Fix Your Xbox 360 Freeze Problems
Last Friday, I bought an Xbox 360 at my local K-Mart. It was probably a mistake getting it from K-Mart, but I sort of decided to buy it on the spot, didn’t really put much thought into it. After getting my Xbox 360 out of it’s box and all hooked up, I started wishing I had made the purchase directly from Microsoft instead. All is fine and well now, but I had nothing but problems for a few hours after setting the Xbox 360 up.
Right off the bat, I had three red lights on the Ring of Light. Not good. I followed the steps Microsoft suggests, after unplugging and re-plugging everything to the power supply, I finally got a green light and the Xbox 360 booted.
At this point, I did the initial configuration on the Xbox 360. I setup my profile and just started playing Need For Speed: Carbon. That didn’t last long though, the 360 started freezing up every minute or two. I kept rebooting it, hoping for a better result, but nothing.
After a few reboots, and barely getting a profile created in Need For Speed, I was presented with the error seen to the left. Click the image to make it bigger, sorry for the shitty picture. My heart really sunk at that point, the description of the E71 error message is rather disappointing: “E71: possibly a dashboard update error, there is no solution at present the console must be sent back to MS for repair.” There’s a nice post over at the xbox-scene forums that covers error codes and what to do about them. After finding the meaning of the E71 error message, I set out getting my Xbox 360 on my network. I was hoping a network connection would force the 360 to check for a dashboard update or something…anything.
Getting my Xbox 360 online wasn’t a problem, the hardest part was finding an ethernet cable long enough to go from my switch in the office to the living room. Once I had the network cable in the Xbox 360, I turned it on and it immediately said there was an update to download from Microsoft. It must have grabbed an IP really quickly from my DHCP server and checked for updates. Had I not had a DHCP server running, I may not have gotten the update. I don’t think I could have gotten into the dashboard to manually configure tcp/ip settings for the 360. It would have frozen up and that would have been it.
Anyway, the update downloaded and was installed, and my Xbox 360 was rebooted. After that, the 360 finally came up and my freeze problems were gone. So, if you’re having all sorts of flaky issues with your Xbox 360, try getting it on a network with an internet connection and see if it’ll download a dashboard update. I haven’t had any problems with stability since the initial update was downloaded, thank god! I really didn’t want to have to send my brand new Xbox 360 into Microsoft for servicing the day of purchasing it.
If you are experiencing problems like I was and this fix works for you, please let me know. This has probably been written about elsewhere, but unfortunately I couldn’t find it.
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ok it is called the xbox guide
hay my xbox 360 has porbloms whin i sin in it takes about 5 min just to get off the i dont know wath it is called like when you push the x on your controoler that thing pops up how would you make that faster i tryed every thing but it sill takes 5 mins how do i fix that
/this is all fine except you did not explain how you got it out of the e71 screen… How did you get to the dashboard?
j, I had to return my Xbox 360 to Microsoft for replacement.
Hi I want some help with my xbox 360, I updated my xbox but for some reason it wont recognise the harddisk but I have connected the harddisk by the transfer cable (USB), it recognises as 16 GB memory. Can anyone help.
guys it depends on you console position my xbox used to freeze but i now make it sleep not stand and its fine:D
i got mine from best buy ( refurbished) it was fine at first but then started to freeze but when i asked microsoft they said it might be the hardrive causing the problem
My xbox does the same, but I also have other problems. It at times freezes while i play, freezes at the logo screen, freezes at the dash, gets the 3 red rings, gets one red ring with the E71 message. I think my system is just F-ed up.
my xbox got the three ring of death sometimes to and it was freeezing but then and it had th e71 error message what heppend is ur xbox is over heating thats what causes three ring of death so then mine got three ring of death everytime well i took it aprt cleaned the cpus and the heat sinks after that i put silver polish stuff on it then a heat sink compund and got it working now i have jus the e71 error problem but this is how u fix it turn on ur xbox then go into ur dashboard on the right column hit initial set up then follow the instuctions nobody really knows what causes the e71 error but mainly a update failed or something like that but that will fix it also clean ur hardrive with disc cleaner and that will help it stop freesing-
after i fixed the red ring of death and i got rid of the e71 temperary and now my xbox will get e 71 error but when it doesnt and it makes it to the home screen after about two mins of jus scrolling and jus messing around it freezis then it goes back to getting the e71 error omfg someone pls help me if not im throwin it away i jus wanna fix the problem thats all if not i might buy a new one and save most of the good parts and throw the rest away also i just bought the new liquid cooled system for my xbox and im not gonna even hook it up till its fixed or i get a new one but its awsome
Ok guys I have the same problem with my xbox freezing but I put an ice pack on the bottom of my xbox and its stop freezing but make sure you put a towel on the ice pack. I have played my hours over hours and it has not freeze on me . But I am thinking of getting a laptop cooling fan dock to put on the bottom
I hope this works for everyone
my homefront game is frezzing on my account but not on my old account why
My Homefront is freezing to, I dont know if its my xbox or the game. Cuz I have tried it on two different xboxs and exchanged my homefront but it still freezes
hi,
i had my xbox for 3 years until 2day.
when i turned it on i put in halo reach
then when i go to the main menu it freezes.
i press the eject button then it goes back to the
dashboard!!!???.
so i thought the game was stuffed.
I put in cod black ops then when i was playing
campaign it froze again. then i thought somthing
was broken. put in mw2 same thing!!!!!!
sum1 helpp meee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adam, best thing to do is call Microsoft at 1-800-4MYXBOX.
your Disk Drive is going bud!!! I had the same problem
until i fixed it..
How’d you fix it? I think mine is having the same issue…
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/troubleshoot/hardware/screen-freeze
I’m trying to play Call of Duty Classic but it just stops a little more than half way. Is there anyway to fix it because i love this game.
my xbox doesnt even load up now and it just gets turned on and then goes straight to a black frozen screen wtf!!!
Were is the
powerS suply
thanks were is that at
It freezez and the screen turns black
my xbox while playing iy gets stuck plz can you tell me whats the problem
see if had my xbox360 for over 6 mothns got use to getting kicked off internet cuz of the crapy servise we have but now i got the new cod black ops it kicked me off and i thought wth ill reboot it and boom now when ever i try and play black ops the disck freezes my entire xbox i dont get it help me plz!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you get a error code? If you do get something like e74, u have to go into your xbox and replace the thermal compound on both the cpu and heat sink… I did that to mine and it seems to work well.. U can look up how 2 fix e74 code on youtube. And ull have to purchase some arctic silver 5 thermal compound to replace the old stuff.
Your gpu is unseated. You can see fixes on you tube.
Stop with the PS3 being so great. I had 3 game feeze yesterday. Updates are 1gb and over a lot of times that take 30 minutes or more to install. Sometimes they don’t install correctly so your game goes crazy. The last Bad Company 2 update was 2Gb! Oh and sometimes Sonys console updates make things not work. Ihave both and would pick my xbox.
I have this xbox 360 for less than a year, and I was playing today and suddenly it froze up! I turned off and I could play again, but then after 10 minutes it froze again, so I did it again, I turned it off and on, but I it happened all over again, so I’m afraid there’s not much to do, can anyone help me???
there are several things to do, 1. Xbox 360 freezing on specific games
This is probably the most obvious tip to check, but when worrying about the fate of your console it can be easy to bypass such things. The first thing to check when your Xbox 360 is freezing up is which game you are playing. Eject the disc and have a look at the back to see if there are any scratches, markings, dirt, or anything else that might be preventing your console from reading it properly.
Once cleaned, re-insert the disc and see how it goes. If the game freezes in the same place/area/timing as previously it could be due to an error on the disc, a glitch, or a corruption in your Xbox 360 cache or game save. There will be more on this later in the article.
If the game freezes in a different area/timing to before, it is time to try another game. I’d try playing about two or three more games to see what happens (to get an average result). If your other games cause your Xbox 360 to freeze then it could be a problem with your console hard drive or overheating. If it is only the first game that caused problems then it could either be a problem with your copy, or an issue with the game that requires for it to be patched. Check online forums (such as the one on xbox.com) to see if other people are experiencing the same issues, otherwise send your game back (stating the issue and how you’ve tried to resolve it) and get a replacement.
Is it only freezing online?
This, admittedly, is also another simple yet common thing to check. However, I have added it to this “guide” as I want it to be as helpful as possible to everyone.
If your Xbox 360 is freezing only whilst playing online, then it is most likely down to your Internet connection rather than the console itself. Check that everything is setup correctly and that you are using filters for your broadband connection to prevent it getting affected by the phone line/phone calls. You may also need to check your firewalls and port forwarding settings.
Clearing your Xbox 360 Hard Drive cache
I’ve had this problem myself whilst playing Oblivion, although it was not only freezing in some places but also being very unresponsive and really slowing down when trying to talk to NPCs. Anyway, clearing the cache on your Xbox 360 is very safe and does not affect any of your game saves, profiles, demos, videos, etc (although it does delete some downloaded game auto-updates, which will be easy to download again afterwards). It is mainly temporary data that is stored in order to make certain areas of games load faster. These can sometimes corrupt, making your Xbox struggle when trying to read them and eventually just freezing up.
4. Xbox 360 overheating?
Overheating is unfortunately an extremely common problem. The console’s fans whurr so loudly that you’d think it would be fine, but whilst drowning out a lot of the sound from your games you need to ensure that it is in a well ventilated area. Try to make sure that there is nothing surrounding it and that it is not too close to a heat source.
5. Check your Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Not only can the cache corrupt from time to time, but also the Hard Drive itself. When most Xbox 360s start freezing most people cry out “Red Ring of Death is coming!”. But that’s not always true. This is what the problem was with my console, and I have not yet had the dreaded Red Ring of Death.
I was told by Microsoft technical support to try removing my Xbox 360 hard drive whilst the console was switched off and playing for about a week to see if I was still receiving freezes (as my Xbox was freezing randomly. Sometimes every two minutes, and others only once every 2 hours or so). I managed to purchase a memory card (or memory unit as they like to call it) quite cheaply so I could still play games and earn achievements.
A week passed and my Xbox 360 didn’t freeze once! I was over the moon. After calling Microsoft technical support again they suggested that I transfer all my data to my memory unit and formatted the Hard Drive (you can do this by connecting the hard drive whilst the console is switched off and then turning it on and going to the system menu). After the formatting I had to re-download all my Xbox DLC which was a little frustrating, but I didn’t need to pay for any of it again as it keeps track of your downloads/purchases on your account.
hey my xbox is always saying e 71 error and when it does play it will freez about two mins after bein at the home screen and it freezis with every game and i dont know what to do helpp me
i have the same problem… since 2day.
i have the xbox 360 5 years now and suddenly today it keeps frozen. radomly minutes . sometimes @ intro or Dashboard or in a game . any1 suggestions?
got a old 360 brand new fifa 11 in and it freezes every time on the free roam areaner :S HELP
brought skate 3 as well and that done the same, it works when i play on my old games fifa 10 and forsa 2, dirt 2. why not with any of the new ones
hey i got the old 360 it was working fine until one day it kept freezing if i put something heavy on top of my 360 it plays fine but when i take the weight off it freezes can anyone tell me what i should do and how to fix it
ur an idiot. there is nothing wrong with your xbocx. microsoft says on their website to keep ur xbox in a well ventilated area away from other electrical devices with nothing under or on top of it. if u were lees of a d***a** u wld have thought to check microsoft’s website!
My guess is your heat sink or CPU has come unglued from the motherboard and when you put that extra weight on it pushes it down so it makes contact with it. ull probably need to open up your xbox and replace the thermal compound on both the CPU and heat sink… then overheat it again. U can look up these instructions on youtube.
Hi, so my 360 freezes up at loading screens for only two of my games: Red Dead Redemption and Star Wars the Force Unleashed. Once the games load up there is a never-ending loading screen and it sucks. The only way to get out of it is to go back to the dashboard, or in some cases you just have to turn the 360 off manually. I need a response because I don’t know if I should buy a new 360 or not while there is a good sale for Black Friday. Thanks.
if it happens to the 360 on the old white one then dont buy the new black one same this it freezes everytime i play a game and the most when i play midnight club this SUCKS
dont worry it is midnight club not your xbox, it happens to me when i am either at the loading screen or when i change my car in a online cruise.
guys. if you get red rings take caution. i just recenly had red rings and i sent it to somebody from geek squad. he said there was a bunch of dust. if your xbox is on a rug. laying down. put it up and off the ground. if my xbox were going to get a electrick shock somehow. it would of been fryed
ok my xbox 360 has been freezing for like 3 months it started freezing on bionic commando every 5 mins after that my freezes on gears of war(sometimes it will sometimes it wot)Gears of war 2(same but more)just now COD.It freezes when powerup my 360 sometimes it will get to dashboard but more times it wot so i to unplug my internet cable then plug it in when it is at the dashboard.I try clearing the patch’s that didn’t work and now i just cleared my harddrive and tranfer my data to a flashdrive it froze 2 times now but it was only at the dashboard can someone help me plz.
P.S. sometimes E71 will pop up on xbox but that’s rare
ok ive read all the posts noone mentions this so i thought id post it. the xbox red rings all the time because of a fault in the gpu and cpu and this video controller chip ana i believe its called. all of it has to do wih the cold solder they used when making the xbox 360. more than likely some solder points on the mother board are bad (and no you cant see them). i will list the steps i have aken to fix my xbox over the time ive had it.
1. Do the xclamp fix. It does work wonders and it only costs you $6 and and hour of your time.
2. Do the 12v fan mod increased airflow of the 360 is not a bad idea, i mean the fan is a 12v fan only using 5v. (this does make the 360 louder)
3. Look into doing a reflow of the solder, i would recommend a professional reflow because you are using alot of heat. but i have had success with a hair dryer. the big heat guns make more heat and scare the hell out of me lol.(just dont concentrate the heat on the capacitors, the little round things sticking out the board it can cause them to burst)
4. open the case if u have no warranty left. right now my 360 has no cover on it. im in the process of making a custom case for it.
i hope that these steps work for people other than me.
p.s. i you dont know what im talking about google what you are confused on. thats where i found all my informartion.
xbox is shit now even slim n kinect i gt them i moved to ps3 cuz theres no problems wot sso eva!!!
Right, i have the same problem with Modern warfare 2. Everytime i went in a match, it frose before the count down even ended! Then, i switched of my xbox, left it for about and hour, turned it back on, got to the logo, it looks all glitchy and BAM! it freezes. i kept trying to reboot it but the same thing happened. What the fuck?
Ok so I bought the xbox about 4 or 5 years ago when the 360 first came out. Back then I heard a lot of people were having problems with it and having to send it back all the time. Not me though. I happily played my xbox for years and now all of a sudden it freezes within the first 20 seconds of every game I put in. My power supply is fine, the location of the xbox is fine, as far as I can tell it’s not all that dusty and I have never had problems with it before. I’m quite pissed off actually seeing as I was enjoying the new Alan Wake game and Red Dead Redemption. Does anyone have any good tips for my specific situation? Also, if I can’t repair my xbox I’m either considering buying a new one or buying a ps3. Any advice on that? Thank you for your time.
hi me to i had this Xbox for years but suddenly it freezes ever game and sometimes in the dashboard its really pissing me of oh and by the way buy the Xbox i had a ps3 it sucks online is so laggy. by the way it only has a few good games.
Mr.C my suggestion is to buy another 360 arcade. If your old 360 has a hard drive and all the extra goodys then a 360 arcade is your best bet. I had a 360 first gen that I had no problems with.Now my red rings. ended my 360 and my warranty was gone mind you I got my console when it the market so I had no issue getting another one. I had the harddrive and so I got a arcade. You can get a PS3 if you want one but game wise I think the 360 has a stronger backing from most of the major game developers in the industry. This is coming from a diehard PS fan but Sony this time around has been a very very big disappointment I loved the ps&2. Sony had the best games and the best controllers. I was set and ready for Sony to destroy the Wii and 360. Sony became a copy cat with the PS3 they hyped the ability of what the PS3 could do b4 launch. The PS3 came out and I was on impressed with the games, graphics, and online. Sony didn’t live up to their own hype and when I say copy cat I mean Microsoft came up with a wireless controller a few days later in a gaming magazine or video game expo Sony sony announces their wireless controller.360 will have a HD player well Sony now will be a blu-ray player. and the lame and worse argument ever heard is the online play is free big fuckin deal. Hey people who bash the 360 cuz they charge for live they do still charge on the PSN network look at maddened 11 or ff. Guess what Sony will be charging play online soon with the move out its rumor that sony is going to start having cost packages for online play and most of the free play won’t have great server support. So find a new way to talk shit about the 360. (not direct it at you
Mr. C the last part is not directed at you just the 360 stuff. I have a 80 gig PS3 but my mom and pops use it to watch blu-ray movies when they come to my house. So if you love movies get a PS3 but game wise the playstation has very little to offer the games I have are mostly first party titles and the graphics for them aren’t even as good as they can be. the best graphics I’ve seen on the ps3 so far are heavy rain but if the game is cross platform their is no difference in graphics I even went as far as getting cod mw1 on PS3 and 360 and ran them both in 1080p on my Samsung dlp I have the same Samsung hdtvs in my crib one upstairs the other in my game room so take it from me there is not difference between the games. Other than online play I find the 360 to have a better lobby and more players at 1 time. Hit me up if you want to play CODMW2 OR BLACK OPS Game tag is my name her SickShothe2nd. Peace
Help!!!
Ok so i spoke to xbox live 6 times over an hour each time. Everytime i play mw2 online it freezes right at the begining of the match…everytime, one random time out of 30 i would get an error message BG_Evaluatetrajectory: trType: 60. I went through everything possible. I connected through the modem, router, and even the wireless adapter, freezes everytime…but only online. I play games offline with no problem. but online it freezes, i tried 3 different games…same outcome. I even tried a different hard drive, clearing the cache, making a new xbox live name and playing it on both hard drives…froze right after i joined a match, and once in a blue at the dash. at no time did 3 red rings appear on the box ever. Not to mention i just bought this elite back in november. so microsoft says it’s not a hardware issue…so after everything we did, including a soft reset, in device, memory, rb, lb, X, rb, lb, X yada yada yada downloaded updade still freezes. Tried reformatting the drive, still freezes. the only thing that microsoft is telling me is that its my internet provider. How is this comcasts fault?! they said it could be the modem i have, bc its for the internet and my phone?! wtf i doubt it. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!
I was told that it would be my internet provider too, which is bullshit cause I have a brother that plays in the other room and his xbox does fine.No freezes or anything.
i recently fixed my xbox 360. i did the x clamp trick and then overheated it for 40 mins with the fan on the big transitor gpu?? anyways after that i took the fan off completely till both red lights came on. turned it off for twenty mins and it worked but kept freezing on me. i noticed that there was a loose sound and notice that the transitor under the drivemight not have been all the way down due to the bolts being too long. i remove one at a time and added another washer to the back and now it works fine.
Your blog is awesome! I found it on Yahoo searching for new ps3 hardware and couldnt resist reading it. You have some good tips here. Thanks for posting!
well ive got this to say, ive had my 360, its a original standard bought when 360s came out, so about 5 yrs or so? sometimes it turns off and gives me 3 red rings of death, but besdies that, it works fine still. I havent had to repair it once in this 5 years and still continuing.
My problem is that it freezes on startup.
Yeah, im having the same problem. can anyone please help???
go here and try to find E71 than do what it tells you
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=484726
my xbox 360 has trouble staying on? can anybody help me?!?!!
I’ve been the owner of pretty much every system since Nintendo. I’ve always taken great care of the consoles and games, never had one problem. Well, I bought the 360 and took great care of it. Nothing on top of it or around it, bought the fan thing for the back, etc. Now the piece of crap is freezing every 2 minutes or so. They want 100 bucks to fix it, yeah ok. I’m buying a PS3, won’t but another Microsoft system.
HA! don’t get me wrong PS3 is a great system anyway and a great deal considering the blu ray drive but don’t think for one second the PS3 doesn’t have just as many issues and their customer service doesn’t suck just as much… they do.
hi i am having a problem with my xbox. It keeps freezing when i turn it on. the furthest ive gotten to seeint was the big green x loading up. Ive tried rebooting it numerous times, but it still doesnt work. I called xbox and they said it would cost $100 to send my 360 in. I really dont want to spend that amount to repair my xbox and wait a long time to get it back, so if anyone has any tips, or any do-it-yourself steps, that would be very helpful, and greatly appreciated. Thank You
i have the same problem but heres wat u gotta do u have to call micrsoft and tell them that u want to register ur consle and once u do that wait a few days and tell them that ur xbox has the ring of death and theyll repair ur consle 4 free
THAT IS UH, ILLEGAL. WIERDO.
And that makes him a weirdo how?
It is not illegal,but just against microsoft policy.
Selling a piece of sh_t rip off console that does not work for more than a couple hours should be illegal.Not fixing the issues,and continuing to sell something that they know will not work over 50 percent of the time should be against the law.I spent over $400 bucks for something that will not work right.I look at it like Microsoft took over $400 bucks from me,and in CA that is considered Grand Theft… and is a Felony.But who cares right?as long as Bill Gates gets his money he does not give a rats ass about the people he sells his rip off products too.You would have thought WE as customers would have learned it the first time with his RIP off operating systems,but we keep buying them.I wounder if I could get this 360 to fit up Bill Gate’s ass.Maybe then he would understand what a pain in the butt it is to buy something that does not work.
You can talk all you want about how bad the ps3 is compared to the xbox,but at least it will work.can’t play the xbox if it does not work,so how can you compare the two?like apples and oranges.A ps3 working against an xbox360 that does not work.
Here is my fail safe fix for the xbox 360,First remove any games,and hard drive,unplug all cords.Carry the console up to your second story and toss it out the window.Then sell your games,hard drive,cords,and controller so you will get some of your wasted money back.Then go buy any other gaming system on the market.That is the only way to fix all Xbox issues.
cld someone please let me know to remove the xclamps i already took the xbox apart & im having a hell of a time doing so and yes i do have a terminal screw driver set..
Oh this was a truely easy fix. Useing my degree in computer science I simply removed my xbox piece by piece, using various products, all I had to do was replace my mother board and completely recconstruct the rest of my xbox. Now my xbox works decently still not as good as it should though.
Right… Geek.
Ps3 works xbox makes u work.
I know Younoob.net has good fixes listed on the site. for the rrol.
I will never buy xbox product again. I have never had this much problem with a game system. I hope microsoft know they lost over a million customers cause of the xbox360 keep freezing and getting the red ring of death. When the next generation of games come out, theres noway microsoft will compete with sony. Microsft should have taken there time making these games.Now they the customer to send them in to get them fix for 100 dollars.Your about to make a quick 100 dollars off of everybody who brought the xbox.and all u got to do is clean the inside and replace a brooken chip.Thats a rip off. I will never buy microsoft product again and encourage other people to do the same.DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON MICROSOFT!!!SAVE YOUR SELF SOME MONEY AND HEADACHE AND JUST GET PLAYSTION!!!!A SYSTEM THE COMPANY TOOK THERE TIME MAKING AND DIDNT JUST THROW IT OUT TO THE STORES AND RIP ITs CUSTOMERES OFF!!!!!!!!
I just want to point out that Xbox 360 sales are currently beating PS3 sales in most regions across the world, and also most of the games that were always Sony exclusive are going to Xbox 360, because the Xbox is so much easier to program and hogs less resource.
Also i wanna point out I’ve owned 5 Xbox’s in my life Ive never gotten a red ring, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen im just saying that it doesn’t happen as often as so many of you are making it seem. Believe me I am the resident go to guy for Xbox repairs in my city so its not like i can say it doesn’t happen.
im on my 5th xbox now after 4 different ones of mine all have rrod a hitachi one a smsung one 2 benqs and a liteon.
so im giving up !fuck ms il stick to online gaming with my perfect quad core pc. or go on my xbox1 again! thats still working fine. free online with xlink kia on xbox1 too.
OK well i owned a xbox when it 1st came out and it crapped out on me in 2007 two years! so i sent it in and they sent me a new box well the 2007 box red ringed as well in 2008, sent it in and now as of dec 9th the 2008 unit has red ringed as well and they want $100 to fix it, now you say you have owned 5 xboxes and no red rings of death? hmm highly doubtful unless you get rid of it before a year or two. Because clearly it is certain that the life line on just one xbox 360 is one or two years. I had the 1st original xbox when it came out and never EVER had a issue.
Your situation is almost eerily similar to mine. I refused to spend that $100 this past time. I took it to someone locally who fixes XBoxes. He fixed the RROD but states it still freezes due to marks on the CPU due to the overheating. So Im pretty much out an XBOX due to their less than average product.
Hey Mark if the XBOX is so good to you why have you had to buy 5 of them?Sounds like the moron that keeps buying Fords because he is a ford man,even though he has bought 5 in the last 10 years,and I have had the same Chevy for 10 years.If it is good they should still be working right????
Save yourself sometime, and angry. Buy a PS3 instead!!!!!!!!
im connected to the internet, and the first time it happened, it froze right in the middle of RB, and then halo, and then it kept freezing really quickly, and i was chatting in a xbox live party, so i really dont know whats wrong
yah this happened to me i would start playing a game with the new harddrive and wireless network adapter(the arcade version worked fine with a memory card and every thing untill i hooked up my hardrive and wireless modom) then i went on skate2 live and it froze 5 min. into my session. the i put G2A in and it did the same thing but not on live i got 2 min into the game and froze now it just keeps freezing when i get to my Xbox home page!!! WHAT DO I DOO??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWziWcRIG6M
MY FIRST ONE OF A KIND VIDEO FRESH TODAY ON HOW TO FIX THE FREEZING PROBLEM…..ASLONG AS YOU HEAR A RATTLING
I ENDED UP BREAKING MY XBOX 360 CAUSE I OVER HEATED IT TOO MUCH UNTIL THE HALF RED CIRCLE POPPED OUT…..
THE LIL BLACK BOX WAS JUST A SENSOR, IT IS TOWARDS THE FRONT OF THE 360 ALMOST TO THE TOP-LEFT OF THE LEFT MEMORY CARD SOCKET (ALSO FRONT LEFT OF THE MOTHER BOARD), IT’S FUNCTION IS TO TELL THE CONSOLE IF ITS LAYING DOWN OR STANDING, FREEZING HAPPENS BECAUSE SOME WELDING POINT AT THE “BOTTOM SIDE” OF THE MOTHER BOARD MELTED. USUALLY DIRECTLY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HEATSINK AREA (IF YOU TAKE OFF THE X-CLAMPS, YOU COULD SEE), SO THESE WELD POINTS EITHER MELTED OR FELL OF….THEY FALL OFF EASILLY SO BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN OPENING THE MOTHER BOARD…..IT’S WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU PLAY THE FIRST 360′s, SPECIALLY PRO 360′s FOR LONG AND THEY GET PRETTY HOT, ALSO WITH SOME EARLY VERSIONS OF THE ARCADE.
NOW, THE BEST 360′s TO GET ARE THE NEW ARCADES, IT HAS EXTRA MEMORY W/O THE HARD DRIVE AND IT HAS A JASPER MOTHER BOARD, THE TYPE OF 360s WILL BE THE LATE ELITES….
I DIDN’T HELP MOST OF YOU BECAUSE I BROKE MY 360 AND I GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF EMAILS ASKING FOR HELP TILL THE POINT I THAT I GOT TIRED BECAUSE I DIDN’T CARE ABOUT THE 360, THEN I CAME HERE TO TRY AND DELETE MY POST BUT INSTEAD I ENDED UP WRITING THIS…..
BY THE WAY, IF YOU NOTICE SOME WELD POINTS FELL OF, YOU EITHER HAVE NO HOPE, CAN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN WAY TO FIX IT, OR YOU CAN GO TO RADIOSHACK AND BUY A WELDER AND TRY TO WELD IT BACK, JUST MAKE SURE YOU GET A SUPER FINE TIP, TAKE NOTE OF HOW SMALL THOSE WELDPOINTS ARE, I HAD A TROUBLE WELDING MINES BECAUSE I GOT THE WRONG TIP, SO I ENDED UP BREAKING MY 360 TILL THE POINT BEYOND NO REPAIR….SO NOW I HAVE 360 PARTS IF ANY OF YOU NEED…BUT I DON’T GOT AN EBAY ACC I WAS HOPING TO SET ONE UP TO SELL THEM, OR THROW AWAY ALL THESE PARTS…..
peace…
guys Im having a problem with Oblivion when I turn it
on is say error cant read disk and then says things I
should do to fix it I do al three choices and nothing.
I think the problem with oblivion for xbox is the hardrive
I think its the only one responsible and could someone tell me if I should get a new one or not? The hardrive has trouble
taking care of some minor glitches and as a result says it cant
read the disk.
CHECK IS THE DISK HAS ANY SCRATCHES…….TRY THE GAME WITHOUT THE HARD-DRIVE….AND IF ITS NOT READABLE….YOU MIGHT NEED AN UPDATE IF YOU DONT HAVE XBOX LIVE…BUT IF YOU HAVENT OPENED IT, RETURN IT.
I FOUND OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM IS TO WHY THE 360 FREEZES….
I OPENED MY 360 AND DIDN’T KNOW THAT IF I OPENED IT I COULDN’T RETURN IT. TURNS OUT I GOT THE RING OF DEATH…
I TOOK APART THE HEATSINKS LIKE SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON THE WEB SAY….AND I ADDED ARCTIC SILVER 5, YOU CAN BUY IT AT RADIOSHACK…ANYWAY…..IT GOES BY THE NAME OF X-CLAMP FIX…..
SECOND, I READ IDK WHERE…FROM SOME THING ON THE WEB…THAT IF YOU SHAKE YOUR 360 AND HEAR SOMETHING LOOSE INSIDE…..ITS BROKEN…TRUE…..WICH IS WHY THE XBOX360 FREEZES….I FOUND OUT WAT GOES LOOSE…ITS THIS LITTLE BOX….IT WAS LOOSE….I TOOK IT APART, BROKE IT BY AXIDENT ADDED SOME ARCTIC SILVER 5 PUT SOME ELECTRICAL TAPE ON IT AND PUT IT BACK WHERE IT WAS, AND I JUST PUSHED IT ALL THE WAY IN…..OVERHEATED MY 360 TO MAKE THE HEATSINKS WORK…..LET IT COOL OFF…AND TURNED IT ON…..NOW BEFORE IT USED TO FREEZE AT START UP, OR AFTER 2-6 MINUTES OF PLAYING ANY VIDEOGAME…..SO NOW THAT I TIGHTED THE BOX CUS THATS ALL U GOTTA DO…..PUSH THE LITTLE BOX WITH A MARBLE INSIDE IN….NOW IT DIDN’T REEZE AND I TRIED IT FOR 30 MINS…SO ITS NOW WORKING AGAIN…THE LITTLE BOX IS RIGHT BELOW THE DVD THING TO THE HARD-DRIVE SIDE, LEFT FRONT CORNER….IT HAS 4 BENT WIRES….GOING INSIDE THE BOX….ITS NOT THE INTERNAL COOLING FAN….THE LITTLE BOX IS BLACK AND IT SAYS….SW2G1….ITS CLOSE TO MEMORY CARD SLOT 1…..SO JUST TIGHTEN THAT LITTLE BOX AND KEEP YO 360 VENTILATED…..IT MIGHT BE HARD TO PUSH THE BOX IN….BUT DON’T BE SCARED….AFTER U TIGHTEN THAT BOX…IT SHOULD STOP YOUR 360 FROM FREEZING, NOT OVERHEATING, BUT REMEMBER…DO THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE NO WARRANTY AND ALREADY OPENED IT AND ONLY IF YOU HEAR SOMETHING LOOSE INSIDE….I HOPE U FIND THE LITTLE BLACK BOX….IF NEED MORE DIRECTIONS…PROBLY PICTURES……EMAIL ME AT JIG716J4LJ16@LIVE.COM OR MSG ME AT XBOLIVE : GMER TAG: JIG 716 J4L J16……GOOD LUCKS…
Ex-Box is crab, My POFS(piece of fucking shit) Freezes and lockes up. Wow Just like every EFFN MICROCRAP PRODUCT EVER MADE. Called CrapperSoft and the are sending me a box. Worst part brand new game in it when it died, that got scratch to shit. Microcrap isnt refunding the 3 hour game I take a 64 dollar lose. When I get the Crap Box back, I am trading it in on a PS3. FUCK MICROSOFT!!!!!
My xbox is a pos, it has gotton the rrod four times in a year and a half! I’m not very fond of pc’s either (2 broken pcs at home). My advice to anyone with xbox trouble shooting, and every owner would be to sell your xbox before Microsoft dumps the program (value would drop like the stock market during bush admin.) and buy a ps3! Buying Microsoft over apple and Sony has been one of my worst decisions. Bottom line, spend the extra money on a mac (rather than a pc) and spend a extra 150 dollars on a ps3, you will eventully wind up saving money because of little to no repairs.
I wish i would have saw that when i first got this peace of shit XBOX. I will never fuck with microsoft
easy fix.take xbox apart.replace x clips with screws and nylon washers.works great now.permanent fix.
I am beyond livid right now. My elite which I purchased almost 3 years ago died about a year ago. I got a replacement it dies a month ago, I got another and it dies 5 days later (all rrod). I get an elite back and not even being able to finish setup it freezes and a few tries later it also gives me the rrod. To top it all off I purchase a Jasper (most current version) arcade unit as a back-up when my elite fails and it also gave the 3rrod. I got the box to send my Arcade one today which I will ship it tomorrow (i’ve sent so many back mine are expidited)and call and get a coffin for the elite.
My console is on the top shelf, nothing blocking it and still it gives me 3rrod. I am at a loss with SF:IV, RE:5, Halo Wars all in my library and I cannot enjoy them. I currently have 2 360′s that are unplayable. I am afraid to admit it but I should just sell them and forget playing on a 360. I reformatted the hard drive and even bought a new hard drive thing it could be a bad drive. No matter what I do I am stuck with a system (now 2) that I can use and great games that I cannot enjoy.
power supply buddy
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