I don't get why people get Red Ring of Death

I still have the original Xbox 360 at launch, and for the past 3 days I've been playing Star Ocean for about 9 hours straight a day. My Xbox is doing fine and I will soon put it through an even more lengthy task when Resident Evil 4 comes out. My and my friend will probally clock in about 7 hours, pause, go grab some taco bell and un-pause and play for another 8 hours.

I don't get how people go through 3 or 4 Xbox 360.

Yeah, friend has two of them. One is actually sitting inside of an entertainment center. We would clock about 6-7 hours a night most nights playing on Live with both of them before I moved away.

They still get action, and they're still not dead :)

My xbox is over 3 years old and I haven't had the RROD yet *knocks on wood*.

How can you play for 7 hours straight? You need to get out more.

I still have the original Xbox 360 at launch, and for the past 3 days I've been playing Star Ocean for about 9 hours straight a day. My Xbox is doing fine and I will soon put it through an even more lengthy task when Resident Evil 4 comes out. My and my friend will probally clock in about 7 hours, pause, go grab some taco bell and un-pause and play for another 8 hours.

I don't get how people go through 3 or 4 Xbox 360.

the ring of death is not always a hardware problem it could be that the supply power is on the floor and that its to hot or that theres not anough electricity coming from the extention lead. also the plug may have come out the socket a mm.

What's with the hole on the side of your xbox?whisperingmute

he has one of those fan things inside so his warranty is void.... he can't turn it into microsoft

I don't get how people go through 3 or 4 Xbox 360. Wiishy

Well, there's so many reasons. One is that Microsoft makes millions of consoles, so not every console will be perfect. The first batch of consoles had a high rate of errors.

I've on my 5th Xbox 360 now. And I still have fate in Microsoft since they do repair it for free, and I've also got a free games (not great ones, but the're free) and extra month of free Xbox Live GOLD membership.

Thats pretty impressive.

I take care of my 360, I try and use it only for 2-3 hours at a time and I never use it for watching dvd movies, so I can try and keep it fresh :)

But... I bought my 360, december 2007, and September last year I had my first RROD. It then went for the repair center. I got it back, and 14 days later, I got the RROD again.

Now, It has lasted so far without a third RROD, but, last week I sent it back to the repair center, because my 360 had started making some very loud noices that I dont think was very healthy :)

So, hopefully Microsoft has learned from the 360 for their next console, and also adding full BC with old games, then they could have the ultimate console on their hands.

Only happened to me once, which was early in the summer and probably won't happen to me again anytime soon because they sent me a new console, and I was told that the new consoles have been designed to prevent this from happening again.Tigerman950

The new consoles are as likely to fail as the old ones.