GTA has broken my Xbox

nintenjo · 6 May 2008 at 20:55

This might help you..

I was about 36 hours into GTA yesterday, and suddenly it started crashing. It first happened after being paused for about 2 hours and my internet went down and the xbox died. odd i thought..

Restarted the xbox and the router.. Crash on load! 3 Red lights.. OMG! i think.. restart xbox. Played some condemned 2 for a few hours.. no crashing. Odd..

Tried GTA again.. 3 RLOD on loading again.. So i disconnected it all vacuumed out the xbox very well with plenty of sucking near the vents.

The Xbox springs back to life and GTA loads first time. And i have been playing it none stop for 2 days since then and its never crashed since. So give that a go..

My xbox is getting on for 2 years old now.. About 6 months after launch.

Ultra_Extreme · 7 May 2008 at 00:28

nintenjo said:
This might help you..

I was about 36 hours into GTA yesterday, and suddenly it started crashing. It first happened after being paused for about 2 hours and my internet went down and the xbox died. odd i thought..

Restarted the xbox and the router.. Crash on load! 3 Red lights.. OMG! i think.. restart xbox. Played some condemned 2 for a few hours.. no crashing. Odd..

Tried GTA again.. 3 RLOD on loading again.. So i disconnected it all vacuumed out the xbox very well with plenty of sucking near the vents.

The Xbox springs back to life and GTA loads first time. And i have been playing it none stop for 2 days since then and its never crashed since. So give that a go..

My xbox is getting on for 2 years old now.. About 6 months after launch.

If you know anyone with IT nouse or a local xbox modder/repairer get them to reseat the heatsink with some new thermal compound. Your getting 3RROD for overheating, if you let it continue it will inevitably turn into complete death.

Gezzard · 7 May 2008 at 00:33

Squark said:
I keep getting crashing from the disk drive deciding to stop reading, declaring that the game in unreadable. grrrr

This has happened to me several times now, a couple of times when I'm halfway through a mission, it hasn't happened on any other game.

marscay · 7 May 2008 at 04:38

Ultra_Extreme said:
If you know anyone with IT nouse or a local xbox modder/repairer get them to reseat the heatsink with some new thermal compound. Your getting 3RROD for overheating, if you let it continue it will inevitably turn into complete death.

once you're 360 gets the RROD it's only a matter of time until it's proper dead even after it's resurected via the clamp fix/towel trick etc etc

of course you get the odd occasion where a consoles life will prolong indefinitely but generally unless you can get it professionally reflowed it's doomed.

for the record GTA4 killed my April 06 360 after 2 days play and now i'm on a hdmi falcon, this game has killed off loads of consoles

Stinky · 7 May 2008 at 10:26

mine keeps coming up with please clean the disk and restart!

disk is abit bumpy around the edges now tho

edit... oops for the typo hehe

matty114 · 7 May 2008 at 10:43

Stinky said:
mine keeps coming up with please clean the dick and restart!

Your E one or real?

I had it lock up my xbox loads of times.

wannabedamned · 7 May 2008 at 10:47

Just to point out... He's not wrong.

GTA did break his Xbox. Mainly because GTA4 is an intensive game and this particular 360 is weak.
But still, Thread title still stands.

Stinky · 7 May 2008 at 10:49

matty114 said:
Your E one or real?

I had it lock up my xbox loads of times.

huh??

gord · 7 May 2008 at 10:53

If you have Xbox Live Gold your xbox doesnt break.. fact!

lunarwolf · 7 May 2008 at 12:21

LOL I believe that red rings exist long before GTA came out.

Allready had my red rings a while back, I get the feeling it's not over. The replacement unit gives me the impression that it is on it's way out.

Now I buy games for the PS3 when there is a choice.

robbiemc · 7 May 2008 at 13:37

lunarwolf said:
Allready had my red rings a while back, I get the feeling it's not over. The replacement unit gives me the impression that it is on it's way out.

Now I buy games for the PS3 when there is a choice.

How many threads do we need saying the same old rubbish over and over again? Just to redress some balance here: I have two 360's, one a launch day, and one 3 months newer and they're both fine and have never experienced a RROD.
However my colleagues BF has a PS3 which broke when he started to play GTA the other day - it's not just Xboxs than break.

lunarwolf · 7 May 2008 at 13:45

robbiemc said:
How many threads do we need saying the same old rubbish over and over again? Just to redress some balance here: I have two 360's, one a launch day, and one 3 months newer and they're both fine and have never experienced a RROD.
However my colleagues BF has a PS3 which broke when he started to play GTA the other day - it's not just Xboxs than break.

Rubbish. What are you on about m8!!!!!!!!!!

I got 3 red lights FACT. I have a PS3 and GTA and no problems FACT.

I do not care about your "friend" - I too have friends who had red lights with 360. HERESAY

If the issue is rubbish then it would not have cost Microsoft over a billion$ which they admit too + also why they extended to 3 year waranty. FACT

You are the one who is rubbish.

"andy" · 7 May 2008 at 13:46

robbiemc said:
How many threads do we need saying the same old rubbish over and over again?

dont you stop to think that with so many people saying it and so many times that its not rubbish....

wannabedamned · 7 May 2008 at 14:02

robbiemc said:
How many threads do we need saying the same old rubbish over and over again? Just to redress some balance here: I have two 360's, one a launch day, and one 3 months newer and they're both fine and have never experienced a RROD.
However my colleagues BF has a PS3 which broke when he started to play GTA the other day - it's not just Xboxs than break.

haha, Awesome. After all this time, there's still someone who thinks it's rubbish

And we know PS3's break too, It's usually down to the Bluray laser.

ajbuk · 7 May 2008 at 14:14

XBOX 360 cant handle graphical capabilities of the game lol

marscay · 7 May 2008 at 14:22

robbiemc said:
How many threads do we need saying the same old rubbish over and over again? Just to redress some balance here: I have two 360's, one a launch day, and one 3 months newer and they're both fine and have never experienced a RROD.
However my colleagues BF has a PS3 which broke when he started to play GTA the other day - it's not just Xboxs than break.

let me get this straight - because you have 2 whole consoles (wow!!!) that didn't break, the whole 360 failure rate epidemic is blown out of proportion???

with that kind of statistical evidence i'm surprised Price WaterHouse haven't called you up to purchase the data on behalf of MS.

lol some ppl

robbiemc · 7 May 2008 at 14:48

Calm down everyone. I'm trying to redress the balance that shock not all Xbox 360s break, or are just about to break.
Yes, the 360s have been known to break, I'm not denying that fact, but it's typical that a thread like this runs away with comments such as:
'I wont buy any 360 games as mine may break'. That's simply not a useful comment.

Anksy · 7 May 2008 at 14:51

20+ hours play, only 1 freeze, and restart fixed it.

craptakular · 7 May 2008 at 14:51

I wont buy an eggbox cos they break, no wireless and no blu-ray.

Just to redress the redressing.

<3

wannabedamned · 7 May 2008 at 14:52

robbiemc said:
'I wont buy any 360 games as mine may break'. That's simply not a useful comment.

No it's not. but launch consoles are ticking time bombs, That's what we do know.

Current New built 360's are fine, 175w/Falcon model. Older ones, Are just waiting for a slightly hotter than normal day, with a slightly above average game playing to push it. and then O