BE ON THE LOOKOUT : new red/green ring of death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_kJPb3OBw

This is my problem. Not my video but this is the exact same thing.

I just sent my xbox 360 in for repair for the 3 red lights. I waited a month or so and I get a replacement xbox back. I believe its a falcon motherboard but i have no way to verify that.

So 2 hours ago I got my xbox 360 back, all excited I opened it up and plugged everything in tight and properly without making any mistakes. Turn it on and no picture comes up, but it doesnt fade through the green lights like i usually does, it flashed but i'm color blind so i couldnt tell what colors they were. It eventually went to 1 green light great, but no video or sound. Invite a buddy over to tell me what colors are showing up and he says I have 2 red lights and 2 green lights, they flash but they alternate positions.

Like 1 second i get 2 green on top and 2 red on bottom, and half a second later it switches to 2 green on bottom and 2 red on top and so on and so forth.

This is supposed to be brand new, I just got it back and it literally does not work. I'm dying here. Anyone heard of this? this is craziness. I read an article that someone said its seeming like the new RRoD or i guess RGRoD.

For the love of all things Jeff help me!

i appreciate you guys posting.. This may be a new RGROD with the falcon motherboard by the sounds ofit. I sure hope not. I've been trying to keep my cool, I mean i've already phoned support and dropped it off iwth a label i printed out from my email with UPS. Its already at thier store, just made it one time.

But when i phoned tech support they listed this kind of behavior as " unknown " which really flipped my bird.

Not many people have it. The sad part and all you gamers will hear me on this, All i wanted to do was be patient get my xbox back so i can play some more GTA4 - and get ready for NHL 09. THats it. But even with the new parts in it, with better cooling and soldering it still don't work.

I actually heard someone saying they had this when I worked at Toys R Us and I blew them off because I hadn't heard of it. It just sounded too odd. Thanks for posting this, because I will definitely be looking out for this one myself.

"it flashed but i'm color blind so i couldnt tell what colors they were"?:lol: This is a joke right.Travis350z28

Actually in men Red Green color Blindness is fairly common. I know 3 people that are Red Green color blind.

Its just in disco mode, no worries.valgear

LMAO, I actually laughed out loud. Scared my mom.

"it flashed but i'm color blind so i couldnt tell what colors they were"?:lol: This is a joke right.Travis350z28

Ya its what Sparky said.. its odd but its nearly impossible for me to tell the difference unless someone points it out for me. I see color, but differently and harder to distinguish.

As to the person who suggested opening it. I've watched tons of videos even doesnloaded the "pay" books off p2p, I do feel confident enough attempting stuff like that, but i feel i dont want to void a warranty with microsoft to attempt it. Cause it was initially sent in with the 3 red lights, the "New" xbox 360 they sent was supposed to be a new replacement machine. Looking at the manufactured date its may of 2006. So i assume its refurb(whcih i thought they were doing anymore with the 3 red lights) so i think its a refurb with new hardware in it, like Falcon or some other MB.

And for the toys R US guy, the person on the phone thought I was crazy too, but i tried to get them to go to the youtube video so they can see for themselves.

Agghh! It's the DROP! (Disco Ring of Pain)chazasul

^^We call it that from now on, lol

thanks for the link i'll give it a read. / as for reading street lights I can tell its a different shade basically. But also its positoin is the easiest way to tell.

Right now with this issue i sort of think I feel like how those people who FIRST started getting the 3 red lights felt. " oh don't worry sir, we can send it in for sevice and get it repaired " man I hope mine is not BS like that. I dont want to get it back again and have the same thing happen.

and I think I like the DROP better too, then the RGROD.

Never heard of it. Never seen it.

well its for sure, crazy, its def a ring, and its def torture. Well i hvae this page as a favortie. So ill come back here every so often and update this on the status of this. I mean I might as well. Everyone of us needs to know if there is a new issue on the horizon. I mean IMHO, if there is another major issue from MS that jeopardizes the integrity of the xbox 360, then I think action from us Consumers in a major way shall be accepted as nothing less.

Everyone knows of someone who has had an issue with red lights, freezing, or general failure. To many people. We spent good money, and ill rest on this and think about what we as a community can do.

It's true that I will be happy if my xbox comes back to me this time repaired, yes. But that doesnt help they next poor son of a **** from having to go through this for no reason.

What if i bought a car and it turns out that the engine starts but the transmission doesnt go into drive. I spent good money on that car, but i later find out that everyone else who bought this xbox 360 car are having the same trouble. Well instead of the manufactuer finding the problem and fixing it for sure. They don't and send out the new model of the car with problems as well. So here we are the community of "car" buyers out in the world love the performance and things you can do with your new car, but we as a community have to come up with our own fixes. Standing around in our "Garages" trying to come up with a new fix for our "cars".

If this happened in real life the world would strike, they would riot, they would protest, they would want their money back. But when microsoft does it? nothing? oh one case against them that doesn't go anywhere.

Where are our voices? its our games?

ok thats enough out of me for now. I'm ranting but i believe i bring up some good points.