<![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?) - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?) - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Comment on Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?) hi i got my 360 elite last october an now its been sent back to ms with a hardware failure it died whilst playing halo 3 online i was pissed but surprisingly it lasted longer than my ps3 which had a broken blu-ray drive after just 3 months but i must just have bad luck as my laptop is suffering probs with vista so am thinking that ms needs to get it's self sorted out or it will lose customers. Snakebite89 _________________________________________________________________ Win 100’s of Virgin Experience days with BigSnapSearch.com http://www.bigsnapsearch.com

SanchaliMelcator

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Update to my previous answer...

My 360 crapped out on Christmas morning. Oh joy!

IndigoFerret

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought an xbox 360 elite last Saturday night, today it stopped being able to read discs. It just says "reading..." when i put something in. It still plays the dashboard and the xbox live arcade, though!

eatlikeair

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 hasnt yet gotten the RROD.. but it's totally useless. i cant play original xbox games, my 360 games are so glitchy theyre unplayable.. my dashboard is completely crashed. im actually TRYING to get the rrod simply so i can be under warranty and not pay anything to get it fixed. but yeah, it's just as useless as if it did have the problem.

CaptainCulp

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on my third, and my first one was a launch console. I recieved my 3rd (refurb) last December and it was way louder than my previous two.. :(

Polyh3dron

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got my 360 for christmas '06. It went RRoD this weekend also (09/19/07). Up until that point I experienced no issues. I would occasionally have it give me a disc read error in GoW, but that was very infrequently and a re-start would invariably correct the problem immediately.


Then on Sunday I was playing NHL 07, the game froze, I re-started and got the RRoD. After some playing around with the system (on and off, disconnecting everything, checking power supply lights and HD) I found the issue to be persistant. If I let the console sit for 10-15 minutes, I could get it to start up properly, but within a minute or two it would freeze up again and go to RRoD on re-start.


I called XBox support and the automaton recording ("Hey, my name is Max, and I have the annoying habit of using the word 'hey' way too often.") told me to go to the web. I went to the web and registered my XBox and put in a request for a repair, which returned an error to me and told me to call the support line. I called the support line and they told me to expect a return shipper by Friday (09/24/07), but to check the web site for updates on my repair.


Yesterday (09/21/07), I checked the web and saw there was no repair request for my XBox listed. I called the support line and they told me my previous request (made two days earlier) had been deleted from their system. After I let them know what a bang-up job they were doing they created a new repair request for me and told me to expect a box within 3-5 business days and that once they recieved the console back, it would be 4-6 weeks for them to return it to me.

So, that's my story so far.

dbushik

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Well, I played Bioshock for a good 5 hours straight yesterday...

Powered up the 360 this morning, everything seemed fine, except my wireless adapter wasn't being recognized.
Usually a reset fixes that issue, but the only thing it fixed was me not playing Bioshock for what I'm assuming is going to be very a long time.

PS: I'm in Canada, I'll let you know how long it takes.

playmoremusic

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mr. Bashcraft,

Sir, I would like to notify you that your news post has "jinxed" my Xbox360. As of 10PM PST (5 minutes after reading this post), my Xbox360 - Mrs. Jones was her name - has now befallen on the dreaded ROL. Honest.

It was as if we spoke the exact same words at the exact same time... but instead of me owing you a free Coke, you now owe me retribution. You have cursed me villain and I feel as though shaking this Voodoo will not be easy.

I do not know what I have done to you in the past, kind sir... but know this. I am sorry. I am soooooooooooooooooooo very sorry. CAN I HAS MY GAMES BAK PLZ!?

(Seriously, can I?)

~Special*Dark

specialdark

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My Japanese 360 is nearing 3 weeks in "shuuri-chuu" status. They say it shouldn't take more than 3 weeks, but I don't know.

rcomegys

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I purchased my 360 last November (therefore missing out on all the price breaks and new features since). No RROD, but in January I booted Gears to experience the dreaded, but less publicized, DDDS (DVD Drive Death Scream).

Holding my phone up to the 360 convinced the CS rep that I needed a new system. His words: "That sounds bad."

Things have been fine since.

donatolla

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have had mine since launch and not a problem. I bought one that had the 3RROD from a guy just to play around with, read around a little bit, got a tutorial, changed out the x-clamps and voila, works a dream. So the $150 I paid for the "broken" box was justified in a couple of hours. I have stress tested it, leaving it on for days and even in a closed electronics cabinet, no problems to report. Sorry Bash, hopefully they get you taken care of in a timely manner, time to pull out the celebrity card!

re4de2ye0

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've had a Japanese Xbox 360 since May 2005, and it's never caused me any trouble. I use it fairly regularly (it's currently my "main" console). Dunno if it makes any difference, but I use it in the vertical orientation, with video out set to 720p.

Number41

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine's about three months old, and it's RROD'd a couple times. I reseated the hard drive and moved the console to the top of my entertainment stand (as opposed to the shelves) and I haven't had a problem since. Just needed a bit more ventilation, I guess.

I Put The Bomp

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got Mine Around The Time Gears and DeadRising Came out...Died over the summer...damnit.

.

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have an older 360 (not launch, but from a store where it might have been sitting for quite a while, I can't be sure) and it has yet to break. It's been horizontal all its life, and in an air conditioned environment.

Jawajoey

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have a Japanese launch 360 too, and aside from a few red-ring errors every now and then where the system would refuse to start (usually turning it off and then back on would solve the problem), I've not had any major problems.

My room's TV console is pretty small, so I let the 360 stand upright on the floor, which I'm guessing gives it plenty of breathing space, even if the instruction manual advises against placing it on the cold, hard floor directly.

Most of my friends who bought the same batch of Japanese launch 360s still have theirs working - to my knowledge, all except for one or two. In stark contrast, the only two friends I know of who bought US 360s, have both sent their systems for repairs.

KIRBYSIM

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 will sometimes have the disc drive not open when I'm gonna try to put in a game. If I try to open it again it works normal. Not a huge deal. Today though, my 360 froze right after I finished playing a game of Madden. I had just lost the game and pressed the guide button when I saw a friend got on. Poof, frozen 360, I'd say it's about the 5th time the system has frozen since I bought it late Nov. 06. I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time until it dies. It does give me some peace of mind that the warranty now last 3 years though. Not much but some.

PurpleMonkey

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine's been fine - Australian Launch 360.

Juxtapose

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Anyone try the towel trick from cheap ass gamer?

AaronMD

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got mine in May and it works fine. I run three custom accessory cooling fans from a different power supply to prevent it from overheating. I hope it works. It was originally built in June 2006.

AaronMD

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've been having periodic freezing fits on my US launch 360. Sometimes though it will run great all day and other times it is every five minutes. I hope that it just red rings soon.

DMBainbridge

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got mine at the midnight launch and never had a problem once. Runs great, but I might trade up for the Halo 3 system for the HDMI and I like the military green color.

fearing

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought my second-hand premium 360 in June '06, I managed to pick it up for $1000 AUD with 18 games (half of them were still sealed). The system ran flawlessly for over a year. I never experienced any symptoms until one faithful day, in the middle of June '07, the 360 was consumed by the dreaded RROD. It was just another usual day, I was going to play Gears of War with some mates but before that, I wanted to check what was new on the marketplace. Unfortunately, I never got that far and the system froze up as I changed tabs; it never turned on again.

I never expected it to happen as I never had any problems beforehand, not a single freeze or glitch. Oh well, the customer service was great and the only delay was me getting off my lazy ass to ship the 360 (took me a couple weeks). Out of all the people I know with 360s, only 2 of us have had broken down 360s (the other was a disk drive failure). I was going to end my comment with an epic tale but it got lost in the sea of bad grammar (I really need to take English lessons, again).

Libo

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Im on my third Xbox unit and it was worked flawlessly. I had a launch unit and it died with Oblivion, my second 360 died by the hands of Guitar Hero 2. I think this 360 will last me about half way through Halo 3...

PompousDawson

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine hasn't died but I have witnessed this weird tearing effect after watching Xbox Live Marketplace videos and then switching to a game (either Arcade or disc-based). It happens near the top of the screen but it's really annoying.

This is over VGA to an LCD monitor.

Perhaps it will die soon and I'll get an HDMI based version.

somepunk

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm currently on my second, which I've not had any problems with, the disc drive died on the first one. Gears of War killed it,I'd 'fortunately' only had it a month, so I just took it back to the shop where I got it (Game) and they replaced it, so I was back getting my Gears on the very next day.

Shadowcast

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine took about 8 months before it gave up the ghost. It's due back next weekish (I hope)

njoroge

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My Xbox recently died due to the evil ring of death. I was playing the Dirt demo when the screen froze and turned into a checkered image. I restarted it and it worked fine until it did again on a shadowrun demo about 7 min into. I let it cool for 30 minutes then tried it once more, nothing. The RROD greeted me as I knew it was my time. I went through the whole process of getting my empty box and it was delayed a few days due to the tornado problem in texas(where my 360 is). I went 11 months w/o problems... hope they fix that soon!

OKana

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought mine last year around Christmas and it just now threw me the RROD. I played the Bioshock demo a couple times, put in Vegas, and it shit the bed. But good for M$'s shipping and a month of Xbox Live Gold for free.

zackbowman

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My story:

I bought a core in mid April of 2006 with a build date of March 31. The console started having an issue with the drive around Christmas-I would have the manually 'jiggle' the drive door to get the mechanism to open. The 360 went Tango Uniform suddenly with the RROD-no warning or issue at all other than the occasional drive issue. I sent it in and got a refurb unit from MS on April 17. I DL'd the C&C demo. About 45 minutes into playing I got the RROD and called MS. I was lucky enough to get another refurb the day after the Halo 3 Beta started, so the Crackdown DL issue was not a problem for me. The unit has been error-free since.

As an aside, MS was under the impression I bought my original 360 in June of 2006, so i bought the 3 year warranty coverage (you can get it anytime in your 1st year of ownership). I decided to keep it incase there is another drive issue.

While I'm not happy about the reliability of my 360, I am still exceptionally pleased with the quality of my gaming and never hesitate to recommend buying one. The minor hassle of waiting for (free!) repairs is more than ofset by the quality of games and overall 'user experience' of the 360.

VectorScalar

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I just requested service on mine. Not a RROD but drive failure. This will make it my 4th 360.

Altima NEO

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> us launch. rrod'd long ago.

ceark

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on my third box. And I do not have a single (real life) friend who has not had a dead 360.

augie_doggy

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Well mine freezes. For about half a minute. And only in the dashboard. And only if connected to XBL. Is that a clear sign of a disaster waiting to happen?

MadMinstrel

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've just sent back my second 360, the first succumbed to RROD, the second simply didn't like running games. Since Microsoft is estimating 2-3 weeks for repair I just hope it will be returned in time for Halo 3, or better yet, Halo 3 for free :D

nodoubleroots

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought mine on New Years Eve do to Microcenter offering a $100 rebate for either the Core or Full System. I've had it freeze up once during a scene change in GoW but shy of that nothing else has happened. I once freaked when i saw 4 section on the ring light up red but quickly realized that there should only be three if theres a software problem. I then checked the powa-bricks input on the back and realized i hadn't plugged it in fully. I swear, they should make a different color appear for that reason specifically.

mrSundance

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Usually I dont like to post and brag about my 360 still working, but you asked me to, so here I am. I bought my Xbox 360 at EB Games, I picked it up at midnight the night of the release, I drove over to the huge line at Best Buy to put it in the window as I honked and drove by, and now it sits under my 50" TV playing movies and games like if it was fresh out of the box. Noisy as fuck though, wish they I could do something about that.

Justcrim

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> 3rd... you should just make a poll between 1st and 10th for good measure

AqueousBeef

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have a launch model thats been working fine ever since, and I have a core system from June 2006 thats been working fine as well.

poematik14

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 began resetting itself one day and then it would eventually crash with a black screen with info on it and on the bottom it had a number E68(turns out there can be a E67, E68 or E69 error). I then let it sit for a day and unplugged the cables. The next day I plugged the cables back in and booted the system up. The 360 was playing fine when all of a sudden 30 minutes later it began to reset itself then eventually crashing again. I then followed the instructions on the MS X360 Support Site. I found that if I played with my HD not attached, my 360 would play fine. But as soon as I attached the HD and tried to play, I would get the resetting and eventual crash. So I called MS Support and told them the problem. After talking she was giving me instructions to remove my faceplate, the HD and all the cables. When she asked me if I had any questions I said "Yea...ummm...one question. Why am I sending you my 360 without the HD?" She then said "It's not the hardware?" I then explained to her again what the problem was and then she put me on hold for a few minutes(probably to find out how she should proceed with her manager). She then gave me a address to send my HD to. I then repeated the address she gave me back to her but she told me that I misunderstood her. So I got the right address. After finishing with the phone call I typed the address into mapquest to make sure I got the address correct. Lo and behold I got the address wrong again(could have been my fault, should have double-checked again before I hung up). Anyway, it gave me the address listings for the buildings in the business park and hopefully I chose the correct one. I'll find out today. So now I'm waiting for my HD to return. Today is Monday and I shipped it out on Thursday. Wish me luck and hope this helps out some poor soul.

Cykra

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought a used 360 at my local Gamestop last September and knock on wood... it's still working! No freeze ups or anything funny has happend to it yet. My 360 doesn't get real hot either. Even after running it for 5-6 hours it just gets warm. Guess I must be one of the few lucky ones. (I hope!)

goodind

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Ouch. So last Friday was my first day of vacation. Wife and kid are in Colorado at her folk's house, cats are locked outside, and I'm supposed to be building a deck. The thing is I have Forza 2 with Zero hours played on it. So I think to myself, "One or two races can't hurt." But wait, first I need to design my car...and my xbox freezes after 20 minutes. Restart...Red Lights of Death! Worse yet, it was my third console replacement! Ugh. Now it is on its way to McCallen Texas, again, where it will FINALLY be designated junk and I will FINALLY get a 360 that works for longer than 6 months. Fingers Crossed. Funny side note. This time I got directed immediately to the head of the department who said that because I was on my 4th 360, I should call him personally with any questions or concerns. Weird but cool.

tasty%20crabcakes.">coffeeguy

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got 2 Launch 360s still going strong.

Recently added an Elite.

GoonieGooGoo

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got my 360 Premium on launch day (with the free mini remote) and it's still going strong. I freezed my butt off like a lot of other sorry souls who waited on line that day. If it wasn't for my friends who brought me some blankets, I probably wouldn't have made it into the morning. Anyhow, my box is still going strong. I have it in my living room which is quite spacious and the average temperature in the room doesn't ever exceed 88 degrees Fahrenheit for the most part. It sits horizontally in an open stand underneath my plasma screen, so it gets plenty of ventilation. The only problem I've ever had was it temporarily freezing on only 1 occasion a year ago while playing a game which required me to restart. So, so far so good. I would only hope that it doesn't crash on me like the first week of playing Halo 3. But I wouldn't mind getting a new improved xbox 360 (perhaps a more quiet, cooler, stable box) if I could trade it.

junkyintel

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine is still in good working order. The occasional freeze happens after long periods of gaming. Rare but they do happen. No messed up graphics, just a frozen screen. A reset brings it right back to life.

I do get disc read errors from time to time but those are pretty rare. And those have only happened when the disc has sat in the tray for a long period of time. If I open the tray and close it the disc read errors have never happened in that scenerio. Weird yes.

So nothing I cant deal with. I would consider my 360 working fine and myself lucky considering what others have had to deal with...Bah. I want to sell my premium and buy a core when the Falcons are released

yashichi8bit

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine died last Wednesday :-( I'm really worried about it being fixed in time for Halo 3. Missing out on Bioshock for weeks is annoying enough.

ZappRowzdower

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I think I saw an article a few days ago in wired or engadget where they determined that a lot of the 360's problems were due to the GPU overheating. I guess it's jammed in there next to the DVD player and it can't get any proper airflow. If that's the case is switching to a cooler central processor going to make any difference?
Not trolling...I actually want a 360 if they solve the hardware problems.

Polluted

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I just received a "4 red lights" premium system from ebay today and it booted fine. Didn't look like it had ever been touched, really. I paid $140 for it and walked away clean. I guess that's what happens when you don't check what your error message means and don't realize its under warranty. I consider myself super lucky.

Zenith

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> (My 360 ESP!) I had a launch 360 at midnight just the same. Then a week before Microsoft announced there new warranty, my box bricked. I called to complain to customer service none the less. They were more than happy to charge me the $130 bucks to repair my out of warranty console. Something told me not to let them. The night they announced the three year warranty I was on the phone for my white shipping box. It got to me in two days. (must be one of the lucky ones) Since mine arrived to them before the influx of bricked boxes. It only took microsoft 2 weeks to send me a different console. My launch box is no more, but at least im still not waiting for microsft to send me a refund check. (My 360 ESP)

und1sturbed

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Had one for a year. Went nuts about 5 months ago.
Sent for repair, DVD drive fault apparently. Strange as the MAC address had changed. Tried hooking up, console didn't turn on properly.

Sent the recently repaired console back for repair, after 2 months it came back. Except it wasn't mine. It was a console that was scratched beyond all recognition. Best bit - still didn't work.

Went to local retailer bought a new one then returned the "repaired" one as faulty.

It has for 12 days been running stable.

kriv

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> my 360 died almost a year to the day that it was purchased, best buy told me that i was a day late and out of luck, but MS (to my surprise) said that I was still covered, and this was all before the 3 year extension. their customer service had actually been pretty good to me, even arranging a new, free, repair when I was unable to ship out my box within 30 days of getting the coffin (long story).

antv

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought a used 360 last Sept. at my local Gamestop and knock on wood, it hasn't died on me...YET! My 360 doesn't ever get that hot, even after 4-5 hours of Gameplay. I guess I must be one of the lucky ones!

goodind

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought one at launch. That lasted about 6 months. The replacement for that lasted about 5 months. The third system I'm still playing with, so maybe, just maybe, it'll be awhile before I have to deal with the coffin again. To Microsoft's credit, I really enjoy the 360 and it was worth the trouble getting two replacements sent to me.
Third time's a charm, right?

boxmyth

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> What's the checkerboard effect? When my 360 broke down I had a weird checkerboard pattern in red blue and green on certain parts of the screen when I tried to play certain games and all movies. Is that the checkerboard effect or is it something different.

carrierj1

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Wow thats a lot of f-ing posts. Mines been good but I haven't really beat the shit out of my 360 yet. I played Gears a lot initially but its nothing like what I'm going to be doing with Halo 3. The thing I'm worried about the most is my system running good for a little over three years and then bam it breaks and I'm out of the warranty period and screwed. I just want the damn thing to break already so I dont have to live in Red Ring fear.

Phenom88

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have had my 360 since launch and never have I had any problems. I keep the console on a shelf that attaches to the top of the tv so it gets the maximum amount of airflow. I also keep the power supply on a box behind the tv. This setup has given me no problems and my 360 has been very happy with me for not locking it inside the foul prison sometimes called "entertainment center"

gaiking

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Yeps, mine just died the other day, I got the checkerboard nonsense too. My 360's been making weird noises since I played Crackdown on it, but downloading the Stranglehold demo and trying to play it seemed to be the last straw. It crashed a few times, then, low and behold, the red rings. At least they got it picked up pretty quick! I'm having to lend a friend's 360 to play BioShock now :-/

kakusei

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My US launch console floated up to hardware heaven this past July. I just got a refurb back about two weeks ago. So far so good, but I'm afraid extended Bioshock play might take its toll...

ThisCharmingMan

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Well I got mine on xmas last year and it just died on me last week, first the annoying freeze ups while playing discs and then even the demos started freezing up, till finally i got the RROD
i called Microsoft and surprisingly enough i got mine repaired in less than a week, i just hope i don't get the same one back and them claiming that they fixed it.
so yeh hopping for the best here!!!

Shad0wCl0n3

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine has been working fine (in the realm of red rings). My first i got for Christmas last year, and that one's dvd drive crapped out around july. Maybe I didn't give it enough time to die. I guess I will find out in the next 3 years. :(

bigmac375

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My girlfriend and I picked up our 360 on New Year's Eve 2005 and it has given us no problems. We also have an Elite that has not showed any signs of being defective either.

Martinmas

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> YEah mine died i sent it in around the 5th and im just waiting for it to get back. This really sucks what with bioshock comin out tomorroq and all that.

J0hnny-Kickass

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought mine in October 2006 and it froze up alot for a couple of months then after that update in May it stopped completely. In June I got the RROD of death and had to send it in. It took like a month & a half before i got it back (this was around the time they made the 3yr warranty announcement). Long story short i sold it about a week ago it made no sense to keep it since i recently bought a PS3 plus the games were getting a bit boring.

Jason85

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Yes I'm on my 5th Xbox 360.

They all died at the best times too! (Oblivion, Dead Rising, Crackdown and the Halo 3 Beta).

If it dies tomorrow when I'm playing Bioshock I will stop buying anymore games for the damned system and trade it in for bananas and give them to the homeless.

Barbara

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> We got our 360 (a Premium version from Best Buy) back in February of this year. No real issues with it yet, but ever since getting Final Fantasy XI it runs loud with disc games. Not sure if it is the disc drive that is whats causing all the noise or the fan. Also have had a lot of issues with not being able to read game discs, I'll pop in a game and it will tell me that the disc is dirty or that I need to place in an Xbox 360 disc. So far we are doing ok.

icarusprime

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine died yesterday (of course, right before Bioshock) and my friendly neighborhood service rep quoted me 6-8 weeks before I may see my Xbox again.

2-3 seems like you dropped the Kotaku name and moved on up the list...or my service rep thought I'd be so frustrated that I would go out an buy an Elite....which I did. D'oh!

EM Bee

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> 1.-the same day i bought it the hard drive wonked out, returned it got my money back
2.-I gave it another chance a dew weeks later,this time it seemed my 360 was fine, but two days after purchase my 360 turned out to be a Dj and scratched the only game i had.Returned it.
3.-Three months passed and it was Christmas,gave it another chance,just a month ago i for RRoD once more, this time for internal malfunctions. I baked my 360 just to play the bioshock demo.Oh,the shame

So thats 3 lives down for me.I am sending out for repair now, but cant seem to get my hopes up anymore.

StranglerinParadise

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got my first last Christmas, an had to replace my third last month.

khuntilla

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have one I got in January (I think) 2007, and haven't had problems. But it's damn loud! I almost wish it would crap out so I could get a quiet one. Uh oh, maybe I jinxed it...

Final-Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got mine June 06 (for Oblivion).
*knock on wood* I've never had any problems with it at all.

For additional info, I keep it horizontal (I'm suspicious of vertical), and well ventilated....and seriously? I spend way too much time playing Luxor 2.

trooper6

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> well the same thing happened to me only about a week ago so now im on my second 360.

koman22

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I forgot to mention that I bought my 360 the day they came out in germany. That was about december 2005.

Cyboman

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> First one was dated December 24, 2005.

15 flawless months later the GPU gradually quits over 2 days.

Horizontal, completely open to the air, no add ons or power bars.

$110 Cdn and M$ sends me a brand new one with the new GPU heatsink. Could be worse I suppose.

DEEP_NNN

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> @EnigmaNemesis: Who do you know at MS and could they give me a call? ;c)

NateN

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Hi,

until now I had no problems at all but some freezes with Overlord. But I have to say that I modified my 360 with a passive water cooling system. Until the Falcon update is available in stores I will not by a new 360.

Cyboman

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> The two that I've bought have both gone bad. The original froze up a lot and then eventually got the red ring of death.

My elite's DVD drive went bad.

subject117

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine shipped with a bad HD last October. Was able to play demos and arcade stuff until I got a new HD for free a week or so. (I had purchased Oblivion which you really cannot play without an HD.)

The Unit itself has had no problems.

Knock knock knock (on wood)

Ess

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My launch 360 bricked after the spring update that allowed msn messenger. I now have a refurbished unit from November 2006 and haven't had a single problem. I hope its ready for some serious Bioshock abuse.

roccowvu

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> @EnigmaNemesis:

Got my replaced unit today after my RRoD last week. It is a brand new unit with the manufacturing date of August 9th, 2007 (last week). And it is NIGHT AND DAY quieter than the Elite I have which is manufactured June 16th, 2007.

MUCH quieter.

EnigmaNemesis

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got my 360 in the US around March of '06. Everything was running smoothly until I got GRAW 2 the week it came out. That game started to freeze up on me alot. So much so that I just stopped playing it! Spiderman 3 did the same thing, although not as much as GRAW 2. So, I went out and got one of those extra fan attachments for the back of my console. It's louder, but I haven't had the problem since. Of course, I havn't played GRAW 2 since then either! Keep your fingers crossed for me! It'll probably die on me as soon as I post this!

ASHBY

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> This September will be one year that I've had my 360 Premium, and I've never had any problems with it. The only scare I've had was when the power went out and I got three red rings. I turned it back on five minutes later and it was fine.

Treize

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My first 360 died back in December. My gf bought me a 32inch Samsung LCD as an early xmas present. I bought some VGA cables to play it on (rather then component) and when I was messing around with the resolution it died! I sent it in and 10 days later recieved my refurb. The only complaint now is that I can not host games anymore. My 360 boots everyone out of the room and me off LIVE for a couple minutes.

Bluespruce

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Never had any problems because I never had a 360! Waiting for the win!

Brainderailment

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Two units and no problems.
Myself and three children put a fair amount of time on the console. The first unit was a Pro/Premium launch console and the second an Elite upgrade. I sold the Pro to a friend. I did have the red button on my black controller go bad, but Best Buy replaced it no problem.

randlsa

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought my 360 on launch day (Nov 95) and it still works great. In addition to games, we use it as our DVD player and, on occasion, as our stereo. A single red ring appeared on one occasion, but apparently that was because I momentarily had it on the carpet; once I moved it back onto a hard, flat surface it fired up just right. The biggest test came during a heatwave this summer, when I played it for several hours on a scorching hot day. We don't have air-conditioning and I thought...well, if it's going to die, today might be the day. But it worked fine. So I'm one of the lucky ones...thus far. Even if it dies, I'll be certain to get another one. I think the games, the interface, and Xbox Live are terrific.

geomancy

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought mine in March of 2006, and it's still going. Mine doesn't freeze but it seems to get disc read errors from time to time. Also the tray sometimes have trouble opening occasionally. But nothing close to having the red ring yet, at least i hope.

number8888

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got mine a few months after launch (once I found one at a store) and haven't had any problems. I even cart mine around (in a metal case) to the cabin, vacation, etc.

I freaked out recently when I got a some red lights, but it's because I hadn't properly plugged in one of the cables on the back.

Maestro33

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine started freezing out of warranty a few months ago and this was a couple of months before they did the extension to 3 years (bastards). So I opened it up, put some heatsinks on the memory, replaced the X-clamp, and put a duct over the heatsinks in order to direct the heat over the fins instead of all around.

It has been working fantastically for the past few months. No issues whatsoever.

I have also fixed 3 other systems the same way and they are all working perfectly.

BrywalkerX

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on #2. Expecting it to die before the years end thanks to Mass Effect, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata (not Bioshock though, getting that on PC)

angry_gamer

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Same exact situation happened to me, Bioshock demo, then constant freezing. I'd wait for the unit too cool down and see if that would change anything. Next time I booted up a quick game of Uno, and bamn, game freezes, boot it up again, red rings! Uno killed my xbox! This is my 2nd unit in 10 months.

ilango

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Bought mine Summer of '06, no problems until I got the RROD suddenly in May '07. I pushed it hard, usually leaving it on at least 8 hours of any day sometimes a lot more, but I gave it extreme ventilation and even dusted the premises regularly. Anyway, I was in-warranty and got a new 360 shipped to me which was been fine the past few months.

Xiedo

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Bought mine in Nov 06, and got the RRoD last week after downloading the Bioshock demo. I had managed to play through to hacking the security camera when it locked up. For a second I thought it was part of the gameplay since there was no error code. After a few reboots it worked again for a few days, occassionally locking up with the checkerboard screen. Oddly it did manage to play completely through '300' without locking up at all. It finally threw the red rings and no longer boots. I used MS's new website which verified my waranty and has sent out a cardboard coffin for my 360. So far the process of using the web has been smooth and efficient.

AZ_ST

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Had mine since February 2006, never had a problem.

Ickypoopy

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have a launch 360 and haven't had but a couple of freezes. I've played the poor thing to death too...many a all night Call of Duty 2 or 3 session has been played on this box. Needless to say I have been very lucky....so far(crosses fingers)

BionicCommando1

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Okay, since you guys don't actually edit anything, don't call yourselves editors. If I took a red pen to my monitor, I would only have to hit a couple jumps before my screen was covered in red. You guys really need someone to do that for you, even if it was just retroactive. I'd be happy to donate my copy of Strunk and White to you.

As far as my Xbox 360, I experienced a couple freezes while playing Viva Pinata. I get some slowdowns and screen tearing while playing Gears every once in a while. When I play Overlord, my DVD drive makes scary noises. The system also feels like it's been loading more sluggishly since the new update. I haven't had any other problems, despite expecting to have some with the BioShock and Stranglehold demos.

MisterGrok

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Had mine for nearly a year, froze once or twice in Oblivion, otherwise perfect.

Moonshadow101

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got mine at GoW launch. No RRoD, but the DVD drive is fucked. It's in for repairs right now.

user.error: like jesus christ on acid

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Jesus god, that's a lot of comments.

Unastheslayer-PSN

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Wow, if I didn't think it would get me banned there would be a lot of 4 letter words in the post below. But so far today I've heard from Microsoft twice:

The first time was via email from the support specialist, saying they aren't going to send me a a new console.
The second time was from the woman at MS who got my BBB complaint. And there they also say they aren't going to expedite my repair and refuse to send me a new console.

It takes balls to send out a broken repair and refuse to give the customer ANYTHING to make up for it. I'm going for an FTC complaint next, and then I'll look into small claims court after that. Go go gadget customer service!

NateN

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm not concerned about RROD because MSFT extended their warranty specifically for RROD (3-years). Buy a 360 with confidence. Just don't buy MSFT stock.

paydirt76

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 hasn't died yet and I got it at launch. However, it does freeze sometimes and I've had one graphics card related problem where the screen would display little blue lines, but it went away after cooling down.

Shiku

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> @ExistentialEgg: You know that in the oh, I don't know 25% chance you get red ringed you get your console repaired free? It's not THAT bad.

I got mine in December of 06 (2nd shipment). 2 days.

It lasted 2 days, long enough for me to beat gears of war and dead rising. Maybe I'm just too good at video games, but seriously. Once I got it back from m$?

It has been THE 1337BOX. My 360 has taken a beating, I leave it on pretty much 24/7 much to the fear of my girlfriend who believes the house will burn. And it never skips, it's like if you get red-ringed Microsoft sends you back the uber xbox. It runs so much better than the original did. I don't know what they did to it, but good job guys.

TheJordanator

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on my second one in about 10 months. The first one had problems with the optical drive and would be unable to read discs (even brand new ones) after random intervals of time. I've had my other one for about 9 months with no problems though.

dmaggio12

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got mine in December '06, the 2nd real shipment of 360s.Never had a problem. It's never frozen, glitched or anything. Of course now having angered the RRoD gods I may have sealed my fate. I did however have my HD DVD drive puke after the last update for it. Having been in the IT field for over 10 years and dealing with update pushes the coincidence is to great to think it didn't hose the drive. I can also say the customer service was about the worst I've gotten. They actually "lost" the drive. After providing proof of delivery it magically reappeared. All told it still took about 1.5 months to get back. And I had to pay for the repair. Accessories are only under warranty for 90 days. But out of the 360, Wii and PS3 the 360 is by a huge margin the most played console in the house.

Johnny_Sokko

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> yikes. I was going to buy a 360 this weekend after reading how great Bioshock is supposed to be. I guess I'm lucky I talked myself out of it. It's just too much money to spend on something that's so unreliable. Here's hoping they roll out updated "non suicidal" 360's soon.

Good thing I'm just a casual gamer with a Wii, the hardcore gamers are so hardcore that their consoles implode. :P

But seriously, I DO want a 360, cmon MS, get em out there in working condition.

ExistentialEgg

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got a launch day Xbox 360 Premium. So far, no problems.

I've left my system on a few times to download demos overnight, but I dont think i've played it for stretches more than 2-3 hours.

balls187

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've had mine since last May. I only have minor freeze ups from my power cord dropping out of the 'intercooler'. Basically it just turns off and I have to turn it back on. Nothing major so far!

I love my 360 (and I think it might just love me)!
/my new country song

GosoVision

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> i've already posted my previous situations regarding my console, so i won't mention them here. i just received my fourth one early last week, and let me just say i was initially annoyed. well i received the unit via UPS, but i had gotten a seperate FedEx overnight envelope the same day. i thought "oh great, they must be charging me for it since they realized it wasn't an RRoD issue that was covered in the warranty". i opened the envelope. in it, was a letter and a card. it something along the lines of giving me a month free of xbox live. i looked at the card and, indeed it was, a month of free xbox live. i thought to myself "wow, this is the second time i feel like i've warranted my purchase for this console". i've got to say this was time i've also really felt taken care of by m$. man, now all i want to do is play the upcoming big name titles without any interference!

kw4k

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]>
I got my X-box360 on launch day. Duirng the last two weeks I've been going down to the basement and the system was running. On the fourth time this happened, I turned it off, then back on and put a game into it. Red Ring of Death!! So I just turned it off and came back the next day and it seems to work just fine. I have played it since with no problems. So, did I just skim by the Rings of death or what?

crivello7

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have one from launch that's still working fine w/no problems. ::crosses fingers::

aniline

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Man...I had my console since launch date and stayed out in the rain that whole night and that early morning and mine just died last week. I send it out already to get fix and all. My system was working fine until I download that damn defjam icon demo. Played it for 3 minutes and I got the checkboard screen. It was a rap after that. Freezing, Three red rings, towel trick, elbow drops and hugs. The console worked fine until that damn day. So yeah the console works if treated properly. I'm saying that for my console, not someone else........All I got to say is.....IT'S THOSE DAMN DEMOS. Stay away from them like the plague.

Kajiba

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Me- Replaced 1 launch console
Buddy#1 - Replaced launch console 3-4 times
Buddy#2 - Replaced launch console 1 time
Buddy#3 - Replaced post-launch console 1 time

So that's at least 6 bad consoles that I personally know of 1st or 2nd hand that have conked out.

My original NES still works (got it in 5th grade). So does my Atari Jaguar and a used Gameboy Color. Go figure...

ColbyCheese

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My US launch console RROD'd me 4 mos ago. Now the "new" one the sent me just started glitching/ freezing up on me, and its in fer repairs right now. So, yeah I've went through two of them.

JPsmooth42

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> The Microsoft core 360 has worked perfectly for me. Not a single problem. And despite all the online hate for it not a single complaint.

Tylahedras

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've never had any problems with my launch 360 aside from it occasionally not actually turning on when I boot it up (the power light came on but nothing else). But on Saturday I got the red rings, I called MS to return it, but while waiting for the MS coffin I've been able to get my 360 to work again (about one out of ten times it works). I have not played any disc games though, just XBLA and movies.

superbagman

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine is currently in for repairs. It was doing the same thing as yours. Freezing w/ checkerboard pattern, arcade and demos were fine, then they started freezing too. I didn't wait for the red rings tho, i just sent that sucker in for repairs.

houkah

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I purchased my 360 ~ GoW launch '06 and it died a couple of weeks ago. One day during a mild summer storm we lost power and I hadn't plugged the 360 into the UPS >_< Like others it started with some occasional freezing and eventually progressed to RRoD. When my repair came back (thank you MS for covering me) it came with a very recent date of manufacture (refurbishment?), the 2nd heat sink, and a card reimbursing me for 1 month of Live Gold.

To be fully honest, I actually prefer this new console they sent me to my old one hehe. It's quieter all around and more importantly there are not nearly as many plastic/metal contraction sounds as the unit cools down.

MindLog

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm going to Lowes at lunch to get the parts to fix it myself. Screw Microsoft. I already fixed a fried of mine's and it's worked flawless since.

Hamsnibit

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Bought mine in Feb '07 and it's been nothing but GROL (Green Rings of Life, for the acronym-challenged) ever since. And that's after I accidentally elbowed it hard to the ground; I've been keeping it horizontal since that incident. I use it a lot and I even use the HD-DVD as my primary DVD player. I keep it clean and in a well-ventilated area, if that even helps, but I also live in fear every day of total meltdown - we should not have to live in fear of turning our consoles on!! I'm picking up Bioshock tomorrow and I would like to be able to play it all the way through without a depressing 4-6 week interruption. Fingers crosses, knocking wood, cursing M$ under my breath...

Typo Positive

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> @whackMushroom:

Fanboy alert!

I've had 2, the most recent one is going strong for 8 months without a hitch. Not even one freeze since I got it back and my wife played Viva Pinata for 8 hrs straight.

Cellien

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Picked my 360 up a little over a year ago, and its never died on me. Froze once on Dead Rising, but 16 hours of play will do that to anything. So far i cant complain about my own system, but working at Gamestop for about a year taught me that approximately 30% of the systems are out of the box defevtive. I'd also say that another 30% were mistreated to death.

Chaos_Bringer

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine USA launch console broke a year after I bought it....now I have the one they sent back...no problems..yet.

Vecha

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've got a worker. Had mine since the US launch and I've never had a single problem. It has scratched discs, but no RRoD.

Doomstink

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> @Sloopydrew:
I tried doing that once. I bought an Xbox because of the problems I had with the PS2. Well, had to mod it for XBMC to get use out of it since most all of my gaming was on the PS2.

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Honestly I think it has a lot to do with play session time. I never play 360 for more than an hour or two. It never had a prob for over a year. Then I get new roomates, who are, well, lifeless, and play my 360 to death. Fortunately my problem was a crapped out DVD drive which I could replace myself that arose from the glue on the spindle melting from the heat. Keep your time to two hours people, take a break, go outside, remind yourself you have legs. Then come back in and get back to pwning your n00bs or whatever it is you crazy kids say.

CopyPaste

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm still on my US Launch 360. Not one problem yet. (knocks on wood)

guilty1

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got mine as a refurb of some guy selling it in a classifieds section, and it has only frozen once when I tried to unpause PGR3 after about ten minutes of being paused. Since then, it has given me no worries.

Still dreading if mine will do the inevitable RROD that people say will happen... here's hoping it won't!

Chuss

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I bought mine 2 months after launch and have had no problems. My older brother bought his about a year ago and his optical drive just went out.

Sphinx

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 that I bough in June '06 hasn't borked. The first time I turned it on I noticed the amount of heat that was being thrown from the back of the machine. Because of that I treat it like my overclocked gaming rig and take the same precautions (space around machine where vents are located (top and right side when vertical), nothing to suck in hot air from). Do alot of tournament playing (8+ hours) so I think it's probably what keeps it going.

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on my 3rd console. I had a launch 360 that lasted until a week before the launch of the Elite. I got and Elite and after a month that broke and when I tried to get another Elite they didn't have one so I'm back to a premium. I had a best buy warranty so this whole process didn't cost me to much.

TrickyBAM

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Sorry to hear about your loss! Mine's still good; purchased last November. More than a few worrying crashes - especially on Saints Row! - but no red rings o' doom just yet...

I've surely jinxed myself now. I think my 360 can hear me typing...

*looks over shoulder*

caps

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> This post will get lost in the wash but I feel like it should be put out there. I admit, I have had two die on me, but there is a certain "peace" about having a three year warranty behind the console. Tell me this, and answer honestly...how many of you were among the many who purchased a gen. 1 IPOD? I had 4 crap out on me, only to have to pay to have them replaced and repeat. Sony's PS2? Same story. I am not saying that this is an excuse of any kind. But it's the right thing to do. The warranty is the best thing IMHO that could have been done for the problem at hand. Throw in the towel? Sure, that would have worked well for them and the other two (PS2 & IPOD ver. 1) I refrenced too eariler also. (/end scarcasm) Neither of the two leaders in their respective groups offered anything close to a three year repair for free warranty and we STILL LOVE EM'! All I am saying is that, I think that they are doing the right thing. That this has happend before, and that it won't be the last time for anything in the electronics industry.

caleb

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Got mine last October. It's running fine until now, but I think it's my loving care that's keeping it away from death. You see, I live in Brazil, a land known for its extremely hot weather throughout the year. But I decided to take a few steps ahead in keeping my 360 "kool", like adding 5 (yes, FIVE!) more coolers - 2 extra on the back, helping the original ones pull off the hot air, a small one on the top and two big and powerful below, pushing air inside the console.

I've been able to play all my games flawlessly on days which temperature easily exceeded 107°F...

Call me NUTS but, at least, this homebrew "fix" is doing its job.

fporto

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> My 360 broke, but it was my fault. I didn't realize the clear tape holding the disk drive, so I opened the disk drive with the tape. The disk drive would fail to open without sliding a finger on the plate. Eventually it just failed to open all together. I purchased the extended warranty from Best Buy because of rumor of the new chip.So I had no problem exchanging it. They really don't question you returning it, just say it doesn't work. I'm going to exchange my current machine once the new chip and HDMI 360 are available.

DeMoNiX

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I'm on my third console. For the record, I've never seen the red lights of death. Each time mine died, it was just checkers and constant freezing.

Sinnix

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine died this weekend too - up late on Friday trying to slam through some Forza2 before it gets relegated to the "oh yeah, I used to play that" pile post Bioshock launch... Saturday morning, was greeted by flamin' red rings.

What's frustrating is that this box was in a few months ago for something related to Crackdown save files not loading. Wish they could have moved pro-actively, to, well, do anything to avoid this.

crackedactor

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Bought mine December 23rd 2006. Died on me six days later.

My second one started dying on me fifteen days after that.

I'm on my third and haven't had any problems but I worry about it.

So all in all...I'm on my THIRD 360.

EndersGame

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I got my first 360 back in November 06, it crapped out in late March, sent it off, got a refurb.. and it's been working great ever since :)

Eh, is it just me, or does people make to big a fuss over these 360's breaking down? It's just a gaming machine.. if it breaks down, send it off, get a new one.. while you wait, read a book or watch a movie.. or get out and socialize! it's not the end of the world! :D

Ares

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I figured I'd skip a return and bought a refurb off the bat. Only problem is sometimes it won't read the discs.

Punisher2K

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've got an original US launch console that I bought at Best Buy after waiting in line for 16 hours overnight in the rain. It hasn't crashed on me yet, though Forza2 has frozen up about 2-3 times. Other than that, it never crashes and hasn't given me any real problems...even after 8 hour marathons.

At this rate, I might be replacing it with an Elite before it ever RROD's. I've actually been kind of hoping it would konk out on me so I would have a legitimate excuse to buy an elite, but no such luck.

z0mbi

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> i've had mine since launch and haven't had a single problem. my friend bought a core on launch and has had the rrod twice. they told him it was because he had his 360 on a surge protector. i have mine on a uninterrupted power supply so maby thats why i've been lucky.

p.s. bioshock demo is AMAZING!!!!

lazyeyes

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Thankfully I've been one of the lucky few to receive an honest to god working 360. Weather is the fact that I use a socket based surge protector or that I keep my room at 71 degrees I do not know. Though it's probably because I hurried thru games like Gears so I could get back to tending mis pinatas.

I'll come back and let you know if it burns up after 30 straight hours of Bioshock.

chungo

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> got mine in northern ireland at launch, froze a few times but those might be ridge racer 6 related bugs.

still workin fine :)

shaunomacx

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've posted about my dead 360s here before, so I'll just save time and link that post:
[kotaku.com]

Hope they get this figured out before the Xbox 720 or whatever comes out, I like my 360 but I'm going to be wary of any more hardware from MS (I had some issues with XB1 as well) until its well proven by others.

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I have a US launch 360 that I bought with "my" own money too! It's still kickin' (biting tongue or should it be fingers)

fleshribbon

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I had my Canadian launch xbox RRoD of me after just under a year, was repaired in very short order (I think in total 5 days from my call I had it back in my hands) and has worked fine ever since.

xipher

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've had my 360 for about 4 months now, I got it off ebay in a bundle and do not know how old it is. But I haven't had a single problem with it so far, lets keep hoping. The 360 is a pretty darn good gaming machine.

ntrpe

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> i am still on my first 360 which i bought in feb of 06, it gets played just about every day for a few hours and i never had a prob, guess im lucky, bioshock tomorrow!

deaftly

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> US launch still chugging along. Although it did freeze up the other day during Forza 2.

m0lasses

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Mine just died last week.

igpx407

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I had a US launch 360 that was replaced because of frequent disc read errors. My replacement unit hasn't had a hiccup.

However...

One friend of mine bought a 360 after all my praise and got the RROD right out of the box. No big deal because he just returned it for a new one, but we both had a laugh over it.

wallapuctus

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> I've had a launch box from the Colorado Springs area. Haven't had a problem yet, but I am hoping someone sees falcons in the wild sometime soon so that mine can finally die and be replaced.

logikil

]]> <![CDATA[Bashcraft's 360 Finally Dies (How's Yours?)]]> Bought my 360 in February, 2006. When Gears of War came out I noticed more freezing than before, so called MS about a replacement (no problem. The rep thought that it might be the CPU beginning to fail) and, since at the time I only had a couple of months left on the warranty, replaced it. At first I had a few DVD drive issues with the replacement (at times quite loud, and a couple of DVD'd locked up) but the box as a whole has performed admirably. Although MS authorized a replacement, I didn't want to be without it for a couple of weeks, so I kept it. It has been performing flawlessly ever since.

bornonce

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