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LeoNatan
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 The reason I didn't buy a 360, stupid technical problems because of MS cutting corners to make it cheaper for them. |
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| Posted: Sat, 30th May 2009 12:54 Post subject: |
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Falcon or not, these problems seem random : for example I have a december 06 360, and it works perfectly.. ALthough it has a HITACHI (aka shitty dvd drive), at least no RROD 
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| Posted: Sat, 30th May 2009 12:57 Post subject: |
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I ran the machine without the AV cable attached and it powered up fine, no issues and no errors. I guess I *might* have found the culprit. I'll pop into town on Monday and pick up a new cable.
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| Posted: Sat, 30th May 2009 18:36 Post subject: |
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I'm going to have to, but I'm gonna try a new cable first. Can't be THAT expensive - and would save 2-3 weeks "fix" time -- as well as the luck aspect, seeing as how my case has been opened and thus warranty is supposedly void.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Jun 2009 00:05 Post subject: |
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speaking of the devil : just turned on my xbox and after 2min, I saw mutlicolor dots/stripes all over the screen and it froze after like 2min... I can still turn it on, no RROD or error, but will have dots and will freeze.
I guess the GPU is dead, should I put it into the garbage since it's obvious I opened it before (so no warranty imho) or there is a chance to fix it cleaning it or whatever ?
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Jun 2009 00:52 Post subject: |
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Kinda on-topic.
Played some Cellfactor on my 360 today. I turned it off, then turned it back on an hour after. Three red lights, even though I hadn't touched it since I turned it off. Oh well, gonna replace the x-clamp, and hope it doesn't happen again.
Anyway, I feel for you, MS should stop fucking us over with their cheap hardware.
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grimmmy
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Location: London
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Jun 2009 00:52 Post subject: |
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I've had two go on me in the past fortnight with exactly the same issue as cyclonefr. Both were early models so no longer covered by warranty and both had been opened.
Couldn't find a fix for either so literally pillaged the drives (as spares). Sold a 120GB HDD drive for £65 on ebay and bought the red jasper xbox for £180. flashed the red one (Liteon drive) as at least it might stand a chance of lasting.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Jun 2009 02:59 Post subject: |
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btw grimmmy, if i pillage the DVD drive of my dying xbox, can I spoof it to put it into a liteon one or I need some extra hardware to spoof a liteon xbox ?
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grimmmy
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Location: London
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jun 2009 21:56 Post subject: |
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hmmm just wanna add this : I fixed it by gluing pieces of rubber on the ram chips, and after 5min of RROD, I rebooted it, and voilà , green lights  For now no problem at all anymore !
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Aug 2009 15:03 Post subject: |
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Sadly the 360 is now history. Once I returned to the UK, I immediately set about looking for repair options (MS not being one of them, as I no longer had the warranty seal on - and wasn't willing to take the risk about sending it back to them and "hoping for the best")
The first place I went to wanted £89.99 to repair it, originally, but then amended the offer and instead said they would swap out my 360 Elite base unit for one of their new Jasper base units from an Arcade bundle. I would keep my HDD and cables, but would still have to pay £89.99 for the pleasure. They also refused to flash the new machine and started acting in a condescending manner, taunting my collection of backups and saying "you get more value for money by buying games" and "it's cheaper to just buy them, as you don't have to buy blank DVD9s all the time"
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Yeah, so it's cheaper to pay £35-50 for a single game rather than paying £25 for a pack of 25 Verbatim DVD9s? His answer to that;
"Yes, it's cheaper and much less hassle. How many of your backups do you REALLY play? I'll bet you only play one or two, and you've bought how many disks? Waste of money, it's cheaper to just buy the games"
Fucking muppet.
So then I contacted the "reputable" Total Console Repair, who guaranteed a successful E74 fix - without changing out the components, so I at least get to keep my iXtreme 1.6-flashed Benny drive. Price for this? £64 total, which included the repair and the to/from costs for courier pickup and delivery. The downside was that since the machine HAD been opened prior, they couldn't give me a warranty on the repair - but they verbally guarantee a complete fix.
Bargain! I took that option. Machine was gone for about 9 days and came back fully working.
It lasted less than 6 days before E74ing again. Phoned them back, they apologised and said they're willing to try again - but without a warranty, I'd have to pay again.
Another £64.
Another 8 days wait.
Another 5 days after the fix, it died again.
...... anger rising.
Phoned again, and they said they'd fix it for free one final time. A further promise to do their best to fix it permanently.
When it finally came back the 3rd time? Yeah, it died less than a week after. The guy on the phone said the machine is "beyond economical repair" and offered me a £25 refund. £25 out of the £130 I'd paid >:[
I wish to fucking god I could sue that company.
X360 is in the bin, back in England, now.
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Grale
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Aug 2009 23:37 Post subject: |
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My 1 year old box died last week (3rrod), i sent it off and a replacement is due for delivery to me this friday.
I flashed it twice in the year but still had the seal intact, i left it flashed aswell!! lol my warranty is in date until nov 09 now aswell..
Are all boxes replaced with the liteon drives now and will this mean i will have to buy a probe to read the dvd key to enable flashing?
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Aug 2009 23:43 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | "How many of your backups do you REALLY play? I'll bet you only play one or two, and you've bought how many disks? Waste of money, it's cheaper to just buy the games" |
lol, ok it's not exactly cheaper ... but damn I'm lucky if I actually play 20/150 of my backups :/
but still, 150 backups at $1.50 a disc = $225 ... games here are ~$60 so that doesn't even cover 4 games.
don't know what it is ... getting kinda bored of it lately. actually haven't played it for the last couple months (ok 30 mins of terminator and 1 hour of red faction) until just recently with batman.
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Aug 2009 23:49 Post subject: |
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Until the poor machine died, I was practically LIVING INSIDE games like Prototype (TripA title, kept me playing for almost 20hrs) Red Faction Guerilla (again, TripA title - worth the wait!) and Resident Evil 5 (god this game is superb!)
I'm more pissed now about the fact that Shadow Complex is out, and Magna Carta 2 is coming soon. I wasn't overly impressed by Star Ocean, though.
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Grale
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Aug 2009 00:03 Post subject: |
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Because I no longer have the machine >_< After spending so much money, needlessly, and getting the machine back in a dead'ed state -- I just binned the base unit and kept the cables/pads/HDD.
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Aug 2009 00:59 Post subject: |
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To be perfectly honest mate, by that point - I'd just about had enough of the fucking thing. I didn't want to go through the hassle of selling it on eBay, maybe getting a "whole" £30 .. and I didn't want to sit there for hours trying homebrew remedy after remedy. If a pro team couldn't fix it, I doubted that I could either.
I left it in England with instructions to bin it, or find someone else to fix it - but my mum said she'll just bin it.
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Aug 2009 20:53 Post subject: |
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pro team lulz they aren't pro they just did the same like in the vid i posted ... but like i know those proz use ceramic paste thats shit in high temperatures , on high temp stuff you should only use silver paste
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