AgentGray Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Got assassins creed 2 for the 360 and played it...till about 3/4ths the way though. At which point it would crash anywhere between 4-5 minutes into the game to a half hour. Figgured out it was a drive issue with various attempts of trial and error and swapping between my and my friend's systems. so...got a new drive. got gemoetry wars 2. Same thing. on a new drive. Am i looking at a dying 360? Cause it won't stay on for more than 2-3 minutes at this point. I'm now out of warentee too. Edit: Sorry this was meant to go into the 360 forum, but didn't. Mods if you could move it please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Had a similar issue with my very first 360, I had to elevate the Power Supply, it got too hot on the carpet - After getting air all around it, my freezing issues were history. Then again, it's a 360 so it's probably a hardware issue and a dying 360. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentGray Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 that's awesome news. will give elevating the power supply a try. Makes sense,it's the only thing back in the carpet/cable nest that can get hot (my 360's in open airflow with no other running electronics around it to get it hot) Wanted to point out i've cleared saves, tried on formatted drives, and tried on memory cards, all with the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Not to break your hopes about the power supply, but if you can only play for 2-3 minutes, it's probably not the power supply overheating. It does sound like the typical scenario of a system on it's way out. Your best bet would be to do the x-clamp fix. Costs about $2 (unless you don't have any arctic silver) and takes 10 minutes to apply. If you're out of warranty, that's pretty much your only option to revive it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentGray Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 yeah, power supply is defiantly not the issue, just tried a completely cold 360 on good air flow same death. Oh well, new Arcades are cheap, lots of places giving good deals, and i just got a big hard drive to put on it... hopefully all the crashes haven't corrupted the drive irrevocably... any other advice, or links to solutions, would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplySchizo Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 repair it yourself. x-clamp fix as stated above. there are plenty vids on youtube on this. its a temp fix. then just turn it in for store credit. i got $100 for mine @ gs. not bad for a shot system. i actually traded in all the leftover accessories i had also (headsets, chargers, controllers, cam) and got assassins creed! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentGray Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 alright this is getting weird and frustrating. Playing geometry wars 2 ? Freezes. Plaiying assasins creed 2 it no longer freezes. Playing oblivion it dosn't freeze. Playing 1vs100 it dosn't freeze. I've deleted and reinstalled everything...several times... i'm a few minutes away from formating my drive and seeing if it's some curruption in the gamer profile that's doing it when they try to update the achivements or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy0 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I'd go for the x-clamp fix like a few others here have suggested... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniqstylz Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Thread topic makes me think something like "Freezing 360... is freezing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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