Today I was playing Devil May Cry 4, on the final boss, when the game suddenly froze and my XBOX made a strange pinging sound. I turned off my BOX of X and tried to turn it back on and lo' and behold, three gorgeous blinking red lights. YES!
Now, the
RROD has never happened to me before, and I consider myself lucky... but to get it at the beginning of a week just sucked. So I immediately called the Microsoft tech line to get my shit straight and start the process of fixing my console.
While on the phone with my depressed sounding customer service man, he had me repeatedly test my box, turning it on, and off, and constantly testing it to see if anything could be done. We did this for about 20 minutes. Those three red lights kept flashing and life was awesome. I squared away the return policy stuff and my mailing box was on its way... a month without a 360, fine, i would take this hit.
Thirty minutes later I decided to turn on my XBOX 360 and record the three rings on my phone so I could show my friends who actually joked about me getting them sometime soon.
Aaaaaaand.... what!?
My XBOX turned on, worked fine, and I proceeded to play it for an hour and a half with no errors. Now what the hell happened?
I didn't fix anything, I didn't move the console, I didn't even unplug anything since I last talked to the tech guy.
So what caused the initial
red rings? I only had my system on for about ten minutes, and it hadn't been on for 2 days, when it worked fine, so overheating seems null.
And what then ultimately led to the system operating
perfectly again?
Has anyone else experienced this? And has the
RROD reared its head shortly after a miracle such as this?
And what do I do now that I already scheduled my XBOX to go back to Microsoft to be fixed? I understand that about 4 of you will yell at me for not posting this in forums, my bad, I was lazy and I just hopped into this. Plus this gets more exposure and I really want to see if this has happened to anyone else. I once felt invincible to the
RROD... then utterly vulnerable... and now like I have some sort of magic.
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Even if you never see it RROD on you again before the coffin shows up, still send it in.
Also, if any of you get RROD, who never have before, here are steps they walk you through. Try these and when you get to that point of the support person's "try and fix this" you can tell them you already tried it.
Unplugging/replugging in the power supply.
Disconnecting the HDD while unplugged, then plugging it back in minus the HDD.
Checking the status light of the power supply (should be yellow, not red)
Tried putting the system horizontal/vertical/opposite of how you have it now
Additionally, do not tell them if you've tried the towel trick or not, they don't care if it worked, and you might end up voiding your warranty by mentioning that you're purposely trying to overheat the system when it's already malfunctioning.
If you get a RROD, MS is supposed to unilaterally send you a repaired system back. All three times I've sent the system in, a new one was back in my possession in 6 days. That's way too fast for a "repair" or troubleshooting session, even with my close proximity to McAllen (about 200 miles).
After it turned on, I tried to play some Halo, but about 20 minutes in, the colors started looking washed out, and it crashed again. I called back to talk to a tech, and they chalked it up to failing electronics being more susceptible to overheating. So basically, once it starts to go, it's going to be erratic. They just told me to send it back anyway.
And THAT's when I left it on all night to put it out of its misery. Sorry about your rotten luck.
come to the darkside my friend.
Best regards, Natali, CEO of free mp3 downloads