I got an Elite from team CSON last Thursday that said 203W on the box but it is 175W on the PSU. The manufacture date is 1-08-08.Vicious said:Best Buy had 1 arcade unit left, but it said 203w on the box. Although according to 360drives.com, multiple people have bought arcade 360s that said 203w on the box, but the powerbrick said 175w.
Is there anyway to tell the manufacturer date on the box itself? The team was CSON and the lot number was 0806.
edit - there is only one entry for that lot number on 360drives.com, and it says the manufacturer date was 02-15-08. Will all units with that lot number be the same date? And I have to assume it would be 175w if made this year.
Can anyone confirm this stuff, my brain hurts.
Dark FaZe said:Just thought I'd share my journey for any gaffers looking for how long the process might take. I live in Virginia.
March 21: Called in my issue (dead video card, under warranty), process started
March 28: Box received
March 29: Unit shipped off (fed ex overnight this time)
March 31: Unit received by Microsoft
April 3: Unit repaired or replaced, shipped back to me via FedEx ground
I expect to receive the unit on April 7th or 8th.
I'd worry if it happens again.Rabid Wolverine said:Yesterday my 360 froze on me on the NBA 2K8 Demo Play, then the screen blanked out while playing online, then again online it froze with picture displayed.
Froze again twice on the 360 boot logo. After this it hasnt frozen again..... yet.
Should I be worried?
Dark Octave said:My friend's reaction to his 5th or 6th RRoD over the weekend.
Dark Octave said:My friend's reaction to his 5th or 6th RRoD over the weekend.
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Dark Octave said:My friend's reaction to his 5th or 6th RRoD over the weekend.
Psychotext said:I don't know if he's posted in this thread yet... but we have GAF's first confirmed bricked falcon 360. It'll show up in the April stats.
If you've sent in multiple boxes, they'll put your order on priority.TJ Bennett said:My 360 died on March 1st and Microsoft had it back to me by March 20th. I was surprised at their promptness. So far its working fine but based on stories I've read in this thread I wouldn't be suprised to come across another RROD in a few months.
kiUNiT said:Wow you're friend is an Idiot, He could have tried the Xclamp fix himself or got at least $50.00 on ebay for it.:lol
I took a mallet and hammer to a computer case once and just went nuts on it. It felt SOOO good. I hated the mobo that was inside it.Truespeed said:The coiled and repressed level of frustration exiled from this person was considerably worth more than the paltry amount he would have received by selling it.
There's no reason to think refurb falcons are any less reliable. The problem with the old refurbs is that they still have the same design which makes them likely to fail in the first place.bigmakstudios said:btw, are falcon refurbs any less reliable than newly purchased falcons?
I've often wondered how they handle the repairs on those... I guess they just open them up and put in a completely new motherboard rather than pulling one from stock.Korranator said:My Halo edition X360 just got 3 red lights this morning. Just 7 months old.
Brizzo24 said:I recently purchased a Xbox 360, on Feb. 15th of this year. After borrowing a retail machine from the company i used to work for, I finally thought it was time I should own my own machine, especially since I poured a lot of effort and time into achievements, games i had accumulated, and so on.
I made all the necessary precautions, at least in my mind, to purchase a machine with the latest manufacturing date printed on it--not only in the hope of preventing the dreaded RRoD, but to hopefully obtain the new falcon chip for a quieter, more efficient machine.
EDIT: i'm not sure if i DO have the falcon chip or not, i was just hoping it would have it given the date it was manufactured.
EDIT # 2: I checked the brick, and confirmed my machine IS a falcon. Thank you psychotext. Indeed, i happen to have the first broken falcon...
As of this morning, April 3rd, my brand new Xbox 360 died on me after only 40 (or so) days on the job. I never ran it hot, never subjected it to any type of abuse, or dropped it or anything. Nope, not a damn thing. All of the sudden, as i was playing through a quite campaign game of Halo 3, the machine dropped its picture as if the power went out in my apartment. Nothing else in the apartment seemed off, the clocks all chimed 11:34 and weren't flashing, and the machine itself had no flashing lights or any indication something had happened, but it did shut off. I checked the cords, ran some tests and found that the machine turned on, and sound could be heard, but no picture. I changed cables, from the component ones i was using to the composite ones that came with the machine, and nothing but the same thing. My Wii works perfectly, the tv gets picture, but my Box acts as if it lost its will to live and refuses to display a picture.
Customer support had me run a few tests, namely cleaning the A/V cord with a cloth, but that wasn't going to do shit. We both knew it fried somehow. Now i have to wait 2-3 weeks for repairs.
So even though the RRoD is the killer among killer, there are still more problems with the 360's than i originally thought. Here are pics to prove just how new my machine was/is. You can see the date printed on the machine, "2008-01-23"
Bigger picture HERE
Bigger pic, so you can see the wattage on my brick..."175w."
Guess i'll go and get better aquainted with my Wii now...
Things really do break I'm afraid. I've had two dead Wiis (Well, technically my mother has but I had to sort them out).Brizzo24 said:That means it was only 35 days old! I can't believe it, it bears repeating: A brand new falcon chipped 360, manufactured on 01/23/08, and purchased on 02/27/08, died on April 3rd 2008. Fuck!
Brizzo24 said:It's worse than i thought. I found my receipt this morning while i was cleaning out my desk, and it is dated 02/27/08, not on the 15th like i guessed. My 360 failed on me on 04/03/08. That means it was only 35 days old! I can't believe it, it bears repeating: A brand new falcon chipped 360, manufactured on 01/23/08, and purchased on 02/27/08, died on April 3rd 2008. Fuck!
FightyF said:That basically means it's a lemon. Most lemon electronic devices die within their first few months.
FightyF said:That basically means it's a lemon. Most lemon electronic devices die within their first few months.
The sad thing is that there's a lot of people who think that way. You see them talking about disc read errors and crashes like they're just part of how the console is rather than getting it fixed. =/Pimpbaa said:I just thought 360 games were really buggy :lol
Pimpbaa said:Yeah, my halo edition 360 (not a falcon) died within a month. It was faulty right out of the box (games freezing up a lot). I just thought 360 games were really buggy :lol Trying to sell the replacement I got (since I bought a regular white falcon 360).
Brizzo24 said:So they sent you a brand new machine? Did you even bother sending it in for repair? I'm sorry to hear it happened to you too. I didn't really have too many problems before the incident, but OB did freeze up on me, and at times i could hear a static sound (though i have to admit, i thought it was the game.)
Meh, it varies. My fourth one took over 2 months and my fifth one took over a month, so...yeah.. :\Striker said:If you've sent in multiple boxes, they'll put your order on priority.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmx0b1XttS0kiUNiT said:Wow you're friend is an Idiot, He could have tried the Xclamp fix himself or got at least $50.00 on ebay for it.:lol
Dark Octave said:My friend's reaction to his 5th or 6th RRoD over the weekend.
bigmakstudios said:All systems have defects. One falcon console being a lemon isn't indicative of a trend.
Shaheed79 said:So let me get this straight Brizzo your console gave off no sequence of error lights at all on the LED red or green?
So your machine still works but you have no picture? Or is that what happened before it completely bricked?Brizzo24 said:Correct. Like i said, it was as if the power went out in my apartment, but only isolated to my tv and my 360. When the system came back on (can't remember if i turned it on, or it reset itself) there was no picture, only sound. I could hear the dashboard starting up, and i could hear myself getting logged into Live, but still no picture. No flashing lights, and no indication at all from my machine told me something was wrong.
Now where have I heard that before...
Shaheed79 said:So your machine still works but you have no picture? Or is that what happened before it completely bricked?
So you get no pic, but you get sound? Try plugging it in SD. You can also try resetting the video settings. If those two don't work, it's probably done.Brizzo24 said:I've since unhooked my machine. Yeah, it still had sound before i unplugged it from the wall. Picture is gone.
Psychotext said:There's some argument there. Basically you're going from stupidly hot to cold in no time which creates the stress.