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Looking for some H/A on a malfunctioning Xbox360.
Bosshog78
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So back in November, about 100 hours into a fevored Fallout 3 tryst my 360 started giving me a screen saying "To play this disc put it in an Xbox 360 console."
It was occasional at first but after another hundred or so hours it would take 15 sometimes 30 minutes of turning the 360 on and off to get any game to run. Now it's at the point where it does this everytime and can no longer play Xbox360 games. It will still play dvds, cds, games on the hard drive and I bet regular Xbox games as well, but will only show "Play DVD" then goto that screen anytime I try and load a 360 game.
I've been working on it and it's pretty much down to 2 options.
The first one I don't like so much. The console was purchased August of 2007 so it's a half year out of warrenty. I'd pay $100 and send it in to MS to be fixed. My primary concern with this option is weather on not some type of warrenty would be renewed from the date of repair, I don't want to pay $100 now and have to do it again in a few months with the same/similar problem. I would call MS myself and ask but I want to keep all options open at the moment.
The option I like better is to crack it open, see if I can't fix it myself, maybe clean the lens or tinker with the drive. Then if that fails I'll just go to Best Buy and pick up an Arcade model with the two year warrenty, this would run $230 and make sure I don't have this problem again for a while. As a small start to this option I bought a DVD lens cleaner, ran it several times but it didn't fix it.
A few specfic questions I have-
What's MS policy for consoles they've repaired out of warrenty?
Anyone else had the same issue and found a good solution?
I'm not totally adverse to some forced red-ring shinanigins but wonder if this method is reliable.
What do you fine folks think? Thanks.
It was occasional at first but after another hundred or so hours it would take 15 sometimes 30 minutes of turning the 360 on and off to get any game to run. Now it's at the point where it does this everytime and can no longer play Xbox360 games. It will still play dvds, cds, games on the hard drive and I bet regular Xbox games as well, but will only show "Play DVD" then goto that screen anytime I try and load a 360 game.
I've been working on it and it's pretty much down to 2 options.
The first one I don't like so much. The console was purchased August of 2007 so it's a half year out of warrenty. I'd pay $100 and send it in to MS to be fixed. My primary concern with this option is weather on not some type of warrenty would be renewed from the date of repair, I don't want to pay $100 now and have to do it again in a few months with the same/similar problem. I would call MS myself and ask but I want to keep all options open at the moment.
The option I like better is to crack it open, see if I can't fix it myself, maybe clean the lens or tinker with the drive. Then if that fails I'll just go to Best Buy and pick up an Arcade model with the two year warrenty, this would run $230 and make sure I don't have this problem again for a while. As a small start to this option I bought a DVD lens cleaner, ran it several times but it didn't fix it.
A few specfic questions I have-
What's MS policy for consoles they've repaired out of warrenty?
Anyone else had the same issue and found a good solution?
I'm not totally adverse to some forced red-ring shinanigins but wonder if this method is reliable.
What do you fine folks think? Thanks.
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I was going to pay to have it repaired, but my patience paid off just 3 days ago. I bought RE5 and started the 360 up, made it to the opening cinematic and BLAMO! RRoD. Atleast now it's free. My personal suggestion is induced RRoD, stick the 360 inside a tv stand with a DVD or something and finish the poor thing off, it's already borked and more than likely RRoD is a likely end anyways even if you pay to get everything else fixed.
If you break the thing, sell it for parts, buy an Arcade, slap your old HDD in and use the DRM tool on the Xbox website to transfer licenses. Buying a $200 Arcade will get you a newer chipset, HDMI (don't think yours has it), an extra controller, built-in 256 memory (or mem card), spare cables, and the disc with 5 arcade games and possibly that sega tennis game. That, to me, is worth the extra $100 (you'd have to pay $100 anyways to get it properly fixed, so take it out of the cost). Bonus - many store occasionally have some bundle deal where they throw in an extra game, gift card, or accessory with the purchase of a 360.
my drive recently was dying, and i was going to go the 2nd route, and mod my xbox at the same time... but it just suffered from a RROD (i guess you can consider this "good" luck
I'm gonna try one more thing and see if the clearing-the-cache trick will do anything. Despite everything I've read, it seems like this is some kind of firmware issue. If that doesn't work I'm gonna wrap it in a blanket and set it in front of a space heater for a day or so (closely monitered of course). Do I need to have a disk in there to get it to RROD?