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XBox Arcade system saves the day.

sourceninja

sourceninja

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So my original released xbox elite finally died. I was in the middle of red dead and it froze up. I rebooted it and it froze up on the dashboard. I left it off for a few hours, it continued to freeze up. I checked all the troubleshooting the internet had to offer but nothing worked. Just freezing at random times within 1-5 minutes of turning on the system.

I looked at sending it in for warranty work, but the xbox was sold old microsoft wanted me to pay 100 bucks for them to fix it. I took a different route. I have not used my wii in over a year. Gamestop had a extra 25.00 trade in on modern consoles. So I took my wii and all it's games over to gamestop and picked up an xbox arcade and still had cash left over for UFC 2010 for the ps3.

Took it home, hooked up the hard drive and everything works perfectly. Plus the new arcade system is at least twice as quiet as my old elite ever was.

So now what to do with the old broken elite? Do people buy them for parts? Is it worth it to get it fixed and ebay it?

I'm really glad microsoft sells the arcade, I didn't need a hard drive (I bought the 250 gig drive when it came out) so I was glad to save the cost of the hard drive.
 
It's too bad it couldn't have waited another week or so to die to see if MS is really going to announce a slimline model at E3.

But yet, new Arcades definitely take the noise down several notches over the launch models.
 
Make sure you do a DLC licence transfer to your new 360 (google it). If you don't then your DLC will only work if you're connected to live, which sounds fine because you're never off live, right? But trust me... just do it and save yourself some possible headache for if/when your internet dies and you just want to play something that involves DLC.
 
heh i was kind of in the same situtation a while back...

i have a modded banned 360 and a first gen non-modded elite.

the elite was given to me broken and i had already fixed the RRoD on which took me like 2 days and it just kind of luckily started to work after i heatgunned it for like the 5th time.

like 2 weeks before SSF4 was to come out, it started acting up again, and I needed a working non banned one in time for SSF4.

It wasn't RRoD'ing, but it would freeze sometimes 5 seconds after i turned the 360 on, 20 seconds, or i could play for like 10 minutes sometimes. this same symptom happened when i first fixed it as well, which is what kind of randomly stopped after i heatgunned it for the 7th time (which is the luckily part i was referring to above).

i tried to fix it again, probably like 4 times with the heatgun, reseating the heatsinks w/new arctic silver, and same thing. it just would not work again, and it wasn't even RRoDing. it would just freeze up or video would just cut out completely.

so i said fuck it and bought an arcade from amazon for $159.

so glad i did because i now have no headache, i now have HDMI built in, and i have a 360 that i cannot believe how quiet it is compared to my other ones. it is ridiculously quiet. i was shocked when i was installing a game on it and how quiet it was when installing, spinning at full speed.

that said, anyone wanna buy my first gen elite jacked up 360? 😛
 
Yeah, the Jasper Arcade units are great, I had an older 20GB pro model and it died on me but was still under warranty. I got it fixed for free but purchased a used Jasper Arcade unit on Craigslist (tested it and called MS to make sure it wasn't banned). Sold the replacement console to my buddy (still working fine) for cheap. New console is nearly silent when games are installed to the HDD.
 
gorcorps said:
Make sure you do a DLC licence transfer to your new 360 (google it). If you don't then your DLC will only work if you're connected to live, which sounds fine because you're never off live, right? But trust me... just do it and save yourself some possible headache for if/when your internet dies and you just want to play something that involves DLC.
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Thank you! I didn't know about that. I will do that as soon as I get home tonight.
 
You've got to do it on Xbox.com, I did one last year. Do the transfer and then go re-download (which takes no time since the content is already on your HDD) some stuff and it's done. I don't know how necessary it is to do the redownloading part.
 
I did notice I had to reinstall games on my hard drive for them to play from the hard drive. That was annoying.
 
Kabob said:
I didn't have to do that...at least I don't think I did.
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I bought a 250 GB drive last weekend to replace a 120 GB drive, and none of the games got moved over - the DLC did, but not the actual games. You can manually copy them from drive to drive if you want to with the transfer cable, or reinstall the old fashioned way.
 
When I went to play a game that was installed on the old system I could hear the disk spinning up a lot. So I went back to dashboard and went into the details to make sure the game was installed. When I pressed play game I was told that games installed on previous systems need to be reinstalled or something similar to that. So I had to delete the game and reinstall.

All was fine after that.
 
i moved from a 20 to a 250 recently and did the transfer disk, which didn't move games. i then moved the games manually, and then did the license transfer online. i didn't have to re download any dlc or reinstall any games.
 
I've been contemplating buying an arcade, but I'm riding my current 360 as far as it'll go in the hopes a slim model will show up.

I've already had an RROD on this box that I fixed, and currently the DVD drive is starting to go bad (sometimes it thinks certain games are DVD Video). But, thankfully I have a 120gb hard drive and all my games stored on there, so all I need the Xbox to do is to intially read it.
 
I have an early Jasper and it's actually just as loud if not louder than my Xenon console, guess I'm just unlucky.
 
Krakn3Dfx said:
It's too bad it couldn't have waited another week or so to die to see if MS is really going to announce a slimline model at E3.

But yet, new Arcades definitely take the noise down several notches over the launch models.
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The 360 is already very small. I can't possibly see them fitting the hardware in anything that is small enough to justify purchasing it over a regular 360.
 
simonizor said:
The 360 is already very small. I can't possibly see them fitting the hardware in anything that is small enough to justify purchasing it over a regular 360.
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I dunno, I'd love to have a half height model w/ a slide in HD option.

Yeah, its not huge now, but it's bigger than the PS3 phat was, and they still made a PS2 Slim and people ate it up. Add to that all the rumors and unverified pics of a smaller formfactor 360 motherboard, I wouldn't be surprised to see something at E3.
 
Unless there's something better than small form factor having a smaller unit doesn't really do anything for me. Wouldn't surprise me if they offered it with integrated Natal though.
 
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