The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up

The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.scottishbull72

Right off the bat, let's start with the fact that I am a PS3 owner, sooo...take my comment or leave it - up to you.

I have 2 friends who have 360's. My co-worker bought his in November and had to send his back earlier this year. Rings of Death or whatever you want to call it - it just didn't stopped working.

My best guy friend had a launch and sent his back twice. Same Rings of death dealie. Now, it's scratching his discs. From his mouth - He's playing Oblivion and all of a sudden, he can't load the next area. He shuts down and checks the disc - a very noticeable scratch. It wasn't there before but it's there now. He didn't move it, he didn't jump up and down, it just got scratched. (He did say if he gets the rings again, he's going to buy a PS3 but that's beside the point)

I know that this may seem like a re-hash of what everyone's talking about and there's a reason for that - because it's true. I have no reason to make this up. As a gamer, I felt really bad for my co-worker because he'd been trying to beat this one part of Gears of War and he was utterly frustrated. Even though I own the competitions system, I do play the 360 when at my friend's place without a problem. DOA, anyone???

Even though 100% of the people I know who have 360's have had to have them repaired, am I going to say that 100% or even 50% of the overall 360-owners have had to send theirs back? No. I'm just going by what I see.

The truth of the matter is that if everyone who has had problems contacts the BBB, it will get resolved. Trust me, MS does not want a bad rating on the BBB.

When so many people have problems that the 'towel trick' is invented, there is a problemflazzle

[QUOTE="scottishbull72"]Nice fake picture he must have used photoshopragek1ll589

It's called Flamebait. Someday everyone will learn to recognize it.

My launch 360 took a crap on me(3 red lights), I knew it would happen, was just playing the wait game, It happened and I just bought a Elite to replace it, no biggy.

EDIT: BTW, the 3 red lights can be faked, you just plug your 360 into a surge protector and turn the switch on the surge protector off than on real fast and it makes the 360 get the 3 red lights. Never done it, but I saw a video of it.

[QUOTE="flazzle"]When so many people have problems that the 'towel trick' is invented, there is a problemCarmilla31

Out of 13 million 360's sold?

[QUOTE="scottishbull72"]The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.iunderstand

Well I've never gone starving so all this poverty business is probably made up too.

Yeah i no tahts defintally true

[QUOTE="Kekira"]My dad must be part of the 10% because he just lost his second 360 in the past year.scottishbull72

stop lien

I wish I could show you, but all that's left of his 360 now isit's cables and the hardrive. It's off to MS now. XD

[QUOTE="GarchomPro"]Just because yours doesnt break doesnt mean others dont. Just look at the thousands and thousands being sent to Microsoft because of Red lights, MS is even running out of coffins to send the ppl who have the 360 to put in and send back :lol:DuDisNow

That is a huge lie.

My launch 360 took a crap on me(3 red lights), I knew it would happen, was just playing the wait game, It happened and I just bought a Elite to replace it, no biggy.

Nagidar

You are part of the problem, sir. You're indicating to Microsoft that it's fine to release shoddy hardware, in fact, you're rewarding them for it.

my xbox has been working from day 1 and every one plays it. its one about 10-12 other a day and the air what come out is cool never warm.scottishbull72

all my friends have 360s and my brothers friends as well with no red lights and they say its all fake

[QUOTE="scottishbull72"]my xbox has been working from day 1 and every one plays it. its one about 10-12 other a day and the air what come out is cool never warm.scottishbull72

all my friends have 360s and my brothers friends as well with no red lights and they say its all fake

You're not proving anything with your spam you know. Apart from this being your joke account.

Mine ran well for a little over a year and then I got the lights. I like my 360 but I don't think these stories are made up. Maybe some, but I think most are real. Hopefully this heatsink thing will help out.mani111

Hopefully the heatsink will force Microsoft to admit there is a systematic issue. I don't know how they'll be able to dodge that one really.

The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.scottishbull72

Reported you for spam. It's getting annoying.

In other news I'm getting a new Premium and my game repalced.

they are sending me a box to send it back to them atm lol and if u think its fake just call the help line it has a special thing for 3 red lights.360player_eq12

Yep. You can't even get to a human until you have gone through the asinine automated troubleshooter, that incidentally is better then the humans you eventually get to interact with.

That got mighty old on my 5th and 6th call.

I am a massive Xbox fan, I can't see how anyone could argue it is not the best machine around right now BUT I would never defend Xbox reliability. It's shocking. I'd say a good 50% of the people I know with boxes have had atleast one unit fail.

Secondly, if your Xbox is not venting HOT air after a substancial gaming session, your fans aren't working as they should. Hot air out = good remember.

I am a massive Xbox fan, I can't see how anyone could argue it is not the best machine around right now BUT I would never defend Xbox reliability. It's shocking. I'd say a good 50% of the people I know with boxes have had atleast one unit fail.

Secondly, if your Xbox is not venting HOT air after a substancial gaming session, your fans aren't working as they should. Hot air out = good remember.

speedsix

The fans are working great i feel the air coming out and the air is very cool the fans blows out the flame out of my lighter

acctually most of the stories are made up my Dad works for Fujitsu(company that makes the 360 HD's and hes gone to the repair factories and alot of them there was one little thing that was wrong with it like the cord wasn't in all the way or some stupid thing like that but the person that sent it in was convinced that it was broken and they dont want to argue so they say to send it in.sonofabear17

Riiiiight.... all those people are sending in totally functional 360'sand FORCING themselves to go through the hell that is MS Support.

The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.scottishbull72

So, just because you still have a working launch 360, that means EVERYONE ELSE IS LYING ABOUT 3 RED LIGHTS :roll:

The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.scottishbull72

Look IMO anyone coming to system wars to tell people they have a broken 360 is faking. First off why would come here to say that?? Is it really the place to really be saying it, you know unless you dont like the 360.

you say this, but little do you know. your 360 will break one day. every 360 will break. it's a matter of time.paullywog

So will PS3s, and PS2, XBOX and 360 and every other console ever made because sooner or later electronics die.

The way i see it all the 3 red lights of death is 90% faked up i have had my xbox 360 from day one no overheating or red lights the air come out the back of my xbox 360 is cool never warm or hot.scottishbull72

I agree. 10% failure rate is accurate.

lol, if you defend microsoft on this you would have to believe in a pretty big consipiracy. Sony is faking all these posts and blogs. People who post here are not your friends and allies, they are your enemies. The EU's tradecommission just hates US companies like microsoft so much that they play along with the big lie. All these red light pics are just beautifully photoshopped alterations. Oh what about those news reports? Omg, the conspiracy! Seriously, the only reason you're playing along is because microsoft refuses to acknowledge the problem because they dont want to spend money on a redesign like sony did.

I am a massive Xbox fan, I can't see how anyone could argue it is not the best machine around right now BUT I would never defend Xbox reliability. It's shocking. I'd say a good 50% of the people I know with boxes have had atleast one unit fail.

Secondly, if your Xbox is not venting HOT air after a substancial gaming session, your fans aren't working as they should. Hot air out = good remember.

speedsix

Microsoft could certainly use one of those, lolol.

[QUOTE="speedsix"]

I am a massive Xbox fan, I can't see how anyone could argue it is not the best machine around right now BUT I would never defend Xbox reliability. It's shocking. I'd say a good 50% of the people I know with boxes have had atleast one unit fail.

Secondly, if your Xbox is not venting HOT air after a substancial gaming session, your fans aren't working as they should. Hot air out = good remember.

scottishbull72

The fans are working great i feel the air coming out and the air is very cool the fans blows out the flame out of my lighter

The air coming out of the 360 is cooler than fire, and it blows so hard it can blow out flames, isn't that reassuring? lolol

Just look in the xbox 360 forum. There's a sticky for broken 360 problems, and it's over 3000 posts long.

Just look in the gaming news, or just look in the real news. Look on forums everywhere, look on random websites. Look at defective 360 - SPECIFIC websites.

No one knows the extent of the problem (personally i'll guess a 25-40 percent failure rate, which is horrible and by itself keeps me from buying this idiotic system), but it's there. Microsoft is messing with its customers, sending out befective hardware just like their defective software, and you'll LIKE IT alright.

I don't have any nextgen systems, but i'd rather buy the PS3, which i can play a few good games on, than not play all the good games on the xbox because mine's in the repair shop for the second time, my warranty ran out and I have to pay over a hundred bucks to get it fixed.