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    The Xbox 360 is the second game console produced by Microsoft Corporation and is the successor to the original Xbox.

    How many times has your 360 died?

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    #1  Edited By Johnman

    I think I'm one of the 360 owners with bad luck. I'm on my 3rd 360 right now. My other two died a painful death of RRoD. i don't recall if they found a cure yet. :(


    How many times has your 360 died and how did it bite the dust?
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    #2  Edited By MAV3R1CK

    My 360, the Core version, has only died on me once and then I switched and got a Halo 3 Edition console and it has never died out since.

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    #3  Edited By pyromaniac

    just once..glad its over with. My new one seems solid, i've had it for like 7 months now so its all good.

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    #4  Edited By khit

    2 360's have died on me :(

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    #5  Edited By suneku

    Once... haven't used it much in past couple months though too

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    #6  Edited By JDUB_XL

    Once, my launch day 360 bit the dust on April 5th 2008

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    #7  Edited By BlindEffekt

    Once. In a powercut.
    That being said its not the 360's fault.

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    #8  Edited By Aiden

    I've had a few, all with different problems. My first one started locking up which eventually lead to the usual red ring hardware failure. I've had disc drives which can't read brand new game discs and I've just had to send off my current (4th) xbox 360 because the video output went all fuzzy red and green and then stopped working completely. Apparently (well, according to wikipedia) they've started doing this since mid 2007 and it's not covered by the 3 year warranty. Fortunately I've only had this particular console since October...

    It's pretty bad but what can you do. At least all mine have been repaired/replaced completely free so far.


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    #9  Edited By Jolly_Lolly

    you know there's already a thread similar to this one with a lot of posts already in it...

    but i don't want to be an a$$, so 2 of my 360's have "died"

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    #10  Edited By Johnman
    Jolly_Lolly said:
    "you know there's already a thread similar to this one with a lot of posts already in it...

    but i don't want to be an a$$, so 2 of my 360's have "died"
    "
    haha...Yeah right after I posted this topic I went back to browse the 360 forum and I saw the same topic. Sorry people. lol
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    #11  Edited By stryker98

    I'm on #3.  This one has lasted almost a year!  

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    #12  Edited By DARKIDO07

    I'm on number three. First one got the three red lights of death after 6 months of owing it. Second one disk tray malfunctioned, and my 3rd has been going good for almost a year now.

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    #13  Edited By twenty0ne

    Only once.

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    #14  Edited By daredevil

       I have two 360's.  The one from launch red ringed about 4-5 months ago.  My second one red ringed tonight!

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    I bought my first 360 in March of last year. I ended up selling that one for various stupid reasons, but I probably dodged a bullet--it was an older model that surely would have red ringed on me at some point. The 360 I bought early this year is the latest premium model, which should be fine ("should" being a very loose word here).

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    #16  Edited By PaperPlain

    Twice. Once on CoD4. Once on Rock Band(WTF?!)

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    #17  Edited By Blu_Magic

    Once so far.

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    #18  Edited By atejas

    I'm on my second one, but it didnt die of natural causes. My mom knocked it over with her feet, loosening my CD drive(grinding noise), and destroying my Oblivion.

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    #19  Edited By ImWayGooderest

    I've gone through 2 360s. One lasted1 year and died while playing Gears of War and the other lasted 2 months and died on Skate.

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    #20  Edited By KnightOfNi

    my 360 red-ringed for the first time 2 weeks ago, they already sent me a replacement one though.

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    #21  Edited By Cymatics

    My first 360 died on me once(GHIII), so I sent it in, bought a new one(since I read about the 3 months wait and stuff, but looks like its different in Europe, got it back within 7 days), got the old one back, and the new one has been going since then.

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    #22  Edited By irishjohn

    Back last summer my 360 got the red ring of death, I sent it off, got it back the day Bioshock was released, and within 24 hours of receiving my 360 back it died again, six hours into Bioshock.


    The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure they had sent me a new console and it still broke down.  I got Kameo for free when I complained.  Wow.
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    #23  Edited By Kameraz

    I had 2 go down with the RRoD. The last one actually came back on after 20 or so tries and I just left it running 24/7 until the box came from Microsoft.

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    #24  Edited By ElConnro

    Once, a little over a year ago. It wasn't the RRoD, but this weird thing where I could hear everything fine, but the screen was black with white dots flying over the screen. It was very weird and confusing...

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    #25  Edited By kama64

    Hasn't yet, bought back in January.

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    #26  Edited By pbhawks45

    Three times. My first lasted about a year (got it December of 2005), my second lasted all of one week, and my third just broke yesterday and had to be shipped off.

    :(

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    #27  Edited By OblivionGuy07

    My 360 died twice...I guess. It died,  I attempted to fix it, it worked for around 20 minutes, then it died again. So now I got a new one

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    #28  Edited By mousemonkey

    Once because of the disc tray.

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    #29  Edited By Nibbz

    didnt necessarily die. but the disc drive was being a dick. and it took forgayver to load at times. so i got a new one with my warranty

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    #30  Edited By MOLE

    4th Xbox

    Extremely sad for MS and myself

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    #31  Edited By jNerd

    Mine RRoD on effin July 4th... BUT I got it back on July 17th!!! So life is good again =)

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    #32  Edited By sdodd02

    5 now

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    #33  Edited By Pygmahia

    only once, i heard that if u get ur original console back, its better than a refurbished one. why is this?

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    #34  Edited By epic_pets

    Once

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    #35  Edited By BrownBagga

    One of my 360's died twice and the other died once.

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    #36  Edited By Bodycount

    I have a falcon elite and and a launch pro from December 05 both still work but the pro did have disc drive problems tht I fixed myself.

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    #37  Edited By sephiroth1983

    i am one of the lucky 360 owners i have had my system since day one of lauch and no red ring of death so far still i am always aware that one day it will happen

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    #38  Edited By nezze00

    4 have died on me. I didn't buy a new one and just use my cousin's.

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    #39  Edited By Gobbles

    Im only on my 2nd Xbox but my first fell to RRoD right after warranty ended >.<

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    #40  Edited By Spark

    Still on my first and I've had it for about 2 years.

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    #42  Edited By porridgelad

    I'm expecting my first repair back tomorrow, was one of the elite versions with the 3 red rings hardware failure 

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    #43  Edited By uglyjboz

    never, i've been lucky

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    #44  Edited By backspace

    I'm on my 4th 360 now. the first 360 didn't read any discs, and the 2nd and 3rd got RRoD. the first two I sent to MS and got them repaired for free, but the 3rd crashed when I was 2/3 through GTA IV so I just went to the store and bought a new one because I couldn't wait 2-3 weeks to finish the GTA IV story.

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    #45  Edited By ChocolateCoffin

    Only once. If yours has broken 3 times, it's probably your fault, no offense :P don't keep it on a shelf where it'll overheat easily, and try keeping it horizontally, to utilize those fans at the bottom.

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    #46  Edited By Binglejilly

    Mine's died twice cause of the RRoD. After the second they sent me a free month of live gold.

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    #47  Edited By lucas_kelly

    Once.

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    #48  Edited By atruthfulorange

    Twice, I went through it once, the 2nd time they still fixed it but I didn't want to deal with it anymore and traded for a 80 GB PS3 on craigslist. My PS3 just stayed on for more than 40 hours without skipping a beat last weekend.

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    #49  Edited By Agodzo

    Once... and it better be the last time, don't want to go through that again.

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    #50  Edited By GiantBomber

    Just recently had to purchase my 4th console. Really makes yout think

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