I'm pretty pissed off at Microsoft right now....

[gtxracer]

My girlfriend bought me an Xbox Elite as a late birthday present. She bought it Monday from Amazon, got it here Tuesday because of their Prime member deal going on right now. That's THIS week, I've only had it about 5 days! I bought the bundle with Forza 2 and Marvel Superheroes, so I thought it would be new enough NOT to have this problem. Here's what it looked like then:


And here's what it looks like now, after about 7 hours (total, not all at once) of playing.




Just found this:

Section 4 is flashing red
- Hardware Failure
/ \
\ /

The Specific Type of hardware failure can be determined by the error code displayed on the screen.
If the screen is blank or you would like additional information follow the instructions for determining the secondary error code in the section below
E45: Unknown (possibly dashboard update related)

E64: DVD Drive Error.... DVD Timeout, Wrong firmware, dvd is without f/w chip, etc.


Imma keel dem microsoft n3rd$!!!!!!!!!!

[gtxracer]

I just unplugged all the cables from the Elite, took off the HDD, hooked everything back up, and booted it up - works. Then put the HDD back on, booted it up - fine.


..........

[What's_nitro?]

We shall see how long it lasts. I've seen the circle of red death before. In fact there are tons of videos on YouTube about it.

[Serum]

this stuff happens with computer related stuff.

though the hard drives can survive serious impacts if they are not turning, while turning they are very delicate.

the processors use millions and millions of transistors. it's delicate stuff..

[rschoi_75]

dude. I feel your pain. I'm one of the few who still have their original gen-1 360's. Every time I boot, I get the red circle of death. I have to turn it off, wait for 10 seconds, then turn it on again. After that, the system works fine. This happens every single time I turn it on. It reminds me of the good old days of the NES. I remember having to blow out the dust in the cartridge every time I wanted to play a game. And remember the infamous "reset" button... I can see myself sitting there like a lab monkey pressing that damn thing over and over again...

[Serum]

I can see myself sitting there like a lab monkey pressing that damn thing over and over again...

I bet you looked HOT doing that..

[BL_RV0]

excuse my french, but the elite HDD's are shit. ive had my premium since 6/3/06 and never ever ever had a problem.

[squeeforever]

Wow...I feel lucky. I've had my Halo 3 360 since they came out and haven't had a problem yet. Two of my friends 360's have had the red ring of death in the last couple weeks. One of them resorted to the "towel trick." So ya beat Halo 3 yet?

[gtxracer]

Hell no I haven't beat Halo 3! I just started it last night. I've been playing COD:4 and it's a BLAST!!! I did it on the 2nd Medium level, that wasn't too tough. Now I'm doing it on the hardest, and it's pretty difficult. You have to REALLY aim well and fire like crazy in the hot spots. In the TV Station I got hammered down for about 15 minutes stuck in once spot of the room. When I died, I got a little trigger happy and just started popping off clips while pressing the aim button. It auto-aims on the next target if it's within an inch or so of the sight, so I just keep pressing that and firing. Works great until I run out of 7.62 ammo, then I go to the shotgun and start pumping out shells!

If you have a 360, get Call of Duty 4. It's awesome!

[Finnster]

MY 1st 360 RRoD'd after 11mos. The worst part was I had a ton of expansions/DLC for Oblivion. We got the 360 really for that game. My wife had a 11mo old game going when it died, and eventhough I was able to keep the HDD for the replacement box, since my wife didn't sign up for live, it won't enable any of the DLC. Complete and utter bullshit. All her stuff is gone she got from the DLC, which was most of her stuff.

Since I had a live acct from the start, I am able to enable the DLC, but only if I'm networked and it can verify I have permission to play the sh!t I bought. Almost returned it for a PS3 if it wasn't so gay as well.

COD4 does rock tho, got it new for $37 2wks ago....

[squeeforever]

That is BS...I'd honestly have to say my favorite out of my Halo Xbox, Halo 3 360, and PSP, my PSP is definitely my favorite. Not really because I can take it with me, (I play it more at home than my others) just because the homebrew and ISO's. Can you say never buy another game again?

[gtxracer]

Homebrew and ISOs? Explain? I have a 1st or 2nd gen PSP, so I'm interested :)

[squeeforever]

Basically, I have my PSP enabled to play NES, SNES, N64, Playstation, Genesis, GB, GBA, GBC, etc. Pretty much any game except PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360 (all the new, more powerful systems). ISO's are basically a format games are often put in, such as PSP games on the UMD's. People figured out a way, using custom firmware, to rip the games from the UMD, to the memory card, or PC, through the USB port. That way you can make a "backup" of them. You can download them if you find the right sites. So basically, I can just put the PSP ISO on my memory card and don't have to have the game itself.

[gtxracer]

Ah...I need to do that. I don't want to be carrying around all my games, especially when I'm in the desert. Got a link to any of this?

Originally Posted by gtxracer

Ah...I need to do that. I don't want to be carrying around all my games, especially when I'm in the desert. Got a link to any of this?

The desert kills electronics. I went through a couple dvd players down there and a few of my soldiers lost their laptops to the sand.