Alright, here's hoping someone reads all the way to the end of this thread...

My X360 is acting up: I can play for like 10 minutes, and then the screen freezes. I have to power the system off and restart, at which time the freeze happens more quickly than before. This happens with every game I have tried thus far, including Arcade titles saved on the hardrive.

I do NOT every get a red ring or anything like that. I have tried several times with different games over the past three days, and have had this happen each time, approx 10-15 minutes after I strt playing, though sometime it is shorter. I have heard that sometimes claering the hardrive cache can help, but I am unsure of how to do this with NXE? If that doesn't work, any other ideas?

FYI, this is a launch system from 2005, I am sure people will blame that, but ...

wenzke

One of my friends had that happen to him on his late 2006 system. I'm pretty sure its a hardware failure that the 360 doesn't recognize and has something to do with the GPU messing up. He got Red rings once he said, but I could not get 1 or 3 rings to show up. it kept freezing once you get into the level at a certain point. about 5-10 minutes of playing, reguardless of game.

Oh, and all systems manufactured before Jan 1. 2006 get free repairs. So if you pre ordered it or got it before 2006, you can send it in for free if you haven't opened it up yet.

My 360 is telling me that it can't read disks every time I put a game in! New games, too! Games with no scratches, it's crazy. My 360 is even telling me that one of the games was a DVD. Please help here, guys. If you feel like shooting me an email: glenndorsey72@yahoo.com. Or just send me a gamespot message or reply to this thread. Anything can help. Thanks.

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your Lens has gone bad. you might even get that its a media disk, or you might even get the "PUT THIS GAME INTO AN XBOX 360" message. either send it into microsoft, or replace the lens. if its under warrantee, good for you, if not, a lens is like 3-5 bucks on Ebay and shipping totals it to around 10.

I've replaced a lens on 2 different xboxs. its not hard. I actually kinda want to start charging people money for me to fix it :D (but hey, they're my friends :) )

Your lens is bad. Mine did something similar. Mine said put this game into an Xbox 360. I replaced the lens and it works perfectly now. (until red ring :()

I also replaced the lens in a friends 360 recently and his kept saying open tray. Lens is really easy to fix. and it only costs 10 bucks with shipping. If your warrantee is not up then by golly send it to microsoft!

If not, replacing the lens is not bad at all. Games load much faster as well.

Where'd you get that information?

I wouldn't see the point in even having the 360 as an HD gaming system if it doesn't have any of its games in HD.

The Original Xbox had pretty much nothing in HD. if thats what your talking about.

Yea, So it happened to me today, We found that the 360 had been on since we left this morning and we got back at 8 pm.

I have a launchbox with the deep silver paint, and the warrantee has expired.

I have already replaced my lens and have opened the 360 quite a bit. What I need to know is anyway to fix it besides the towel trick. I figure I'd need to sauder some points back together, but I don't know where those are. Under the heatsinks maybe?

Dude, I don't know what to tell ya. My 360 runs perfectly fine in 1080p and everything is sharper and smoother than my computer monitor. And yes, My TV's contrast ratio is much better than my Monitors, I can tell just by having them side to side that the blacks are darker and whites are whiter on the TV.

Did you try it on another HD TV? The only TV I've expirenced with problems like that are Visio's, and I'm a TV Nut.

480i is done in 30fps, 480p is 60fps, due to how the frames are set onto the tv.

You tried it with HDMI? (if you have a 360 with HDMI)

Yea, So It happened to me today, we found that the 360 had been on since we left this morning and we got back at 8 pm. You know what that means.. Sauder points are broken.

Its not so bad. I actually consider myself lucky, because I have a launch box. yea.. one of those 360's that still had the deep silver paint on the controller and grey plastic trim.

Well After about 3 years, I finally got the red ring.. which is bad considering the warrantee is expired. If the RRoD is still applicable for my 360, thats too late, cause I already have opened it to replace the Lens in the disk drive (fairly simple). Now that I have the red ring, I'm not just going to scrap the thing and buy a new one. I know that you can fix this thing, and it doesn't involve towels. I just need a thread or walkthrough on which points I need to sauder back into place.

From my understanding, they're probably under the heat sinks. I need to figure out how to remove those. I don't know if an image is supposed to display on the screen when you turn in on with the red ring, but mine doesn't. which is strange. 1 ring you get a message saying you have a hardware failure, but mine didn't, which leaves me to believe the failure had to do with the output of Audio/Video signal.

Its an ephemeral situation I know, but If anyone knows info that doesn't involve using towels to fry my components and have my 360 working for a week before it totally fails, I'm all ears.

Thanks! :D

No, LCD's have the potential for burn in.

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