Fed Up with 360 troubles, should I return it?

[Chong Warrior]

Oblivion has just become unplayable on my Xbox 360... after getting 50 hours into it

It either freezes up or I get a dirty disc error and it's choppy and sluggish and is doing my head in. I can hear the disc spinning then it will stop and I know trouble is coming. Also get some minor graphical glitches.

I've tried going in the dashboard and doing the X, X, LB, RB, X, X and I've tried booting the game holding A some many times I've lost count.

At first doing the above would clear things up for a couple of hours but then it would start to get sluggish and unresponsive and I'd have to reboot and clear the cache again. A pain but it worked, now it just keeps locking/ freezing /dirty disc error.

Only Oblivion is giving me trouble though... poorly coded game that breaks xbox's or is my 360 dying?

** I'll add this 360 Premium is a couple of months old. I've only just connected it to Live! and it downloaded an update for Oblivion the other day, it seems worse since it did that.

 

[Chong Warrior]

Oblivion killed my xbox, the cache clearing did not do much. I returned mine and the replacement was and is fine.

How did you get around losing your saves?

Took it on the chin? Kept the hard drive? Bought memory card?

 

[Chong Warrior]

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Paul ...

nice mod

so it's not the powerbrick?

Funny you should say that. I had problems when I first got my 360 but they were solved by moving my PSU from the tangled mass of cables at the back of the TV to a more open space where it could cool better.

I'm really willing to try anything but void my warranty rather than return my 360 (again!) so I've moved the PSU into the window behind the curtains where it pretty damn cold even with heating on! After posting on here last night I managed to play until about 12:30am without a hitch.

Though I also, tried other little tricks that are supposed to help, like loading three different games in a row, unplugging ethernet cable, holding A down, deleting as many saves as possible.

The replacement service is really good. But even better, your HD will be fine, so all you need is the console itself. Where did you get it from? If it was GAME, then walk in, get replacement, walk out. Takes 5 minutes.

Yes I got it from GAME. I bought this console from there as a 2nd hand deal but had to return it 3 days later as it was having all kinds of problems. They were very good about it and just gave me a brand new premium pack no questions asked

Thing is if I take this back they're within their rights to replace it with another 2nd hand 360 and I don't want that. After all I think the main reason people selling their 360's to GAME instead of on the bay is probably because they're faulty!! Also I asked last time if I could keep the hard drive to preserve my saves but they said no.