xbox 360 help (again)

D.Roberts

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hi all I have took the plunge and brought a xbox 360 yesterday :eek: £299 for
xbox 360 premium
two wireless controllers
pgr3
xbox live arcade
tony hawks projects
and for the missus sonic the hedgdchog.

a few Q`s if i may when i took the xbox out of the packaging if i hold it upright and move it about i hear a noise as if a screw is loose in it could somone else check to see if theres does the same? I asked me bro his does to but just want to know for sure.

last one i have a hanns g hw191d ws ive got the vga cable (official one) and if i set 1360x768 as me res it says its fine but if i press the options button on me moniter it says its running at 1256x768 or there abouts why? should i update me dashboard could that fix it? keeping in mind i have not got xbox live so will need to do it via pc and burn it to disk.

sorry for long post pleasee advise thanks all in advance. :D
 
mine makes a little rattle, not that i shake it that much :p think its something like the flaps on the front or something unimportant. Its a fixed rattle, not something loose wondering about throught the belly of my 360.
 
Hi, I have a ratteling sound in my xbox 360 aswell, its actually a replacement. But there are almost no faulty x360s anymore so I wouldent worry if I were you.

I dont have a HDTV yet, but I think your console is optimising it to 720p or 1080i your tv might have slightly different resolutions, but the end result is that your xbox just changes it ever so slightly to make the games run better.
 
As Armadillo said, the noise is just the sensor to tell the 360 if it is standing up or flat.

I guess you monitor is simply reporting the resolution wrongly. Does the picture actually look fine? As if it does, you don't have a problem.

As for the dashboard update, I would get it anyway, as it solved a couple of VGA cable issues people were having, amongst several improvements to the menu systems.
 
armidillo yours makes perfect sense now yeah i can see how it would need to know that mainly for the dvd drive to work correctly or somthing cheers.

how about me other Q sorry hehe.
 
D.Roberts said:
armidillo yours makes perfect sense now yeah i can see how it would need to know that mainly for the dvd drive to work correctly or somthing cheers.

how about me other Q sorry hehe.
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The drive will work irrespective of the orientation.

The sensor is there so that the Player 1 quadrant of the ring of light is always top left.
 
no probs if im wrong which i was i need correcting how else do peeps learn hey?.

do i need to register to get acess to dashboard update as i cant see it? just back compatibility?.
 
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Not sure how you go about downloading the update from a PC mate as I use Live.

Can you not hook up the 360 even temporarily to your net connection? Would make life way easier.
 
Hmmm, I can't seem to find it at the moment, I'm pretty sure you can download it, and I'm sure I didn't confuse it with the backwards compatibility update. Will keep searching.
 
im stumped m8 can not find it anywhere maybe its live only just the back compatibilty is downloadable.i may have the latest version as i brought it yesterday how can i check?.
 
incase im trying to update when it may be the most recent.

ive downloaded it from the us site uk site seems to not have it up should i use it or not? as its not from uk site MMMMmmm
 
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