Is It Almost Certain That My 360 Will Die? Options

[cardboardbox]

I recently got a 360 with the intention of doing the firmware flashing. It has a Samsung and was made in May 2006 so I should be able to do it without any issues. But it seems that everyone has problems with the 360: dash updates failing, overheating, dvd failing, etc... Is it almost certain that I will have some sort of issue like this within say, a year, and am I increasing the chances of this by upgrading the dvd firmware?

Or do we hear from a vocal minority and majority have no problems?

[comradpoplin]

there are miniscule amounts of people who experience problems compared to overall owners if you do a good job and do it properly then you should be fine updates such as the fall one wich creates issues are are just unforseen problems that you would recieve with any console you decide to rape beyond manufacturers specifications.


besides the fall update issue was easily fixed.

[BigFattee]

flashing the fw will not make a difference. i would say it is almost certain that your 360 will die no matter what. everyone i know with a 360, including myself have had to send in their 360 in less then a year(except for my brother that has a launch 360, that he leaves on all day, everyday ). the only problem i see with flashing the fw is that you will void your warranty, and chances are, your gonna need it.

[FoxRacR17]

EVERYTHING dies eventually............almost cetainly.......

[grim_d]

you hear from the vocal minority.

[BCfosheezy]

flashing the fw will not make a difference. i would say it is almost certain that your 360 will die no matter what. everyone i know with a 360, including myself have had to send in their 360 in less then a year(except for my brother that has a launch 360, that he leaves on all day, everyday ). the only problem i see with flashing the fw is that you will void your warranty, and chances are, your gonna need it.

While I'm sorry for you and "everyone" you know with a 360, that is an erroneous statement. If you used any logic you'd realize that if everyone that bought a 360 experienced failure, or even half or a quarter of those people that they would be heard. MS would HAVE to recall. It would be cheaper for them. You make have made no sense. All that I personally know that have purchased 360's have experienced no problems. (Although I have repaired 25+ now)



This post has been edited by BCfosheezy: Nov 29 2006, 04:12 PM

[BigFattee]

i rarely use any logic. but from my experience a large % of ppl have had problems with their 360's. i guess it makes no sense to say a new 360 will certainly fail(forgive my ignorance pls). but there's more then a small chance that it will. common sense says that in this situation it would be foolish to purposely void your warranty.

[pimpmaul69]

as i am a video game repairman i have only seen about 6 broken xbox 360s and only 1 friend of mine has had a bad 360

[cardboardbox]

besides the fall update issue was easily fixed.

can you point me in the right direction for info on this issue?

[BigFattee]

try this cardboardbox:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...fall+update+fix

as i am a video game repairman i have only seen about 6 broken xbox 360s and only 1 friend of mine has had a bad 360

when my 360 died, i tried calling you 1st, but it was busy. so i endend up calling MS.

[MDA]

as i am a video game repairman i have only seen about 6 broken xbox 360s and only 1 friend of mine has had a bad 360

You must do a low volume of repairs.

I have 700+ with 0102 or 0110 errors. Around 65% of all 360s that we get have these errors. The problem is not miniscule or minor.

[Jelly4000]

Well, i have 3 friends with 360s. One has sent his in twice, so he is on his third, and he is getting dirty disk errors with that one. The other two are on their first as far as i know. I sent my second one in last week, should be receiving a new one this week (just got sent a tracking number). All in all, that's 8 (soon to be 9?) 360s between 4 people, so i would say that it is likely that it will die.

While i realise that i am part of a vocal minority, my friends are not, and i am including both of the ones with no problems.

Personally i'm going to wait for the price of them to come down before i mod mine, and even better, for a real modchip to come out (homebrew etc.).

[SpikeMage]

My first one broke as well. It got the dirty disk thing the day i took it out of the box. My second one seems to be working fine. But Im going to wait a year trade it in then mod that one.

I can understand launch systems being buggy but these things have been on the market a year and still suck.

[cardboardbox]

what is the best way to test the xbox to see if its going to have one of the common errors? I downloaded the Lost Planet demo and played around with it... so far no probs.

[Jelly4000]

what is the best way to test the xbox to see if its going to have one of the common errors? I downloaded the Lost Planet demo and played around with it... so far no probs.

Stress testing is the only real way...

Get Gears of War and/or Dead Rising. Both of those games are pretty intensive on the console. If you can play them for ages, with no glitches or anything, it is likely that it will be good, but by no means certain. Oh, and download the updates (as i'm sure you have anyway).

Having said this, mine acted up randomly, both of them did actually.