It's just locking up and none of the controls work, the picture is frozen... I'm not getting the flashing red lights that most talk about, but something is obviously wrong. Any suggestions?

9/23/2007 12:30:26 PM

my roommates did that like 2 or 3 weeks ago. Like it wasnt over heating or anyting cuase sometimes it would run for hours and not lock up, then other times it would lock up 5 secs after turning it on. He sent it back into microsoft and they said it was the dvd drive problem. Something like 1/3 or 1/4 of all 360s are havin this problem now cuase one of the manufacturing companies wasnt up to par with microsofts standards. just call up microsoft and tell em the deal, They send you a box with pre-paid shipping and packaging materials. You ship it back and then it arrives back at your place like a week or so later with a fixed xbox and a free 1 month xbox live card. He didnt have to pay for crap. Microsoft has some good customer service on the 360s

9/23/2007 1:28:59 PM

I ended up with the three red light problem... it's on its way to Texas when I get the box.

9/24/2007 8:25:25 PM

yeah, mine did this a while ago. I never got the red lights.


it was just overheating.

9/25/2007 7:43:40 AM

halOWNED

9/25/2007 8:29:24 AM

They should just start rating a X360 game's graphics by how quickly it will brick your 360.

9/25/2007 12:27:59 PM

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"halOWNED"

At least I can put off picking up my reserved copy for a while...

9/25/2007 4:42:53 PM

I have a buddy that has a 360 and this happens only with Rainbow 6 Vegas. Other games appear to work just fine, but whenever Rainbow 6 is put in, we can get all of our settings entered, load the level, start playing and 10 seconds later, it freezes. Could this be a game issue or the box?

9/25/2007 8:39:18 PM

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"They should just start rating a X360 game's graphics by how quickly it will brick your 360. "

LOL

9/25/2007 8:48:53 PM

my wii's holding up nicely

oops, wrong thread

[Edited on September 26, 2007 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

9/26/2007 9:53:11 AM

ok, here's a question

if i buy an elite w/ the 3 rings can I still ship it off to MS to fix?

9/26/2007 7:40:53 PM

yea mine did that...i stopped using it for months...turned it on the day before H3 came out...and 3 red lights...3-4 business weeks for me...

9/26/2007 8:13:21 PM

Ya mine has beening doing this too lately. I think it was after I ran some updates. I need to call MS if this happens again.

9/26/2007 10:40:11 PM

Say this Xbox was bought about a year go and has never been hooked up to the 'net. Will any form of updates install (once connected to the 'net) to help this locking up problem or is it strickly a hardware issue? I'm a Xbox n00b.

9/27/2007 6:05:28 PM

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue

Overheating to be more exact

9/27/2007 6:06:49 PM

if it is overheating, are components getting fried? What does MS do to fix this? Add cooling fans and heatsinks?

9/27/2007 6:08:14 PM

from what i hear the solder would get fucked up cuz it was cheap and crappy. they probably resolder and/or use the better stuff. i doubt they always install the new heatsinks.

9/27/2007 6:33:25 PM

put in h3, and my xbox red ringed on me


fuckin microsoft....now I don't think of blue screens anymore, just red fuckin rings

9/27/2007 10:53:29 PM

9/27/2007 11:05:48 PM

/off topic

these things still need to have another price drop

i refuse to pay > 300 for HDMI and HDs

[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 11:35 PM. Reason : ]

9/27/2007 11:33:20 PM

good for u...



in my opinion though i just wait till there are a few games i want to won before i purchase a console because yes the price will go down but all they are doing is depreciating the value based on how long till the console isn't worth anything.. basically think of it as an up-front 5 year lease... and for every year you wast sure the price will go down but you're also only leasing it for 4 years.

[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 11:45 PM. Reason : .]

9/27/2007 11:40:17 PM

Eh, true, but I still can't justify spending that much cash on a gaming box no matter how much disposable cash I have on hand.

I'd much rather throw anything over 300 at a new desktop rig.

9/28/2007 2:58:56 AM

$300 will buy you what, like 1/2 a video card?

9/28/2007 1:58:49 PM

you cant put a price on mouse-look.

9/28/2007 2:04:06 PM

^^ I'm saying I put a limit on console buying at 300, period.

If I'm spending more than that I'm going all out and buying a real gaming machine.

9/28/2007 3:05:16 PM

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"Overheating to be more exact"

It's not overheating... mine did it for the first time when I turned it on after it had been sitting for a day...

10/1/2007 11:07:08 PM

It was probably the GPU issue which is at least partly a heat issue.

Overheating isn't really the right way to describe it, but it's the right general ballpark.

10/2/2007 12:09:39 AM