So yesterday while playing COD:WAW all of a sudden the greens in the screen become really green and intermittently flashing. I restarted and after about 2 mins the same starts happening. I think check all the connections and all is good so I fire it up again. This time it starts doing the green thing and a red thing now too alternating back and forth.

Just now I turn it on and after about 5 mins it starts doing the green thing again. I turn it off unplug and replug all the chords again and turn it back on. This time there's nothing screen just stays black but the sound is fine. Couple restarts solved nothing. Anyone know what this is?

It sounds like your TV or the Cable to the TV

TV and cables are fine. Looks to be a fairly common error from looking around a bit. Funny that it isnt covered by warranty and the warranty ran out less than a month ago. Apparently if you tell them you have the RROD, they dont even check and just send you back a new or refurbed one.

bro i had this and had to send it back to microsoft and pay for a repair 60 quid its the solder on the motherboard comes unstuck when over heated

and no picture just black screen and sound

if your still in warranty give microsoft a ring theyl pick it up and repair it for free

peace goodluck

start kicking it until it RORD's

have you checked the tv/hd button on the lead hasn't accidently been switched over

Yup, made sure everything is good and just tried to log a repair on the xbox website and got some error and the phone number is a cluster fuck of an automated system. Gonna check repair status in the morning and take it from there.

Send it back to microsoft, they'll sort you a new one.

Have you tried the towel method?



e2a: As far as I know there wasa design fault in the older models, for which Microsoft have extended the warranty. Check their site out here (wasn't sure if you're in the USA or not)... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534

Yeah, I'd go for the towel method.

Although it's just an ickle incy wincy bit naughty

the towel method is for fixing rrod (temporarily) in the hope that you will overheat it and re-attatch the heatsink to the processor,
doesnt sound like he has red ring to me though

if you do have red ring though my advice would be to buy a repair kit of ebay for less than a fiver and repair it yourself, i recently fixed one up and its running like a dream - plus the quality of the repair components are much better and alot more 'heavy duty' than the crap microsoft use (like the awfull x-clamps),

200 quid for a state of the art games console and you have to wrap a towell round it to make the thing work

fucking microsoft

I had all them three lights on on the video, had an intercooler running, tried everything to no avail, then thought and not sure why that id try it without the fan, works like a dream, it was the bastard fan. dont know if this is a well known problem, but if you got a fan try it without.

all because they are such tight bastards and wont use decent heavy duty nuts to hold the heatsink down, they use these bendy weak, weightless x-clamps and a couple of spindly nuts
thats the worst thing its a $5 design fault, easily sorted, but microsoft too lazy

they should be pulled of the shelves until MS sort it

I've had nowt but 6 weeks of grief because of em

init, especially as they have a 'just under' 20% failure rate
still awesome consoles though

with a failure rate that high I'm shocked that trading standards dont insist they are removed the shelves





I beg to differ
If they were truly awesome then you wouldn't have to buy all the must haves that you need to use one as it was intended as an "optional extra" except for the towel which you have to provide yourself , and you wouldn't have to shell out even more money to play the games online after you bought them and the fucking things should live longer than six months

The ATI HD4850 GFX card (£100-ish) that I've put in the PC I've just built for myself has made it become a games-playing machine that whups the arse of any current 'next-gen' games console.

fair enough, but it just aint the same shootin nazis on a p.c, all that fuckin about with the mouse and diferent keys for this that and the other, microsoft should just make them decent from the off then your not havin to piss about fixing it up yourself

plus with a pc if anything goes wrong everythings got to be reinstalled etc its a pain in the arse
i can fix red ring of death with a one-off lifetime repair for less than a fiver and an hour of my time,
plus my xbox360 is modded anyway so i just download the games of the net on my pc, burn them off and play - couldnt be much easier

Well i'm just about to go n buy a PS3 as my Xbox has broke again for the 2nd time in about 6 months so i'm going to send it back get it fixed and sell the pile of shit before it breaks again, i think its shocking that there even aloud to sell them they've got so many faults and i dont know one person that has one that hasn't broke.

Plus i still prefer the gameplay and the online gameplay on the PS3.

scrib's you really cant compare a pc to an xbox, so you spend £100 on your graphics card, for an extra £30 you could have had a full console setup from xbox where as to make your pc work you need a lot more . P.C and console gaming are 2 completley different things.

Also the towel method aint going to help as has already been said, I cant comment on the RROD, i have had my console for around a year now with no problems at all, it is regularly left on for 10 - 12 hrs.

T1

Yep, on re-reading, it doesn't sound like you have the Red Ring of Death, so you can put your towel back in the bathroom now

Mine is currently back with Billo's pixies for the second time in 4 months.

Even though it'd given me some pain-in-the-proverbial moments recently, it's given many many many hours of pleasure. I'm dying to get it back because it also chewed up one of my new games and when I complained to the 'support' boy (who told me that it wasn't their fault) I told him that I was recording the call and that, under English Law, XBox are responsible for any loss or damage cause by it's malfunction", he didn't know what to say.... so I just can't wait to see if it is a DVD problem. I hope that it is, then they can get ready for my next recorded telephone call


It may be worth a telephone call to the support to see if they can shed any light on your problem ... good luck though, I always seem to get some spotty teenager that knows less than I've forgotten

slightly off topic i know, but i really wish i had the technical knowledge and know-how to do with my 360 what ben heck done to his - it looks awesome, the guy is very talented, he makes all kinds of mad shit

thats pretty sweet scarface, my mrs would love me to get one of them, then she'd get the big livingroom tv to herself

That is sweet scarface, might try n make one sure i've got some wood n screws kicking about

some of his other stuff

including - ps laptop
mk1 and 2 of the 360 laptop
ps3 controller in a 360 shell

theres loads of stuff hes done, hes got a website where he puts tutorials of how to do it all aswell i think
infinity ward have also hired him to make them a response time controller

Its not the RROD I have but another common problem that apparently isnt covered by warranty. Fitting though that the warranty expired a month ago. I have been told that I should just say its the RROD as they ask no questions and just send a replacement.

Call them up, tell them it's broken, tell them you got it 11 months ago and they'll tell you someone will pick it up.

sounds like a plan to me however i am not so sure that they just send a replacement, it was my thinking that they refurbish the xbox you sent in and then send that one back, not a new one.

T1

Might depend on the damage but I've always had new ones. It could just be that they've repaired the inner workings and just recovered it in a new case. Not really sure. It's as good as new when it turns up though. They do pick it up first and take it away, so you could be right. Otherwise they would probably have the delivery/pickup guy do an exchange to save in post and packing.

Just got off the horn with them and I should have a box sent to me within 3 business days. I gotta send it back (told em it was the RROD) and wait for them to send a replacement. Told it should all be resolved inside 3 weeks Im gonna go through some serious withdrawls over the next few weeks, .

I had 2 360s rrod on me in 6 mths both took 9 days from the time ups picked em up and dropped em back, 1st time was a totally differant console 2nd got the same one back.

had this problem with first x box and the replacement now on third
noo problem replacing them just send back and the will replace it
they will also arange pick up.

by the way it the graphic card thats fecked.

This is why I have a PS3. I dont understand how microsoft get away with it?! They have a faulty a product, which every model is affected and yet they don't try to fix the cause and people keep buying them . If my Xbox broke twice I'd personally shove it up Bill Gates arse.

Shows how much people who have 360's love the product. Yeah its annoying when it breaks but its still the best console on the market. IMO.

So so glad i've got an old Xbox classic and not a 360 hehe

great machine my xbox is..

scarface, need to have a chatski with you at some point about 360s if you will ol' chap

I killed 2 xbox360s by moving them from vertical to horizontal position. Whilst a disk was spinning in the Xbox. The grinding noise the box made sounded like death in motion.

The whole Xbox turned into The Spinning Gyroscope of Death and No Gaming.
Its an easy mistake to make when packing an Xbox away after use.

After that it they never read any disks again.

I changed Drives and Flashed one i could not send back to MS it ended a couple of months back with RROD.

When i read up on the xbox360 problems i was fooking amazed at what i found.

I think it has cost MS millions in the courts with the high amount of problems of the 360.

And so it should have.

of course mate



hello dude
dunno if you still have that red-ring console but if you do my advice would be to get your arse on ebay and type in 'red ring repair kit' itll cost about a fiver but your 360 will be repaired once and for all, and it only takes about an hour or so, alot less than the weeks microsoft would have it

hi scarfarce I know the problem with the old box. i damaged one of the connections to the Phillips Benq drive. Fitting a Whisper Fan to the Box. I would need to track down a new drive, swap keys and flash it.

There a 3 types of xbox drive. Yoy need the same type drive as your old one. Last time i looked i could only get a Benq one on flea-bay from Athens.

So being an old box i scraped doing it again, And bought a new box a few weeks back.

But BEWARE moving your Xbox when a disk a spinning. It will Kill it.

i always have mine laying flat anyway, i figure itd be abit weird standing a dvd player up like that so why do it with a games console?
although im sure most people probably stand them up

Plenty of spinning disc devices can cope with being tilted while in use, including most games consoles, and some of them can cope with relatively violent movement.

I think the problem lies with with Xbox Drives in MS penny pinching with the design of the drives. There's an identical DVD-drive available for PCs, these drives have a protective resin around the laser housing, the XBox ones don't.

Also I think it is normal to tilt the Xbox around once it is turned on or off! because I might want to change the location of the xbox, or even plug in a memory card or new controller. You should be able to do it without concern. Without worring about the Art of XboxDeath Feng Shui.

its definatly them being tightarses that has caused the problems
its funny because i accidently dropped my original xbox down stairs and onto concrete and it still worked fine, i bet my 360 would fall apart

Hey guys here's a sneaky little trick.

I'm sure some of you have heard of the towel trick. Basically, when your 360 bricks and you get the RROD, you can wrap it in a towel, leave it running for 15 minutes and you can get anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of days play out of your 360, meaning you don't have to go without while the coffin arrives.

Well, the towel trick isn't good for just fixing 360s... If your 360 is in limbo, half way between bricked and not bricked, you can do the towel trick and force a 3 light RROD, automatically putting you within the 3 year warranty for 3 red light errors It doesn't always work, and it can take a while, but it worked for me.

Im starting to get the shakes, I hope I get my XBOX back by the end of next week.

Notified that the repair is done and its been shipped back to me. I also notice a different serial number listed so Im guessing its a different box than the one i sent in. They still took over 3 weeks though, bastards.

welcome back dude

double xp weekend feb 27th on cod4, they are also gonna be adding the new playlist with hardcore headquarters on it

sounds like a new xbox360 for you Buddy.

im not on live yet.

i plan to be soon though.

Fixed that for ya.

i dont know if it a serial number off a drive or the box.

Refurbished yeah but if M$ cant fix it they send a new box. i dont know Buddys situation RROD ect ect.

But your right scribble possibly Refurbished.