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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FYB on April 05, 2010, 07:11:31 PM
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Well I've just spent $35 on a new powerbrick for my xbox 360 believing it would fix the fact that the old powerbrick got the red light. Everything bad flashes red with the Xbox.
Now, I'm sure many of you Xbox360 guys probably have gotten the rings and tried quite a few things/experienced a few things as well.
So i come to you, in need of desperate help. My 360 has the red light for the powerbrick and the three red rings are flashing as well. I've searched google, and found nothing of use. :cry
Help?
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How old is your 360? If it's one of the older ones you're lucky it lasted this long... Mine went out a little less than a year ago, had to buy a new one.
You could try blowing into the holes on the sides, worked a few times for me. :D
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Sorry, red ring doesn't exist on PC. :)
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I'm not a console gamer but this must be the 4th or 5th thread I've seen in the O'club in the past few months on Xbox failures. Try a search and read through those older threads.
I recall someone said in another Xbox thread that they have a like a 15-20% failure rate. I'm baffled as to why so many people continue to buy a product that is obviously a poorly designed hunk o' junk. :headscratch: I cannot think of any other industry where such a faulty product would be so popular, let alone sell at all, maybe Bill Gates really is the :devil
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I've only red ringed once, and I sent it back to Microsoft, they fixed it for free, and it was out of warrenty
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How old is your 360? If it's one of the older ones you're lucky it lasted this long... Mine went out a little less than a year ago, had to buy a new one.
You could try blowing into the holes on the sides, worked a few times for me. :D
Manufacturing date is March 28, 2008... It's a Falcon and it broke on me the first year. But my father gave my old xbox w/ the new xbox360 box to a friend and bye-bye went the warranty said MS.
Reason i bought this hunk 'o' junk was because i LOVE, xbox live. Otherwise it can go get electrocuted in the family jewels and then i shoot it with my rifle, the rest is up to your imagination.
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Well I've just spent $35 on a new powerbrick for my xbox 360 believing it would fix the fact that the old powerbrick got the red light. Everything bad flashes red with the Xbox.
Now, I'm sure many of you Xbox360 guys probably have gotten the rings and tried quite a few things/experienced a few things as well.
So i come to you, in need of desperate help. My 360 has the red light for the powerbrick and the three red rings are flashing as well. I've searched google, and found nothing of use. :cry
Help?
I crap you not, but this is an actual solution to the power brick problem. Suspending it in air with a string or cord.
Power brick solution (http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=23998153&page=0)
ack-ack
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I have heard that the failure rate on 360s is around 50% or higher. The main culprit is the eco-solder they used. That crap gets brittle when it reaches a certain temp and causes components to pull away from/lose connection to the boards.
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I crap you not, but this is an actual solution to the power brick problem. Suspending it in air with a string or cord.
Power brick solution (http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=23998153&page=0)
ack-ack
I'm going to try it. Work or not, thanks Ack.
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Well I've just spent $35 on a new powerbrick for my xbox 360 believing it would fix the fact that the old powerbrick got the red light. Everything bad flashes red with the Xbox.
Now, I'm sure many of you Xbox360 guys probably have gotten the rings and tried quite a few things/experienced a few things as well.
So i come to you, in need of desperate help. My 360 has the red light for the powerbrick and the three red rings are flashing as well. I've searched google, and found nothing of use. :cry
Help?
There is a reason you buy a PS3 and not an X-box.
-BigBOBCH
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(http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s346/Selino30/1266786641449.jpg)
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Sorry, red ring doesn't exist on PC. :)
A BSOD doesn't exist on a Xbox360. :)
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A BSOD doesn't exist on a Xbox360. :)
And a BSOD doesn't result in a complete failure of a PC. :)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/3331163666_0f1801e6b0.jpg)
aint happened to my 360elite yet (hope it never does!)
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And a BSOD doesn't result in a complete failure of a PC. :)
Zing! :)