Official YakYak - My 360 died thread

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:39 am 0

Dave wrote:I got one of those circular-scratches of death on my Gears of War CD. The console was sitting vertically on a flat surface. I have a hunch that it got bumped by someone plugging another console into the TV while either the 360 was on, or shutting off with the disc still spinning.

Started it and got disc-read error messages.

Whipped out the Disc Doctor, ran it on the disc twice, and now it plays perfectly. Yey! The 360 is staying horizontal from now on.

I did wonder if those Disc Doctors actually worked... I did the circular scratch boogie on my RR6... (in truth I wasn't too upset... it hadn't grabbed me as much as I thought)
The worrying thing was just how easily it happened... My 360 was hanging out a fraction off the middle rack of my tv stand and I very gently pushed it back... and heard the whine as the disc was murdered... I think a small experiment with Disc Doctor is in order!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:56 am 0

TwistedScrote wrote:I did wonder if those Disc Doctors actually worked...

Pieces of mine broke off shortly after I got it, but it still works. It's saved maybe 50 disc's I've sent through it to date. I think only one or two still wouldn't work, and they were REALLY scratched to death.

It marks up your disc though. It'll look like you ran fine sandpaper all over it after you're done, but they mostly play perfectly once you're done.

Someone sold me a Call of Duty 2 disc on eBay that was scratched to hell and wouldn't load at all. Disc Doctor fixed it good, and I played through the entire game without video or sound skipping a beat.

Seller was nice enough to give me either a full refund if I sent the disc back, or a partial if I kept it. So, I kept it, got the partial, and loved the game!

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:12 am 0

Dave wrote: Whipped out the Disc Doctor, ran it on the disc twice, and now it plays perfectly. Yey! The 360 is staying horizontal from now on.

I moved mine to the horiz position the other day - it APPEARS to be quieter when playing stuff.

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:46 pm 0

hmmmmm.....big time pissed off now

Xbox is fine, its just decided to corrupt my gamer profile...

and when i look on xbox.com i see

"Recover your gamertag only if your profile is corrupt or missing. Recovery will delete all games saved for that profile on any console."

ffs......every single fucking buggery bollox game save gone...

half a season on pes
80% of rainbow 6
75% of crackdown
50% of gears on middle difficulty

and another 40 or 50 games half finished.

I'm not sure i can be bothered to start them all again........

I may just defect to a ps3, and I never thought I'd say that....

Post by **Snakey** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:57 pm 0

Felonious Feline wrote:hmmmmm.....big time pissed off now

Xbox is fine, its just decided to corrupt my gamer profile...

Man, that's a pisser, know how you feel... This happened to me with my Gamecube, and I really couldn't be bothered to play any of those games again. So much time wasted

I don't know if there's a workable solution to this problem though... other than actually backing up all your saves somewhere else, but who does that?

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:00 am 0

backing up all your X somewhere else, but who does that?

Somebody who wants to keep their X, I'd suspect.

Post by **Snakey** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:02 am 0

Well, have you ever kept backups of console game saves? I know I haven't.

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:07 am 0

Snakey wrote:Well, have you ever kept backups of console game saves? I know I haven't.

Neither have I...but that may change...now (yeah, gate horse bolted yeah I get it...)

Anyway to save 360 saves on PC, don't fancy messing with memory cards again?

mightyzim · Post by **mightyzim** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:27 am 0

That happened to me. You have to go to memeory management and delete the corrupted profile, it should offer you the option of deleting the save games. If you recreate your profile after with the same name yuou should be okay.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:27 am 0

Felonious Feline wrote: Anyway to save 360 saves on PC, don't fancy messing with memory cards again?

Datel do something called Xport:

http://www.codejunkies.com/

Not tried it myself though.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:23 am 0

My 360 locks up after several minutes on (in the dash or playing a game). Rebooting brings displays the red ring or lock up during the boot screen. If I leave it a while and turn it back on I get a bit more time but it locks up sooner or later (within 10 mins).

This box has hardly had a bad life either, and hasn't been "on" that much.

Bought December 05, first broke Jan 07 (probably 13 months ish)

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:04 pm 0

Snakey wrote:Well, have you ever kept backups of console game saves? I know I haven't.

I did after my 360 started looking like it might die, but it's been ok so far *touches laminate*

You can store 360 savegames on your PC - either get a 360HDD->SATA adapter and plug it into a spare SATA port on your PC, or make an adapter to use the memory cards on your PC (they're just USB). Failing that the Datel things should be fine.

If you delete and then recreate your profile will it lose your Gamerscore?

Stone

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:12 pm 0

After hearing all the horror stories about Gamecube cards dying, I bought a cheapo generic spare and backed up all the saves onto that. Luckily I never played any games that prevented you copying saves (which just sounds sadistic to me).

mightyzim · Post by **mightyzim** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:21 pm 0

Stone wrote:
Snakey wrote:Well, have you ever kept backups of console game saves? I know I haven't.
I did after my 360 started looking like it might die, but it's been ok so far *touches laminate*

You can store 360 savegames on your PC - either get a 360HDD->SATA adapter and plug it into a spare SATA port on your PC, or make an adapter to use the memory cards on your PC (they're just USB). Failing that the Datel things should be fine.

If you delete and then recreate your profile will it lose your Gamerscore?

Stone

I think the gamescore is stored online rather than localy.

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:56 pm 0

mightyzim wrote:That happened to me. You have to go to memeory management and delete the corrupted profile, it should offer you the option of deleting the save games. If you recreate your profile after with the same name yuou should be okay.

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!

After trying this last night and failing, I gave it one last try and after about 20 minutes it worked...

Hail the mightyzim. Thanks.