Official YakYak - My 360 died thread

frak · Post by **frak** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:19 pm 0

Calling all members who've suffered the passing of their much loved/hated console.

(This thread is a substitute for a poll so if we could just keep it to single 360 break down posts:)

There are 113 forum members listed on the 360 gamertag thread.
Using Microsofts figures we should expect to see 2 percent (2.26) reporting errors with their console.
Funny that we have at least 21 already

The broken, bruised or 3 red dead gathered so far...

Swith - 13.5 months
TwistedScrote - 13.5 months
Frak - 13.5 months
Aureole - 13 months
Ratsoap - 12 months
WiredWorm - 12 months
microwave - 11.5 months
gilesgoat - ??
bubba - ??
TT - 11 months
peter cushion - 11 months
Skweek - 11 months
Ely - 11 months
bobajob - 10 months
PVB - 10 months
kel - 6 months
Felonious Feline - 3 months
Anders - weeks
stx - weeks?
Xtreme - 1 week
Flabio - DOA

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My 360 info...

Bought : 02/12/05
Died : 30/01/07

Just over 13 months before the red ring of doom

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:03 pm 0

Bought : 13/01/06
Became ill: 03/02/07
Died : 08/02/07

No red ring or anything, just started getting corrupt graphics in game, then in the dashboard, then just nothing when switched on.

Edit: red ring of doom now.

poop.

Another Edit: Good timing, after speaking with MS, it turns out there is 1 day left on the warranty, and it will be fixed free of charge. Woot!

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:58 pm 0

Bought (originally) 14/1/06

I bought it 1/9/06 on ebay

Died 2/2/07 - chequerboard patterns, freezing then the three red lights. Sent off 6/2/07

Apparently out of warranty (Weird given Ratsoap above), was told it'd cost Â£70 to repair. Â£83 charge just appeared on my bank statement.

Meow · Post by **Meow** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:06 pm 0

Brought. Jan 20th 06
Died Jan 2nd 07

Made a loud scream, the screen went white pixelated and the disc jamed, Then the 360 flashed the red rings of death. after I manged to get the cd tray open and get the CD out it would not longer turn on It was total dead.

brand spanking new whisper quiet 360 from MS, now sitting under the telly

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:08 pm 0

Bought launch day, gave great service until before xmas, started getting funny with disks.

Took it back to virgin and swapped it for a shiny new one.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:20 pm 0

Bought: 2nd December 2005.

Checkerboard first appeared: 17th October 2006.

Got the same one back on 25th October with a different fault

, then finally got a new one on 31st October and it's been fine since. <crosses fingers>

bobajob · Post by **bobajob** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:38 pm 0

Bought 10/3/06 died on 10/1/07 under warranty and 15 days later new one comes back from M$..

Xstreme · Post by **Xstreme** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:52 pm 0

Bought 17.03.06 died one week later. Replaced by the shop no problems. The second one has just started suffering from a strange noise and now the console locks up regularly. Will hopefully be exchanging for a new one before the years warranty is up.

peter_cushion · Post by **peter_cushion** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:14 pm 0

Bought 15.03.06
Dead 15.02.07

piku · Post by **piku** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:28 pm 0

peter_cushion wrote:Bought 15.03.06
Dead 15.02.07

So that's why you kept announcing your presence.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:47 pm 0

And another one:

Jimaroid wrote:Good fun guys, sorry I had to drop out quickly. Looks like I'm being added to the borked 360 list...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:58 pm 0

My first one was DOA, wouldn't read discs. Second ones been fine. Third one is still sitting in it's box, and has managed to go through it's entire warranty period without my opening it.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:01 am 0

If it's a 2% fail rate as MS are saying then there should be around 500 other 360s in the hands of regular llamasofties which have never had issues!!

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:04 am 0

disciple wrote:If it's a 2% fail rate as MS are saying then there should be around 500 other 360s in the hands of regular llamasofties which have never had issues!!

That only works if everyone on here has one. Which I doubt.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:16 am 0

Flabio wrote:
disciple wrote:If it's a 2% fail rate as MS are saying then there should be around 500 other 360s in the hands of regular llamasofties which have never had issues!!
That only works if everyone on here has one. Which I doubt.

Out of 400 Xbox360 owners on Rllmuk, 203 of them have had their faulty consoles repaired or replaced. Some of these guys are on their third and fourth replacements. That is an extraordinary amount of failed machines, without doubt the most unreliable console you can buy.

I would love to hear an official response to those figures and whether the next revision of the console will be more reliable.