Is my 360 dead

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My son went to play his 360 today and after about 10 minutes it just went black. Turned it back on and after about 5 minutes it went black. Now the green light comes on but no audio or video. Sometimes it will send power to the controller, and sometimes it won't but it will not boot up and bring up the screen or sound. I haven't seen any red rings yet, but I remember reading that they did away with the red rings and it doesn't show them anymore.
I should add that his doesn't have an HDD so i know that can't be the problem.

Is it dead?
 
My brother had a 360 that never RROD'd but the graphics went dead, same as your son's. I used a RROD repair kit on it and it fixed it, so it's likely about as dead as an actual RROD'd one is (i.e. dead but not extremely dead).
 
I let it cool off and it worked for like 5 minutes again. I was going to buy him an HDD for it anyway tomorrow so he could play halo 4 on it and I could have my 360 back, so i guess it's good it brike today instead of tomorrow. I'll just go ahead and get him a new 360 with a decent HDD in it.
 
Went and bought him another 360. I am now on my 11th or 12th 360 since they launched with 2 now working. Microsoft did replace or fixed 2 of them. That means I have spent around 3000$ on Xbox 360s. Whoever said PC gaming is more expensive then consoles is crazy :) I could have easily spent less then that on PC parts in the last 6 years and been up to date for gaming.
 
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Went and bought him another 360. I am now on my 11th or 12th 360 since they launched with 2 now working. Microsoft did replace or fixed 2 of them. That means I have spent around 3000$ on Xbox 360s. Whoever said PC gaming is more expensive then consoles is crazy :) I could have easily spent less then that on PC parts in the last 6 years and been up to date for gaming.
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Warranty ... why did they only fix/repair 2 of them?

Btw, how many PS3s have you killed already?
 
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Warranty ... why did they only fix/repair 2 of them?

Btw, how many PS3s have you already killed?
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My wife bought me a launch PS3 for christmas that year. The disk drive stopped on it so I bought a slim last year. So I've only ruined one PS3.

They only fixed the first 2. The first one made it about 4 months, and then they fixed it again a few months later. After that they said it was out of warrenty and tried to charge me, so I bought a new one which had the red rings out of the box so i returned it. They kept wanting to charge me to fix them so i just bought new instead hpoing each time this would be the one that made it. I would have probably have bought new anyway, the turnover rate between the time you sent it and the time you got it back use to be awful. It also always seemed it broke right before a new game I really wanted was coming out.

I've bought myself 6 of them new, and my son 2 now. The others were ones that were repaired or bought used.

Really though everyone I know has went through a bunch of 360s if they got them when they launced. I would say out of the 6 or 7 people I know in real life that I play games with, the average is probably buying 4 or 5 of them for a single person. With returns and repairs taken into account it would have to be around 6 or so.

It was funny for the first few years. When NCAA football started the online dynasty thing there was several of us in it. It was a miracle if we could make it through a season and someone not get the red rings and everyone actually get to play out a full season together. The really abd part was that our season only lasted about 2 weeks.

This is the first one though thats went down for awhile. I think the last one was right before modern warfare 2 came out. So I've actually had a pretty good run this last time. that ones actaully still going, this was a new slim that broke this time.

The 360 has to be the worst made piece of electronics ever. I tried to get friends to switch to PS3 years ago, but the PSN was just so bad none of them would fully convert. We played socom confrontation for awhile and then the PS3 was dead to them after that game got boring.
 
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My wife bought me a launch PS3 for christmas that year. The disk drive stopped on it so I bought a slim last year. So I've only ruined one PS3.

They only fixed the first 2. The first one made it about 4 months, and then they fixed it again a few months later. After that they said it was out of warrenty and tried to charge me, so I bought a new one which had the red rings out of the box so i returned it. They kept wanting to charge me to fix them so i just bought new instead hpoing each time this would be the one that made it. I would have probably have bought new anyway, the turnover rate between the time you sent it and the time you got it back use to be awful. It also always seemed it broke right before a new game I really wanted was coming out.

I've bought myself 6 of them new, and my son 2 now. The others were ones that were repaired or bought used.

Really though everyone I know has went through a bunch of 360s if they got them when they launced. I would say out of the 6 or 7 people I know in real life that I play games with, the average is probably buying 4 or 5 of them for a single person. With returns and repairs taken into account it would have to be around 6 or so.

It was funny for the first few years. When NCAA football started the online dynasty thing there was several of us in it. It was a miracle if we could make it through a season and someone not get the red rings and everyone actually get to play out a full season together. The really abd part was that our season only lasted about 2 weeks.

This is the first one though thats went down for awhile. I think the last one was right before modern warfare 2 came out. So I've actually had a pretty good run this last time. that ones actaully still going, this was a new slim that broke this time.

The 360 has to be the worst made piece of electronics ever. I tried to get friends to switch to PS3 years ago, but the PSN was just so bad none of them would fully convert. We played socom confrontation for awhile and then the PS3 was dead to them after that game got boring.
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I play my 360 often, this doesnt happen to me. I have friends that play it day and night and it has never happened to them. I dont know how youve spent $3k+ on 360s lol
 
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My wife bought me a launch PS3 for christmas that year. The disk drive stopped on it so I bought a slim last year. So I've only ruined one PS3.

They only fixed the first 2. The first one made it about 4 months, and then they fixed it again a few months later. After that they said it was out of warrenty and tried to charge me, so I bought a new one which had the red rings out of the box so i returned it. They kept wanting to charge me to fix them so i just bought new instead hpoing each time this would be the one that made it. I would have probably have bought new anyway, the turnover rate between the time you sent it and the time you got it back use to be awful. It also always seemed it broke right before a new game I really wanted was coming out.

I've bought myself 6 of them new, and my son 2 now. The others were ones that were repaired or bought used.

Really though everyone I know has went through a bunch of 360s if they got them when they launced. I would say out of the 6 or 7 people I know in real life that I play games with, the average is probably buying 4 or 5 of them for a single person. With returns and repairs taken into account it would have to be around 6 or so.

It was funny for the first few years. When NCAA football started the online dynasty thing there was several of us in it. It was a miracle if we could make it through a season and someone not get the red rings and everyone actually get to play out a full season together. The really abd part was that our season only lasted about 2 weeks.

This is the first one though thats went down for awhile. I think the last one was right before modern warfare 2 came out. So I've actually had a pretty good run this last time. that ones actaully still going, this was a new slim that broke this time.

The 360 has to be the worst made piece of electronics ever. I tried to get friends to switch to PS3 years ago, but the PSN was just so bad none of them would fully convert. We played socom confrontation for awhile and then the PS3 was dead to them after that game got boring.
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Your disk drive died on your PS3? Should have bought another hard drive for $50 and replaced it.
It's Microsoft what did you expect?
Scrap the 360's and save the $120 for the online your paying for.
 
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Your disk drive died on your PS3? Should have bought another hard drive for $50 and replaced it.
It's Microsoft what did you expect?
Scrap the 360's and save the $120 for the online your paying for.
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I tried to take it apart and was going to replace the drive and destroyed the ps3. I was really wanting a slim anyway. The old PS3s didn't have bitstreaming audio through hdmi, but the slims do.

I only pay about 50$ a year for xbox live for my 2 360s. I have the family plan for me and my son, and I have 2 friends that give me 25$ a piece for the other 2 spots a year on the family plan. I really don't know why everyone just doesn't get the family plan and then split it with 3 friends. It's only 25$ a year like that per console.
 
bevo
Went and bought him another 360. I am now on my 11th or 12th 360 since they launched with 2 now working. Microsoft did replace or fixed 2 of them. That means I have spent around 3000$ on Xbox 360s. Whoever said PC gaming is more expensive then consoles is crazy :) I could have easily spent less then that on PC parts in the last 6 years and been up to date for gaming.
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OMG.

I feel your pain.

I bought just one and... it brokes after 20 minutes. My Forza Motorsport disk came out with a HUGE round scratch in the middle. LOL.

So, I went to the shop and changed with a PS3. "They'll release GT5" "it will be GREAT!!!" they said. :sly:
 
Aaaaand my snes is still running! :lol:
Modern consoles ain't that reliable anymore... sadly.
 

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