360 red lights

ONESHOTKILL · 15 Jan 2006 at 18:45

i just got went to boot my 360 just over 2 days old and i got three lights showing up witch suggests hardware failure.i have the 360 flat and the 3 lights was top,left,bottom and turned off and turned back on again and seems to work fine now.Is this common for 360s to do this?

Firestar_3x · 15 Jan 2006 at 20:15

Mine did a single red light with a contact Microsoft screen, turned it off and back on worked great for a few weeks now, i can only assumed it crashed.

ONESHOTKILL · 15 Jan 2006 at 20:42

this was black screen on boot i got no error screen,a lot of people are telling me to take it back to shop and get it swapped as it will prob DIE

Gutted

TechnoCorruption · 15 Jan 2006 at 21:12

I feel for you mate, the first time I switched mine on I got 4 red lights, lets just say I had'nt read the manual and proceeded to **** myself, luckily after reading the manual I found out the AV cable was'nt inserted fully.
Hope you manage to get it swapped over, aparently Microsoft are pretty quick at exchanging them.

TriedandTested · 15 Jan 2006 at 21:19

I had the same thing a few days back; three red lights. Spoken to MS, and DHL dropped of the box the very next day. Will be sending mine back. I would suggesting getting it swapped rather than hope it doesn't go wrong again mate.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Jan 2006 at 21:32

Theres a fair few 360's getting problems now, making me weary about getting a one now, Game said they are getting a good amount in the next week or so, so i left my name and number for when they do, hopefully they may be a later revision or something, mind you my mates aint died yet, and hes on it non stop, about 10hrs a day, and i got me nephews a one for christmas, and that ones ok still to, but i would send it back just to be on the safe side, as it could well happen again, and then thats it, dead this time.

ONESHOTKILL · 15 Jan 2006 at 21:42

well i think i will take mine back to store and ask for a swap if they have them in stock.i bought the xbox with a game so i wounder if they will give me cash back for the game and console if they have no consoles left as there is no point me sitting with game?.

Hilly · 15 Jan 2006 at 23:22

check the FAQ at the top mate, there's more information about it in there

Should help you out

Ol!ver · 15 Jan 2006 at 23:23

ONESHOTKILL said:
well i think i will take mine back to store and ask for a swap if they have them in stock.i bought the xbox with a game so i wounder if they will give me cash back for the game and console if they have no consoles left as there is no point me sitting with game?.

It'd be best/easier to get hold of MS and get them to swap it. 3/4 day turnaround so I've read.

Jabbs · 16 Jan 2006 at 00:02

Its not a 3-4 day turnround, my mates died after 15 mins and they said it will take 14 days from the time he recieves the box, luckily game swopped it for him.

Hilly · 16 Jan 2006 at 00:05

mine took 17 days, MS work of an 8 working day turnaround

Ol!ver · 16 Jan 2006 at 00:27

Before Christmas it was tking under a week, 4 days like I say.

NokkonWud · 16 Jan 2006 at 04:41

Firestar_3x said:
Mine did a single red light with a contact Microsoft screen, turned it off and back on worked great for a few weeks now, i can only assumed it crashed.

Mines done that around 7 times now (Bottom Right light). Just a restart sorts it for me.

$anch3z · 16 Jan 2006 at 08:23

I got a core system on launch day and have experienced the red lights when i got a HDD, however, i reseated it and it worked. That continued for about 4 - 5 cold boots and now i get no problems apart from the occasional crash in pgr3 and q4, due i think to having the guide button pressed when a game is about to start

Abooie · 16 Jan 2006 at 08:40

Tried&Tested said:
I had the same thing a few days back; three red lights. Spoken to MS, and DHL dropped of the box the very next day. Will be sending mine back. I would suggesting getting it swapped rather than hope it doesn't go wrong again mate.

Mine did the same and was swapped. You say it crashes in PGR; it really shouldn't.

My advice is get it swapped via MS asap; it's not as bad an ordeal as all that.

JimmyEatWorms · 16 Jan 2006 at 08:57

Mine usually takes 2 or 3 attempts to boot. Once it is running it's fine. Don't see the point in swapping it out unless it dies.

da_mic_1530 · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:13

yeah the coffin arrived for my dead xbox this morning, so il ring them up to pick it up, we will see how quick the turnaround is

movingtables · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:29

i've had 3 red rings of death twice now.
and im pretty sure its something to do with my Joytech VGA cable not beeing plugged in snuggly enough from time to time.
maybe the error "hardware failure" is confusing the xbox. :confused:

happend twice since launch day.
time to worry is when it dies and dies only i guess....

Firestar_3x · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:38

NokkonWud said:
Mines done that around 7 times now (Bottom Right light). Just a restart sorts it for me.

Yea thats the one, i was not happy when it happened but its been ok since touch wood.

Hilly · 16 Jan 2006 at 11:46

movingtables said:
i've had 3 red rings of death twice now.
and im pretty sure its something to do with my Joytech VGA cable not beeing plugged in snuggly enough from time to time.
maybe the error "hardware failure" is confusing the xbox.
happend twice since launch day.
time to worry is when it dies and dies only i guess....

All 4 lights would determine a VGA error, e.g lead not plugged in. 3 lights does mean a hardware problem, if you keep getting the error then phone microsoft. There's lots of information about the errors you keep getitng, in the FAQ at the top.