fubar'd 360?


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Hi guys,

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this already, but hopefully someone can confirm.

I bought a 360 today, got it home, set it all up... played a few demo's from Live, and decided a minute ago to try out Gears of War that came bundled with the console. Put the disc in... loud whirring followed by a HIDEOUS scraping/crunching sound and a "Unreadable Disc" message on screen. Took it out, no damage on the disk, looks perfectly fine... put it back in, no luck. Tried Viva Pinata, same thing (except no crunching noise).

So, I am pretty sure the console is fubar'd and needs to go back, but is there ANYTHING I can try before I do?

Thanks in advance,

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even if you do get it working, id send it back all the same. I would want to risk keeping a console that did that.

on a different note...what does fubar'd mean?

all i think of is foobar. there was an article in the paper with lots of abbreviations today though, and that was one of them. I just cant remember what ti was...

I can guess what the f is

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There's nothing else you can do but get a replacement or a fix.

Exactly, I would get one quick too. Don't put anymore of your games in there until you get a new one.

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If you purchased it today then you probably have a 30-day guarantee on it from wherever you purchased it. Thats how it is in Canada and the US.

Also, yes your system screwed unless you want to try clearing your cache. Search for clearing Xbox 360 Cache.

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That's pretty much what i thought guys, thank you. I am quite new to the world of the XBox so I didn't know if this was a "Common" fault or not that might have had some kind of simple solution.

I shall take it back tomorrow. Thank you to all of you.

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Well, this is what just happened to me...

I turned on my 360, went to change my gametag, went into add points screen and "P0of!@!#"

Screen went black, and got the infamous 3 blinking red quadrant lights.

Now I gotta go through the whole shipping ordeal... :pinch:

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Well, this is what just happened to me...

I turned on my 360, went to change my gametag, went into add points screen and "P0of!@!#"

Screen went black, and got the infamous 3 blinking red quadrant lights.

Now I gotta go through the whole shipping ordeal... :pinch:

Wow that's a weird time to get an error; hope shipping goes well.

I have to say I'm happy that I never heard a crunching noise in my 360, I don't think I would be able to take the pain :rofl:.

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Hi guys,

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this already, but hopefully someone can confirm.

I bought a 360 today, got it home, set it all up... played a few demo's from Live, and decided a minute ago to try out Gears of War that came bundled with the console. Put the disc in... loud whirring followed by a HIDEOUS scraping/crunching sound and a "Unreadable Disc" message on screen. Took it out, no damage on the disk, looks perfectly fine... put it back in, no luck. Tried Viva Pinata, same thing (except no crunching noise).

So, I am pretty sure the console is fubar'd and needs to go back, but is there ANYTHING I can try before I do?

Thanks in advance,

Just take it back to the shop and ask for a direct replacement. Don't bother with the whole ship if off thing, as the shop has sold you something which didn't work from the begining.

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I feel for ya mate! Atleast you can get a replacement now!

I thought i ****ed my 360 the other day. i left it on while i was burning pgr3, i had a power surge and the comp rebooted (stuffed up my burning session :() and later on I went in my room, looked down and to my horror and disgust there was red lights on my 360! i nearly shat my pants! i was just like "holy **** dont ****ing do this to me now!!"

so i just turned it off and back on and to my surprise it worked again, thank god. and f!@#! you MS for almost making me **** my pants!

Spartan X!! Deliver this message to Bill Gates for me! "**** you bill"

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