Poll: What should I do with my red-ringed 360?

[Lizmichi]

But still funny as hell. I applaud you and give you a gift.

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Anpan

OoooOOoooh! What is this? Is that like a doughnut? Or some kind of sweet bagel pasty remix?

It's a Japanese sweet bun filled with sweet red bean jelly. Like a japanese jelly doughnut basically. It's REALLY good and better to give out then a cookie. From now on I give out Anpan.

 

[Infinatex]

But still funny as hell. I applaud you and give you a gift.

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Anpan

OoooOOoooh! What is this? Is that like a doughnut? Or some kind of sweet bagel pasty remix?

It's a Japanese sweet bun filled with sweet red bean jelly. Like a japanese jelly doughnut basically. It's REALLY good and better to give out then a cookie. From now on I give out Anpan.

First Pokemon, now this! Japan is awesome!! haha I'll definitely have to go out and try one this weekend!

 

[Diligent]

Take it apart piece by piece, and suspend the dismantled parts in red Jell-O along with pineapple ring slices in a fish tank, and try to sell it as dadist art.
You could stand beside it and wear a french beret, glasses, and smoke a cigarette through a cigarette holder and explain, "I call this piece, 'Red Ring Amongst the Red Rings'."

 

[Lizmichi]

But still funny as hell. I applaud you and give you a gift.

Spoiler

Anpan

OoooOOoooh! What is this? Is that like a doughnut? Or some kind of sweet bagel pasty remix?

It's a Japanese sweet bun filled with sweet red bean jelly. Like a japanese jelly doughnut basically. It's REALLY good and better to give out then a cookie. From now on I give out Anpan.

First Pokemon, now this! Japan is awesome!! haha I'll definitely have to go out and try one this weekend!

Tried to make some home make but the yest didn't work so it was like eating delicious rocks. Good luck finding it though. I still love my ramune though.

 

[orangeapples]

take it apart and put more thermal paste in it. that stuff is like $10 and that's all Microsoft would do with it.

 

[GRoXERs]

Take it apart piece by piece, and suspend the dismantled parts in red Jell-O along with pineapple ring slices in a fish tank, and try to sell it as dadist art.
You could stand beside it and wear a french beret, glasses, and smoke a cigarette through a cigarette holder and explain, "I call this piece, 'Red Ring Amongst the Red Rings'."

This... yes. I like this.

 

[TBR]

But the real question is...

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WILL IS BLEND?

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no really, go find the blend-tec guy, or email them or something, tell them you KNOW the 360 is unreliable, but you're unsure if it can blend in a Blendtec (C) Blender

 

[metalhead467]

Go up to the roof of a really tall building, take careful aim, and try to nail a passerby on the ground with it.

 

[merc hunter]

Do what I did, get wasted and smash it apart with a WW1 bayonet, actually more fun than it sounds

 

[GodsAndFishes]

Not a permanent solution by all means but I always found that percussive maintainance (e.g. hitting it) fixes my RROD for at least a week, and if it doesn't work, what have you lost?

 

[Tallim]

World's smallest red light district!

Check the power cable too, mine red ringed but it turned out the power cable had worked out very slightly, pushed it back in and it's been going for years still.

 

[Agayek]

I vote you strap some C4 to it and see how big a boom you can make. If it works for Mythbusters, it'll work for you.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

pour gasoline all over it, light it on fire, then piss the flames out, then smash it to bits with any nearby large rock you can find. Or, open it, take out any parts you can then fill their spaces with fireworks, connect all the fuses and put the case back on, light the fuse and RUN for it! Best 4th of July. EVAR! What to do with the extra parts? Melt them down and make some jewelry out of them, sell it on E-bay and put in the description "Wear Microsoft's pathetic excuse for a Video Game System! Buy it for your girlfriend today!"

 

[Keepitclean]

Put it in the fridge. My friend had a RROD'd 360 and he put it in the fridge for an hour and it began wo to work again. It was awesome.

 

[4nthr4x]

Cut a deal with this guy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY[/youtube]

one HUGE trebuchet

 

[Sieg Firebrand]

Super expensive paperweight?

 

[junkmanuk]

Don't do the towel trick - seriously it's bollocks.

Scavenging for parts it all well and good but be aware you can't simply transplant an XBox DVD drive from one console to another as it is paired with the CPU.

If your dashboard version is 2.0.7371 or lower you can fetch a high price selling as a broken console on ebay. If it's higher you'll still fetch something for it.

Alternatively you can try to fix it yourself with a RROD repair kit. Make sure you have the right tools to open the unit though as we've lost count of the smashed up boxes we've received where people have pried the console open. The process is pretty straightforward - as long as you religiously follow the instructions.

If you were in the UK I'd make an offer for it, but the international postage makes it less worthwhile

Try turning it off and back on again. I got three lights up and this worked with mine. Weirdly. It now sounds horrid like the fans aren't working properly but it's still going.
My other suggestion is buy one of the new Slim Xboxes as they look awesome.

You need to clean that thing out... otherwise you'll kill it to death. Do you store it on a carpet on it's end? If so that's a great way to suck shit into the console and block the cooling even more. Best position for the console is sitting flat on a smooth surface.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

Cut a deal with this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

one HUGE trebuchet

Damn, I wonder how far that 360 would fly, especially if it was lit on fire and filled with gasoline like the pianos! That'd be one epic waste of time, but, that's why it's epic!

 

[Hellz_Barz]

So, I unpacked and hooked up my Xbox this afternoon after work, started playing a little CoD4 because I hadn't quite unlocked all the achievements for it yet, and it started freezing, then (on the third reboot) gave me the dreaded 3-quadrant RROD. Now, since I bought it three years and four days ago, the warranty's out (dirty, dirty trick there Micro$oft) and I'm looking for something to do with it. Suggestions? I'm not going to bother getting it repaired, when it will cost about the same to just get the cheapest 360 (which just got $50 cheaper - now it's $150 =D )

Spoiler: It really is doing the three-light thing, but I didnae catch it at quite the right moment. Pretty when it's naked though, eh?

My 360 did red ring of death sometime last year. But they repaired it for free even though it was out of warranty. Think it was because it was such a common fault that they couldn't use the old "outta warranty" line. All i had to do was ship it to Malaysia or something.

 

[KingTiger]

Will it blend ?

...argh that stupid show wont leave my head.