Has your XBox 360 died ?

[Blackrat]

My first one was one of those very first boxes. Bought it in early 2006. I had absolutely no trouble with it until this summer. I played easily 20 hour straights occasionally and it worked perfectly. Then, two days after the new S-series was published it just RRoD'ed. At that point I just decided that ok, I'll get the new one. Easier than sending the old to be fixed and I was thinking of getting the S anyway.

 

[Redrobes]

Thanks guys.

Thats 9 people, 5 experiencing one or more failures and 3 never having a failure. But some of the 5 have had multiple xboxes die.

Mine went whilst playing Fable II and it turns out my other mate's box went on Fable II as well which is just coincidence. I am seeing the third chap tomorrow so ill ask him which game he was playing when his went. If thats Fable II as well then I'd consider that more than coincidence...

I bought my mates old repaired box since he also went out and got a new one and got the old one repaired as well. The new slim one is supposed to have one big fan instead of two small ones so I bet they have changed the air flow to mitigate some of the known issues for failures and probably better. I waited until the 'Elite' edition so they could flush out some of the earlier problems with them but seems for MS thats not waiting long enough.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

I had a machine that got the RROD after a year and a half of light use.

I fixed it myself and its been working like a champ for over 2 years.

Since fixing my own I have tried to fix 4 additional machines. One was unfixable (and also was the only one to have a non-RROD problem), one worked for a couple months before crapping out again, and the other two I haven't heard about.

Since the fix for the RROD only costs $14 in parts and an hour of your time (plus however long you want to "test" the fix) it's a no brainer!

DS

 

[Redrobes]

What kind of problem did it exhibit and what did you have to do to fix it. I was concerned that if I took the back off and fixed it then it would register the "tampering" and mark it against me on Live. That and I am short of time to fix anything at mo. But I am cool with electronics and would fix almost anything. My PC has my own card in it and my own water cooling system from a Ford Cortina so its not that which is scaring me off.

Mine has no RRoD yet but its clearly a graphics card issue. My mate reckons its the repeated heating cooling causing a PCB track break. I am less sure about that. It looks more like memory problems but whatever - whos to know without checking. It takes a few mins then it locks up so could well be mechanical heating related.

 

[faith1806]

mine never died, lol, u are toooooo cool

 

[Holy Bovine]

Of the 6 people I know with 360s 4 of them have had the RRoD (is the "cute" descriptor supposed to make it OK that it failed?) with one person getting it twice. So 7 360s 5 failures. I rarely play mine (I'm much more of a PC gamer and first/third person shooter/rpgs bore me to death - yes even Mass Effect).

 

[Felon]

I had my 360 Elite for about a year when it red-ringed. Sent it back in, got it back a week later.

 

[Redrobes]

Thanks everyone,

So bearing in mind this is a thread about dying xboxes and is somewhat biased towards dead ones we have:

17 People of which 11 have experienced one or more failures and 4 people never having a failure.

Also, I don't think that the "Red Ring of Death" is all that cute. Its pretty descriptive and to the point. Its obviously a parody of the other MS affliction the "Blue Screen of Death" or BSOD which I would say is quite rare now, if not extinct on a sensible setup, but was a daily experience of using Win95.

 

[Superking]

Mine just died on month 35 of a 36 month warranty. Have three friends with boxes one of their's went. So of the group we are 2 of 5 with rrod.

 

[Redrobes]

Thanks, I'm counting number of people who have had one or more failures cos some people have gone through many boxes I thought id be generous with the stats. So with you and three friends - and the fact I couldn't count last time - thats now 19 people, 12 having at least one failure and 7 never having a failure.