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so, whats the lowdown on this, is it still a problem? im thinkin about buying a gaming console but dont want to deal with it dyin on me.

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The latest revisions of the "old" Xbox 360 don't seem to be having problems, and I have not heard of any mass problems with the new smaller one.
 
> so, whats the lowdown on this, is it still a problem? im thinkin about buying a gaming console but dont want to deal with it dyin on me.

It was fixed with the Jasper revision, the last version of the 360-Fat. The slim should be even safer to buy since it has another die shrink to lower the power and heat used by the GPU.
 
Very few issues if you buy the new "slim" ones...but you never know, something always tends to break, ask my 4 different xbox i've had.
 
Before you listen to anything RavenSEAL says, go and look at his post history. He is not a person to listen to when it comes to anything Xbox related. If you do get an Xbox, get the slim. My brother has one and the are extremely quite.
 
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All i said was the slim one because it has fewer issue than the old models...way2hate lol.
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Fewer issues? There hasnt been any wide spread issues on them. I am not hating, just letting the OP know that you are one of the biggest Sony fanboys I have ever seen, so he shouldn't put any stock in anything you have to say about the 360.
 
The 360 has been fine ever since the Jasper revision AFAIK. Generally the quality of both HD consoles has improved a great deal.

Just throwing this out there but has anybody ever tried the Gilksy method on a 360. In other words, heating the RAM, CPU, and GPU with a heat gun to reseat the chips. Just curious.
 
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Fewer issues? There hasnt been any wide spread issues on them. I am not hating, just letting the OP know that you are one of the biggest Sony fanboys I have ever seen, so he shouldn't put any stock in anything you have to say about the 360.
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Well, you know, my still ass sorta hurts after spending $500 dollars to get MS to fix my 360 four times...what can i say, my PS3 has been trouble free gaming since i got it.
 
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Well, you know, my still ass sorta hurts after spending $500 dollars to get MS to fix my 360 four times...what can i say, my PS3 has been trouble free gaming since i got it.
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Details? RRoD fixes are free, and other problems like DVD drive failures are $99 to fix (vs. $149 to fix a PS3) after the first year. Are you claiming to have had 4 (or 5?) 360 DVD drives fail on you?
 
My friends original X-box 360 (bought on launch day) finally succumbed to the RROD. Fine one day then the next was RROD............. he went out and bought a Elite System (old style) with 250 GB HD.

Up and running and waiting for Call of Duty Black Ops ^_^

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
DaveSimmons said:
Details? RRoD fixes are free, and other problems like DVD drive failures are $99 to fix (vs. $149 to fix a PS3) after the first year. Are you claiming to have had 4 (or 5?) 360 DVD drives fail on you?
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RROD fixes were not free when they starting happening to me, i had a launch console w/ expired warranty. I also had 2 dvd drives fail on me, then i decided to just get a new one, that one rrod,i sent it to ms, sold it to gamestop, lost like $80 from retail price, bought a ps3.
 
The short answer: No, they've been fixed.
The long answer: The last itineration of the "fat" Xbox 360 (Jasper) have extremely low failure rates. I've not heard of any issues with the newer Slim models either, although I hear they do not like closed NAT's over WiFi.
 
DaveSimmons said:
Details? RRoD fixes are free, and other problems like DVD drive failures are $99 to fix (vs. $149 to fix a PS3) after the first year. Are you claiming to have had 4 (or 5?) 360 DVD drives fail on you?
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I really wish they both had 3 year warranties on the drives. My Xbox RRODed and I got a refurb replacement from MS. The DVD drive died within a few months. I could replace it myself with parts off of eBay for about $25, but that would invalidate the remaining RROD warranty.

Right now, I'm just using it as a media extender so the drive isn't crucial. However, IMO, $99 is just too much to spend on repairing an older Xbox. That is half the cost of a new Slim Arcade with a full warranty. If my main Xbox has the DVD drive go bad, I'm must going to get the Slim and be done with it.

Both of my units are Falcons, which means they're living on borrowed time and I can't really risk invalidating an RROD warranty. I am kind of hoping the console with the bad drive RRODs soon so I can get it replaced.
 
My current running tally.

X360 1= RROD 3x all were under warranty.

X360 2= RROD 2x under warranty,
Drive went bad 1x not under warranty had to pay cause I have one of the units with the non-swappable drives that can't e flashed and the motherboard might have been bad on the DVD-rom.

X360 #3 Slim= No problems so far...

PS3 #1 Launch 60GB No problems
PS3 #2 Launch 60GB No problems

N64= Never Broke
Gamecube= Never Broke

Dreamcast = Launch one, Works fine

Ps2 Fatty #1 Power supply went bad I fixed it myself.
Ps2 Fatty #2 Never Broke
Ps2 Slim = Never Broke

Xbox#1 = Power supply died fixed it myself
Xbox#2 = Never broke.
Xbox#3 = Never broke.

Moral of the story....I wish X360 had better build quality, I hope the slim fixed the problems but it's still lame and I will remember how much they died.
 
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