RROD Officially Dead!!!

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Is the Red Ring of Death Finally a Thing of the Past?

If you've owned an Xbox 360, chances are you've been on the phone with customer support trying to get a coffin for your now-dead console. While some models fail due to DVD drives breaking down or graphics cards going kabloey, the most common cause of premature Xbox death is the dreaded general hardware failure, aka the Red Ring of Death. If reports are to be believed however, Microsoft has now fixed the issue once and for all.

Word on the street is that earlier this summer Microsoft began quietly shipping Xboxes featuring the Jasper chipset, which is smaller and runs cooler than its older brothers. Conventional wisdom holds that Microsoft's previous chipsets were the primary cause of the dreaded RRoD. According to JoeyGadget, the new Jaspers are found in all 360s produced after June 6, 2008, falling in lot #8031 and up. Therefore, if you're in the market for a new system, it would be good to check and see if you can get one that falls within those parameters.

Due to the fact that Microsoft never officially disclosed the reason behind the RRoD, the company has not commented on the release of the Jasper chipset. Therefore, we don't know if these chips are also going into replacement and refurbished Xboxes, or if they are reserved solely for new models. What we do know is that these little beauties are out there, and hopefully that means you won't have to see those horrid flashing red lights ever again. Now then, if only Microsoft could take care of all the other things that tend to break on their machine then we might finally have a little closure.

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Well my born early 2006 xbox360 works great...rrod who?

LOL it's been dropped multiple times and still works :lol:

Find it strange that MS hasn't come out with an official press announcement or something like that.

and "Due to the fact that Microsoft never officially disclosed the reason behind the RRoD, the company has not commented on the release of the Jasper chipset."

So in the end this is all just speculation.

Yeah, right

I do not think it is dead but definitely taking its last breathe. My brother has the launch console and I bought the elite as soon as it came out, so far so good. I never really understood the 33% failure bc most of my friends never experienced the rrod and I am thinking of over 30 people. Still a small sample size, I am sure someone got rrod three times by now, lol.

My 360 just died on me last week. Ironically I hadn't touched it for over a week, and it just died when I turned it on. I put it through all nighters and demanding sessions and nothing. Oh well, at least it went peacefully.

Anyway, there are far too many older systems still out there being used and being refurbished for this problem to ever go away. They'll still be having RRoD problems when the next Xbox is released, the problem is too widespread..

red ring of death is dead.

red ring of death is dead.

ReverseCycology

Should have sent an email to my 360 just before it died. It never got the memo.

As long as 360's are being made, there will always be disappointed customers who get the RRoD.

:D

Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

oh my, here we go again..

That's horse. Mine just RRoD'd on me today which annoys the hell out of me with Fable 2 coming so soon. Hopefully they get it back to me fairly quickly.

Of course, I had a 360 made before that Jasper set so yeah.

Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

im getting deja vu again for some reason :lol:

Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

Ahh, so if I asked you to prove if you actually had a 360, you really can't because it is in Germany getting fixed, right? I see what you did there;)

I have my doubts that it will be completely eradicated.

I honestly think its the slimming design of the console that gives it its failure rate.

Just think with me on this one.

What other console do you ever remember that has concave sides? None.

What other console has had a problem like that ? None that I can remember, but its a good possibility that there is one out there.

So, yeah, it may not be the functions or the chipset, it may be the shape. Just wild speculation.

No. Aslong as people still own the older generation of 360's then it should still be happening, even with new models, they can't completely remove the old ones from circulation.WasntAvailable

Precisely. There's still, at least ten million defective consoles in circulation and the guys at the post office still get regular RROD shipments in the official Microsoft boxes.

[QUOTE="PS_John"]Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??bez2083

Ahh, so if I asked you to prove if you actually had a 360, you really can't because it is in Germany getting fixed, right? I see what you did there;)

Dear Customer,

This is in response to your request for delivery information concerning the shipment listed below.

Tracking Number: secret
Service: STANDARD
Weight: 3.80 Kg
Delivered On: 09/10/2008 3:42
Delivered To: FRANKFURT , DE
Signed By: GAJOS
Location: RAMPE

Thank you for giving us this opportunity to serve you.

Yours sincerely,
UPS

[QUOTE="bez2083"]

[QUOTE="PS_John"]Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

Ahh, so if I asked you to prove if you actually had a 360, you really can't because it is in Germany getting fixed, right? I see what you did there;)

Dear Customer,

This is in response to your request for delivery information concerning the shipment listed below.

Tracking Number: secret
Service: STANDARD
Weight: 3.80 Kg
Delivered On: 09/10/2008 3:42
Delivered To: FRANKFURT , DE
Signed By: GAJOS
Location: RAMPE

Thank you for giving us this opportunity to serve you.

Yours sincerely,
UPS

that tells us absolutely nothing. what's your gamertag?

officially dead huh?. well thats good news for those who buy 360's from here on out. when does the MS extended warranty expire and how many millions of 360's are out with the "33%"(i beleive its higher than that) failure rate? 20 mill give or take?

i say to MS. good luck with your future plans. your gonna need it

[QUOTE="bez2083"]

[QUOTE="PS_John"]Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??PS_John

Ahh, so if I asked you to prove if you actually had a 360, you really can't because it is in Germany getting fixed, right? I see what you did there;)

Dear Customer,

This is in response to your request for delivery information concerning the shipment listed below.

Tracking Number: secret
Service: STANDARD
Weight: 3.80 Kg
Delivered On: 09/10/2008 3:42
Delivered To: FRANKFURT , DE
Signed By: GAJOS
Location: RAMPE

Thank you for giving us this opportunity to serve you.

Yours sincerely,
UPS

Even though there is a repair center in Frankfurt, that could be anything you sent off there. I'm not asking you to bend over backwards and prove it, but your username alone just hurts your credibility when it comes to scenarios like this.

RROD = General hardware failure .. that can be ANYTHING deemed serious enough for repair.

Consoles breaking will NEVER end, no matter what console, therefore the RROD will never end.

The most common cause, overheating, WILL end.

[QUOTE="PS_John"][QUOTE="bez2083"]

[QUOTE="PS_John"]Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??clone01

Ahh, so if I asked you to prove if you actually had a 360, you really can't because it is in Germany getting fixed, right? I see what you did there;)

Dear Customer,

This is in response to your request for delivery information concerning the shipment listed below.

Tracking Number: secret
Service: STANDARD
Weight: 3.80 Kg
Delivered On: 09/10/2008 3:42
Delivered To: FRANKFURT , DE
Signed By: GAJOS
Location: RAMPE

Thank you for giving us this opportunity to serve you.

Yours sincerely,
UPS

that tells us absolutely nothing. what's your gamertag?

Not everyone who has a 360 has a gamer tag because it's not free to play online!

That's horse. Mine just RRoD'd on me today which annoys the hell out of me with Fable 2 coming so soon. Hopefully they get it back to me fairly quickly.

Of course, I had a 360 made before that Jasper set so yeah.

Zassimick

most likely, they will. mine only took about 1-2 weeks turnaround to fix. and as a testament to Sony customer service, my PS3 blew up (under warranty) and they got it back to me in 10 days.

Red Ring has been dead since Falcon

THE END

Not everyone who has a 360 has a gamer tag because it's not free to play online!

wootasifwoot

silver and using XBL marketplace is free. and they more or less almost make you have some sort of gamertag to play the console. so what is PS_John's?

it doesnt really matter if microsoft fixed the core root of the RROD problem. It's not like people are going to forget about it at this point. people will still make posts about they're 30th 360 getting RROD and that they've finally had enough with microsoft's BS and then talks about getting a ps3.

maybe next generation microsoft..

[QUOTE="PS_John"]Care to explain why my xbox 360 Jasper is in Germany getting repaired then??DanteSuikoden

on topic though, it really will never die. weren't all those previous fixes supposed to solve the problem?

[QUOTE="Zassimick"]

That's horse. Mine just RRoD'd on me today which annoys the hell out of me with Fable 2 coming so soon. Hopefully they get it back to me fairly quickly.

Of course, I had a 360 made before that Jasper set so yeah.

clone01

most likely, they will. mine only took about 1-2 weeks turnaround to fix. and as a testament to Sony customer service, my PS3 blew up (under warranty) and they got it back to me in 10 days.

A little comforting to hear that. :) I must play Fable 2 and waiting longer because of this stupid happenstance is disappointing.

Red Ring has been dead since Falcon

THE END

FirstDiscovery

[QUOTE="wootasifwoot"]

Not everyone who has a 360 has a gamer tag because it's not free to play online!

clone01

silver and using XBL marketplace is free. and they more or less almost make you have some sort of gamertag to play the console. so what is PS_John's?

I second this. All you need is silver membership to set up a gametag. We are wainting PS John.

Because teh Jasper is so amazingly foolproof that there is no way that a 360 can ever fail again! Yeah, sure. :roll: AvIdGaMeR444

Well my born early 2006 xbox360 works great...rrod who?

LOL it's been dropped multiple times and still works :lol:

woobabooba

You just jinxed yourself. I wouldn't even dare turn on that 360 anymore if I were you ;)