This is sort of a follow-up to my last post regarding the 3 red lights on the ring of light. I called Microsoft’s Xbox support line and was on the phone with a guy named Colin for about an hour. I kept telling him that I would just like to send my console in for repair, but as expected, we had to go through the whole troubleshooting exercise.
First off, a week previous to calling support, I had gotten the 3 red lights every time I turned my Xbox 360 on. Then, once I was speaking with Colin, I turned it on and the red lights were gone. However, the Xbox 360 froze almost immediately. Colin then directed me to remove the hard drive. I removed the drive, powered on and the 360 came up, but only for a few minutes. It soon froze again. That got Colin thinking the root of all my problems was the hard drive. Not quite…
Anyway, Colin had me put the hard drive back on and to my amazement, my Xbox 360 powered up without issue. I proceeded to play Gears of War for a little bit until it froze again. Colin told me to pull the power cord and to let the Xbox 360 sit for about 1 minute. I did so, turned the Xbox 360 back on, and my problems appeared to be gone. At that point, I was playing Gears of War while speaking with Colin, and had been playing with no issues for about 10 minutes. So, instead of sitting on the phone forever Colin and I determined the problem was fixed.
I continued playing Gears of War for around 3 hours after I got off the phone with Colin, until it froze. After 3 hours of play or so, the thing just froze. Since then, I have been getting the 3 red lights on the ring of light non-stop. So, I’m basically back in the same boat I was before I called support.
Luckily, Colin gave me a reference number in case anything went wrong. So, I will be calling support back tomorrow to see if they have any other suggestions. If they don’t, hopefully they’ll suggest that I send my console in for repair.
I just don’t understand why the thing was working while I was on the phone with support but refused to boot pretty much any other time. I know it’s not a power supply issue because my power supply light is green whenever the Xbox 360 is turned on, even if the 3 red lights are flashing. And when the Xbox 360 is turned off, the power supply light is amber, as it should be.
So, I’m kinda at a loss as to what’s going on exactly. It seems that the smallest updates have the ability to bring an Xbox 360 to its knees. Like I said before, my Xbox 360 was working great until an update for Halo 2 was downloaded and applied. It was a small update, took about 2 seconds to download the entire update.
I will post more information as I get it.
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Having read all of these comments, apart from the fact that the Xbox has stability issues, I noticed that some people have had problems within the warranty period, What are you doing on here? If that is the case, get the thing replaced.
I certainly hope that Microsoft make serious improvments with the next version.
get a plan a best buy. supposedly you can return it every time it gets messed up and they will swap it right away. You can even upgrade by paying the difference.
I got a solution. A PS3. I had like 3 Xbox 360s get rings of death. i had my PS3 and Wii since december of 2006 and never had a problem with them. PS3 may not have halo of other games but to me games are games. Shouldn’t base a life on games anyways.
I’ve just an x box 360 for about 20 days, so i’m already facing red light problems, but this time they stay on pemanently, so i don’t even know exactly what’s the solution especially in a country that doesn’t have a Microsoft home for clients! so if anyone of you guys having the same issue please let me know the bottom lign of the solution required! thanks
my xbox is a piece of shit
i just tried the towel trick… i wrapped my xbox in 5 towels and let it run for half an hour or so untill the three red lights turned to two red lights. I let it cool for half an hour and when i turned it on it actually worked. i dont know if this will last very long but the towel trik worked for me!
i downloaded an update for mlb 2k7. i was playing it for about 1 hour and then the piece of shit froze on me and i see three red lights… im telling you its the xbox live updates doing the harm.
well, if it is your first day, then take it back to the store and get an exchange.
Wel i got one tpday on my first day. I played a bit of kung fu panda on it. then got an update and i created my xbox live account. after that cam and updat…I turned my xbox down and went outside, when I was back the 3 reds were allready flashing and raping my xbox
It shouldn’t have been out of warranty for RROD. All XBOX 360s are still covered under that warranty.
My sons xbox which he got as a present, had the three red rings appear and he could not play it any more!! I phoned microsoft and it was just days out of warrenty. So like some of you i looked everywhere for a guide to getting it fixed at a relativly cheap price. I came across this site and for just under £12.oo brought the repair guide which was great and i followed the guide and the x box has green lights again! This is the cheapest guide i found that actually works. http://www.3red-lights.co.uk/
two choices. If you just got it, take it back to where you got it. Most stores will exchange it for up to 30 days. If you’ve had it for some time or if someone gave it to you, then call XBOX and get it repaired/replaced under the RROD warranty.
I got my xbox 360 new and the next thing was the three red lights. Pls help
Corey,
Go on xbox.com and register it (all you need is the serial on the back) then go to support and open a support ticket, choose RRoD and you’ll be fine. As of right now EVERY Xbox360 is still under RRod warranty.
here is a way to get a hold of me one_hundred_scars@hotmail.com or http://www.bebo.com/CoreyK1 an thats bout it thanx
hey i doubt anyone will see this but i hope someone can help or point me in the right direction k first off i didnt buy this xbox 360 it was actaully given to me but anyway the same thing happened to the xbox it has the 3 death lights or w/e lol and it sounds like there is something rattling around inside the console i doubt there is a warranty since i got it for free i have no one to turn to should i experiment and try to fix myself? if so explain how plz or would i be better off jus talkin it in 4 repairs? i hope i dont have to get a new 1 plz if any1 knows of what i speak of plz comment or notify me
I got it today after updating nhl09. Shouldn’t all of this point toward a OS brick as with the PSP’s and Pc’s and what not? Even though they reffere to these three red lights beeing the GPU, it can’t be when it functioned just until the updates are installed. Way annoying. Not able to play, and what to do. Must be a way to fix it without shipping it in and loosing months of fun with the box…
Kagey,
UM, Send it back to MS! I don’t know what your excuse for NOT doing that would be, unless its stolen. Like i said – MY XBOX IS FROM DAY ONE and its still covered under this new RRoD warranty, so what’s your reasons? And as for Vista, sorry dude, but I was a hater too, but now that I was (given) a PC with Vista on it, I’ve had zero issues, but then my devices are only 3-4 yrs old, not ancient…
Well, I’ve read and tried all the “fixes” without any lasting sucess.
Red checkerboard came first ten the red ring of death.
My final fix, throw it down the stairs, let it hit the concrete floor in the basement then, if it doesn’t work after that :-o it’s off to te recycle center (aka the garbage)
If the 360 is out the door then that will be the last Microsoft related item in my house. Because of constant BS with Vista, I became a Mac user and would never go back to Windows again. Gonna clean house of Microshaft crap!
I didn’t read everyone’s replies, so hopefully this don’t sound like 40 other replies. Don’t tell MS, but my trouble seemed to start after a thunderstorm shut off my power during gameplay. After that my rear USB stopped working, then I got screen freezes, usually followed by RoL issue. Wait a few, reboot and repeat cycle. It seems to only happen once the GPU kicks into 3D render mode (dashboard seems fine, although it did freze a few times on the 360 Splash Screen). I have a coffin at home now- My question is even though I DO get the RRoD it is after “some” game play (like less than a minute), is that considered under the umbrella of RRoD, or are they going to plug it in, see green and charge me for a repair? Does the RRoD HAVE to be constant as in from a cold start?
Hey everybody. I have the same “3 red lights” problem. This is what happened to me. I had a couple of friends over to play rockband. I decided to take a break for awhile and play my guitar while the other 3 friends played. My rockband game is scratched and messes up occasionally, so when this happened, one of those friends opened the drive to fix it. Somehow, in the process of opening the drive, he managed to hit the power button twice really fast or something (I’m going by what the other friend told me he did). After this happened, the xbox remained on, but froze and started blinking red. The dumbass trying to fix the game unplugged the fucking power supply without turning off the box completely first…TWICE! We turned it back on, and it was running great while my little bro played it. We went out to get some grub and came back to find the 3 red lights on and the screen black. Same problem you are all having here. Did it overheat? I don’t think so…but perhaps it could have. I’ve tried switching out hardrives and power supplies and cables with my friend’s xbox. Nothing works. Never had any trouble in the past. I’m going to look into it further, but I’ll probably end up sending it in to get repaired…considering whether or not it costs anything. I don’t want to waste money on something thats just gonna fuck up again. I may switch to ps3. Microsoft sucks!!!!
thanks jay
still working now tho
and i got the box
gonna wait a little longer to see about the red lights
and what a shame
i want to rent alone in the dark
but last time i rented two 12dollar games (kayne and linch and assasins creed) the graphics card broke down before i could play them
so its a tricky one
Brain cheak your leads in the back of your xbox make sure they are all in right, but u may have a broken av cable if the cables are in right and still does not work.
Hi 2 all players,i write all the comm.and i can say is looking bad.
I got no ancer fo the 3 red light,this mean we are F… whit xBOX360,i have same problem whit him, i have play Devil My Cry 4,after update is what we all know:3REDLIGHT…
Well my 360 is about 2 years old and has just started locking up. It started on Conan. I had one set of the dreaded 3 red lights. I shut it down and have not got them again but it is still locking up on bioshock and Halo 3. So I guess I will try the trouble shooting techniques and hope.
80% chance it will happen again.
90% chance they’ll take forever…
When the box comes, don’t send the xbox straight away. Wait for a while, if you see the ring of death – post it. As even if you had the xbox with a ring of death you can’t use it.. So you can’t miss it!
i got the three red lights, then called microsoft and then they did the trouble shooting with me (the thing where i remove the harddrive and such) and then it worked! its been working for about 2days now. but microsoft is sending me a box to put it in to send it back to them. what should i do? will the three red lighs happen to me again? should i send it back just to make sure? help please
Yea guys i only have the 4th light blinking. can anyone let me know what that means, i would appreciate it.
what does it mean if u dont get the red lights on the console and never have, but one day u dont get lights at all cause u dont get power. the power supply has a red light though, unplug it from the 360 and it is amber, plug it back in its red again and 360 wont come on.
hi guys i sent it 2 microsoft twice it comes back with three red lights every time, i then take my xbox apart by the fix it guide, it started with 3 red lights before when it would come on the dashboard and would freeze but now it does not even do that, now that i have took the xbox apart and put it back together again now my xbox is fucked nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jay: It’s funny you mention truncating. I’m in the process of implementing paged comments, so there will only be 15-20 comments per page. Comments will be searchable as well so you can hopefully find a specific comment you’re looking for.
WordPress just wasn’t made to have this many comments on a single post. Hopefully the paged comments will make information a little easier to find.
This site should really consider truncating these posts now. Needless to say – I have had the same problem… twice. You may even find my post’s of explicitness somewhere in this myriad of anger. However – I am happy to announce on my 4th xbox (the first one was a gift so i didn’t count it in the cost of loss…) I have had no issues. It works fine – Sticking my old one in a bag for a while worked and later… cooked it. The third, I lovengly voided the warrenty by adding a beautiful custom paint job (seriously guys. Think fender sunburst for Xbox!) And this one – the 4th generation xbox chipset. Not an issue. Still noisy but all swimming.
COD4 screams for an xbox so it calls to me. Good EH!
Hey it happen to me to with the 2K and EA sports games.
This 3 red lights is fucked up!
what the hell microsoft!
Hey
I was about to play some Madden 08 and what do you know! I got the damn 3 red flashing lights! This is my second box, the first one I had same problem! I had to send it to get repaired and they couldn’t fix it so they sent me a brand new Xbox 360 which i have had and played on and off til now. It’s been fine and all. Freezes now and then but worked most of the time. It is very frustrating! I didn’t update anything, in fact it started up this morning and froze a few times so I just turned it off but now with the 3 red lights! It’s a bit ridicules!
I hope can get it fixed soon
damn microsoft
My son just laid down 460 for a 360 with 2 games and an xtra controler,on Monday, May 12. Today, May 16th, he got the red rings of death. 4 f$&$ing days. The last thing he did was download a NHL2008 roster list. Luckly, he got it at BestBuy, and shelled out an additional 60 for the BestBuy warrentee.
After reading this, I think Best Buy is going to get sick of him over the next 2 years. I want to see if he can beat the guy with 9 bad 360’s. Amazing history listed on this blog. I guess the bottom line here is get the store warrentee to cover your gaming costs. He had his new box in an hour after the thing failed.
Good luck to all, we will be checking back! Peace!
So the Xbox 360 is still having problems. i was going to buy one again for obsolete HD DVD but I guess Ill stick with buying the Samsung Combo player. I can get it for $430. My PS3 and Wii still work perfectly. I actually have 2 PS3s now. Both work perfectly.
I just got my first 360 3 days ago.Plugged it in worked fine.Next day 3 ####in red lights. I got a New elite 360 today and had 3 red lights but now it’s back to workin fine. Should i keep it or get a new 1? as far as i can tell so far the 360’s have a big ####in problem I’m going to call EB games tommorrow mornin and see what they say to do. Don’t buy 360’s from Walmart most r pieces of krap.
Keep me informed of what i should do…
Well hello. Unfortunately, these 3 little buggers have nifested my 360 aswell, straight after some “xbox360 system update” because last night, my CoD4 Game of the year was working fine, and this morning, i turn it on and it doesnt work.
Ive had my 360 for 2 years, pretty much straight after it came out, so i think im going to have to pay the full price, but is it worth it??
MLB 2k8 FRIED my console, but ironically, my console had been freezing up for about 1/2 a year. It’d happen in most 2K games as I’m a sports game freak, and happened every once-in-a-while with EA games. Halo3 never froze, not even once. I’d usually just shut it off and start over-same as Nintendo back in the day, which worked just fine, until tonight. I played one game on franchise mode (Cincy for Ken Griffey Jr’s sake), then the 3 red lights ruined my lovely baseball fantasies. I know for a fact I’ll have to pay the full price because my warranty is over the time limit, but is it really worth fixing? I definately don’t want to go through this again. I want my Sega Dreamcast back!!! I miss nba 2k and ready to rumble… Bass Fishin’ was pretty sweet too… I guess I’ll just have to spend $15 for a new fishing licence and go out for the real thing in the mean time, but I’m not sure I’ve got the patience any more… Thanks MS…aholes.
Well shit I just sent mine hopefully my repaired one will be good maybe
and i just started using xbox live 3 weeks im very pissed
I was playing Smackdown vs Raw 08 then the screen got a little weird but the game was still working so i shut it off to fix the screen then sumthing went wrong and now i have the lights and my 360 only 9 months old
Same for me also. Son as I booted on the 360 this evening..greeted by the now “traditional” 3 red lights.
Hmm..never had this problem with the PS2. Beginning to wonder which is superior.
Continued Xbox 360 problems:
I have been in computers and gaming from the beginning, I mean the beginning. I built my first machine before the MITS Altair. I even have MS BASIC on punch tape. I met the boy Gates before his wealth. I am not a young fellow, my coding days are in the past, but I still love my game machines. Of course I have custom assembled a tweaked PC for gaming, but I also like a dedicated console. Along many computers, I have owned, and still own, just about every game system made. I have an original working tabletop PAC Man among other things. I have a Moded Xbox that I keep in repair and working condition (new laser cannon, etc) with the HD loaded with MAME and other game machine emulators. Great machine for its time, they just aren’t making any more or new games for it. Like us all, I want the current gen. machine for serious gamers. I have waited over 2 years for Microsoft to correct the problems with the 360 console.
These consoles are not cheap and represent no small investment in these questionable economic times. With much persuasion I finally convinced the wife to tolerate the purchase. This was no small task! Thinking that alls well by now, I ordered one from WalMart.com. On Feb.22, 2008 I received my new Xbox360. The console box showed a manufacturing date of 23Oct, 2007. I can’t tell you how much I was impressed by its looks, smell, feel, playing and everything about my new love. My wife was jealous, the first week I would have slept with it if I could. I played the shit out of Carbon (not as good as Most Wanted) during that week to 88% completion among other things. At some point IT did a console update online, which I did not request, to my knowledge. Then, at the beginning of week two I started to get a screen freeze at exactly the same place at the end of a two-stage difficult race. Tried another game disk… same thing. Then the screen freeze started when another game started to load a racecourse. When game demos started to freeze I called Microsoft support. I went through the full tech support knowledge base with them over three days with no solution other than to send me a box so I can send my 1 1/2 wk old machine in for repairs. With shipping time for their box, my return shipment to them, their repair and return time, we are actually 5-6 weeks!!!! THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR A 1 WEEK OLD MACHINE. I tried to reason with them that this was a new machine and that they should cross ship me a new one if I gave them a credit card number as assurance for the return of the defective one. NO WAY! It did not matter to whom I spoke, supervisors etc that was the way it was. In disgust I informed her that I would just return the damn thing to the store for a refund and that they and MS can work it out. After getting online and reading the various blogs and threads I tried all the solutions with the power brick, separate correctly polarized outlet, machine in the open and orientation with no success. At this point I deleted my gamer profiles completely (loosing my game saves). Same thing… freeze! The 3-year extended warranty only covers the Ring of Death. So, I’m left with the repair cost for this kind of problem after 1 year, even if caused by THEIR UPDATE. That’s Garbage!!! Truthfully, I expect MANY YEARS of trouble free use of my game machine after the warranty. MS updates in the PC world, in the past, have caused many problems. Lockups on the 360 are a major problem. After reading of the continued hardware problems, in the many sites addressing these issues, now in March 2008 after more than two years in which to fix them, I made the painful decision to return my machine for a refund to Wal-Mart, despite Microsoft sending me a return mailer so I can wait a month or more for a repair. Even though I won’t do it, I feel like sending them a fired-clay brick back in their coffin shipment box so they can see if they can screw that up! I will not take the risk of the Wal-Mart 90-day refund policy expiring before getting stuck in the never-ending cycle of machine repairs with the 360. In all my years I have never seen such a fiasco with a console nor have I ever had to even return one for any reason. The lady at the return desk at the neighborhood Wal-Mart stated that they were getting many, many Xbox360’s back because of freezing issues. As usual with Microsoft’s practice with its OS, release a product before its ready and let the consumer debug it at his expense, not ur paid staff!!!! I do believe that MS is too deep in the production cycle to have the financial motivation to correct the many serious issues with the 360. Even though it is a loss. they have already allocated the $1B fund to sustain the repairs on the already produced faulty consoles. Their actions seem to be nothing but stopgap measures, even with the heavy losses, until the retirement of this platform even though they have no reticence in continuing to produce and sell faulty consoles. As such, I do not expect to see a bug free 360. They are not going to redesign the architecture of a faulty console design in mid to late life cycle at this point. Consumer beware! It’s not a matter of IF but WHEN you’re 360 will fail! This isn’t going away! You will live with this as long as you will have you’re 360!
As I stare at an empty space where my 360 sat and the useless games I now have I have a heavy heart and an empty hole in my stomach. For a serious gamer, the PS3 is not the machine as the 360, just as the PS2 to the Xbox. I cannot go that route. So, for me the disappointment is great. For now my gaming is over until the next generation of machines appear and have had time to show their flaws. My respect for MS in the console gaming arena is now on par with that which I hold for them in the OS world. As for Microsoft, why don’t you sell the whole DAMN console division to a company that is committed to upholding its good reputation and cares about its products and customers? Even with the console funds refunded, I still invested in shipping cost and games. I will take a cash loss on virtually new games when recycled to GameStop. I doubt that I will ever again take the risk with another MS machine.
“To mess up a Linux box… You need to work at it;
To mess up a Windows box… You need to work with it.”
yea i got them 4 days ago asked to get it fixed and they said that they would send me a box to send back to them asap and still waiting for it if any one know how long it takes to get the box please reply.
you won’t get a box you got to get your own box that what happen to me when i got the 3 red lights for my xbox360
Well mine has been freezing ever since I bought Guitar Hero and started using the wireless connectivity button.
Yesterday I tried Halo 3 and BANG 3 red lights. Now everytime i boot it I get 3 red lights. I’m not Impressed this is my 9th XBOX 360. I don’t even know If I should bother with a 10th. I already have a nice stable PS3 that works nicely.
Convienently my 12 month warranty expired on Febuary the 2nd.
I’m demanding repair for free. If I don’t get that then I’ll just make a nice video of PS3 vs 360 where I end up smashing up the 360. Like It’s already broke anyway so yeah. I’ve had the damn PS3 longer than all 9 360’s.
1600 pounds for 10 consoles? No thank you.
I had the Xbox 360 elite for 5 month and it got the 3 rings of death last week. I didn’t download any updates or played any games for a while. I barely used that thing. During the time that it worked it froze on me 3 times. Well finally last weekend I wanted to watch my downloaded south park episodes and the system kept freezing on me. Then the rings of death showed up. I ended up selling the console along with the HD dvd player for $200. I had the original Xbox that would always freeze. I also Got tired of the fact that I couldn’t play all my original games. I was on my 3rd Xbox 360. I give up on Xboxes. Ill just stick to my PS3 and Wii which never have had any problems. My cousin works at Best Buy in customer service and he says he gets returns on Xbox 360 every day that he works because of the rings of death. He said only two PS3’s came in during the month of January and That he never seen a Wii being returned.
Than another thing, Since I have about 100 HD DVD movies. So I buy a Toshiba HD DVD player and it starts to Freeze during the middle of some movies. I am on My third model for the HD DVD player. The Xbox 360 HD DVD player was flawless. Now I am going to have to try LG’s Super Blue player or Samsungs Universal combo player to see if I can watch HD DVDs Peacefully. If I cant, I will know why HD DVD failed although I loved the format.
loose logic ed. you did not speak to volume or resposibility. you are either an employee for them or an ostrich. pull ur head out of the sand.
OK, if the system is as bad as you claim, let’s look are real numbers, not your imagination.
You buy the console for $400. The store gets $50. It cost microsoft about $150 to make it and package it. So, they have $200 profit. Now it breaks and they have to pay round trip shipping ($20 each way). So, now they are at $160 profit. Now they have to pay the guys to fix it (about another $30). So, now they are at $130 profit.
OK, so it really is as bad as you claim, so another software patch causes it to break again. They repair it under warranty again. Now they are down to $70 in profit.
Microsoft doesn’t write the patch either. The company that made the game writes the patch.
exactly brain. if they release the patch it is the same as releasing a drug on an unsuspecting public whho are literraly dyin!! FOR A CURE ie. without proper testing and spproval by the FDA. The fact’s are that xbox and 360 games are not compatible and that was an error which should have been fixed prior to relese. Instead we eager unfortunate souls are funding thier RD dept’s like asses waiting to be raped. Oh and by the way let’s calculate intelligence. If I keep your money ie. $400 times lets say for a small number 100,000 that’s 40,000,000 for those who aren’t following that’s 40 million dallars average that by three monthes of use 90 days…. how much money do you think can be made in the market before I have to return it…..wait I won’t returning it ever….and by the way how many 360 were sold genius…hmmmm….so is the money that I will earn worth the blow back from a consumer who can never recoup their funds. YEAH. phen-phen eddie educate yourself
All of your swearing only belittles yourself.
They have nothing to gain, so why would it be deliberate? With the extended warranty, Microsoft looses money, each time one fails and has to be shipped back.
The only thing deliberate is the lack of proper testing, before a patch is released.
This is shit. The problems are being caused by the software patches for their bullshit games and downloads of the demos. I have a fucking tv from fuckin 1985 that still works, these cock suckers have a responsibility to stand behind this piece of shit. The alternative is an ugly truth that this is deliberate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gas is too high fool give me my money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How are they trying to steal our money, if they extended the warranty to 3 years?
If you just got your 360 today, why didn’t you just take it back to where you bought it. You could have exchanged it there and been playing your games now. Going the warranty repair route, you will be lucky to have a rebuilt console in a month.
you no what i think they are trying to steal our money the are the cause of this red light what were they thinking and the updates to the mess up your consoles if a had a chance i would sue them. i just got my 360 today and i was all hyped up to play some few games turned it on nothing but 3rd of death i was so angry called them and i am getting a new in two weeks. I mean if your gonna make some game make good with out making owners suffer waiting for you i mean every should get a new console cause you cant keep on always send your 360 to them and the same thing happens i mean i wanna play halo 3 but i cant not cool. by the way does anyone know where the fix 360 ’s for cheap.
GUYS ITS EASY TO FIX PERMANENTLY _ put it in the microwave for 20 seconds and it fixes it.
Go here for proof
http://www.longren.org/2007/01/16/xbox-360-towel-trick-fixes-3-red-lights/#comment-148936
Yes well – I guess all the kinks have been ironed out now. I’ve got a 4th gen Arcade version – Its pretty sweet. It has all the new updates – so pretty much no reason why it should die and it only cost £150. Which is good money I think.
i was playin gears and my mum told me 2 come off it. i sed ok and played on it for another hour and half.
i held down the middle button while still on gears to turn of xbox. it worked. then about ten minuets later i wnted to watch a dvd so i turned xbox on..
then………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
the three lights looking right at me. i just thought that
it was just an error. i restarted it and it dont work.
i havent told my mum but when i do she will be pretty pissed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPENED TO MINE TODAY AGAIN… JUST STARTED YESTERDAY. I WENT OUT AND BOUGHT A PS3 TODAY…. FUK XBOX FOREVER U FUKIN MONEY HUNGRY FUX!!!!!! I ALWAYS HAD PS, PS2, AND FIGURED ID TRY XBOX… AND NOW…… YEAH… U BET UR ASS I AINT WASTIN ANYMORE MONEY ON BILLS JUNK. SORRY SONY…. .IM YOURS FOREVER!!! ><
Heres a good site to fix it http://xbox-360-3-red-lights-fix.blogspot.com/
i dunno this is weird but i was tryingg to possibly blow some debris out of the back of the 360 and it had a weird wet smell. i put the 360 in my basement and i live in canada(basements unfinished) so that might me the reason. u guys smell somein in ur 360 like its wet\??? OH YA, FUCK U BILL GATES U MAKE SHIT 360S
omg ok its the updates that shit is shit. literally. the fucking put viruses and all that shit in it so that u pay to fix it. and this is gay. strait from the 360 website they said that they were proud to sat that the 2nd gen 360 only had a 3 red lite percentage of %30 to %50. HAPPY PROUD,omg thats gay. and 1st gen was nearly %80. even the fucking elite had a %25 chance of 3 red lites. advice: if u buy a 360, its got a 3 year warrenty so its good. even if u want get a store warrenty for after that and if u do make sure u can get a new 360 for free.
This is UK… Forgot to say
From xbox help website….
Assistance by phone:
0800 587 1102
or +44 20 7365 9792 from a mobile phone
Hearing Impaired (TTY device):
0800 587 1103
Hours of operation:
Monday-Friday: 09:00-22:00
Saturday: 09:00-20:00
Sunday: 09:00-17:00
same thing happened 2 me. can u email me that number?
Guys just go here
http://www.longren.org/2007/01/16/xbox-360-towel-trick-fixes-3-red-lights/#comment-148936
permanent solution to fix ur xbox
Well – you one of the few lucky ones. Brought it from the shop? 2 weeks in your getting a new one without quibble. Like I said to all – new gen 360 no longer have these problems. I’m forcing my girlfriend to buy me one – I’m threatening her with constant…[Edited for the kids!] if she doesn’t… She said she wouldn’t Good or Bad?! :P
Microsoft is gonna lose me as a customer. That’s for sure. Just bought it and after two weeks, bam! Red lights appear. I didn’t update it or anything. Don’t know what to do. Thank goodness I finished playing Halo 3 before it happened…
Hi guys I have found a permanent, free solution for the xbox 360s 3 red lights of death. It only takes about 20 seconds and if it doesn’t work it doesn’t void your warranty because you don’t even need to open your box up! I didn’t believe it at first until I tried it, my friends laughed their heads off lol..
Anyway check it out here
Quickest way is just search for ’shawn’ he is the guy who explains how it works and how to do it.! Game on brothers!