Welp. My XBox is dead. I did my best to stave off the red-ring, but it happened anyway. It lasted me a good while, what with being refurbished. I guess I have an excuse to buy that new XBox coming out. Or came out. I wonder how much one is without a harddrive.
Why? 3red lights = covered, just send it back to them. :|
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>>93545I think the one that just died was already refurbished.
>>93552Yeah from Gamestop. And it doesn't matter, the RROD is always covered. Always.
>>93520Totally get a Slim. They're smaller, much quieter, and they have ridiculous heat control.This one time, I forgot I had mine on for about a week, so I turned it off, and not even five minutes later, it was stone cold.
>>93557Does this include XBoxes that were bought at a different retailer?
>>93569As long as you can register the console to your Windows LIVE/XBL account, the red ring should be covered. I'm not sure if it's going to stay that way with the advent of the slim, but to the best of my knowledge the RROD should be free repair always, unless they changed it.This also should require that your xbox have the RROD, the three red lights.
Get your old one fixed, use the money you were planning to use on a new one for a PS3 or upgrading your PC.
Are there any good third-party cooling units for the Xbox? Theres a bunch for the PS3, and that really seems to add to its life span. I'd want to learn more about that before investing in one myself.Kudos for being smart enough to harvest it for parts, though, since its basically a PC.
>>93591I don't know too much about them but some of the early ones that came out were actually known to MELT and fuck up your Xbox and using them in general voids your warranty. I don't know if they made anything more recent that worked but I wouldn't recommend it.
Between going to work, and Gamestop, I didn't see this thread and bought a new Slim one.I guess I can get the old one refurbished and sell it off.
>>93596whoops!
>>93596Or you can return the Slim, since it has a mere fraction of the functionality.
>>93611Winter's coming. He can use it as a space heater.
>>93611Sure is hyperbole in here.
>>93611I am pretty sure that's not true. In fact, I'm pretty sure you made that up.The Slim is just the same, without all the over-heating problems, an internal harddrive, and built in wifi card, and it doesn't red ring (or at least not as prone to doing that). Also, it's a bit smaller.
>>93635Also, it's runs more silently.
>>93635 >>93637 Well, and I think I actually said this before in a similar conversation, the overheating problems aren't that surprising in the Slim. It's basically getting the same problems you do with most high-end laptops: Heat and improper distribution of it.
>>93720The overheating problems AREN'T happening in the slim, Kosh.
>>93721They do, but they shut off automatically when they overheat.
>>93635The Slim trades out Red Ring for Red Dot, and also eats disk.
>>93734yes because m$ were daft and stuck with trays moving the system during operation will scratch discs. Thankfully only a retard would do that.
>>93721 Oh, no, not to the equivilent of the larger console, no. I meant it was similar to common laptop overheating issues.
>>93737I always move my PS3/Wii around while playing games, for a variety of reasons.
>>93760you live in a bouncy castle?
>>93737>OH MICROSOFT OVERGODS, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO FELLATE YOU
>>93765Senor's not a fanboy, he's a jerk. It's different.But for real, why move shit around while it's running?
>>93810yeah that sounds like a terrible idea.Unless it's a gamecube. You could play that thing during an earthquake and not have to worry about fucking up your game.
>>93810Odds are it isn't YOU that does it. A cat, a younger sibling, a drunk roommate, an earthquake, two drunk roommates, whatever. Point is, a console tipping over should not destroy the goddamn disk, and with the slim it does every single time.
>>93815 Well, it makes sense WHY it'd do that if you think about it: It's a compressed version of a larger system that already has size-related heat distribution issues like ANY 'streamlined' computer system, with little wiggle room for its individual parts.Anything that moves or has to have an elevated surface, like the moving raised platform for the CD reader, is going to be the first to go. Much less the CDs themselves.It's just not a robust design, much like many smaller quad-core laptops. You've got too many high-end parts jammed together, and that sacrifices on both cooling and padding.I wonder what the stress tests limits for the Slim were. I know sites that list the corperate standard and re-test them for laptops, but not consoles.
>>93815you should not be standing your console up like a wiifag anyway.just saying
>>93854 Thats very true. Only reason we used to have our PS3 propped up was 1)The third-party cooling unit had a sturdy base. 2)We didn't have a nice big home wooden home theater stand to lay it down on its side till recently.Unless its got a firm foundation and isn't more than a foot off the ground/near things it'll tip against? You're just asking for it. I'd go far as to say that even the Wii might be at risk, though I've honestly no clue what its internal config is like.
>>93854People still do that? I only prop up my XBox if I need the room, and even then, I likely wouldn't play it.
I kinda wish everyone would go back to flip-tops. Maybe I'm just biased with nostalgia but outside of early models, those didn't seem to fuck up as often.
>>93878 Flip top systems used cartridges only, though, right? Or no?