How Long Did Your Xbox 360 Last Before It Got Ring Of Death?
Every time I turned my Xbox 360 on I feared it was going to show me the 3 red lights but for a year and a half I have had no trouble - till today. I turned it on and there it was 3 red lights (AKA Ring Of Death).
I called Xbox support and explained the problem thankfully they are sending someone out to pick it up tomorrow and I was told they have a turnaround time of 15 days.
How long did your Xbox 360 last before the red ring of death set in? Or, are you lucky and have you escaped the ring of death?
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I’ve gone through 3 consoles now, they all lasted about 5 months. First and second repair took 1.5 weeks, but the third took over a month to be returned.
I’ve had a 360 since day one plus another one about 6 months later for the upstairs bonus room. I also have PS3 and Wii. I have not encountered the red rings. Though i haven’t had the problem, I’ve red that many times, the power cord simply needs to be reseated on older models. Apparantly it can come loose easily. One thing that MS doesn’t want to publish is that a vast majority of the failures are from people who try to modify the drives firmware to play copied games. I can’t blame them there as piracy is already a big enough problem, let alone advertising it.
I will stay away from that machine if I were u guys *v*
I’m in South Africa and all I had to do was take it back to the retailer who sold it to me and they gane me a brand new one on the spot. The problem for me though was that I had a Core and they had discontinued selling, so I had to pay R1000($100) on top. Today I’m enjoying Halo 3 and GOW on an xbox Pro. The world is a great place after-all.
I bought my xbox360 on november 15 of last year and it has always run perfectly, no problems whatsoever until it showed a red ring of death one week ago. almost lasted a year, i sent it away and they said 15 days.
i must be one of the lucky ones because i have had mine since march 2006 with no problems whatsoever.
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Um mine lasted until um it hasnt had the rrod haha I have had mine since launch and its been the best console I have ever had and listen there is more people out there that have had there 1st console and has no problems than people that has had problems. Its funy every time the xbox 360 does awsome and out sells everything haters and losers have to bring up this stupid rrod well listen hear there isnt no more of that because MS is putting new cips in the xbox 360 so give up and quit putting this crap up every time the xbox 360 does good. Meand my brother both have an xbox 360 he has had his elite for almost a year and it has not gave any problems what so ever so quit your crap and go out and buy the best console out on marke with the best games and the online service there is look as of yesterday ESPN is going to be on xbox live you can get all your sport updates and everything while playing your games online.
I have had mine since launch and it is just fine
Which one?
Re Matt:
True that the 360 by far has the best games on the market, and sell the most games.
Its also true if you do any kind of research you’ll find out that the 360 has a 24-33% failure rating right now. While ps3 and wii both have a 2-3% failure rating.
Thats why you see some many articles and blogs about it.
Number say so much more.
I’ve had my xbox since launch (UK) and between me and about 8 friends, none of us have had any problems.
Maybe this has been more of an issue in U.S. launch units but it’s hard for me to comment on that as i don’t know any Americans to talk to and i’m yet to meet anyone where i live that’s had a problem,
I know there must have been a problem for MS to have extended the warranty but i’m not seeing any of it and I find the internet speculation of a 33% failure rate quite hard to believe, guess it would be easier to believe if i knew of someone with a faulty console (or was a Sony fanboy) but mines been going 3-4 hours a day since launch as have my mates (about half of them launch models) anyway which ever console you have i wish you happy gaming cya.
True, I have a friend that bought his on launch day and have never had a problem with it. It stays ice cold. But, I have a cousin and friend that both have had the red ring of death. And they both bought it about 2 months after it was out. So it seems to be a luck thing with the older xbox 360’s. I believe that the new chip will take care of all of these problems though.
i bought my 360 a year after the first models rolleed out and i havent had any problems, ive played oblivion and halo3 for many nours on end and never once have i gotten the red rings of death
My first 360 lasted 14 months, my second lasted 10 months, so, so sad.
I got my Xbox 360 on the release date and it last almost one year, until one morning the ring of death appeared. So I contacted Microsoft and they gave me a full refund. Then I waited and got the Halo 3 Edition Xbox 360. In the meantime I bought the Wii and PS3 to play.
I purchased my Xbox 360 in Feb 2006. Its now Nov 2007 and my xbox RROD on me yesterday…arrrgh!!!!
I have always read about the RROD and how some users have gone through 4 or 5 consoles which is a joke. I thought i was one of the lucky ones but wham it came out of nowhere. Watched Harry Potter and OOTP (call me sad) then swithced the console of. Next day turned it on and got ROOD.
I requested a repair online which was painless, receieved my UPS shipping label by email today , just need to box it up and call UPS. Shouls get it back soon as the repair centre is in Hampshire. Took of my hard drive before sending it.
Also have a PS3 but this gathers dust most of the time, my 360 gets played the most.
I had my Elite 4 months and I got the rings of death last night. I have a Gamestop warranty but right now I’m fighting Microsoft over all the content I had downloaded on Marketplace. They said I’m out of luck. This is bullshit. My advice is don’t waste your money on content from the marketplace, you’re just going to lose it when your system fails.
Nevermind, forget my last comment. My friends ice cold, launch 360 just got the rings of death two days ago, when he was trying to play cod 4. And his was the coldest one I ever seen. Microsoft is going to fix it or so he tells me.