Xbox 360 Crashing

Puppetmaster · 25 Sep 2008 at 15:37

Having some problems with my 360 at the moment.

Hadnt used my xbox for 1 - 2 months until today. Last time i used it i took it around a friends house. Decided to download death magnetic for guitar hero.

Plugged all the cables back in. Turned it on, first thing i get is one red light and an E68 error. I think i had that once before and it was hdd related, so i took out the hdd, blew on the connection to make sure it didnt have any dust or anything and put it back in.

Error had then gone. So i went into guitar hero, downloadable content and as i was scrolling down, it crashed and a few secs later i got some graphics corruption, looked like it was artifacting.

made sure all the vents wernt clogged up with dust, atleast as best i could without taking it apart.

left it for an hour or so just incase it was a blip.

Turned it on, seemed like everything was ok.

downloaded the guitar hero stuff, which was 1.34gb so took awhile didnt crash at all.

Now i come to actually play guitar hero and it just crashes as i start a song.

Is my 360 dying. The console is about 2 years old so out of the original warrenty. I guess if i want it repaired il have to make it rrod? or will it do that anyway eventually?

dannyjo22 · 25 Sep 2008 at 15:50

Your 360 is as good as dead. Don't bother trying to force it to 3 ring. Just phone up and lie, say what you have said and then say it has 3 ringed.

They will fix it. The worst they can say is that it has only one red and you say when I sent it off it had 3.

They will fix it.

Edit, and when they say lets go through the troubleshooting on the phone tell them you have already done it and looked at the website. Saves a lot of time.

Puppetmaster · 25 Sep 2008 at 15:54

can i keep my hdd or will they want that back as well?

just a random out of the blue question but taking it to a friends place and back wouldnt have causes this would it lol

dannyjo22 · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:03

Yep keep everything even if they tell you otherwise.

I highly doubt moving it made any difference. A few people have had problems when they havent been used for a while. One of mine was fine til I came back from holiday. I think the 360 has low self esteem and kills itself if neglected.

Puppetmaster · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:08

thing is i had the one ring and e 68 error ages ago, just removed the hard drive blew on the connection put it back in and it was fine, that was about a year ago.

basically im not getting any red rings atm, it just sometimes crashes.

i did try again to play a song on guitar hero, actually played through one of the songs i dl'd which is 8 mins long.

when they ask what the problem is, shall i just say im getting 3 rings and it constantly crashes or what?

dannyjo22 · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:18

Try playing for a bit without the hard drive at all. With graphics corruption I doubt it's the hard drive but worth a try.