Red Ring of Death!!

Hot Rod Dave

Hot Rod Dave

"Saucy saucy minx"
So heres my issue. Santa was nice enough to bring me the new guitar hero, left 4 dead and a few other games for my kids. Santa was also nice enough to bring me the red ring of death for my xbox thats only 4 months old. This will be the 5th console that Ive had and I only started playing on a 360 for bout 3 years. My console I bought used at gamestop so the warranty is no good.

Been searching for reasons, fixes, and precautions I can take to prevent this shit from happening again. It looks like its just a matter of time before it WILL happen!! I got the red light on the bottom right quadrant with an e68 code. From what Ive found out, it appears to be a problem with my hard drive, or they said that it could be my fans. I put SC4 on my harddrive specifically to make my xbox not work so hard. and I play SC 99% of the time. I turned off my xbox and turned it back on and everything is fine so far. But I know this will pop up again real soon!

Does anyone have any expereince fixing these problems other than sending it to MS? Does anyone have any good pre-cautionary things I can use to try to slow down this problem since it seems that no matter what its going to happen! Been searching my local "craigs list" and there are a few guys that say they can fix it but Im a little hesitant. SOMEONE HELP ME!!
 
I'd give one of those local repair dudes a shot... let me know how it goes, I have 2 busted xboxes right now.
 
The old Towel method works tried and true for at LEAST a few days~hours of working time, until you decide on a solution.

Towel Method:

wrap your ENTIRE 360 in thick towels, so there is no venting and much insulation. Then leave it on, once it get's hot enough, the chipset will reset and you can play it again, temporarily. Sometimes this only works for an hour, sometimes it lasts months. It cannot be predicted, but it is a quick fix.

cha cha
 
the towell trick does work. Ive used that one in the past. From what Ive read you would use the towel trick for different error problems. Mine doesnt have that problem. I defiently seems to be hard drive related. i may have figured out how to make a new hard drive. Apparently they use regular laptop harddrives and ive seen quite a few ways to put a new one inside it.

you would think MS would get a handle on this shit by now. How many years has the 360 had this problems? since day 1!! Ive done everything I could think of to prevent this shit. I keep my xbox NOT in my entertainment center. I put games to the hardrive instead of playing from the disc. all 5 xbox's ive had, had 5 different problems. I dont get it. What a piece of shit!! I dont want to go PS3. i dont like playstation. But fuck this is so annoying!!
 
i feel your pain. i've only had the rrod once in my almost 3 years (read: my warranty is up in less than a month, joy) of owning a 360 but i feel like its going to be bricked again soon. it keeps freezing up and i do everything right (out of entertainment center, well ventilated, etc) like you do. it is very frustrating but its just easiest to bite the bullet and send it in to microsoft while you still have the warranty.
 
funny enough i have 2 360's- one japanese ,one US 1st edition, and neither have broke on me once x_x

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AkazukinChaCha said:
funny enough i have 2 360's- one japanese ,one US 1st edition, and neither have broke on me once x_x

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you better knock on wood my friend. every single person that I know that has played an xbox 360, has had a problem. I havent met 1 person till just now that hasnt
 
AkazukinChaCha said:
funny enough i have 2 360's- one japanese ,one US 1st edition, and neither have broke on me once x_x

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I used to be you Cha. After a year and a half, I just got my xbox back (replaced) after getting the red rings. Gotta love how they use cheap metal in the motherboard circuits.
 
Microsoft just started using a new chipset for 360's that supposedly fixes the ring of death issue. The new chipsets started hitting stores sometime late November I think?

Can't remember the details, but there was a story about it on 1up not too long ago.
 
Lol ,lucky me I haven't gotten the RRoD yet but I just pray to god I haven't jinxed it by posting in this thread
But SCIV broke on me today ,and right when I was starting to get good at it too,so *Knocks on Wood*
 
Discoprophet said:
Microsoft just started using a new chipset for 360's that supposedly fixes the ring of death issue. The new chipsets started hitting stores sometime late November I think?

Can't remember the details, but there was a story about it on 1up not too long ago.
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The new 65 nm chips produce less heat, but the design flaw which warps the mobo when any of its components start to overheat is still there. So yes, the risk of RRoD is still present, even in the latest batch of 360s. There's a fix somewhere that requires you to take off some clamps and resolder certain points on the mobo, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some experience with computers. I'll look around for the link, nonetheless...

I got RRoD once and have been taking extra care of the replacement, just as I would with a PC... Been keeping it well ventilated, using compressed air to clean dust out of the vents once in a while, and keeping the ambient temps in whatever room I use it in reasonable.
 
I've owned a 360 for years now, and I've never gotten the red ring problem.

On the other hand my PS3 stopped reading discs recently. >_<
 
ExMachina said:
There's a fix somewhere that requires you to take off some clamps and resolder certain points on the mobo, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some experience with computers. I'll look around for the link, nonetheless...
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Yeah. The problem is apparently with the clamps putting pressure on the bottom of the board and causing the board to flex. The fix basically reverses the pressure.

I've done it on a friend's 360 that has been having RRoD problems. Seems to be working so far.

Though if I do get a 360 it'd probably be one of the newer ones anyway.
 
the clamp in question is the "X" clamp on the bottom of the mother board that holds the heat sink in place. There are various people that sell a "X-Clamp" kit that fixes it. Ive bought one and it works temporarily. Takin the xbox apart isnt all that hard to do and replaceing that clamp is fairly simple.

But thats only 1 possible RROD problem. There a several issues that this little white box can have. Mine was refering to the connection to the hard drive. I have had a problem since x-mas day so far. But now Im worried bout my harddrive gettign wiped out. I love my xbox. I dont want a ps3, but I cant afford to keep buying xbox's!!
 
Dave, if you're in SD theres a guy in chula vista that mods 360s and he can supposedly fix the rrod, not sure if his fix works but 3 of my friends have gotten their 360s modded through him.
 
yeah...hes one of the ones i came across on craigs list. I want to mod my xbox to, but im afraid of getting caught and not being able to get online. do you know if he can get around that?
 
you gotta bring your 360 back to him once in a while and he'll update the cfw or something, I've got a buddy whos been playing on live since last September on his modded 360.
 
cool...ill have to check him out for sure. my RROD problem hasnt come back yet. notice i said YET. if it aint broke dont fix it i guess. however i did replace the clamps on the motherboards strictly just as a precautionary measure. but you fix one thing and everything else goes to shit. I guess if I were microsoft, i would make cheap pieces of shit too. because I will get you to invest in $1000's of dollars in xbox stuff and then force you to buy a new xbox every 2 years. Its brilliant if you think about it. its brilliant if you are microsoft though to!!!!!
 
If it's any consolation, I made this video a while back shortly after my 360 went RRoD. This is for all you who had the misfortune of having that terrible RRoD.

The RRoD

Youtube:

HQ @ Blip.tv:
http://blip.tv/file/1300099
 

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