I knew this day would come, does any one have any handy tips on what i should do. The xbox is just under 3 years old and i have the reciept for it too.

https://service.xbox.com/servicehome.aspx?mkt=en-gb

Go here. We had one repaired that was out of the shop warranty. They will automatically repair the box if its a specific fault.
Then they send a label for you to package it. Then a courier comes and collects (usually UPS), then about 10 days later they bring it back.

i done me son's useing this info. i have a few more sites will try and find them for you. but the video and the two links i have put up are the best i found, when i was looking.
hope this helps


[youtube]4wa05IgHr2s[/youtube]


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Xbox 360 Error codes

There are a couple of methods for fixing it posted on instructables
here
and here
I can't vouch for their accuracy as I've never tried them (I don't have a 360) but some people seem to have had positive results.

Hope this helps

You'll invalidate any warranty if you try it yourself.

I hear a bag of frozen peas can help if its over-heating lol

Ring Microsoft, the 360 is covered under warranty for 3 years on RROD

cheers guys for your help, i'll send the bugger off, unless any one has some heat sink compound handy, if so i'll pick it up off you and do it tonight !

Should that be heat shrink compound?? If so, I know a man who will have some

no, heat sink compound is right

I have some Andy, but I'm in Eastham

Ahhh - not the stuff I was thinking of then. Sorry

Nope its Heat Sink

Dont ask me why lol

Joe that's Lube you have

It was Joe, in Eastham, with the Heat Sink Compound

lol, well its getting sorted by xbox,i'll just have to do with out my beloved xbox for a while just as im starting fall out 3....what a twaat

My boss in work sent 2 of them off in August.
They went on Monday and came back on the Friday ?

They were quick with our's

how quick miss g, ive filled out the aplication, im just waiting for an email to tell me when an empty box is turning up

10 days I reckon - was same UPS guy who collected and delivered back. And they didn't return our's repaired - they gave us a brand new one - knew that because we took down the serial number to be sure. New one turned up with all the little labels on the shiny bits (y'know that stop em scratching in transit).

hmmm, intersesting, i shall bare this in mind. Well thanks every one for all your help !

Did you get this sorted mate?

A friend of mine does these repairs, can ask him to take a look if you want

Microsoft will sort it and you don't pay anything - P&P is free

I hate my xbox. I bought one of the first ones, and promptly lost the reciept. After about 6 months of stuttering gameplay, it gave up the ghost with the RROD. I couldn't send it back to Microsoft, (at this point they were still denying the high failure rates of their consoles were their responsibility), so I cursed it, and put it in a box under my bed.

Over Christmas I was talking to a friend who runs a computer gubbins shop about how rubbish the xbox reliability was, and he convinced me to bring it into him for repair. I'd been reluctant to get it fixed because I thought I might be throwing good money after bad. He fixed it in a day for £40. Excitedly, I rushed it home, but not before I purchased 'GTA4' and 'Dead Space' on the way.

It packed up again last night, after stuttering through 5 days of gameplay. The picture suddenly turned a tartan green colour, then froze. Upon reboot I received one flashing red light and the system error code E74. A little digging on the internet reveals the cause of this all too common fault, the graphics chip is knackered, something Microsoft haven't seen fit to take responsibility for so isn't covered by any extended warranty, (which I would have invalidated anyway taking it for an unauthorised repair).

During the short time it did work, apart from the deafening noise the little box makes, I was happy to have it. If anybody is considering buying a new xbox, I'd suggest they try to find one of the newer 'jasper' consoles which hopefully will have addressed the hardware failures of previous machines. The way to find one is a little vague. I believe they're shipping as the low price 'arcade' packages, (£125 from Argos), which come with 256mb of built in memory. You need to look at the info on the back of the console itself to be sure though. It will have been built after August '08 and the power socket will read 12V-12.1A. Older models draw 14.1A.

Phew...

its not what you know, its who you know

excellent info there shambo i think you have turned a corner there

Just to add to this, from what I'm aware, the RROD is usually caused by the GPU coming away from the motherboard due to poor venitlation and cooling within the 360 itself.

Some people have advised turning it on and wrapping it in a towel and then turning it off. Apparently this helps the GPU solder melt where it can then sink back into the board. You can find tutorials for it on youtube.

I had a look at it but didn't try this myself as I'd rather just get microsoft to fix it. I sent it off and had a brand new console back within about 10 days (with a free month on xbox live to boot). Not bad considering it failed nearly 3 years after being bought (close to initial release).

thats if you dont want your xbox anymore.. as it fooks it...

XBOX came back today, I got a brand new one back and a months free subscription, I love my xbox xxx

I knew you'd get a new one

I took mine back to the shop where it was repaired and a couple of hours later recieved a call telling me it was ready for collection. Upon closer inspection it appeared they'd given me a different console... this one was grubbier than the one I'd given them but was also a hellova lot quieter... but it RROD'ed after another 5 days, taking out all the saved game info on my hard drive as well.

I've bitten the bullet and bought a new one, (madness I know), keeping the reciept in a very safe place this time. If I hadn't spent so much money on games for the damned thing I would have bought a PS3 instead. The new machine isn't a 'jasper' but it's alot quieter still and so far no problems... touch wood.

lol, why didnt you just send it back to xbox free of charge shambo,

right as always miss G !

You takin the piss mate?

Different console? Wtf?

Erm... no? It looked and sounded different. They had quite a few refurbed consoles knocking around and I assumed they just gave me one of those instead.

is that shop your mates ste ?

I've heard of people getting an old console back - important to keep a hold of your serial number. But 9/10 times I've heard that through Microsoft you get a brand new console.

Exactly!

in other words, the shop get the `new` console wheras you get a piece of crap!
They should of asked you mate, thats wrong



Eh? i don`t know anyone with a games shop?

Erkk!

I hadn't considered that, but I don't think so.

Remember, they'd already repaired the console once before. Which means they opened the console up, and broke the holographic Microsoft anti tamper tag, therefore invalidating any warranty.

Unless they've found a way around it, in that case good luck to them. Like I said, the guy's a friend of mine, I thought he swapped it because he wanted me to have a working console. The fact that MS swap some old consoles for new suggests a few of them are beyond repair. There doesn't seem to be any sure fire fixes for the RROD, just a series of tweaks that ressurect the machine, until it RROD's again.

sorry mate, i thought it was your average run of the mill games shop and they were taking the piss

lol, I thought shambo had taken it to a shop your mate owned and you were defending his honor

some people will belive anything!

I've seen it on youtube ste, It does actually work, it re-solders the chip back to the mother board or something, check out the linkage bud

[youtube]31tvXu34T8Q[/youtube]

i`m gonna buy a broken one off ebay right now and try it

And in my opinion if they get hot enough to melt the solder they are designed pretty lame internally, considering its just a pc it should shut down when it reaches a certain temperature???

I aint too sure bud, but even if that doesn't work, i think its worth trying this on it too, I might get one too.......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsz0lNJ6JrQ&NR=1

worth a try, man! wtf has he done to his xbox?

lets spray paint my psp!

hi there ls someone my wlfe knows, fixes rings of death he done over 300 with no probs . if you want pm me and let you know .

Is that wife or wolf?

im sure you can just send them off to microsoft to fix them

You can tony - and you have a good chance of getting a brand new box back if you do. But they'd probably say no if you've tampered with it yourself first.

trust me guys DO NOT DO THE TOWEL TRICK it blows ye processor to bits.

NOOOO - do it do it! And remember to film your mad waste of time and money

i`ll do it if i can find one on ebay cheap

then i`ll put it back on ebay if it don`t work

Yeah just don't mention the wet towel escapade lol

They'll just think its had a clean.

pmsl, ste " you'll prob end up buying one thats been towel'd to death !!!!

:r:pmsl

lol, i`m looking for one unopened and with a box