XBOX 360 dies 2 days before Orange Box

GRIZZ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:49 pm

It all started early today with weird grinding thrashing sounds coming from the dvd drive followed by all games hard locking up(no red rings of death though)called ms and its a known problem so they send you a new(refurbished)one from toronto in about 2 weeks,age of xbox 360 8 months ,looks like my pc is going to be seeing orange now.

UncleSlam · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:07 am

Ouch. That sucks.

Tony · **Joined:** Tue May 01, 2007 10:42 am **Posts:** 733

Man dude you got me wondering if I should even bother picking mine up this week!

lobstaMan · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:19 am

Geeze am I ever glad I sold my 360 months ago .. out of the 6 friends I have that owned one .. Grizz's going down only leaves 1 left. So in less than 9 months 5 out of 6 have died .. really awesome average. :roll:

Sorry to hear Grizz hope you get a replacement soon.

Tony · **Joined:** Tue May 01, 2007 10:42 am **Posts:** 733

hmm wonder if there is a mod that can be done to it to help keep it cooler?

GRIZZ · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:48 pm

Microsoft says 1 out of 3 360's are bad and thats why they put the new 3 year warranty on them-my take on the situation is(a)i think the failure rate is more like 2 out of 3 and as more graphical intense games come out the 360 puts out more heat and the problem is they have the gpu under the dvd rom(b)you should not be getting refurbs but brand new 360,s also they should tell you what the problem is instead of its a known problem so now am waiting for the padded box(coffin)they send from toronto by purolator and a 2 week or more wait.I hope the refurb at least has a less noisey dvd rom.

wildbohr · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:01 am **Posts:** 172

I read an article, somewhere, with an MS rep and they stated that every 360 made before July has the possibility for the 3 ring failure.

LactosetheIntolerant · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:06 pm

I haven't had any problems yet, and I've used my 360 a fair bit. Sometimes leaving it on for long stretches.

Tal3n · **Joined:** Sat May 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Posts:** 30

I haven't had any trouble with my 360 yet, and its over a year old now

GRIZZ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:48 pm

GRIZZ wrote:

It all started early today with weird grinding thrashing sounds coming from the dvd drive followed by all games hard locking up(no red rings of death though)called ms and its a known problem so they send you a new(refurbished)one from toronto in about 2 weeks,age of xbox 360 8 months ,looks like my pc is going to be seeing orange now.

I did end up getting the 3 red rings of death the next day so when your 360 starts freezing up either in games or even at the desktop its just a matter of time before it dies. :cry:

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:56 pm

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GRIZZ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:33 pm

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Yep pc does make a good backup for the 360. :wink:

UncleSlam · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:19 pm

Mine 360 has been working fine. It was getting heavy use from my roommate playing Viva Pinata, and more recently with Halo3 and PGR4. Woot for HDMI.

wildbohr · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:01 am **Posts:** 172

It's amazing the PC doesn't seem to be suffering this 3 rings problem all these 360 people are having. Why is that.. OH THAT'S RIGHT PC'S ROCK!

GRIZZ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:25 pm

wildbohr wrote:

It's amazing the PC doesn't seem to be suffering this 3 rings problem all these 360 people are having. Why is that.. OH THAT'S RIGHT PC'S ROCK!

LOL when you breakdown the price of all the upgrades you have to do to a pc say every 6 months to a console thats good for at least 5 years UM CONSOLES ROCK!just the price of 1 8800gtx i could buy 2 360's.

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