Xbox 360

i did more than that


i preordered it and waited for 10-30 minutes for shop to open for me to collect it :lol:

The image I get when I think about this is hilarious. :lol:
 
The image I get when I think about this is hilarious. :lol:

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What is that from? Like, page 11?

Is it even from this thread?

Does is maybe sit parallel in time to this thread, always ten seconds behind where this thread is?

What's going on?

Was mole dressed as Black Suit Spider-Ham?
 
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So, we've got wireless internet for our PCs and since my Xbox is no longer in the same room as the modem and I haven't saved up enough for the 360 wireless plug-in, does anybody know if I can connect to Live by plugging the 360's ethernet cable into my laptop, and if so, how?

Edit: Neeeeevermind. Got it. :)
 
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I've read as low as 25% to as high as 54%, pretty ****ty if you ask me.

I deleted the post because I think the article is misleading...at the very least the language used is confusing.

according to their survey, in which over 5,000 console owners participated, the Xbox 360's current failure rate due to the Red Ring of Death, E74 or other hardware failure is 54.2 percent.

It doesn't say that 54% of them get RRoD, it says of all failures, 54% are due to RRoD. And even that is confusing because as I understand it the RRoD is an indicator that something is wrong - the XBox doesn't break because it gets RRoD, it shows a RRoD because it breaks.
 
I deleted the post because I think the article is misleading...at the very least the language used is confusing.



It doesn't say that 54% of them get RRoD, it says of all failures, 54% are due to RRoD. And even that is confusing because as I understand it the RRoD is an indicator that something is wrong - the XBox doesn't break because it gets RRoD, it shows a RRoD because it breaks.

Yeah, the one I saw that said 25%+ was from an internal Microsoft memo. I'm trying to find the article again. In all honesty though, the fail rate is really high, everyone I know personally is on a minimum, their 3rd 360 (myself included).


http://gizmodo.com/5046314/the-shoc...pic-defects-that-killed-millions-of-xbox-360s


This says, 68% of an entire run of CPUs are failures.
 
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Doesw that only apply to ones that were originally fixed to play HDDVD format? I thought the newer models didn't have that anymore which gave more breathing room for the cooling fan, thus fixing the RRoD heating issues.
 
The first time I got the Red Ring of Death was when I had lugged my 360 over to my friend's house to play multiplayer Gears of War. We had the scart connection set to 'HDTV' accidentally and it wouldn't turn on for a while, before we realised what we were doing wrong. At some point, I got the Red Ring, but then it randomly started working again, after a while.

The first time my 360 truly failed, it still had the standard store warranty, so I brought it back and they told me that I could either get another one free of charge, or I could pay €50 and upgrade to the cooler-looking Elite and get a free game, so I did this.

Second time it failed, the store warranty had run out and I had to go through the rigamarole of UPSing it off to some Microsoft subsidiary in Germany, who fixed it and sent it back to me with a month's free Gold subscription (that didn't work). All for €10. It's worked perfectly since then, but unfortunately, whatever happened to it when it got the RROD seemingly also burned a huge, circular scratch into my copy of Guitar Hero: World Tour, which is really annoying. I didn't discover this until well after I got my console fixed, so I don't think there's much point in contacting Microsoft about it, now. At some point, I'll rebuy a pre-owned copy of the game.

I don't think I know anyone else who has had to bring their 'Box back.
 
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I don't have mine anymore but I got RRoD once, and I think it was an overheating issue because I left it turned off for a couple of days, thinking I'd need to send it in, and when I turned it on again it was fine and didn't give me any more issues after that.
 
I played Portal today, for the first time ever, on a friend's Xbox.

And I finished it three hours later.

What a fantastic little game!
 
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Hey, I thought Xbox live was going to do away with Microsoft points and start listing all prices in actual currency. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Have they not implemented it yet?
 

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