I've had enough. My 4th has died.

[macrosslover]

lol when i first saw the topic i was he must be talking about a 360...then I saw the picture and was like a Dell monitor? sweet..then i looked to the left and said lol, i feel you man.

[obsolete_power]

uh, way to try and show off all your ****.... :no:

Hey.....scram!

[neoadorable]

crap. sorry to hear man. hope you don't take it too hard. don't know what else to say. nice setup btw.

[WalMart_Worf]

mines never died, bought it 6 months after it was launched.

heres a trick. when youre done w/ a game, take the disc out, reset it and leave it alone for 5 mins. then turn it off.

the ring of death is almost always because of chip creep. which happens when it cools too fast. because some of the retainers are loose. this is why the elites have the cpus epoxied in.

the noise is just the DVD drive, not fans. the earlier models had no noise dampening. the newer BenQ ones do and are nice & quiet.

[neoadorable]

walmart worf...heh heh good handle!

[v0ltage789]

uh, way to try and show off all your ****.... :no:

grow up....god

[KeR]

By now you'd think Microsoft would have improved the production quality. But I guess w/ all the money they have to throw around its just easier to replace the bad ones.

[Darkbandit]

I went through 4 of them myself as well. The final straw for me was when I purchased a new one from Dell and it gave me E86 out of the box.

[r47xdy88]

good luck on my 4th. something needs to be done.

[+vlsi0n Subscriber¹]

Mine works fine... hmm :unsure:

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

Hmm, didn't know what to say. I never had a Xbox 1 or 2 (360).

But, ouch on that.

[Nashy]

I went through 4 of them myself as well. The final straw for me was when I purchased a new one from Dell and it gave me E86 out of the box.

You realise he's talking about the 360 right... not the monitor....

[NeoTrunks]

^^I do believe E86 is one of the 360's error codes. Dell does sell the console from their online store :).

[Cuttz]

I must admit i feel really bad for you guys. I have about, 60+ friends i know in england with xbox 360's..neither mine nor theres has EVER had a single little problem. Damn, sucks.

[kampioen]

go get a PS3 :p

[Starchild]

go get a PS3 :p

:yes: Agreed!

[neoadorable]

get off the 360 forum ye louts!

[kampioen]

get off the 360 forum ye louts!

well if a guy has to go through 4 xbox's .. maybe its just not the machine for him :s

[ToneKnee]

:yes: Agreed!

Please don't start this...

[FiB3R]

Got mine back from repair a few days ago. Hope it's not a sign of things to come.

Must say the service from MS was pretty good. They got DHL to pick it up for free, and I had it back in 2 weeks.

[Sethos]

mines never died, bought it 6 months after it was launched.

heres a trick. when youre done w/ a game, take the disc out, reset it and leave it alone for 5 mins. then turn it off.

the ring of death is almost always because of chip creep. which happens when it cools too fast. because some of the retainers are loose. this is why the elites have the cpus epoxied in.

the noise is just the DVD drive, not fans. the earlier models had no noise dampening. the newer BenQ ones do and are nice & quiet.

When I'm done, i wanna shut the thing off and leave it. If you have to go through an entire shut-down procedure everytime ... What does that tell you about the quality?

[TruckWEB]

I'm on my first Xbox360, a little bit over a year. I play games and watch movies (HD-DVD) and I've had no problem. No ring of death.

So, some are good, some are duds.

[Malbojia]

I'm still on my first one. But heres the catch I suffered through the 3 red rings.

From what I could tell during dissasembling the console. The mother board was a wee bit warped due to the heat. Since the cpu and gpu use ball bearings for contacts instead of pins. I figure I try the old hot candle on a petri dish to see if the bearing with go back making contact. It worked for about a month.

Then I looked at the mounting brackets that hold down the heatsync and wasnt to impress. I cut down some spacers and instead of using the x bracket, I made a square one to evenly distribute the weight.

Got that from a forum post on xbox-scene to fix the 3 red ring issue.

On top of that fix. I put on some rubber dampeners for the dvd-rom assembly at the top and bottom of the plastic pegs to stop the vibration and to lower the decibal noise it was generating.

All in all it's been 7 months since these fixes where applied. Has been running greatly.

I do share you pain though. I would of stopped at the 2nd unit replacement if I wasnt a tinkerer though.

[Defiantly]

This sucks. I've had mine for 3 months and have had no problems other than the dirty disk error on Fight Night 3.

...but now after reading all of these posts, I'm afraid to touch the thing. Feel like I'm sitting in front of a time-bomb and I can't see the timer counting down to the "BOOM"!

I have the extended MS service, but who wants to wait 2 weeks every time the unit decides to Sh][t the bed!

[Nightz]

sorry, i just had to :p