Red Ring of Death

minto · 05-04-2008, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by T3kNi9e

Not exactly, you can take perfect care of your 360 and it will still get RROD. Im extremely anal when it comes to taking care of my console the games. I got RROD then after getting it repaired, the disc drive went kaput in about a week. It just happens... I went to this guy's house and his 360 was DIRTY as hell with tape all on it. He had it standing up verticle on a carpet and his 360 still runs fine. There's hundreds of things that can go wrong and can not be prevented.

Btw minto, even if you get RROD it wont help. They don't replace the whole console. They just replace whatever is broken on the inside. So when it gets "fixed" your disc drive will still be broken. Though ive never personally tried, im pretty sure this is the case.

o rly? we'll see about that*puts 360 in the oven*

manred · 05-04-2008, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by T3kNi9e

Not exactly, you can take perfect care of your 360 and it will still get RROD. Im extremely anal when it comes to taking care of my console the games. I got RROD then after getting it repaired, the disc drive went kaput in about a week. It just happens... I went to this guy's house and his 360 was DIRTY as hell with tape all on it. He had it standing up verticle on a carpet and his 360 still runs fine. There's hundreds of things that can go wrong and can not be prevented.

Interesting. Most people I know that get RROD get it because they don't take good care of it.

T3kNi9e · 05-04-2008, 03:04 PM

For me, it basically "just happened". It worked just perfect playing some Halo 2. I turned it off, came back like 2 hours later then CoD4 started to freeze, then RROD.

Same thing with Disc drive, it was working fine, then all of the sudden I hear a grinding noise and it stops working.

Spinty · 05-04-2008, 06:53 PM

Are Xbox 360s that are recently made free from the flaw that caused so many incidents of hardware failure?

manred · 05-04-2008, 06:56 PM

They did come out with the Falcons, though that didn't completely cure all the hardware failures.

They will be coming out with new ones which should help it.

blueovalboy7 · 05-04-2008, 07:17 PM

They're constantly working on new internals, which will eventually lead to cheaper/more efficient internals bringing the price down some more. I've had all sorts of issues with my 360s, but you know, I still love it.

alexbel · 05-11-2008, 07:45 PM

i bought a warrenty brought to my gamestore(ebgames) got me a new one with the same memory took only like 5 minutes

B.D.N · 05-14-2008, 06:11 AM

I was told that the new models that are out now have a less likely chance of RRODing

blueovalboy7 · 05-14-2008, 06:24 AM

That would be an accurate statement.

B.D.N · 05-14-2008, 06:38 AM

and even if over heating isn’t the main cause I’m still making that fan mod using 2computer marathon fans and a sata/ide to usb2.0 adapter that Not for the USB pot but mainly for the adapter to plug it into its own power source and the best part is, because its technicality its not in or plugged to my system so it wont void my warranty.

T3kNi9e · 05-14-2008, 08:00 PM

Careful though...

Even though it has it's own power source it can still overheat the console. Unless you put it blowing into the side of the console.

If you put it in the back sucking air out then it will work against the turbines already in place which will cause it to overheat.

If you put it on the side blowing in, then it should help keep it cool without working against the turbines.

B.D.N · 05-15-2008, 09:39 AM

Yea that's that’s what I was kind of thinking about doing but if I did both it would stay really cool but as you said it would work against the fan that are in the system which might cause them to stop working, cause the system to overheat anyway. But if I just in force cool air in with 80mm computer fans (I’ll have dust filters of coarse) won’t that hurt it too I really want to keep the system from over heating that’s why I m really concreting making the fan set up to keep it cool.