Xbox 360 RRoD with New Experience
Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360
Yesterday was meant to be a great day for Xbox 360 users, as they were able to download the Live update of Xbox Experience. It has not even been 24-hours since NXE update and already the complaints are coming in, some with RRoD problems.
A number of forums on the Internet are showing that Xbox 360 users who upgraded to the new Xbox Experience have noticed that their consoles are slowing down, connection freezes, lock ups, and a number of other errors.
The Red Ring of Death reports is a shock to many, some have said that the RRoD is only affecting modded consoles; however there are some untainted Xbox 360 consoles that is also meeting the same fate.
As yet there is no official response from Microsoft. Have you been affected by any problems since the NXE update?
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Nope, no problems at all. Don’t really see why the new interface should cause a RROD.
I downloaded it yesterday and now cant get any sound! E-mailed microsoft but no reply so far.
I just did. Got the update, loaded Fallout 3 onto my harddrive. Was playing it earlier when it froze up loading a level and now I have the RRoD. G’damn.
I got a few lock ups, in fact, immediately after accepting the terms and conditions, (before even starting the new dashboard) my system locked up, and I had to force shutdown. Navigating some of the menus, friends/party list specifically, caused some minor chugging. The most nervewracking was my Gears of War 2 disc took 4 tries to play. It would simply not read the disc, and in fact didnt even give me the unplayable disc message. Simply said “open tray”. The disc is only a few days old, and is absolutely scratchless, so that is very worrysome. However , on the whole it is more visually appealing than the old blade system, but much more tedious to navigate. And as for the avatars, whats the point? I get it, its a gimmick, but I seriously think I couldve done without it. All in all, nice upgrade, the netflix viewer is great, and party chat is fantastic. As with most XBL dash updates, there are some kinks to work out, but change is good.
I hit yes to the system upload, then the RRoD. I unplugged everything, took it into a different room, plugged it in and then it was working again. It again notified me of the update, hit yes again and then RRoD. Again unplugged it, took off the hard drive, reconnected and started again and it was fine. But when I attached my hard drive, the RRoD. Now it’s in the mail back to Microsoft repair for the 2nd time. What a frickin’ nightmare.
I had this problem last year twice the first time I took it back I got a new one at best buy. The second time though the warranty was up and microsoft said they could not do anything about it, unless I paid $140 for the repair and that didn’t include shipping and handling. I was pretty mad but I did some across a repair guide, with videos for like $20 and it saved my gamer score from suffering ha. It took about an hour to fix my rrod error and opening the console was a snap. I got it from http://redlightxbox360.com if you are having the same problems and microsuck wants you to shell out more money I suggest getting a repair guide.
Ever since the NXE update, I have been getting lock ups all the time. Sometimes i can get about 30min of play, but usually happens within 10 min. I had absolutely no problems since my first RROD about 1.5 years ago (sent in and replace with refurb system.)
My son downloaded the update and now finds that the HDMI connection won’t work
We were promised a call abck from Microsoft within 24hrs. Nothing yet
Yea i just downloaded and then 2 days later when i take a game out to give to my friend it comes up with the RRoD but only in bottom right cornor
That’s what I got– the single red ‘ring’ on the bottom-right.