How many times do you have to buy an xbox 360?

cstmar01

I just got the wonderful red ring two days ago on my 360 that I've had for about a year and a half. Just sitting there wanting to show off my some new speakers I got (Its what I use for media) and there they are, damn I'm so pissed, 450.00 bucks just sitting there....well hopefully in 2 weeks i can get it back. damn

in the meantime i guess i just have to use my friends pro.

Studash

Jjajs

wutadumsn23

^^?? Very informative post Studash, lol.

-Jeff

66chevyIISS

Looks like I am joining this club finally! Trying to play with Demi, Grim, sherard and Bizill tonight I got the 3ROD 4 times. It will always reboot and work fine, but as soon as a game launches I would freeze up.

mantis

tick tock tick tock tick tick tick .......

Sherardp

mantis wrote: »

tick tock tick tock tick tick tick .......

Yeah way to go Mantis, informative post there. AHAHAHA!!!! I had to go there.

Demiurge

Imagine the boner mantis would be sporting if Apple made a console gaming system. Oh my.

kuntasensei

Mantis is right though. Once they start giving the occasional red ring, they're on borrowed time. This is especially true if they don't red ring until you pop a game in and actually start stressing the GPU, since that's a sure symptom that the GPU is separating from the mainboard due to heat-related board flexing (which is the primary cause of the RROD).

If you're still under the 3-year warranty, go ahead and pull the trigger on a repair now so you can get it back before Christmas. If your 3 years is up, get yourself a newer Arcade unit to replace it.

xsmi

Mantis isn't the only one. LOL! My GF's son has fixed about six of these things and he says his fix has lasted a long time.

mantis

Sherardp wrote: »

Yeah way to go Mantis, informative post there. AHAHAHA!!!! I had to go there.

LOL , but it's very informative post my man. It's right to the point. The timer is winding down it's only a matter of time before my 4th one goes belly up. Once it does I want it out.

bigaudiofanatic

Only bought mine once.

kuntasensei

I've technically only paid for 2 systems. But because of how many I've had repaired, arrive DOA, burn up in a UPS fire, etc., I'm on numbers 13 and 14.

I thought it was 12 and 13, but I just remembered that my Pro that my stepbrother uses was just repaired recently.

Sherardp

Well I have had 3, my 1st went belly up some time ago. It was lost and I received another. That one went belly up also so in that time I bought a new model with HDMI and use the repaired one for spare. I'm thinking Elite but don't really see a need.

Knucklehead

Just 1 in 3 years, been repaired once.

66chevyIISS

Has anyone tried the "towel trick"? Am I going to risk burning my house down if I try this? lol

concealer404

66chevyIISS wrote: »

Has anyone tried the "towel trick"? Am I going to risk burning my house down if I try this? lol

Nah, it won't get THAT hot.

Give it a shot!

Demiurge

66chevyIISS wrote: »

Has anyone tried the "towel trick"? Am I going to risk burning my house down if I try this? lol

Sorry to say, it's no long term solution. You're best off spending the $65 to have it fixed locally or buying a new one.

ryanjoachim

It's beyond me how people can be satisfied with a system like this with such an amazing failure rate. Sure it's a well-thought up system, but wow.

kuntasensei

I think it comes down to where the best experience is, hardware aside. I mean, take a look at how the sales of a game like Modern Warfare 2 break down:

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* (360) |Nov-09| 4.20M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* (PS3) |Nov-09| 1.87M

Xbox Live is just a far more robust service, and with everyone having voice chat out of the box, you can be pretty sure you can jump in and find some people to play with (and just B.S. with). Now that the Jasper chipset seems to have alleviated the RROD issues, I wouldn't be shocked to see a redesigned 360 next year a la the PS3 Slim. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't debut alongside Project Natal around November, perhaps as a redesigned and repackaged bundle.

At the end of the day, Sony priced themselves out of the game by pushing Blu-ray, and it cost them their lead. Were it not for that stumble early in this generation of consoles, the RROD issues would surely have made people jump ship and go PS3. It just didn't work out that way, because the PS3 wasn't competitively priced and wasn't as easy to program for.

I've been through 12 dead 360s so far. And if mine died today, I'd still stick with 360. That's how happy I am with the experience it offers.

wutadumsn23

kuntasensei wrote: »

I think it comes down to where the best experience is, hardware aside. I mean, take a look at how the sales of a game like Modern Warfare 2 break down:

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* (360) |Nov-09| 4.20M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* (PS3) |Nov-09| 1.87M

That is very true, I bought MW2 the day it dropped for my PS3 and there were still 4 copies available around 4 PM at the BX here on base (basically our tax free version of WalMart) and while there weren't many copies of the PS3 version left, the XBox version was already sold out. Still love my PS3 though, lol.

-Jeff

BlueFox

Hopefully, once. I just got mine, finally had the patience to wait until games are inexpensive before buying it, and it also had a price reduction. Set it up today, which was simple with the HDMI cable to HDMI2 on the AVR, and am now playing BioShock.

anhchungdoan

I bought the 360 Elite(?) for my son 2 moons ago, it still works as it should. I wonder why there are so many others have failed ?

tcrossma

anhchungdoan wrote: »

I bought the 360 Elite(?) for my son 2 moons ago, it still works as it should. I wonder why there are so many others have failed ?

Seriously? I think the *why* of it has already been made pretty clear. Two months of owning a 360 isn't long enough to be wondering why others had problem and you haven't.

But the reliability issues seem to have been largely resolved, so hopefully you and others will remain safe from the RROD.

Serendipity

Once.

At least for me

BIZILL

hot damn, almost 2 weeks and no return label has shown up at my door. i SUPPOSE i hit the wrong thing. i could just about testify i hit the "print return label yourself" button but i guess not. fricken called them to cancel and now i printed the return label. my elite is still okay, but the kids got hit. my second RRoD and it happened gdamn 2 days after i changed my codmw2 clan tag to nothing other than "RRoD". lol shitballz.:mad::(:cool:

wutadumsn23

BIZILL wrote: »

2 days after i changed my codmw2 clan tag to nothing other than "RRoD". lol shitballz.:mad::(:cool:

Classic......

-Jeff

rustycusak

2 times in 3 years and first one is broken in 2 years..But i really enjoyed first Xbox360..

Thanks.

tommyboy

Not again... Back in september I got the infamous RROD but ended up getting a free replacement since the microsoft warranty covered it. Just turned it on today and when I have a disc in, it just says "open tray" DAMNIT! I don't think this is covered either since the extended warranty microsoft has is only for the RROD. Do you guys know if the warranty is from the time it is purchased or the time you get the replacement console...

BIZILL

mine did this last night as well. it didn't see i had a disc in. popped it out and back in and it didn't see it still. power down, power up and all was well. this is a 7 month old xbox elite with nary a problem.

for some reason i think this had to do with the update being available for codmw2 since it was in the drive. xbox live is setup to sign in automatically when i first power on the 360. maybe it was some weird automatic update that didn't work, well, not that it was supposed to be setup to work that way. anyway, everything everything is fine. sorry if my post makes no sense. "it don't make dollarz if it don't make cents."

tommyboy

BIZILL wrote: »

mine did this last night as well. it didn't see i had a disc in. popped it out and back in and it didn't see it still. power down, power up and all was well. this is a 7 month old xbox elite with nary a problem.

for some reason i think this had to do with the update being available for codmw2 since it was in the drive. xbox live is setup to sign in automatically when i first power on the 360. maybe it was some weird automatic update that didn't work, well, not that it was supposed to be setup to work that way. anyway, everything everything is fine. sorry if my post makes no sense. "it don't make dollarz if it don't make cents."

Yep, tried it again... Still nothing. bye bye xbox