360 has just died

Bear · 2 Dec 2007 at 09:46

The missus bought me a 360 for christmas, so I opened it just to see if it all worked (she let me play on it for the day, dont want to open it on christmas day and find it doesnt work). The first time I turned the thing on it flashed three red segments and nothing happened. I unclipped the HDD and firmly shoved it back on and the console started up. Setting up the profile, changed the screen settings to 720p and it crashes and flashes three red segments again, restart then everything was fine. From then on its been working fine but am not impressed how flakey it seems to be from new.

SiD the Turtle · 2 Dec 2007 at 10:03

Nasty! It was a new one and not a return/pre-owned?

As much as I love my 360 I do wonder what on earth MS are up to with the build quality.

Bear · 2 Dec 2007 at 10:06

Its a brand new one with the HDMI port. As I say its been ok since then and I did play Assassins Creed, Mass Effect and Forza 2 for about 6 hours yesterday and it was fine. Hopefully its ok.

SiD the Turtle · 2 Dec 2007 at 10:09

6 hours just testing it eh?

Not trying to make you paranoid but I'd swap it anyway- coming from a man who is on his third machine

Bear · 2 Dec 2007 at 12:14

SiD the Turtle said:
6 hours just testing it eh?

Not trying to make you paranoid but I'd swap it anyway- coming from a man who is on his third machine

I was intensively stress testing it.

RobH · 2 Dec 2007 at 13:21

So what do MS do when you send it off? Do they just replace the motherboard, fix the existing one or give you a replacement? I've been lucky so far but I expect it to fail before the warranty is up, it's a design flaw so I'ts probably going to happen sooner or later. Even on the new ones MS only attempt to fix the problem is to 'glue the chip down'.

Bonjour · 2 Dec 2007 at 13:23

Thought they'd changed the cooling and used better solder as well?

suarve · 2 Dec 2007 at 14:18

Bear said:
I was intensively stress testing it.

M$ apparently stress you machine for 2 days before sending it back, which is total bull imo as leaving it on for that long would bring it to its knees.

suarve · 2 Dec 2007 at 14:20

RobH said:
So what do MS do when you send it off? Do they just replace the motherboard, fix the existing one or give you a replacement? I've been lucky so far but I expect it to fail before the warranty is up, it's a design flaw so I'ts probably going to happen sooner or later. Even on the new ones MS only attempt to fix the problem is to 'glue the chip down'.

I believe it all depends on if its viable to fix it. Mine had the 3rod and ms replaced the motherboard (or so they say).

Have decided to use this as an excuse to buy an elite, with a fresh 3 year warranty.

wannabedamned · 2 Dec 2007 at 14:53

suarve said:
M$ apparently stress you machine for 2 days before sending it back, which is total bull imo as leaving it on for that long would bring it to its knees.

Yes, But how's that a problem? It should be able to survive it. If it doesn't it doesn't pass.

Bear · 2 Dec 2007 at 15:21

suarve said:
M$ apparently stress you machine for 2 days before sending it back, which is total bull imo as leaving it on for that long would bring it to its knees.

I cant see why it should, its basically the guts of a PC and I have had PCs running with 100% load for weeks on end in the past. Its been stated that its a design flaw so hopefully they have sorted it in this new revision, as selling a product knowingly that has a fundamental design flaw is not very clever.

Andy298 · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:25

wannabedamned said:
Ignore the crankies. its a public forum, Its a console section. People have a right to post what they like if its not breaking any rules

Yeh too right!

Anyway it's only been a day without my 360 and it's been driving me mad. The thought of having to wait 28 days, or more, was just soul destroying. So today when I was doing some Xmas shopping.......

Well I just couldn't resist

Sorry about rubbish pics also. My IPAQ isn't the best camera phone I'm affraid.