360 Elite Prone to Same Problems as Others

Darkaber · 30 Apr 2007 at 07:54

We’ve had numerous reports coming in of users getting 3 red lights on their brand new Elite consoles this morning. While this is a daily occurrence with 360 Premium and Core systems, we thought Microsoft would have had a better handle on the situation with the Elite.

We’ve all seen the pictures of the motherboard changes. I assumed that these would protect the console better from heat and such to make sure less consoles would die. But alas, no. Microsoft has introduced another new product that is failing at a higher than normal rate.

To top it all off, the disc scratching issue is back. Seriously Microsoft, what the hell? Did you completely get rid of your QA department?

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Oh dear dont they ever learn..

blueshift · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:06

So glad i bought my Ps3

Chiper136 · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:31

soon as i have the money im modding my 360 to try and remove this heating issue. Ive already had to replace it once and i dont intend to do it again. Extra fans and thermal paste is the key in my mind

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But it is offkey that M$ just seemed to slap a new case and bigger HDD and really change nothing elce, but i guess at the end of the day thats all they wanted out of it, no point in spending all that money to change the production lines when its cheaper to just replace faulties.

Darkaber · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:34

2 mins after me posting this thread my Prem died 3 red lights :mad:

Manlove is my forte · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:52

Darkaber said:
2 mins after me posting this thread my Prem died 3 red lights

I guess old Gatesy got revenge for you talking ill of his product.

Darkaber · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:55

Kronologic said:
I guess old Gatesy got revenge for you talking ill of his product.

I was thinking the same thing mate

Andelusion · 30 Apr 2007 at 08:55

Darkaber said:
2 mins after me posting this thread my Prem died 3 red lights

Hate to say it, but owned

Mine will probably break now, launch console, bought second hand :eek:

Nismo · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:03

If it's true then it just reaffirms my opinion that the Elite is a useless hardware release :/

Soulja · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:03

When will they learn?!!?!

Dup · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:19

Dubious source with a video showing no 3 red lights and a disk that reads "unplayable". That disk could have been rubbed with sandpaper for all we know.

My warranty is due in the next month or so, but my 360 is running strong. I think people spend too much time playing on them in one go, esp in this warm weather.

Bigpig · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:24

Dup said:
Dubious source with a video showing no 3 red lights and a disk that reads "unplayable". That disk could have been rubbed with sandpaper for all we know.

My warranty is due in the next month or so, but my 360 is running strong. I think people spend too much time playing on them in one go, esp in this warm weather.

It's a game console.. God forbid people wanting to play games on it anytime they want for how long :eek:

My 360 shoping List now looks like

360 prem +3 year warrenty. And this will be from the local highstreet shop so I don't have to post off the for a replacement

JUMPURS · 30 Apr 2007 at 09:31

Heehee Darkaber, see where my comment in another post has came from?

Kreeeee · 30 Apr 2007 at 10:33

Bigpig said:
My 360 shoping List now looks like

My elite list is:

Elite
talismoon whisperfans
Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste
x clamp removal kit
sheet plastic to redirect/split airflow.

Emlyn_Dewar · 30 Apr 2007 at 10:36

I've been thinking about a bit of tweakery with the fans/cooling in my 360 recently.
I genuinely don't notice the noise whilst I'm gaming (and my 360 is pretty much at my feet...) For movies and whatnot, the fans are pretty damn annoying.

Not suprised to hear about any Elite problems, after all, it's the same console...

NokkonWud · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:16

I don't think it's a case of them not learning. I honestly believe Microsoft don't know what is causing the problems.

Mr Latte · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:18

blueshift said:
So glad i bought my Ps3

Im glad i bought mine too, but it doesnt play x360 games now does it...

Its worrying if reports are true but its based on the same design afterall.
It certainly didnt stop them selling out at the jungle neither.

Emlyn_Dewar · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:26

Chance of them being more reliable when we finally start seeing them on the 65nm process though?
Elites are just the same but with the added HDMI and 120gb HD aren't they?

JUMPURS · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:29

NokkonWud said:
I don't think it's a case of them not learning. I honestly believe Microsoft don't know what is causing the problems.

Surely with the money MS have they can figure it out after 16 months of the console being on sale and over 18 months of it being in production.

I just don't think they care tbh, or they do know the problem and it is too much of an inherit issue that it can't be fixed. I wouldn't be surprised if they always knew they would have issue with the machine and cooling it, that is why we have the huge power brick to try reduce some of it.

Mr Men · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:32

JUMPURS said:
I just don't think they care tbh, or they do know the problem and it is too much of an inherit issue that it can't be fixed.

It's more likely that the failure rate is not that high, despite what you read on forums (most of which are fake) and its failure rate is in line with most other products.

dirtydog · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:33

NokkonWud said:
I don't think it's a case of them not learning. I honestly believe Microsoft don't know what is causing the problems.

If they surfed the web then they would learn that a lot of people seem to have solved the problem by putting a towel round it which has made the solder melt or whatever. This suggests that at least some of the problems are due to manufacturing rather than design flaws.