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

By tonyh21
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WalMart_Worf

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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.

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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....

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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?

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Malbojia

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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.

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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!

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