Xbox 360 Screen Corruption

PiKe · 2 Mar 2008 at 15:27

Went to play COD4 today and after a few minutes the screen corrupts and some nasty sounds some from the speakers, I've tried a demo and it's the same, but there's no red light code on the front, so what could it be?

The console is 3 years old now so warrenty expired long ago, any possible fixes?

ic1male · 2 Mar 2008 at 15:48

3 years old? Did you get one before it was released? If you bought it on launch day then your 3-year warranty from MS will not expire before November this year.

norm · 2 Mar 2008 at 15:59

Your GPU is failing. It won't be long until it completely fails and shows the 3 red lights.

Kreeeee · 2 Mar 2008 at 16:00

Doesn't matter anyway as the 3 year warranty is only for one specific error.

PiKe · 2 Mar 2008 at 16:51

Well it's a launch one so however long ago, anyway, because it's not rrod'ing it's not covered anyway!

wannabedamned · 2 Mar 2008 at 16:59

Perhaps try re applying thermal paste and doing the Xclamp fix?

But I wouldn't turn it on again, until you've done something

geordie10 · 2 Mar 2008 at 18:37

PiKe said:
Went to play COD4 today and after a few minutes the screen corrupts and some nasty sounds some from the speakers, I've tried a demo and it's the same, but there's no red light code on the front, so what could it be?

The console is 3 years old now so warrenty expired long ago, any possible fixes?

Just ring up MS and tell them that you had the lights of death.
Same thing happened to my first 360 and MS repaired it

NorthstaNder · 2 Mar 2008 at 18:53

PiKe said:
Well it's a launch one so however long ago, anyway, because it's not rrod'ing it's not covered anyway!

give it time. it'll red light soon enough. some go quickly (like mine did...twice) and some hang on for days.

wannabedamned · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:11

ian flowers said:
Just ring up MS and tell them that you had the lights of death.
Same thing happened to my first 360 and MS repaired it

It's outside of the 3 year extended warranty now though is it not?

Wyrdo · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:17

wannabedamned said:
It's outside of the 3 year extended warranty now though is it not?

No

wannabedamned · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:22

wyrdo said:
No

I was under the impression that

The console is 3 years old now so warrenty expired long ago, any possible fixes?

Meant the warranty was over with.

Wyrdo · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:23

Considering Xbox 360's haven't even been out for 3 years...

Just ring MS and tell them it's done RROD or wait till it does.

Hyper · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:25

Get the towels out and force RROD because this is the only way you will get MS to look at it.

Memphis · 2 Mar 2008 at 19:52

Hyper said:
Get the towels out and force RROD because this is the only way you will get MS to look at it.

Not true.

You can pay them

.

steinooo · 2 Mar 2008 at 21:54

how much?

SiD the Turtle · 2 Mar 2008 at 22:47

norm said:
Your GPU is failing. It won't be long until it completely fails and shows the 3 red lights.

Indeed. Wait a few days, you will get a 3RLOD.

PiKe · 2 Mar 2008 at 22:48

Price of a new xbox at a guess

I did the ducting mod so each heatsink ends up with 1 fans worth of air pressure, GPU heatsink gets red hot so its not a contact issue, I added a duct on the top of the GPU heatsink to force air through the fins. I played COD4 for a bit and it didn't crash so fingers crossed.