brihoppy

there i was happily playing cod4 online when my xbox went mental...screen froze and controller vibrated so much i thought it was going to explode...

3 quadrants on the circle of light were flashing red...xbox customer support say it has to go back to them for repair for 2-3 weeks, thats not including the time i have to arrange to get it picked up...!!!

i cant go cold turkey like this...!!!

anyone else had a similar problem and know whats wrong...?

(its every quadrant apart from the top right which is red)

cheers, bri...

WRX_Dazza

red ring of death mate....

happened to many on here.

loads of articles on it.

just have to sit it out (or do what a lot of people do which is buy an elite, and then sell their 360 when returned )

Iain Young

It doesn't help. My downstairs elite has just died and it's only a few weeks old. It's one of the "new improved" ones as well...

lee-swindon

take it bck to the shop they should swap it as you still have 12months shop garauntee

i personally would buy another xbox and sell the one that gest fixed at least you wont have to go without a console than

WRX_Dazza

oh dear...

Iain, you are obviously "working" it too hard mate !!!!

PeteBrant

Oh, only about 5 million others

Myself - three times - But I think Iain holds the record.

Iain Young

I got it from Gameplay, and their support is as useful as a chocolate teapot. They will basically only replace it if Microsoft refuse to repair / replace the console. So I've got to contact MS and endure another 2 hour phone call and 3-4 week wait to get it fixed.

Really bad service from Gameplay, and I for one will never use the company again (despite have spent thousands with them over the years).

Going on holiday in a couple of weeks, so I'm going to leave calling the MS Indian call center till I get back. Luckily I've got a 2nd elite, and my old premium arrived back from the MS repair center today, so I can still do some gaming. Getting seriously fed up now. This is now the 9th 360 I've had go wrong!!!

brihoppy

the 9th...?!?! bloody hell...!!!

so its a well known fault then...? in response to an above post and has been mentioned by some one else above, the vendor will only exchange it if ms write it off...hope they let me keep the hard drive if thats the case...!!!

what a pain in the ****...!

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

My launch day console died last week.
I've only just round to phoning MS about it. Now I'm struggling to find a box suitable to bloody return it in.

brihoppy

just googled 'xbox 360 red ring of death' and found loads of self fix sites...any thoughts...?

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

https://www.scoobynet.com/computer-r...-helpline.html

What the helpline tell you and what actually happened for mine.

StickyMicky

yours has been going for a good few months now if i remember right?

HPLovecraft

Try taking everything apart and then giving the ventilation holes a good suck and clean out with a vacuum cleaner and be sure to include your power-brick (it has some vent holes too that become clogged with dust on mine).

Sounds like overheating so it may be worth a try....

PeteBrant

Ignore them all - There is one solution - Box it up and send it back to MS

HPLovecraft

Depends if its a general hardware failure or simple overheating due to inadequate ventilation. I know two people who solved a similar issue by simple cleaning and better ventilation.

So it might be worth a try before having to box it up and send it off.

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Yes mate, it started locking up in Forza 2 when that was released.
Had one incident of RROD, then they released a update for Forza and it cleared up and had worked faultlessly until I moved it from the study to the living room at Xmas. It really didn't apprieciate that and has RROD since.

Thankfully I bought COD4 on the PC early Jan so haven't been using it much and it'll keep me going till the 360 comes back (just found a box ).

Needs to be back for the 29th April though. GTA IV gets released that day

brihoppy

i know this sounds daft but im trying the towel fix...saw a good video of a guy on youtube doing it...bit dangerous i know but it seemed to work for him and there are loads of others on there that have done it...

from what i understand from having a look around is the problems caused initially by overheating and the motherboard becoming bent and seperating from the DCU whatever that is...the towel fix is supposed to reset the chips or something like that but its supposed to be a fix for the general hardware failure, but only a short term fix, it still has to go to ms for repair...

ill give anything a try once...

brihoppy

well, it worked...short term fix, 4-5 days only apparently, but it gives me a few more days in the meantime before i send it off...

JackClark

Why call the call center? You can arrange a pick up online in a couple of clicks.

Iain Young

Can you? Might try that next time (my last call to their call center lasted almost 2 hours).

StickyMicky

the towel fix, is not enough heat to reflow the solder properlly so as you did/will find out its not going to last forever

JackClark

Xbox.com | Official Xbox 360 UK | Customer Support

Right hand side.

gotmashed

Ive read a few posts about the freezing problem, it seems some guys have found it to be the power brick and hanging it up off the floor with string or put an open cardboard box under it so air can get all the way round it stops it doing it, one guy also had the rod every ten min and he did this and 1 week later xbox is still runing 100%.

AllanB

9th blimey I thought I was bad with 7 dead in 14 months. Getting my new one delivered today from MS as an old mate of mine heads up the Xbox divsion.

I'd read online that many of the Elites did not have the heatsink modification but all the units being repaired now have this retro fitted. Not sure how true this is.



AllanB

Iain Young

Possibly, but it's not a RROD failure this time. Instead I'm getting a E67 (hard drive error) and 1 red light when I turn it on (even when there's no hd attached). Plus the DVD drive has started making a very loud "grinding" noise...

Awesomepossum

Got mine back yesterday and it is noticably louder than before. DVD drive is making some high pitched noise that gently ocilates up and down which is going to do my head in before too long.

Picked up by UPS on the 16th and returned on the 29th. Mate of mine i work with got his back in 3 days after collection, collected last Mon and redelivered on the following Wed

Iain Young

Got my premium back from MS on Monday, (took about 2.5 weeks). It seems to work ok except for the fact that it now rattles when you move it (something is loose inside!!)...

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

I tried the towel trick on mine last night, completely killed it
It used to boot up occasionally, before RROD, after the towel trick it just RROD all the time.
All boxed up ready for UPS now.

SirFozzalot

Another one bites the dust!

Iain Young

Might have to get one of these

SPLITREASON.COM :: RRoD t-shirt