Now at 100% failure rate with 360s after 3 systems

[SithSolo1]

[RANT]
1st: Premium unit bought new - RROD
2nd: Premium unit replacement - RROD
3rd: Current Elite unit - Graphics board failure


I'll be the first to admit that the Xbox 360 is the most advanced console I've owned and when it works its awesome. Hardware wise it destroys all my previous systems combined.

That said, I've never had another console fail. Yes, I'm a Nintendo fanboy at heart. I've owned every one of their major console releases from the NES thru Wii(no Virtual Boy). I've also bought most of the major Gameboy releases and a Sega Game Gear. Heck, the DS still worked after being crushed in a power car seat rail, just needed one new screen. None of them, even after years of abuse failed to work.

I just hope the next XBOX has a little better track record.
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[borisvodofsky]

none of those other consoles come remotely close to the heat generation of the modern stuff.

 

[sourceninja]

I'm also on my 3th 360.

I had a black elite last until eventually started getting graphic corruption that was not covered by the support. So I bought arcade and moved my HD over, that was fine for about 2 years and it started RRODing. So now I have a slim and if this one dies I"m done.

The dvd drive has gotten really loud lately.

 

[SithSolo1]

none of those other consoles come remotely close to the heat generation of the modern stuff.

I'm not that naive. Its not like I had the Xbox stuffed in a cabinet or sitting on carpet. I honestly haven't even used it that much lately, maybe 2hrs a week for streaming duty. Its just a little annoying when it works fine one day and in less than 24hrs its a paper weight for the 3rd time.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Join the club, I have had 4 and the only one that didn't die is the one I sold...it may have died later but I have no idea. What I do know is all my console sit unobstructed inside an enclosed shelf on my entertainment center so it should not be happening.

 

[digiram]

I think if you have a fat 360, and it's not a jasper unit.. gauranteed to die pretty much. I had an original died, moved on to jasper arcade unit that's been solid for years. I gotta slim with kinnect for the kids, but it doesn't get used as much.

 

[Goothry]

I feel your pain. I personally went through about 10 xbox 360s. I bought my original one release day, and a few months later received the red ring of death. I went to return it at ebgames, and they told me the warrenty that I had purchased from them could not be honored, and offered to refund my money. Stupidly I sent it back to Microsoft. Thereafter each referbished xbox i received had an exponential decline in working condition. The last oringinal 360 Microsoft sent me didn't even last one hour. I called and complained each time. I got bumped up to "urgent" status, but despite my efforts the only solution they ever gave me was to receieve a newly "referbished" xbox that would broke faster than the last. I asked a representative if he could simply replace my xbox with a 100% new model. He responded that he could do nothing further for me. Finally, I went back to ebgames, traded in my old xbox for something like $100.00, and bought an Elite Xbox 360 (as I used to be primarily a console gamer, and didn't have a pc rig to game with at that time).

Lesson learned: don't buy 1st gen new consoles. They will break, and you will lose money.

 

[DrunkenSano]

I'm glad I traded in my Elite for a Slim when they came out.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm actually worried that something might be wrong with my newest slim 360. This is the third time that it froze on me. The first time it froze up when I logged into XBOX Live. It froze with a blank (all gray) toast icon at the bottom. The last time, I logged into Live, but nothing would show up. My friends were all blank, but I could switch between them and it would show the status. I went to compare games with a friend, and no images would appear. I hit B to back up one page, and the entire console locked up at that point.

Luckily, the media remote has a handy power button, which is as effective as hitting the power button on the front (the controller would require you to hold down the XBOX button, which wouldn't work when it's frozen).

My other slim 360 works fine, but I haven't used it much anyway. To note, the other slim is the shiny one and my newer slim is the matte black version. I have an old white fat 360 as well, which has been X-clamp modded, and honestly... it works great.

 

[Doppel]

I'm surprised to say mine is still going, I think it's maybe 3.5 years old now. My first xbox lasted a couple of years, same as my first PS2 (I only bought one of each). Was disappointed in their longevity.

 

[Dulanic]

RROD here but i repaired it.

 

[tecplayer]

I'm on my fourth Xbox. The first had RROD. They wanted me to pay over 100$ to get it repaired and shipped and everything. I waited a few months, called back and they took it back under warranty for free (back when they extended the warranty to three years). After that the second one did the same thing, RROD again. My third Xbox got a problem with the DVD player, it would read the disc about 50% of the time and error every now and then. I decided to buy a slim.

So yeah, they sent me 3 Xbox's on warranty and I paid for the slim, but I bought an arcade at 129$ in special and I swapped my Xbox HDD into it.

 

[American Gunner]

My slim is starting to have a disc drive problem, and it is out of the warranty peroid. This will be my 4th xbox, and I don't even play it anymore. I will not spend another penny getting it fixed.

 

[viivo]

My slim has started freezing lately and sometimes things take much longer than usual to load from the harddrive, so I wouldn't be surprised if that fails soon.

 

[gorcorps]

Not that the 360s don't have problems, but "failure rate" is a useless measure when you don't include time between failures. Everything fails eventually. Given your info I've experienced a 100% failure rate with my PS2s, gameboys, and NES.

 

[sygyzy]

I am either incredibly lucky (one 360 failure, replaced under warranty). I am now on my third 360 bceause I sold the replacement (which was fully functional) and bought an Elite. Anyway, are you guys doing anything weird or unusual with your units like stuffing it into a cabinet with no ventilation? I play my 360 almost everyday and never have a problem.

 

[fixbsod]

My brand new MGS4 80GB edition PS3 died on its 13th day. How's that? Sony sent me a much older model -- built apx 15+ months earlier than the model I had, though it is a phat backwards compat model like the one it replaced, and that's been going strong for almost 4 years with near daily use.

 

[zerocool84]

none of those other consoles come remotely close to the heat generation of the modern stuff.

Still no excuse. They are the ones that designed it. Both Microsoft and Sony cheaped out on cooling this generation.

 

[mmntech]

You'd be hard pressed to find any long term Xbox or PS3 owner that hasn't had a system die on them. I was crushed when my 60gb launch PS3 yellow lighted. You can't fix them once they go either. Not without ripping the CPU off and completely resoldering everything. I ended up replacing it with a new Slim and a PS2 I got off eBay. The Slim is nowhere near as nice a system though.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Yeah I was extremely pissed when my 60gb launch fatty died, too. As much as I have spent on consoles this generation I really could have had a couple of super nice gaming PC's.

 

[Pheran]

You'd be hard pressed to find any long term Xbox or PS3 owner that hasn't had a system die on them.

Well, you can count me as one of them. I have a Falcon Elite that still works perfectly, as well as a newer slim. I never had the really bad launch model though - those are the worst.

 

[IGemini]

Well, you can count me as one of them. I have a Falcon Elite that still works perfectly, as well as a newer slim. I never had the really bad launch model though - those are the worst.

Also have a Falcon Elite here, hasn't died on me.

To me the writing seemed to be plastered all over the wall once the console specs were released that they would generate too much heat for the boxes the manus wanted to put them in. I was content to wait for a die-shrink or two. Pretty much every day-one adopter I know has had at least two dead 360s.

 

[Bman123]

I went thru 3 of them and had enough and ended up going to a PS3

 

[IGhzI]

I went through 4 within a year. so I went to PC gaming and this was two years ago. They don't make them like they use to. My original PS one lasted over ten years but in order to boot games I had to flip the Console upside down and that was around the seventh year mark lol I thought that was funny.

 

[alent1234]

i have the slim that came out with kinect since 2010

i don't put anything on top and the side is clear as well to let the hot air out