QUOTE(Muzzakus @ Jun 17 2006, 04:27 PM)
Mine started to do this too after a few months. But I fail to understand fully here. As you say it can freeze from totally cold start within minutes - or it can go all night sometimes.
The Q is, how can it overheat so quickly during boot sequence or even when left on the dashboard, which are hardly taxing the gpu? But also at the same time not overheat after hours of intensive 3d operation ?
How can this instability can be heat related? It does not make sense.
Ironically my 360 was manufactured Feb 2006. A far cry from the initial launch. And they haven't addressed something as simple as this? Lets hope that this is not a red herring to a completely diferent issue.
Cheers,
Muz
I'm glad to see many others having the same problem - well not glad, but at least I know it's not just me. Our problem may not be heat related, its so strange it will die on cold start and sometimes work all night. I encourage anyone with this specific intermittent problem to call MS, escalate to a supervisor, then escalate it again to the 2nd supervisor who will call you back within 72 hours (This alone indicates real problems - if the supervisors are 3 days back logged with call backs). Tell them you believe MS should stand behind their product, and tell them that it's in their best interest to fix your unit if they want you to buy more games for it. They will either offer you a discounted rate, or fix it for free. your experience may vary but if you are calm, rational but firm you can get some sort of justice from them. The more units that go back for this specific problem, is the easier it should be for future gamers to get them repaired for free, especially if it becomes a very well known problem. Additionally if you send you unit in, they will most likely replace it with a new one - new serial number for a refurbished unit (good or bad - as you don't know how well the person before you took card of that unit) you will get a new 30 day warranty on the repair unit, with the option of extending it for a year for $39. Which will be a lot cheaper than if you have to pay their normal repair fee.
And yes the red lights error can be from many different problems.. From day one, my 360 had issues with the power supply, the cord was flakey and if you went near it or moved it, it would shut the xbox off, and it would not boot up giving the 3 red lights error, until the cord was moved into a position that it wasn't short circuiting. MS had to send me a replacement power supply in my first month.. This is a new ring of red error now, but still flashing the same 3 quadrants.
They really need to work on their quality assurance.. If you really stand behind your product you should be offering 1 year warranty. If a company has confidence that their product won't suffer defects in the 1st year, there should be no reason not to offer that year of warranty.
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