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Played/Owned most consoles since the Nes days(all but the Saturn) Tend to play all types of games, with the exception of Flight Sims. My favourite series of games is probably the Street Fighter series of games. I can still remember clearly sliding my brand new Super Nintendo out of its box one christmas and played SFII constantly for hours and hours till i was one day able to defeat it on 8 stars. I can still perform Shoryuken after Shoryuken no better than when i have a SNES pad in my hands.



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My 360 died, but no RROD???
SuperD1984 | 3:28 AM on 12.27.2008 14 comments


Oooookay, i'm getting audio but no video with my super-awesomely-wellcrafted-console. I've tried various audio/visual cables including the standard av(no HD fail), the D - Sub cable i use to hook it up to my pc monitor and some strange fucking thing my bro in law bought that you can use with a laptop too.



Has anyone had a similar problem or any ideas, tried the Xbox troubleshooting pages to no avail and i'm getting to the point where im thinking about RROD'ing the fucker intentionally for a replacement.



Best way to achieve red ring of desire anyone? i feel so dirty.



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Seiyu's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 04:13
Seiyu
Ours exploded and started doing the same thing. After kicking it a few times we sent it in to Microsoft. If your warranty doesn't exist try gamestop.

If you want the RRoD you could always try leaving it on for a few days and letting the cpu and or gpu melt.
SuperD1984's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 04:23
SuperD1984
I live in the UK and if you look at my sidebar you can see that i bought it with the Halo 3 bundle so its a Halo 3 special edition if that makes any difference?
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 07:03
Maurice Tan
Sometimes 360's give weird graphics glitches or colours before they die/RROD. Since it's probably not gonna work again out of itself, you might as well leave it on for a couple of hours and see what happens. If it RROD's, send it back, if it doesn't, then make it RROD and send it back :)
Noah's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 08:02
Noah
This is exactly what happened to mine which died right before Gears 2 came out.

It's a harder fix than the RRoD, which means it isn't covered by Microsoft's 3 year warranty I believe. I read from someone else on Dtoid whom this happened to, and Microsoft told her that "This is a known problem" and I think wanted to charge her $100 to fix....might be a little off on the details my memory is crap.

I HATE Microsoft, yet I love their video games.... I'm like a battered puppy who always comes back for more abuse ha ha :)

You're cheapest fix may be to save your power brick and cables and buy a cheap 'console only' on ebay or Craigslist....I saw some for around $110 with shipping on ebay not long ago, though I ended up buying an Arcade new since I wanted HDMI (My old console didn't have it.

Good luck dude
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 08:42
Nick Chester
Your easiest, cheapest fix is to call Microsoft and say "My Xbox 360 red ringed." They will go through a few troubleshooting steps, which you will tell them you've either already tried or just tried and it didn't work.

I've never had a red ring -- three of my Xbox 360s had video that stopped working. As far as Microsoft is concerned, I had three red rings. Once they set up the return and receive the system, it won't make a difference what the issue is.
Mr Wrighty 987's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 09:48
Mr Wrighty 987
same thing happen to my 3rd 360 leave it on, wrapped in a towel and after a few hours it will RRoD
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 12:17
pedrovay2003
Sounds like Nick is on top of this one.
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 12:18
Velt
So, I dont own a 360, but basically you just make the console die in a RRoD so you can send it to warranty?
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 12:44
Red TheHaze Veron
As Nick said, when you call MS tech support,tell em you have the RROD and pretend to follow all the troubleshooting steps only to keep saying youre getting the RROD everytime you turn it on.
Arminas's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 13:41
Arminas
@BrainDerailment: Didn't know that. I'll have to try this on my buddies system that won't RRoD.
Affable Robot's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 13:49
Affable Robot
I had the same problem with mine. I just called Microsoft they told me to try a few things. I did and it still didn't work so they get me to send it in.
SuperD1984's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/27/2008 22:20
SuperD1984
Thank you all,

and Merryfuck Microsoft Hard :)
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