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I'm posing here and not the xbox room because frankly it seems a little dead (not suprising since last I heard this forum was being closed).
Anyhoo... my 360 which I've had since launch is now showing me three red lights. This did happened once before it decided to display nothing, but I turned it off/on and it gave me one final blast on test drive. This was the game it had its first and only crash on, which occured not long after I had moved the console from a ventalated vertical position, to a horizontal one on an open book shelf.
If you're still awake after all that i'd like to hear if anyone has any good advice (other than covering it up with a towel!). Its been opened, cleared of dust and nothing looks visually wrong. There is a rattle though when the console is moved around, much like the irritating kind your never able to find in your car. I'd appreciate help in exploring every avenue finding this hardware fault before handing over £ to MS
Anyhoo... my 360 which I've had since launch is now showing me three red lights. This did happened once before it decided to display nothing, but I turned it off/on and it gave me one final blast on test drive. This was the game it had its first and only crash on, which occured not long after I had moved the console from a ventalated vertical position, to a horizontal one on an open book shelf.
If you're still awake after all that i'd like to hear if anyone has any good advice (other than covering it up with a towel!). Its been opened, cleared of dust and nothing looks visually wrong. There is a rattle though when the console is moved around, much like the irritating kind your never able to find in your car. I'd appreciate help in exploring every avenue finding this hardware fault before handing over £ to MS
Microsoft & sony do seem to have swapped market positions when it comes to game titles but also reliability. Fable, halo 3 & project gotham 4 are appealing but so is the getaway & driver 5.
Its forza 2 that has really disapointed me, although I should have guessed it would from the silly advert (400mph booster rockets?). They've have sorted out annoying glitches from the 1st one whilst changing things they didn't need to, like tarmac run offs causing cars to act like their running through treacle.
I suppose the 360 has disapointed me from the start. It has the same 32x drive, which are good (apart from PBs) but this is meant to be a next-gen console. Even the elite version doesn't offer HD-playback. Also the way music jumps (which never happened on the original xbox) and how jerky forza over live can be makes me see the 360 as a poorly re-packaged PC.
That's why i've considered buying an import PS3. The 20gb machines are around the £250 mark. With no UK release they look like a good buy, assuming what i've read is correct:
1) The PSU is universal and works with a standard UK 240v kettle lead 2) There are issues with PAL and NTSC game combatibility
3) Blu-ray movie compatibility is dependant on the manufacturer
4) PAL ps1/2 games are not emulated the same so won't work
Its forza 2 that has really disapointed me, although I should have guessed it would from the silly advert (400mph booster rockets?). They've have sorted out annoying glitches from the 1st one whilst changing things they didn't need to, like tarmac run offs causing cars to act like their running through treacle.
I suppose the 360 has disapointed me from the start. It has the same 32x drive, which are good (apart from PBs) but this is meant to be a next-gen console. Even the elite version doesn't offer HD-playback. Also the way music jumps (which never happened on the original xbox) and how jerky forza over live can be makes me see the 360 as a poorly re-packaged PC.
That's why i've considered buying an import PS3. The 20gb machines are around the £250 mark. With no UK release they look like a good buy, assuming what i've read is correct:
1) The PSU is universal and works with a standard UK 240v kettle lead 2) There are issues with PAL and NTSC game combatibility
3) Blu-ray movie compatibility is dependant on the manufacturer
4) PAL ps1/2 games are not emulated the same so won't work
pb wrote:
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> Thing is, until Sony get their act together on software I don't
> want a PS3 either. Maybe by end of this year I'll have changed
> my mind as they're promising over 300 retail games and a fair
> few downloadable ones by then...
Yes 'Sony' and 'promises', hmmmm.
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> Thing is, until Sony get their act together on software I don't
> want a PS3 either. Maybe by end of this year I'll have changed
> my mind as they're promising over 300 retail games and a fair
> few downloadable ones by then...
Yes 'Sony' and 'promises', hmmmm.
The thing is, the 360 has all the best games, which makes it all the more frustrating that Microsoft seem to be doing nothing about the problems.
Quite a few people are weighing up getting a PS3 because their 360's broke. Mine has been ok, bar the odd disc read error when I had it standing vertical (seems fine now I've laid it flat). If it breaks I'd get it repaired first, but if I had more than one break I'd have to consider my options.
Thing is, until Sony get their act together on software I don't want a PS3 either. Maybe by end of this year I'll have changed my mind as they're promising over 300 retail games and a fair few downloadable ones by then...
Quite a few people are weighing up getting a PS3 because their 360's broke. Mine has been ok, bar the odd disc read error when I had it standing vertical (seems fine now I've laid it flat). If it breaks I'd get it repaired first, but if I had more than one break I'd have to consider my options.
Thing is, until Sony get their act together on software I don't want a PS3 either. Maybe by end of this year I'll have changed my mind as they're promising over 300 retail games and a fair few downloadable ones by then...
pb wrote:
> it's not still under warranty, then? Microsoft extended it too,
It's an '05 console so the warranty has long since expired and I think the extension was an option that I turned it down, figuring it wasn't worth spending more money on an item made in china which probably wouldn't last more than 90 days. Clever huh?
As for the air gun, it was the first thing I tried with no success. Also a friend is currently having his core 360 repaired under warranty, but its been an age and it still isn't back.
So now i'm weighing up my options:
1) Pay for from what I've read a dodgey repair that may not last,
2) Buy a core 360 hoping my hard drive is compatible with it,
3) Get a PS3 the console I probably should have waited for.
> it's not still under warranty, then? Microsoft extended it too,
It's an '05 console so the warranty has long since expired and I think the extension was an option that I turned it down, figuring it wasn't worth spending more money on an item made in china which probably wouldn't last more than 90 days. Clever huh?
As for the air gun, it was the first thing I tried with no success. Also a friend is currently having his core 360 repaired under warranty, but its been an age and it still isn't back.
So now i'm weighing up my options:
1) Pay for from what I've read a dodgey repair that may not last,
2) Buy a core 360 hoping my hard drive is compatible with it,
3) Get a PS3 the console I probably should have waited for.
I'm guessing it's not still under warranty, then? Microsoft extended it too, and if you're really jammy (and mumble stuff on the phone about calling watchdog and bunch of mates) you might get it sorted for free, which means you'd get a longer lasting system with less likelyhood of it happening again.
Oh, and most of the time it seems to be either the DVD drive (though not in this case, from what you say) or overheating causing the soldering to come apart or warps occur, which means if you leave it a week it might repair itself, but would probably have the same effect after using it again.
You could blow a compressed air gun at it (the ones they do for computers) or run it with a large room fan blowing on it, possibly. But I'd say try to wangle it with Microsoft.
Oh, and most of the time it seems to be either the DVD drive (though not in this case, from what you say) or overheating causing the soldering to come apart or warps occur, which means if you leave it a week it might repair itself, but would probably have the same effect after using it again.
You could blow a compressed air gun at it (the ones they do for computers) or run it with a large room fan blowing on it, possibly. But I'd say try to wangle it with Microsoft.
I'm posing here and not the xbox room because frankly it seems a little dead (not suprising since last I heard this forum was being closed).
Anyhoo... my 360 which I've had since launch is now showing me three red lights. This did happened once before it decided to display nothing, but I turned it off/on and it gave me one final blast on test drive. This was the game it had its first and only crash on, which occured not long after I had moved the console from a ventalated vertical position, to a horizontal one on an open book shelf.
If you're still awake after all that i'd like to hear if anyone has any good advice (other than covering it up with a towel!). Its been opened, cleared of dust and nothing looks visually wrong. There is a rattle though when the console is moved around, much like the irritating kind your never able to find in your car. I'd appreciate help in exploring every avenue finding this hardware fault before handing over £ to MS
Anyhoo... my 360 which I've had since launch is now showing me three red lights. This did happened once before it decided to display nothing, but I turned it off/on and it gave me one final blast on test drive. This was the game it had its first and only crash on, which occured not long after I had moved the console from a ventalated vertical position, to a horizontal one on an open book shelf.
If you're still awake after all that i'd like to hear if anyone has any good advice (other than covering it up with a towel!). Its been opened, cleared of dust and nothing looks visually wrong. There is a rattle though when the console is moved around, much like the irritating kind your never able to find in your car. I'd appreciate help in exploring every avenue finding this hardware fault before handing over £ to MS