RROD

[Roland_Deschain]

So I got one of the first-gen Xbox 360s, right? I've had it since whenever it came out, I honestly can't remember. And it only TODAY gave me the RROD. Not for hardware failure, mind. But overheating. The disc tray broke off last year, and it's been having trouble reading discs longer than that, but the damn thing still works, if I play with my window open. So Xbox 360: The Guts of gaming consoles.

[Archem]

Yeah, my Xbox E 74'd on Friday. Got a thread and everything (although, it turned into a Halo thread).

[fruckert]

A couple days after our Xbox came back from the shop, it RR'd.
Suffice to say I was pissed.

Although, that did appear to be from the power cable being a piecer.

[Roland_Deschain]

Mine seems to be made of iron. It refuses to die, and that thing's been dropped off my shelf more times than I care to count. But if it does break, I have a spare, so whatever.

[Zerlina]

Don't have an x-box, but my external hard drive just died (meaning I have to start at the BEGINNING of editing my film. UGH).

[Roland_Deschain]

Ouch. I bought mine for $20 earlier this year, and I already filled it up with school stuff, RM stuff, random writing, and a ton of games. If it dies, the rest of my college life is gonna SO suck.

Btw, editing a film?

[Zerlina]

Yes indeed. There's a website for it: http://terraseries.webs.com

It's about year 3 in me trying to finish it now. I've just about had every believable and unbelievable software, AND hardware failure imaginable time after time after time.

[Roland_Deschain]

Software AND hardware failure isn't fun for editing films, not at all... great April Fool's prank on an entire apartment of computer nerds though.

[Zerlina]

TERRIBLE Prank. Although I'm a computer nerd so I might be biased.

[Osmose]

My Xbox 360 red ringed last summer, so I bought one of the new 360 Arcades for $200, kept the system and the new smaller power supply, and sold the rest to a friend along with the old console and power supply for $100; he sent it in to get repaired and got it back working, I got a brand new set of hardware that should last for a while, especially with the better power supply.

[HobomasterXXX]

Solution: Don't buy a 360. hehehehehe

[Archem]

That is a lame solution.

[HobomasterXXX]

It's slowly losing/killing all it's worthwile exclusives anyway. Halo is likely to become terrible after Reach, and Epic want to move from being Xbox focused, so Gears will probably go with them.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

 I fixed mine, manually, also added a few things to prevent it to happen again fo a longer time.

[Roland_Deschain]

I have the xbox mainly for Rock Band, since none of my friends play that on PS3. Everything else I could want from it is also on PC, so I haven't even played it in months.