12 broken 360's

[JamesL]

Yeah I know this topic has been done to death but I thought I'd post this in case any of you didn't catch it. From 1up, Justin Lowe is now on his 12th 360.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160603

Makes me nervous since mine has started crashing on Oblivion every few hours play

[Thrik]

It's kind of insane just how widespread 360 breakdown reports are. I mean, just how does it manage to piss up so frequently? Did they skip QA or something?

[Bic-B@ll]

i want one because forza 2 looks amazing but now i dont

[Mazy]

I already had mine die a couple of months back, sent it to MS and got it fixed/replaced fairly quickly when it finally arrived there (some complications before there.

However I also checked around back when it broke, and if forums are any indicator then its been a fairly widespread issue with launch 360s. In fact I think theres about 4 people at work apart from me who's had their 360s die from the ring of death.

I'm just cherishing the moment right now, where my 360 is actually working. Having been without a 360 for about a month I now know how much I like it. Tis an awesome console but really shitty hardware quality.

[ReNo]

Mine broke a month or two back as well, red ring of death just like most folks. The repair went fairly smoothly and took about 10 working days from sending it to getting it back. It really can't be true that they are within standard failure rates for consumer electronic goods; while I get that it is for the most part just anecdotal evidence the stories are just far too widespread to be ignored. Thing is though, IMO the 360 has far too good a game library to write off the console for it's instability.

[Zyn]

This is what is keeping me from getting an Xbox 360. And I am not thinking "It won't happen to me", cause the reports are so frequent it feels like every 360 will die within a short time after purchase.

[ReNo]

Just hope it happens within your warranty so you get a free repair and another 12 month safety period I was stressing about mine as it was being a bit funny with crashing and a sticky DVD tray with only a few months on my warranty, and in the end it gave me the RRoD with only 2 weeks to go. Big relief...strangely!

EDIT: Oh, should also mention that there are reportsof broken 360's coming back with an extra heatsink installed on the CPU, so fingers crossed that will help. Hopefully they'll also start to use it on brand new 360's to reduce the chance of it happening from the start.

[hessi]

This is what is keeping me from getting an Xbox 360. And I am not thinking "It won't happen to me", cause the reports are so frequent it feels like every 360 will die within a short time after purchase.

mine didnt crash. and i got it since march or february this year.

[JamesL]

EDIT: Oh, should also mention that there are reportsof broken 360's coming back with an extra heatsink installed on the CPU, so fingers crossed that will help. Hopefully they'll also start to use it on brand new 360's to reduce the chance of it happening from the start.

Microsoft won't even officially recognise that they are putting these heatsinks in repaired 360's simply saying that it is normal during a products lifecycle to optimise manufacturing cost & performance and to swap componants about to improve the machine.

These new heatsinks aren't being put in new 360's or Elites either, suggesting to me that there is a known manufacturing problem with the first few generations of 360's GPUs.

Not 360 bashing here, I got one and love it, but M$ really need to acknowledge this problem publicly.

[Sentura]

This is what is keeping me from getting an Xbox 360. And I am not thinking "It won't happen to me", cause the reports are so frequent it feels like every 360 will die within a short time after purchase.

mine didnt crash. and i got it since march or february this year.

there's still time...

[Section_Ei8ht]

I bought mine last October. Still fine, no problems... yet... (crosses-fingers)

[madgernader]

I got mine last august and it was fine until it got the RRoD a few months ago, with the warranty i didn't mind too much, that and i don't got many games for it. But the worst part was, as soon as I got it back and powered it up, it had the RRoD again... but luckily after restarting it everything worked, but now I get it every so often, its like its taunting me...

[Erratic]

Mine's still kicking since last November but I was with a friend of mine earlier this year when he brought his home and it had the ring right out of the box.

[Mazy]

Oh jeez here we go again. I just came home with The Darkness, and when I put the disc (or any discs for that matter) in the 360 is just starts making loud scratching sounds. Had it play something when it stood upright but it still took ages to start stuff and it still sounded weird.

Gonna call 360 support tomorrow....sigh

[Mazy]

Just tried a couple of games to see if it was a special case (tried about 5-6, mainly games I knew I wont play again in the case that it fucks em up). Although it always has a really disturbing scratching like sound now, then it totally sounded like it was grinding the disc down when I put in Perfect Dark Zero (Not that it'd matter if it did in that case ;D). Now it wont read games at all, it thinks all of them are regular DVDs.

Amazing...

And Xbox support is obviously only open from 9-17, peh.