My 360 is freezing, and making loud random ticking noises....

Forza 2 is almost unplayable.

I can play for maybe 10 mins and it will freeze.

This has happend many times.

I can't play Command and Conquer 3 without the sound going out and then eventually freezing up. This is only on Live though, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.

Sometimes it won't even read the disk at all.

I tried to play Doom 3 after downloading the new BC update and it wont even load the game without giving me some error code and saying the disk is unreadable.

So, is the thing slowly dying on me ? What do you guys think.

yea dude its happening to me too don't know what to do either.

I think you need to stop tilting your machine because it's probably scratching the discs.RainandSunshine

I don't tilt my machine. I don't move the console while its on.

Every 360 disk I own is flawless.

the ticks might be the hdd went bad, remove it and try to playflainsoul

I took of the HDD and its still randomly ticking.

There is no set patern its just random.

Sometimes it will stop for a min then pick right back up again.

I Fear the worst is yet to come....thun, thun, thun -- The infamous Red Rings of Light will be paying you a visit VERY soon.dalriders

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sounds like your disk drive is off track...if it happenes with all your games then there is a problem...call microsoft to try and fix itWMDfreeman99

Forza 2 is almost unplayable.

I can play for maybe 10 mins and it will freeze.

This has happend many times.

I can't play Command and Conquer 3 without the sound going out and then eventually freezing up. This is only on Live though, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.

Sometimes it won't even read the disk at all.

I tried to play Doom 3 after downloading the new BC update and it wont even load the game without giving me some error code and saying the disk is unreadable.

So, is the thing slowly dying on me ? What do you guys think.

Dracus47

I think you should try to get some dust out since that ticking has happened to my pc before and try to do it without opening the xbox. Also try plugging it directly to the wall because sometime the surge proctector causes problems. I say try that and see what happens.

I think you should try to get some dust out since that ticking has happened to my pc before and try to do it without opening the xbox. Also try plugging it directly to the wall because sometime the surge proctector causes problems. I say try that and see what happens.

balindos

Well I did try the dusting thing (with a can of compressed air) and that didnt really seem to help too much at all.

And I do have it plugged into the wall.

I'm going to try out Gears of War and see if I run into any problems.

If I do I'm taking it in.

The weird thing is that it plays Gears of War perfectly fine without a hiccup.