Ring Of Death

KeizzerSoze · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:45

My 360 recently had the ring of death and after many days of trying to fix the problem i finally managed to fix it but onlly for 30 mins and now its dead again sooo ****** off 3 days well spent. has any one else had hardware failure on there 360 and actualy managed to fix it? if so pls share your secrets.

mysticsniper · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:47

Wrong section pal, and watch those swearies

KeizzerSoze · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:49

LOL okies

WotDa · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:50

Bash it.

Or take the motherboard out, put tin foil on it then heatgun it.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17644232&highlight=ring+death

KeizzerSoze · 6 Apr 2007 at 03:14

Lol check out this link

Link

Maniac618 · 6 Apr 2007 at 10:13

Guys if you are going to do the towel trick, do not do it for too long or you may well burn your houses down.

Gaverick · 6 Apr 2007 at 10:49

Is it still under warranty?

monkeyspank · 6 Apr 2007 at 11:01

the towel trick worked on mine for about a day. I tried sorting the cooling out as well which helped for a little while. Whatever I tried, the problem kept coming back. Mine had been back to MS for repair for the same reason when it was still in warranty.

Gave up and sent it to http://www.gtelectronics.co.uk/. £55 and one week later I've got it back and all seems well so far. They guarantee their work for 6 months so even if I only get that much I'll be happy.

sajtion · 6 Apr 2007 at 11:28

your options are these

if it's out of warranty pay this guy £45 to repair it http://www.totalconsolerepair.co.uk/

or

pay microsoft £85 to repair it and get another 12 months warranty after that

or

you could sell it on ebay for about £80

wiltonson · 6 Apr 2007 at 12:03

KeizzerSoze said:
My 360 recently had the ring of death and after many days of trying to fix the problem i finally managed to fix it but onlly for 30 mins and now its dead again sooo ****** off 3 days well spent. has any one else had hardware failure on there 360 and actualy managed to fix it? if so pls share your secrets.

Sorry to hear all the hardwork and time wasted. I remember someone here posted that he enjoys fixing his xbox360 as it gave him the satisfaction. I totally disagree with his thinking and i'm sure you can prove him wrong.

Hope you get it fixed soon. I think you should sell it and buy a core version since it's cheap nowadays. and when the 12 months warranty is up then sell it again and buy a new one. rather than going thru all the hassle of fixing it and time wasted or try to send it to repair bla bla bla.

djay · 6 Apr 2007 at 12:28

wiltonson said:
Hope you get it fixed soon. I think you should sell it and buy a core version since it's cheap nowadays. and when the 12 months warranty is up then sell it again and buy a new one. rather than going thru all the hassle of fixing it and time wasted or try to send it to repair bla bla bla.

You have to be kidding right? MS should make these boxes last more than 12 months. Just because it comes with a 12 month warranty does not mean it's fine for it to fail at that point. 12 months is not an acceptable length of time for a console to last and a court would also agree

Mine is now around 15 months old and if it fails now i'll be straight on the phone for MS to repair it.