Concerned about the 360 I've purchased

.Griff.

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I've purchased an Xbox 360 from a very large AV forum (well not the forum itself but someone on it.. you get the idea)

Anyway it's a 360 Arcade and it's arrived this evening. I've got it hooked up via the HDMI cable and everything seems to be fine so far. I've tried a bit of Tiger Woods 07 and that plays fine.

My concern is it looks like the warranty sticker has been carefully removed and put back on. It was manufacturer last September so logic would suggest that anything failed it would have been covered and sent back to MS or the shop it came from which makes me suspicious as to why the sticker has been tampered with.

I've got it hooked up to my router and running the network tests it passes them all (DNS, NAT, ICMP etc) but when it gets to "Xbox Live" it detects an update. As I've got not hard drive for it yet I can't download/install the update and it flicks back to the previous screen and the word "Fail" appears after "Xbox Live".

Does it say fail simply because there's no storage device attached and therefore it cannot create/login to a profile in order to access Xbox Live, is it saying Fail because I can't download/install the update or finally is it because the previous owners been banned from Xbox Live?
 
God knows but my Arcade updated & used the 256 mem card to store it. Have you No storage device connected at all ?
I've since bought a 2nd hand HD so it's not an issue, You need to do the same.
 
malc30 said:
God knows but my Arcade updated & used the 256 mem card to store it. Have you No storage device connected at all ?
I've since bought a 2nd hand HD so it's not an issue, You need to do the same.
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I know I need a HD mate lol I'm getting one tomorrow.

As for now I've no storage device at all.
 
I 'believe' (and don't hold it against me if I'm wrong), you can select the item it fails the test on and get more information. It would tell you in there if it failed due to being barred.
 
Sounds to me like the previous owner has opened it to flash the firmware but realised it's a v79 drive, put it all back together and sold it on.
 
Easiest way to tell if its been modded is to try the connection test, look at the status codes on on the failed part, and if it says Z: 8015 - 190D then I think that means banned.
 
Kreeeee said:
Guy tried to mod it to play pirate games but it's a version that can't be modded.
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Aah fair enough. As long as it's not banned from Xbox Live I'm happy.

Edit - Rather than create another thread can anyone explain what the "Reference Level" setting is in the display options? (I've got no manual and the pdf I downloaded didn't mentioned it)
 
.Griff. said:
Edit - Rather than create another thread can anyone explain what the "Reference Level" setting is in the display options? (I've got no manual and the pdf I downloaded didn't mentioned it)
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Can make the colours look more vibrant on certain TV's or monitors, sometimes it makes a big difference, sometimes it doesn't.

Think its only an option via VGA though.
 
Cool, I'm going to try that setting myself later as i am still on a crappy STV. Thanks.
 
.Griff. said:
Aah fair enough. As long as it's not banned from Xbox Live I'm happy.

Edit - Rather than create another thread can anyone explain what the "Reference Level" setting is in the display options? (I've got no manual and the pdf I downloaded didn't mentioned it)
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It's to do with how black levels are sent over the vga cable i beleive. Set it to extended i think... i'll just check one second. Expanded is the value you want. But it's all to do with the difference in the value for the colour black in the signal sent to a monitor, so with it set to normal setting the blacks are slightly grey on the screen whilst expanded setting the blacks are more black, very important for games which show dark colours and shadows well such as gears of war and vegas.

Edot: beaten twice due to slow typing and check on my xbox :(
 
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