Death of a console.

TheySlashThem

So, let me start by saying I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the Xbox. Usually as a DVD player, admittedly, but a lot of fun out of it nonetheless.

That said, my Xbox died on my earlier today. Just up and died, getting weird noises and the blinking yellow light.

However, I'm not planning on replacing it. Can't afford a new one right now, much less a 360, and on top of that, this isn't the first time this has happened. This was actually my third Xbox. The first one succumbed to the shocky-burny cord, and I'm not really sure was went wrong with the second one.

Now, this isn't a thread to rag on the big black box, but I want to ask: has anyone else here had console just up and die on them? No dropping, no overheating, they just fucking stopped?

I can't be alone here.

Threepio

*moment of silence*

*cues Taps*

Sorry to hear that man. I had my dreamcast die on me. They replaced it with a Gamecube (warranty). I love my 'cube, but I cried that day.

yalborap

Amazingly, 'twas my cube that kicked the bucket. Just stopped working one day.

slash000

It's happened to many people here.


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Not me, though. Still have all of my original consoles all in working condition going back to the NES and Gameboy1.

LewieP

I had a DC break, bought a replacement and few extra games on ebay imediatly after. Thats it really, I look after consoles well, and never owned a sony console :P

Flesh Into Gear

My NES just broke. Went to bust it out and it wouldn't turn on.

BTP

My brother's original Game Boy that he got around 1989. It won't turn on, but I want to think it could still work. The slide switch feels far too light and smooth when turning on to what I remember them feeling like. It's like there's something in the housing not moving with the switch and from that it won't turn on.

I still have my original Game Boy, bought around the time of the Game Boy Pocket, and it still works the last time I checked.

yalborap

BTP wrote:

My brother's original Game Boy that he got around 1989. It won't turn on, but I want to think it could still work. The slide switch feels far too light and smooth when turning on to what I remember them feeling like. It's like there's something in the housing not moving with the switch and from that it won't turn on.

I still have my original Game Boy, bought around the time of the Game Boy Pocket, and it still works the last time I checked.

Well, you could always crack the thing open. If it still works, then most likely either the switch itself got shoved out of whack or the plastic that holds the actual internal switch to the part you move got broken. Either way it'd be a simple fix, if you're up to it.

GrimCalavera

I had a DC stop working on me, and a year later it started working again. Except it was kind of noisy. I think my Xbox is five years old now, and it's on 24/7 pretty much. Hell of a trooper, that thing.

*Knocks on wood*

corcorigan

Original Xbox DVD drive has kind of packed up, so got another new one for £50 from Argos. Go the bargains thread!

Halo 2 is still so pretty and quite fun as co-op.

muess

I've had a Master System, Megadrive (Genesis), Saturn, Gamegear (just noticing a bit of a Sega pattern here lol), PS, PS2 die on me. My SNES still works and my N64 works but you usually have to re-seat the cartridge a few times before it recognises it.

zubisman

My PS was dead for a while, but just a little cleaning brought it back to life. My PS2 seems so frail by comparison, so I worry about it.
I've had problems with one of my Dreamcasts, but it miraculously fixed itself, and I have 4 of em anyway, so it wasn't a biggie. My genesis has never faltered, though the 32x sometimes likes to tease me, my Saturn can be a bitch sometimes, but I have a second one, and it doesn't give me crap, and we all know that every NES system has to be beaten, then loved, then beaten again until it will load your rusty-ass cartridges. The old Ataris have a problem with overheating, so I can't play my 5200 for more than an hour, but that's not too much of a problem. The Sear's made pong clones try to burn your house down everytime you plug them in. It's good, dangerous fun.

Mr_Grinch

Not as of yet, although I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later. I've still got an original gameboy from the year they were released in the UK and that's still going (unlike my gba which has a thin line running through the screen, very annoying but still works).

My CD32 despite having the back off it and the ill fitting SX1 adapter fall out and short the console, is still up and running. The old 250mb hd in the sx1 is still kicking away too, with all my classics (Monkey Island 1 and 2, Hitchhiker's Guide, Dreamweb) on it.

The PS2 is getting a bit clunky but still works. I'm sure I'll kill it eventually as I use a slide tool to play import gamesand I'm confident it's not doing the gears much good.

LewieP

corcorigan wrote:

Original Xbox DVD drive has kind of packed up, so got another new one for £50 from Argos. Go the bargains thread!

Halo 2 is still so pretty and quite fun as co-op.

glad to see quite a few people benefited from that, I got one myself to, was a wicked bargain.

tarnok

Does the fact that I thought this was another thread about the PS3 make me a bad person?

I've never actually had a console die on me. Except maybe my Dreamcast. I'm afraid to play it again in case it actually is dead and not just having trouble reading that one disc.

FightTest

My PSX died a few months ago. Just stopped reading discs. Would only go to the memory card screen. Was working 100% right up until the time it decided to just fail. Kind of surprising, though it was like 8 years old and one of the first gen PSXs. On the bright side it made me buy a PS2 after all these years so I could experience Guitar Hero.

My old first gen XBox is still alive and kicking, but I didn't use it as much as most people probably used theirs.

Wezoin

Happened to me before... Well, by that I mean controller port 2 stopped working... and the ethernet port stopped working... and about 4 out of 5 times I'd get a demand for service when I started up... Thats when I decided to do an operation! (It was a launch console and only died about a year ago, so I'm not complainin)

skace

slash000 wrote:

Not me, though. Still have all of my original consoles all in working condition going back to the NES and Gameboy1.

Guess you are due for a failure. Better not buy anything new!

Sanders

skace wrote:

slash000 wrote:

Not me, though. Still have all of my original consoles all in working condition going back to the NES and Gameboy1.

Guess you are due for a failure. Better not buy anything new!

Suppose I am in the same boat as slash.

Only thing to break on me was a PS1, and that was human error. cracked the board with the controller ports on it. Controller port 2 still worked, just not port 1.

Cultist

I've never had a console completely break down. I have pretty much every Nintendo\Sega\MS system in my collection and they all work, though originally my NES' had alot of problems until I replaced a couple parts.

I'm also having the DVD drive issue with my original Xbox though, I will usually need to eject\reinsert a disc about 5-10 times before the system will recognize it. Sometime when I can justify the expense of getting a replacement drive I will do so and fix it up as well.

corcorigan

I was going to try and fix the Xbox, but it was just cheaper to buy a new one...

Got 4 games too, handy as my brother had somehow lost the Halo 2 disc.

Death of Rats

My sister broke my launch dreamcast by trying to plug the power cable into the AV cable spot. It made me burn with such generic rage that she ended up buying me a brand new one for $50. It made me even angrier to find out that my launch copy of Sonic Adventures wouldn't work with the new model dreamcast. So angry indeed.

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jclast

Only one I've had die was an original NES. Replaced it with a top-loader that has worked since the day it came home. All I miss is the ability to use RCA cables instead of coax on it.

Conditional_Axe

I've had 2 consoles just die for no reason. My 2600, and my Gamecube.

Lunker

I've had the good fortune to never have a console die on me -- even my refurb first-gen PS2 that I had for three years soldiered on. My brother has had to put down both his PS1 and PS2, and I suspect it's because his room is horrendously dirty and dusty.

On a related note ... can anyone point me to good guide to diagnosing and fixing a busted PS2 fattie? Besides the ones that are on GameFAQs.

Drez

My original Xbox kind of died out of nowhere. I used it for about 10 hours total, shelved it for months, and when I came back to it it would not read anything.

My Xbox 360 died out of nowhere. It was working one night. When I woke up the next day, the DVD-ROM wouldn't even spin up. Completely out of nowhere.

My GBA:SP stopped working once out of nowhere. I dropped it in the toilet and then it wouldn't work! What the hell! You're not supposed to be able to play underwater?!?!!??!?!!??!??!?!?!??!?

Death of Rats

My gamecube died... but there was a reason. Too much smoking around it. Blocked up the airvents really bad and it overheated and sparked a bunch... then died.

Drez

Dude, you cannot get your console high.

Death of Rats

Drez wrote:

Dude, you cannot get your console high.

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Cigarettes.

And also Eternal Darkness disagrees with you.

Drez

Death of Rats wrote:

Drez wrote:

Dude, you cannot get your console high.

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Cigarettes.

And also Eternal Darkness disagrees with you.

What would you even do when your console got the munchies? Shove some twinkies in its A/V port? Throw some doritos at the DVD tray?

Death of Rats

Drez wrote:

Death of Rats wrote:

Drez wrote:

Dude, you cannot get your console high.

.... .... .... ....



Cigarettes.

And also Eternal Darkness disagrees with you.

What would you even do when your console got the munchies? Shove some twinkies in its A/V port? Throw some doritos at the DVD tray?

Cooking Mama?

minor threat

my xbox died about a month ago. the disk drive decided it no longer felt it necessary to read disks (maybe one out of 50 attempts to play a game would be successful). other than that i have never had a system die on me. i just got a 360 two weeks ago and i am keeping my fingers crossed.

Gorilla Salad

My 360 kind of died. No one in my family was around to see it happen. It just died.

solsovly

My NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, Xbox, Cube, 360, Wii and multiple gameboys are all working. I've gone through a couple original playstations in their day (go turning it upside down), had to adjust the laser a couple times as well. My original launch PS2 eventually stopped reading CDs, new one works fine. But the greatest loss was my Sega Nomad. Just one day stopped working, no reason. Was in the middle of playing Landstalker and it turned off. *sniff* I really liked it too. I thought I broke my Wii recently when I knocked it over while Wii Sports was in it. Luckily, only the game was scratched (but working).

Bionic Monkey

Haven't had a console stop working for me yet, but my PS2 controller just up and died the other day. Hadn't used it in about two months, but last time I had, it was working perfectly. Next time I turn on the system, the stick is permanently registering "down" and none of the face buttons work. Gave me an excuse to replace it with a Logitech wireless one though, so it all worked out.

Sharpie

My bro has killed 3 (THREE) PS2s, two old style and one new style.

And he's getting a new one for his b-day tomorrow.

He kills it with Madden.

Eggplant Wizard

I've never had a console break on me. Well, my NES requires a ritual dance and an animal sacrifice to actually read a cartridge, but it's been that way since 1989 and really, that's just part of the NES experience.

Akilae729

SNES, Bunch of Game Boys, N64, PSX all are champions

Thompson drive in my xbox though
that didnt go so hot

So i ripped the thing open, but linux on it, and installed a $30 DVD drive into it

good times

bruin

I just got the three red lights of death on my second 360. Probably wont get it back in time for Lost Planet's release too.

I also remember my family's NES breaking. I was really little though, so I don't remember much about it.

The screen on my original Gameboy stopped working. I think I dropped it a lot though, I was a stupid little kid.

YodaTuna

My PS2 broke, along with my gf's and my brother's. My Xbox freaks out sometimes, I think my bro spilled milk on it when he borrowed it. It still works most of the time though.

My gamecube won't play my copy eternal darkness, WTF? My disc works fine in other gamecubes(not a scratch on it) and other copies of eternal darkness work in my cube. So weird.