Red Ring Of Death... Stopped?

[Davey Woo]

I sent my xbox off for repair on wednesday, and they're apparently already sending it back to me, so it's not too bad.

Also apparently all the xbox's made after October 08 are immune to it, so buying a new one would work/.

 

[humpees]

I wish I didn't feel compelled to read these threads, they make me live in utter fear of being ring raped.

Then again maybe it's better to be prepared for the inevitable.

I really don't like the way you've called it that. *shudder*

Never had a problem with my 360 and it gets moved a lot. Alone amongst my friends though.

Yes well the thought of it happening makes me shudder too... no offense intended its just a turn of phrase

None taken, it's just a nasty image...

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I wish I didn't feel compelled to read these threads, they make me live in utter fear of being ring raped.

Then again maybe it's better to be prepared for the inevitable.

I really don't like the way you've called it that. *shudder*

Never had a problem with my 360 and it gets moved a lot. Alone amongst my friends though.

Yes well the thought of it happening makes me shudder too... no offense intended its just a turn of phrase

None taken, it's just a nasty image...

It sure is, and therefore fitting to the nasty image that is the RROD!

 

[crepesack]

had mine since it came out, RROD twice on me, but that was the end of 2008 and the extended warranty helped out alot, just send it in, i get mine back every 2 weeks or so.

 

[yzzlthtz]

Ah, the Red ring... I got that thing not too long ago

just mail it in to Microsoft, it'll be back in a few weeks... and better than it was when you first got it

What, it'll squirt chocolate out of its DVD drive?

 

[yzzlthtz]

How to stop RROD: Throw the 360 away and don't spend another dime on Microsoft's game business.

The amount of people that complain about RROD is almost the number of those affected by it, and those affected by it are a small number of the total Xbox's currently in people's homes.

Besides, when Microsoft takes over the world, you won't really be able to boycott their products. Their business practices aren't half as bad as most companies out there anyway.

Hmm. Yeah, I just never liked Microsoft. The only thing they did well - with arguable quality - was MS Office, and that's all screwed up now.

(to be fair, I've heard good things about XBLive software)

 

[Loki B]

It may be an old thread with a subject everyone is sick of, but I have to complain somewhere. My Xbox has been repaired three times this year, today I get it home again for the third time, I plug it in, put in a game and the screen turns dark and the red ring of Microsoft can't make hardware worth a sh*t blinks on. Are they ever going to address and fix this fu**ing problem.

 

[Wargamer]

Yet another RRoD thread... seriously, why the fuck do people still buy the 360? Do they take stupid pills every morning? Are they involved in a serious road accident? Are they masochists who can only purchase products that break down on them at irregular intervals?

I don't care who makes it, how much they charge or how popular it is; any console this unreliable does not deserve to exist in the modern market.

 

[Amarok]

Yet another RRoD thread... seriously, why the fuck do people still buy the 360? Do they take stupid pills every morning? Are they involved in a serious road accident? Are they masochists who can only purchase products that break down on them at irregular intervals?

I don't care who makes it, how much they charge or how popular it is; any console this unreliable does not deserve to exist in the modern market.

Sorry to bug ya Wargamer but I just wanna point out this is a fairly old thread that was necromised by Loki B, so not "yet another" one ^^

But I do agree with you, crafting such an unreliable product is crap on Microsoft's part, I mean, how hard can it really be to make a console that doesn't explode? Everyone else does it...

 

[DM.]

I've had 4 Red rings.


Thankfully Microsoft seems to replace them because I got the extended warranty.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

I've had 4 Red rings.


Thankfully Microsoft seems to replace them because I got the extended warranty.

That's good. A mate of mine got them just (Like a week) after his warranty ran out.

 

[Zersy]

Have fun... seeing that ring is quite possibily one of the saddest experiences you can have as a gamer...

Thank god i own both consoles

and a PC full of great Indie games !

learn all you gamers when in doubt bring the compettior out !

 

[The_Night_Walker]

Give it Immediate CPR with a air spray or vacuum or be prepared to prep for theatre

 

[Loki B]

After repeated attempts at life support (vacuuming) my Xbox show no signs of life, time to ship it back and hope that they get it right this time... Still in denial I'm afraid.

 

[purplegothchick]

I've never had the RROD but it has crashed on me quite a bit. Very frustrating, especially in the middle of a co-op mission. I've heard that MS aren't particularly helpful if you have a problem, so my heart goes out to everyone who experiences this

 

[iJosh]

Same thing happened to me !!

But this was on my brothers xbox. My Xbox360 1337 lasted me since the day it came out. Maybe because my room is always cold.

 

[Iskenator67]

How to stop RROD: Throw the 360 away and don't spend another dime on Microsoft's game business.

You are a person after my own heart. It's exactly what I did.

True, took me four replacements to figure that out, but still...

Considering Sony's backing out of the console market, and Nintendo's rather kid friendly gimmick based games that only really leaves you with the 360 for a comforting shoulder to lean on in the late hours at night, it's gentle hum filling the room as you boot it...

I mean, that is to say, it's the only console that offers a wide variety of titles to choose from and allows independent developers to produce games for.

Honestly I've had my 360 for almost three years now [albeit it is the Elite model and I did get the back of the unit fan that plugs into the power supply itself, not the one that take up a USB slot] and it hasn't died yet. And this is through four moves, and a deployment to Iraq where I first got it. So perhaps I just got a surprisingly sturdy model, or I just got what I paid for when I bought it to begin with. Other than two crashes ever, both that went away right after I restarted it, and both being almost a year apart and on two different games, I don't have any complaints about the Xbox 360. But if you don't like it you can go back to the Xbox or the PS2 [which was the former King of a Thousand Game Titles], or any of the other, older, cherished, but no longer produced for, consoles and enjoy one of them. You'd find in the long run every console has it's issues, not just the ones made by Microsoft.

So how do you stop the Red Ring of Death? You don't really. You pay for a decent console that's made decent, get the right kind of fan attachment for it, and take the best care for it you can. It'll fail sooner or later, as all things in this modern age are designed to do. But if you take good care of it, you'll still get plenty of miles out of it before then.

A friend of mine had one of those fans and he got the RROD. When he sent it to Microsoft, they told him to stop using it because that's what caused it. The Pros and Elites are made better and are less likely to get the RROD then the Arcade. The new ones (the ones produced around Christmas) have better processing chips witch are supposed to prevent the RROD.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I've had mine for one and a half years and it just died then. Damn you, Microsoft

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Ah, the Red ring... I got that thing not too long ago

just mail it in to Microsoft, it'll be back in a few weeks... and better than it was when you first got it

What, it'll squirt chocolate out of its DVD drive?

I think I have a filthy mind, as I picked up some heavy scat innuendo from that sentence.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Tough break pal. Fortunatly I have never had to sit through the aful Red Ring. Mine just over heats....Nope I have a destructive little brother who throws a fit and throws the console across the room whenever he dosen't get his way........Why could I not be an only child.....