RROD has me worried.

Vlad Drac · 25 Jan 2009 at 16:24

Had the RROD last week and now it's off being repaired by Microsoft.
The console froze when playing Gears of War 2, so I restarted and got a E79 Error. After trying to restart the 360 again I got the full 3 light RROD.
I just thought this was going to be the usual RROD overheating problems and sent it off, but after a bit of digging about on the web I've found out that the E79 error is a Hard Drive issue.
Now this has me worried that when I get the console back from MS I'm still going to have the same problem when I reconnect the Hard Drive and I will end up loosing all my data and game saves that are on the Hard Drive.

Memphis · 25 Jan 2009 at 16:43

There is nothing wrong with your hard drive, it's just a symptom of the RRoD issues. My friends console had exactly the same issue, and it was cured in the same way as fixing the RRoD.

Vlad Drac · 25 Jan 2009 at 16:47

Cheers Memphis

This has me feeling a bit beter now.
Fingers crossed it'll be fine when connect it up.

Memphis · 25 Jan 2009 at 16:51

It will mate

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Hyper · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:17

My 360 Elite has just got the 3 red rings and is being collected tomorrow,

First time this has happend for me,

Whats the turn around time ussually like nowadays because I remember reading early on that it was taking upto a month.

BringTheRain · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:18

Hyper said:
Whats the turn around time ussually like nowadays because I remember reading early on that it was taking upto a month.

Mine took 11 days ish.

Usually 2 weeks

Vlad Drac · 27 Jan 2009 at 08:09

Just got mine back, and everything is working.

No more Hard Drive worries.

My repair, from pickup to return took 11 days.

Also came back with a months free Xbox Live.

Memphis · 27 Jan 2009 at 10:56

Glad to hear everything's sorted mate

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Hyper · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:17

My 360 got collected today,

He said it should take upto 10 days so I am hoping to have it back by the end of next week.