Oh look, a problem with a 360.

bowlofpetunias

The story so far:

Yesterday, I was playing Burnout Paradise and everything was going fine. I switched cars and I crashed the car and then the game froze. I thought it was weird, restarted the 360 and everything was fine at the point until I starting playing Burnout again and I got into the actual gameplay portion of the game. That's when the game froze again. I was like, "shit, whatever... the disc is probably scratched or something, I'll look at it later," and I went about my day.

Tonight, I thought I'd give it another try. I took the disc and gave it a wipe, put it in the system and everything was working smoothly and then I got to the gameplay and it gave me a screen that I hadn't seen since the last time I played an NES game so I thought, "well normally I'd blow into the cartridge but that isn't going to happen." So I thought the problem could be deeper than just the game. I restarted the system and started playing Megaman 9 and everything was going fine. I played some other XBLA games and they were working. Then I tried the demo for World at War... got to the actual gameplay portion and it froze. "Well shit." I tried three other games that use graphical power and the same thing happened.

Obviously there's something wrong with the graphics "card" or whatever you'd call it on a 360 but where do I go from here? Has anyone else experienced this? What have I done to cause myself such hardship?

RUNN1NGMAN

Did you call 1-800-4MY-XBOX?

bowlofpetunias

I apologize for bumping a thread that has dropped a few pages since it first posted. I had been out of town over the weekend on business and wasn't able to get back.

I have been been in contact with support, after some troubleshooting exercises my problem maintains. I also began experiencing the problem when watching DVDs.

The freezing wasn't giving me any kind of error message, no RRoD, nothing. Until just recently when I was doing the troubleshooting, upon restarting the system I received the RRoD; something, I must admit, I was actually happy to see as my console's warranty expired back in May.

Then, like an idiot, I didn't accept it as the final answer. I restarted my console and I'll be goddamned if it loaded without even hinting at any thing resembling the RRoD and of course, it still freezes

Do I process my system for repair as if it had the RRoD and hope for the best? Or do I continue to do fuck all waiting to hear back from 360 support just for them to tell me that I need to have it repaired?

stawk

my best guess is that your system will red ring again, i would just call up microsoft and tell them it red ringed, they will usually give you a new system.

Willeth

Yeah send it in. It gave you the three red lights - something fucked up, and as long as you saw those, you're covered under the three years.

Sarcastro

Blarg, I'm such a noob when it comes to 360 probs. Ever since my first RoD tho, video freezing sends a chill down my spine. Thats what happened to mine just before it died.

Try support, also, if you have Live, check for updates (I don't do Live for misc reasons, but I hear good things), also, if you haven't played a newer game that requires an update to your console, give it a go. Too Human and I think SR2 both have firmware upgrades, or at least, they did on mine.