Posted: 11/29/2008 2:19:53 PM EDT
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My kids x box won't come on.
you hit the power button, it turns green, and after 30 seconds or so it starts flashing red. What's up with that? |
| I called, had a box to send it in two days, and I had a new XBox in less than a week. I checked the tracking number, and they had a new 360 shipped out before they even received the old one back in. Its a known problem that they take care of without any intervention on your part outside of calling them and dropping your old one off at any location that UPS picks up from. |
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Interesting.
I have an Xbox 360, played COD4 on it for a while, no RROD death yet. Have a PS3 doing folding@home 24/7 still going strong too. Maybe frequent turning on and off kills these things? I think there is a surge when first turned on that can kill some electronics. |
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It sucks, I got it a few months ago. Called that night and got the outsourced Pakastani guy. Had a box in few days. Sent it out and had it back in under two weeks. +1 wow! your story it's eerily similar to mine.  mine's been fine since i had to send it back. crossing the fingers though.
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From what I hear this is no longer a problem, apparently newly manufactured 360s do not over heat. The hell they don't. The 'red ring of death' was never from any one cause. It's just a 'general hardware fault' code, and can be caused by a number of things, including over heating. I think the final word on the biggest cause was that the RoHS compliant solder being used on the motherboard was sub standard, and would fail from thermal cycling. If it's any value, my 360 has been running fine with the 65nm core. It was manufactured in September of this year. I hope it keeps running, because I'm guessing I voided the warentee opening it up. But from what I've heard Microsoft doesn't really give a shit anymore and will replace anything you send them. -Local |
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I just got juniors back from microsoft. It took 2 weeks from start to finish to get it back. Customer Service was pretty good. I have been told that you need to keep the box laying flat instead of having it upright, Good luck, I hope everything works out for you |
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I've seen this work. The first "fix" yielded a few days of playing time before the RROD showed up again. YMMV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avWs4-wD15w Edit: spelling |
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