the cheapest, loudest drives you could possibly find!
Coffin is on the way.
Psychotext
Member
Falcons do RRoD you know. They didn't remove the ability, just made the hardware far less likely to do it.watership said:
Has anyone had this?
Got 3 red lights and sent to MS (UK) to be repired, received it back yesterday and set it up, all worked fine until I tried to connect to live, fails and start the tests. Passes everything until xbox live where it fails. Check to see more and no text appears in the box.
Error codes are :
w 0000-0015
x 0000-f001
y 00c2-03co
z0000-0000
Tried:
With router
Direct connect to modem
With and without HDD
Tried a friend's console on my network, worked fine
Tried my console on working network of my friends, fails at same place
Powering down xbox, router, modem , same
It worked fine before the repair, so it looks like something happened while it was away. To fix the 3 red lights they replaced the motherboard, but I can't see how that can affect the connection to live, maybe it could mess up the other tests, but it passes all of them until the live one.
Spoke to telephone support tonight, was made to do all the troubleshooting etc, then they have escalated it, they are going to come back to me in 48 hours. Just sounds weird to me that they could somehow bork the console so live won't connect.
P.S. Conolse has never been opened (apart from when MS replaced the Motherboard) and manufactured in sept 05 I think.
Got 3 red lights and sent to MS (UK) to be repired, received it back yesterday and set it up, all worked fine until I tried to connect to live, fails and start the tests. Passes everything until xbox live where it fails. Check to see more and no text appears in the box.
Error codes are :
w 0000-0015
x 0000-f001
y 00c2-03co
z0000-0000
Tried:
With router
Direct connect to modem
With and without HDD
Tried a friend's console on my network, worked fine
Tried my console on working network of my friends, fails at same place
Powering down xbox, router, modem , same
It worked fine before the repair, so it looks like something happened while it was away. To fix the 3 red lights they replaced the motherboard, but I can't see how that can affect the connection to live, maybe it could mess up the other tests, but it passes all of them until the live one.
Spoke to telephone support tonight, was made to do all the troubleshooting etc, then they have escalated it, they are going to come back to me in 48 hours. Just sounds weird to me that they could somehow bork the console so live won't connect.
P.S. Conolse has never been opened (apart from when MS replaced the Motherboard) and manufactured in sept 05 I think.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
What happened to it? My new Elite is manufactured around that same time and the DVD drive is making this awful grinding/crunching sound when it starts up.Ephemeris said:
Just lost my second one. It doesn't even make sense... Brand new. I just freakin got this one. -_-
MFR Date: 2008-01-24
Bah. It's 4:47am over here. Should have been in bed instead. -______-
My coffin arrived from UPS today, I just loaded the X-Box 360 into its cardboard travel case and will run over to the UPS Store after work... so in 1 hour, its little journey will begin.
I placed a nice note inside the box saying "Please send NEW or FIXED X-Box 360 To" with my name and address and added "Thank you!"
Maybe they will just say "awwww, this guy in nice... send him a NEW X-Box 360 and throw out the original problem/launch X-Box 360"
You never know!
I placed a nice note inside the box saying "Please send NEW or FIXED X-Box 360 To" with my name and address and added "Thank you!"
Maybe they will just say "awwww, this guy in nice... send him a NEW X-Box 360 and throw out the original problem/launch X-Box 360"
You never know!
speculawyer
Member
So . . . is a receipt required to do the 1-800-4myxbox fix for a RRoD? A friend of mine has a 360 that just RRoD and replaced it with an arcade unit. Can I send in the dead one w/o any receipt since the receipt was lost long ago?
The 360 has been out for less than 3 years, so *every* 360 is still covered for the RRoD, right?
The 360 has been out for less than 3 years, so *every* 360 is still covered for the RRoD, right?
it froze after logging in xbl, happened twice. turn it on for the third time, i get this:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=25zjzw3&s=3
http://i31.tinypic.com/20913j6.jpg
:lol
and this is my 2nd rrod. and i haven't played with this 360 at all when i got it back after the first rrod. i turned it on today to get Ikaruga. what a piece of shit!
i'm glad i have the ps3 or i'd be so pissed. :lol
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=25zjzw3&s=3
http://i31.tinypic.com/20913j6.jpg
:lol
and this is my 2nd rrod. and i haven't played with this 360 at all when i got it back after the first rrod. i turned it on today to get Ikaruga. what a piece of shit!
i'm glad i have the ps3 or i'd be so pissed. :lol
Psychotext
Member
Crap, I completely forgot to update the stats. Stupid work getting in the way of everything!
Will do tomorrow.
Will do tomorrow.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Psychotext said:
That's okay because it is less frequent.
Hopefully that means in the next hardware iteration it will be even less frequent, until it becomes an non-issue.
Psychotext
Member
Yeah, I've never seen a broken PS3 or Wii either. Ask yourself a question... had we not seen the 360s massive failure rates in older models do you really think people would be so sensitive to the few (I've still seen less than 10 reported online) falcon models that have failed?Hcoregamer00 said:
Zero hardware failure is impossible. That said, time will tell just how many more surface. Who knows, there may very well still be an issue.
Ephemeris
Member
One thing I noticed is that I get the red lights thing, but the system actually doesn't "power up". IE - The game is still in the drive and I can't get it out >__< I couldn't help but notice that my power supply's light still is amber when I turn the system on... I read somewhere that RROD or not, once the system is powered on, it should be green.
I'm going to meet-up with a friend (and his power brick) later; I'm hoping it's a power supply issue. If not..
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I'm going to meet-up with a friend (and his power brick) later; I'm hoping it's a power supply issue. If not..
: (
WickedLaharl
Member
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906935
how to manually eject a disk from the tray. btw was this actually a falcon or some shitty shit that got sent to you from the repair center with a new man. date on it?
how to manually eject a disk from the tray. btw was this actually a falcon or some shitty shit that got sent to you from the repair center with a new man. date on it?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Got my baby back yesterday, 2 weeks to the day after I sent it away, so I'm really impressed with the speed of service. Exactly the same serial number, so it's the same box, but apparently it has a new motherboard inside. It's a heck of a lot quieter though, and that lovely CRUNK sound when it used to start up is gone.
GTA4 here we come!
GTA4 here we come!
Psychotext
Member
They killed the gremlin that used to flick the switches inside. =*(Jedeye Sniv said:
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
The Elite I picked up two weeks ago (Falcon; mfg date of 01-08-08) had a defective DVD drive. There was something wrong with the motor. Every once in a while, it would make a high pitched sound almost like gears grinding on an R/C car motor. It also made that CRUNK sound when it booted up and sounded like it was struggling to get going.
Since this was my fourth system, and Best Buy graciously offered, I got all my money back and I have turned in my Xbox jacket. I am officially done with X360.
Since this was my fourth system, and Best Buy graciously offered, I got all my money back and I have turned in my Xbox jacket. I am officially done with X360.
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