How many 360 consoles have you gone through?

[transylvanic]

I was on my 3rd. The 360 must be the worst engineered piece of massively popular hardware ever. Aside from the excellent controllers.

[watercooled]

Even the headsets break all the time. Headset 3 here - not good at £15 a piece.

[mmh]

Was just looking up what this was. Neat little fix

what?

nooo, thats not what i did at all

what i did was uise those toothpicks to stop the fan whilst i had an E73 error... just chocking the fan from outside the case (my xbox is still in warranty) and let it overheat... took about 4-5 mins and i got 2 red lights showed up...

i then pulled all the leads out and plugged it back in, fired it up and away it went!

[watercooled]

Oh, fair enough - thought you'd had the motherboard out.

[mmh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6XNQpCRjk

see this

[Agent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6XNQpCRjk

see this

You're not fixing the problem though, only delaying it.

The X-clamp replacement really is the only proven 'fix' for this issue.

[mmh]

You're not fixing the problem though, only delaying it.

The X-clamp replacement really is the only proven 'fix' for this issue.

maybe so, i only did it because it seeme dto be a popular way of fixing it on the net, and when i tried it did work... the worst that was going to happen, was that i would have to send it off to M$ regardless... which i still may have to do, but this way, it gives me enough time to buy a replacement arcade system for whilst the console is off getting repaired... (this may sound extreme, but my xbox is what i use for everything... all my media centre dvd watching and gaming takes place on this one machine)

[Jay]

I have had mine nearly 2 years now with no issues (fingers crossed it stays that way!)

[samcross]

Currently on my second Elite, after my first one died in mysterious circumstances.......

[samcross]

Source on that? Or is it just bs?

Thanks

twenty quid on bs

[j.o.s.h.1408]

I look forward to your next great post...

Again...

Source on that? Or is it just bs?

Thanks

my opinion

[KidChameleon]

I got my premium 360 on Friday the 13th of October 2006 and it's never had a big problem. There was one time in PGR3 when it froze but I think that was software because it happened again at the same point when I rebooted.

I've drunkenly dropped it from chair level a few times, which scared me. Recently the disc tray has been getting a bit stuck when it tried to open but then I accidentally dropped the controller on the vertical tray and the chrome trim fell off. I clipped it back on, and it's been opening smoothly since.

How many are jealous that I'm so clumsy with it and it's still working?

[AirCop]

the average is 3-4 mate and thats shocking.

my opinion

You were shocked by your own opinion?

Spooky.

[MadduckUK]

josh

[Trash Man]

Still on my first xbox which was bought on release day. It's been off to MS once to be fixed and is still going strong. I have 2 other 360's that I bought off ebay that already had the RROD and sent them of to be fixed and use them as media centres now.

[steve threlfall]

my opinion

The latter then