GTA 5 broke my xbox!

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....Well, sort of I guess. Have barley touched my old Elite model xbox 360 until GTA 5 came along. Turned it on last night for a quick session and got the dreaded red ring of death (3 red lights flashing- hardware failure).

This is the fourth 360 to go **** up on me, which is just not acceptable. Are the newer models more reliable, out of interest? My elite is well Outside warranty now, and no way am I buying another 360, so am selling GTA 5 (on the MM now) and going to pick the game up on PC when it comes out next year. I was only about 17% into the story, so will be good to play the definitive version properly with a decent frame rate, unless its a bad port.

PS4 already on order, never buying a Microsoft console again.
 
Newer models dont have the ROD they shutdown to save the cpu when it gets to hot.
Only had one model go up on me which was annoying but just got a newer 4gb one on release and swapped the HDD over.
 
Write to MS as they did replace all consoles at one point, how many years old is it. I thought the newer ones didnt do this any more, it has HDMI ?


save the cpu when it gets to hot

That wasnt the original problem. I never used mine, it wore out without ever being turned on. Just temperature differences in the room could break the solder or something like that, really poorly made
 
Write to MS as they did replace all consoles at one point, how many years old is it. I thought the newer ones didnt do this any more, it has HDMI ?




That wasnt the original problem. I never used mine, it wore out without ever being turned on. Just temperature differences in the room could break the solder or something like that, really poorly made

It's got to be 4 or 5 years old now. MS site says 3 year warranty. To be honest, I never really used it anymore for anything, GTA 5 forced me :)
Cant be bothered contacting Microsoft, especially with a PS4 on the way.

On another note it had the 120 gb detachable hard drive. Are these ' sellable'?
 
Seems like a good time to come join the cool kids. :D

Stick your PSN in the GTA5 thread once you have it.
 
same thing happened to me, couple of quick sessions of gta 5 and it keeled over and died :(

picked up a cheap slim from cash generator though which seems to be holding up so far
 
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