Coincedence?

[Aoi Denkou]

Yeah, that's not right, it's not from "over-heating" although it is caused by some malfunction in the cooling system. If it were caused by over-heating then the towel trick wouldn't work.

 

[PureChaos]

whats red ring of death?

 

[Aries_Split]

Yeah, that's not right, it's not from "over-heating" although it is caused by some malfunction in the cooling system. If it were caused by over-heating then the towel trick wouldn't work.

towel...trick?

 

[MrGFunk]

Do the more expensive units fail less?

I'd like to see a breakdown of Core, Arcade, Pro and Elite that Red Ring.

 

[mintsauce]

Dead Space killed my friends 360

No, your friend's 360 died while it was playing Dead Space. The game has nothing to do with it.

 

[MrGFunk]

towel...trick?

Read this online.

If you have a Xbox360 which currently is flickering 3 red lights try this :
Wrap your 360 in a towel (completely covered), turned on the system for about 10 minutes or more (not too long), turned it off, then back on again and your system should work again!

I don't endorse this - this is the towel trick.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Yeah my third Xbox RROD'd on me today. Seriously! My fucking third!

Gutted...

I've actually never had a proper red ring of death, but I've had two, quarter ring errors.
Both of which were just as I was attempting to play a game I'd been waiting for since the previous year. Which meant waiting for two weeks then finally playing the game and being very dissapointed with it.

What exactly is the quarter ring thing? I don't have a 360, so I don't know the different level of fail. Is it also in the level of "have the box repaired"?

 

[Aries_Split]

towel...trick?

Read this online.

If you have a Xbox360 which currently is flickering 3 red lights try this :
Wrap your 360 in a towel (completely covered), turned on the system for about 10 minutes or more (not too long), turned it off, then back on again and your system should work again!

I don't endorse this - this is the towel trick.

Oh I've heard of that. I hear that the towels overheat the system to a point that the chips cooling system resets and fixes it.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

oh, i know why. Looks like Torchwood is using 360s to track some alien. Apparently it's using Microsoft to take over the world....but who could it be.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

This all reminds me of what happened to my first PS2.

It went pop on christmas eve. Got given a nice hi-fi set for it to the day after =/

 

[Zephirius]

I have an Elite, and I have never gotten a RROD, any ring errors or even a scratched disk. Am I one of the lucky ones?

 

[xitel]

I will say, the odd coincidence in this case is the fact that right after I buy Fable II, Fracture, and Fallout 3, my 360 Red Rings, and then this thread pops up. My problem is, it's not a RROD per se, it's a graphics chip failure, so I don't get the benefit of an extended warranty, but I can't fix the problem myself. ARGH!!!!

 

[Vortigar]

Nah, Microsoft has been setting off them RROD's by remote.

Getting everyone their halloween scares to come alive!

 

[milomalo]

It's the CRAB PEOPLE!

i miss the crab pictures here...