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Greetings from your "NEW" Xbox 360, HA!
BlindsideDork | 8:46 AM on 09.22.2008 27 comments


This past weekend I finally got my Xbox 360 in the mail. Despite suckiness of the hardwar, I have to admit that it took only two weeks which is shorter than I thought it be. But I was greeted with a partially familiar face. It isn't fully familiar as I had not seen it before but still...

I plugged up the 360 with all its necessary parts and put it in its place. I hit the circular power button and then what the..?!




What is this? Okay, well let's look at the console.




Yeah, that's right...ONE red light of death! Beat that! It is so much better than your puny "three red lights of death."

I just turned it off and started it back up and it worked "fine." I put fine in quotation marks cause it is a relative term. It works fine for a 360 console. It no where near touches the performance of my other consoles. For one, the 360 still freezes when I play games. On top of that...this 360 (manufactured this year mind you) is the loudest it has ever been. This is either due to me hearing the quiet purr of my PS3 for so long and then hearing the 737 take off or it just being a humongously loud piece of hardware.

It turns out that the E68 error code is a Voltage Error...saying there is not enough power to run the 360 even though I had it set up like I did before. Strange. Looks like 360 works just as "good" as it did before. At least I still don't get disc read errors.

Either way, I am 360 bound again for the time being. That reminds me, who else is downloading Mega Man 9 today!? Can't wait!



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Hoygeit's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 08:50
Hoygeit
Haha, sorry man. Just rough luck with that 360 you get.
NotAZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 08:55
NotAZombie
So does this mean I'll actually have someone to play TF2 with again?
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 08:57
BlindsideDork
Yeah man, I was playing a good bit of TF2 this weekend and I played a few levels of Quake 4 as well.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:12
MrSadistic
It only took a week to get mine back, which surprised me. I got the box on a Monday and then got it back around Thursday or Friday.
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:22
aborto thefetus
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I've always rubbed it in peoples faces that I haven't had many problems with my 360 and I'm not going to stop now.
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:41
Aertyr
I dont understand how everyone and their mothers 360 is so messed up. Am I the only person in the whole world who's 360 is just fine?
TorpedoTed's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:15
TorpedoTed
My PC use to freeze halfway through games and couldnt figure out why...last thinkg i tried was a bigger PSU, hey presto!!
Whats your 360 power plugged into??
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:16
BlindsideDork
The same thing it has been blugged into for the past 8ish months, a power strip.
TorpedoTed's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:19
TorpedoTed
i know its ghey that you have to but id try plugging it in the wall....
ive never had to send off my console, do you have to send the leads back aswell? I only ask as there are two types of power supply for the 360???....
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:25
BlindsideDork
The leads?

They had me take out any games, unplug everything and the harddrive and mail the console itself (nothing else) to them to fix. And I beleive only one type pf power supply.
Sueng's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:29
Sueng
My 360 never breaks down........cause I never play it :(
TorpedoTed's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:29
TorpedoTed
ah right we have 2 in the uk...

one has 3 pins and one has 2pins(175w)

'These Elites (and other Xbox 360 models using the Falcon) can be identified from earlier versions by a re-designed power connector and a power supply that runs at 175w. The motherboard layout is also different.'
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:36
BlindsideDork
Oh yeah...Ummm, I have a 2 prong cause I don't have an Elite. But I just firmly believe that I shouldn't have to buy something to get my system to work properly in the first place. :P

Could just be me!
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:43
Brian Szabelski
Blindside, I think God is trying to tell you to sell your 360.
TorpedoTed's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:46
TorpedoTed
Thats furry muff :¬)
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 11:01
Gameboi
You took it much better than I would. Damn MS and their shitty quality control.
pwned88's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 11:51
pwned88
Ugh, I feel your pain man. It seems that my WRT54G really hates my 360, so I went out, bought a new router (WRT54G2) plugged it in, DMZ'd the bawx, and lo and behold it worked! so I fire up halo 3 for a test run and after one match, my box dies (video konked out). My box would have been a year old in november. WTF is this? not even a year microsoft? REALLY? But yeah, sent mine out today, we'll see how long it takes.
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 12:22
ZekeThePlumber
@ Nihon: I think God is telling BSD to pay his electric bill.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 12:27
wardrox
I'm an E78 man myself.
Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 12:35
Toneman
You played TF2 on 360? What the fuck is wrong with you? Portal and HL2 I could understand....but TF2.....on 360?
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 13:11
BlindsideDork
I don't have a PC so therefore it is either 360 or PS3.
NotAZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 15:00
NotAZombie
@ Toneman

When I got The Orange Box I didn't have a PC that could run it fast enough for my tastes, so I went for the version that would run smoothly. I finally upgraded my PC so I'm getting Left 4 Dead on PC.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 15:13
Sharpless
Pussy. Can't even get three red rings. Also, you should send that right back to Microsoft, if you have any sense. They clearly didn't fix it properly. Call them, complain to a higher-up. Get them to send you some proper shit. That's unacceptable.

@Toneman
Can it. Some of us prefer it on the 360. Get over it, people.
GrayFox's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 16:02
GrayFox
The manufacture date is just a sticker they slap on to refurbs. It's probably still an 07 console or earlier.
The Incredible Edible Egg's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/23/2008 07:12
The Incredible Edible Egg
oh shit, did that come out yesterday?
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