Red Ring of Death Forum

ok so about 2 months ago i thought i had the red ring of death, but it wasnt, i dont know what it was..and today it did the same thing, i had the rings and everything, but i unpluged it and waited like 5 mins and pluged it back in, and it worked fine. so i dont know that fuck is going on here. but i do know if it does break for real like it wont work at all, im going to get a ps3. im not worrying about replacing it..

I've had that happen before. Actually, I had a little temporary red ring scare shortly before getting a permanent red ring on both of the 360s I've had. Start preparing yourself for the worst.

It should be a different ring pattern if that's the case. Like only 2 of the quadrants light up or something.

Mine did the same thing - 'towel trick' worked for a bit, but eventually it just died and stayed dead.

I bought my self a PS3 after my second RRoD, cause if (when) my 360 breaks again, there is no warranty left on it, cause i have had it since the launch. And i wont buy a new one.

My brother's did that.  It lasted 7 months after that happened so I don't know what caused it.

It's on it's last leg. My Xbox did the same thing, Unplugged everything (Coords + accessories), turned it on and it worked fine for 20 hours... then it bit the dust, for good.

I dunno, these things seem to of been designed by apes considering how often they break.

Be carefull though, the second you open that sucker up to even look you've void the warrenty and you'll loose out on the free repair / replacement.

There's a 1 year warrenty for things like if you dropped it or something but if you get a Red Ring (3 red lights flashing) or the E74 error the warrenty is extended to 3 years. My 1 year is up but I had the Red Lights so could get it repaired.

Temporary red rings. Never heard that before.

Did you have 4 lights or 3? 4 just means you need to plug your cables better. 3 means your boned.

LMFAO!!!! Ya, that's a smart idea. When yer quality gaming console defects... buy a dusty blu-ray player with shit exclusives. That's gunna solve yer problems.

 thanks...i wish no one had to get the red ring of death, yet it happens :/

Depending on what the PS3 offers you directly, I say (as has been said), get it fixed for free and sell it (and your games).  Use that to reduce the price of the PS3.

I honestly can't believe people are so accepting of it. This isn't me with my Sony fanboy hat on - I do love Sony yes, but I'm a video gamer first - but the XBOX 360 has to be close to being one of the worst consumer electronics with such a high popularity rate. I mean, nothing really comes to mind, as a popular consumer electronic that is SO problematic. The PS2 was pretty bad - but I hear stories of people on their 6th or 7th XBOX. Which is just... *shrugs* it's beyond comprehension. It's outrageous to put it simply.

When you look at this generation's systems: both PS3 and the Wii have around a 3% fail rate, barely make a sound and are clearly fantastically well built. And while from an aesthetic stance the XBOX 360 looks fine, I simply CAN'T believe how poorly built the thing is. Playing my brothers system, I can't believe how loud the console is (his has been repaired once) compared to the almost silence of the PS3 and Wii.

Naturally gamers will go where the games are - and obviously the exclusives and XBOX Live are a big draw for players. And that's awesome. But I just can't help but feel that the consumer "shoulder shrug" of "I only have to go two weeks without games while Microsoft fix it" have led directly to the fact that Microsoft haven't bothered to fix the core problem. My launch  360 E74'd the first time I plugged it in -- I naturally thought I had done something wrong, given public knowledge on the 360 wasn't so globally aware that the console was terribly built back then. After a year of being a 360 owner (and that terrible drought of games that no-one bothers to mention) I sold the system. Sometimes I wish I'd kept it, but I just can't be doing with the hassle.

I guess I'm ranting, and that's not the purpose of my post - what I'm trying to say is, if XBOX owners would show a little intolerance towards the fact that shipping their system off every year or so is downright unacceptable - perhaps Microsoft would have "redesigned" the system and we'd all have access to the 360's library without listening to a massive fan, an overheating power brick and the dreaded Red Ring.

Before you call "troll", perhaps we could discuss. I actually thought it was terrible when my PS2 broke the first time. Considering I have a working NES in my bedroom, that aside from needing a new plug, has been running games since the 1980's. We also have SNES', Mega Drives, 3DOs, Saturns and Dreamcasts. All of which still work. Capiche?