WRX_Dazza

According to recent gossip, one of the lead designers has put together a wish list for cars including:-

Ford Cortina (MK V)

Ford Escort

Ford Escort Cosworth

Ford Escort Mark II

Ford RS200 (1984)

Ford Serria 4×4

Ford Serria Cosworth

Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500

Ford Sierra Cosworth (Sapphire)

Get your £40 ready, this is going to be massive (400 cars and 100 tracks to start with!!!)

frayz

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Every one of em a Ford... lol awesome

WRX_Dazza

yeah, i didnt bother looking at the subaru list

wozzaa

Just turned my XBox on & got 3 red lights

Any ideas how to fix this

WRX_Dazza

i think pinseeker knows someone...

Boro

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Needs to be returned to MS im afraid.

pinseeker

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Forza 3
You got a release date ?

There is a fix normally associated with the RROD which my brother can send you but if your not confident on opening up the XBOX & diagnosing I can get my brother to have a look at yours if you like

wozzaa

Nice one

Diesel_DC

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Who cares about all them dagenham dustbins what are the tyrewalls like

Boro

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You could try wrapping your 360 in a towel and leaving it on for a couple of hours. Ive heard this can fix it as random as it sounds!

pinseeker

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Your on the right track but you need to pull the solder together by putting in some screws pulling the components together before doing the wrapping the towel method. Typically they say between 10-20 mins turned on with towel wrapped round but brother does not like doing it for more than 10 minutes which in most cases works.

Supercue

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Wozza providing your unit is under three years old you can get it repaired free of charge. MS extended all warranties to 3yrs as theyve had so many failures. Do a google and you'll find a gazillion threads with instructions.

rb5 286

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NO not another version.....He will never be off the Xbox again then

Deb

vega

Wozza - I found the towel method to only fix it temporarily, so go the microsoft route if you can.

Although I did the x clamp fix over the weekend on my spare xbox and it worked, easy and cheap (£2.99) enough to do yourself.

Back on topic - be great if they do include those blue ovals in FM3, time for some proper drifting

BRI4N

As yet no release date for Forza 3, might not even be this year.

Have just pre-ordered "Race Pro" though.

John1uk

When Microsoft designed the 360, they chose a slightly unusual way of mounting the heat sinks to the processors. When the console is running, there is a tremendous amount of heat build up inside the case This causes the motherboard to flex against the X-Clamp support which in turn can cause the soldered joints on the processors to come away from the motherboard itself.

This results in the Red Lights of death. Due to the inefficient design of the heat sink clamping method, this is a very large problem. Although Microsoft haven’t (as of yet) come up with a decent design fix.

On the latest ‘Elite’ versions of the console they have used epoxy resin to ‘glue’ the corners of the processors down to stop the flexing that causes this error. Whether their fix will stand the test of time remains to be seen.

rb5 286

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already got mine on order, especially now i have completed every race on forza 2 over the weekend


I also managed a 6.30 lap of the ring, total time was 13.43 IIRC for 2 laps

WRX_Dazza

i've got an external fan adaptor which seems to work well enough.

it makes a bit of a din sometimes but at least i can still shoot our yankee counterparts!!!

can be switched off manually for movies, or thermostatically for heavy sessions!!

V4JDMSTi

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would be an awesome line up if they bring that out. :

baz69birds

& ive nearly done my forza2 ,
Level 49, & 10 more races to race,
1 more time trial,
& the secret achevments to unlock.
& all the germany, british, italy cars to get....

Milamber

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....and a few Class D RWD cars to tune

Boro

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What are the secret achievements?

WRX_Dazza

they are "secret"

rb5 286

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own all race cars (R1 > R4)
own all tuner cars
own all production cars
own all cars

you must have all the cars in your garage at the same time to get the above achievements


i now have 44/44 on Forza 2 achievements lol

Boro

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Not a chance of me getting those achievements, im struggling to add single cars to my garage at the mo. Whenever i need to buy a new car i have to sell one first!

rb5 286

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Boro, let me know what cars you need and I can send them to you, I had to buy many from the auction house as you cant unlock them due to region locks

a total of 350 car allowed in your garage at anyone time

i had to send Baz a load of mine to look after to make room. I have sent him all my porshe race cars so he can get his ach'ments but i still own every other car for now.

other note: you dont need to have the DLC cars as these dont affect the achivements, they'll just take up room

baz69birds

Thank you MARK i hope the 3 i had to BUY for you aswell REALLY DID HELP

IVE Slowed playing down on it..
Hurry up Eastenders so i can play (not me Wife is watching it)

rb5 286

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ye baz, ran out of credits so thanks for that

as i say, all cars in my garage so any1 who needs to borrow any to get achvments just ask

trails

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have any of you boys got this; RACE DRIVER GRID ™| CODEMASTERS

better than Forza II imo...the in car view with force feedback wheel, bucket seat and big HD screen is amazing

rb5 286

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i thought GRiD sucked, too arcade'y for me. prefer the simulator type like gran turismo and FM2