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Xbox crash?

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Astomp
Posts: 10090 - Karma: 344
so i just got the red flashing ring and now my x box just turns on and goes to  black screen is this the fated red rings of death?
Jun 8 2008 10:46PM
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shibby
Posts: 7088 - Karma: -19
The whole ring should light up red and remain red if it's the RROD. Get a PS3.
Jun 8 2008 10:49PM
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cab509
Posts: 806 - Karma: 34
what does the ring look like? the actual RROD is only three of the four quadrants of
the circle. and depending on the light pattern you can tell what happend.

Use google and look up RROD and you can find how to figure out what went wrong.
Jun 8 2008 10:53PM
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_dy-lan_
Posts: 206 - Karma: 9
if you have 3 of the 4 red lights lit up it's the ring of death. call microsoft. they'll send you a prepaid box ship it out and you'll get a brand new one in about 2 or 3 weeks. it happened to me a few months ago.
Jun 8 2008 11:02PM
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Astomp
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i didnt look closely. just saw red flashing.  and its green now but the screen stays black.
Jun 8 2008 11:02PM
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_dy-lan_
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i would check if all your cords are plugged in. red flashing means the power supply isn't plugged in. 3 solid red lights is the ring of death.
Jun 8 2008 11:06PM
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leckett1
Posts: 6476 - Karma: 294
Did you try to put an MP3 cd in by any chance? A friend of mine did that and it permafucked his xbox
Jun 8 2008 11:08PM
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Balto
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wrap it in 2 towls for 1 hour and leave it on with the harddrive and video cord unpluged if it is the RROD. thats what i did and it fixed it
Jun 8 2008 11:10PM
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fujarome
Posts: 8630 - Karma: 1,561
if it is the red ring of death, sometimes waiting it out can fix it. Mine got it just a few weeks ago actually, and i was too busy to bother with it all week, and when i went to try and see what happened when i turned it on, it worked again, and i haven't had any problems since
Jun 8 2008 11:27PM
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Leo.
Posts: 508 - Karma: 17
i got the rrod but my xbox was back within a week and a half of mailing it
Jun 9 2008 12:53AM
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eheath
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So spend another 400-500 dollars instead of getting a new free xbox? good advice, idiot.
Jun 9 2008 12:55AM
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gordie.
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true
Jun 9 2008 1:01AM
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bangarangmules
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thats only a temporary fix for when you're waiting for you're box tho. i did that and it lasted me for about a week of casual gaming. then it died again. and i did it again and it lasted less. idk maybe you got lucky, but everyone i've heard from it was only temporary too
Jun 9 2008 7:27AM
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dave...
Posts: 1688 - Karma: 126
mehh...thats what i did and im pretty happy...luckily i have a rich housemate
Jun 9 2008 8:30AM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
haha hes got the red ring of death
i did the same thing too bro it sucked
Jun 9 2008 9:12AM
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JHDski47
Posts: 596 - Karma: 26
just send it back to the Xbox company.  Yeah you have the 3 rings of death, 3 of my friends had that and sent it back to Xbox and within like 3 weeks they had their Xbox back fixed
Jun 9 2008 1:11PM
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no_steeze
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that sort of happened to me, i was playing cod 4 split screen with 4 people and we'd been playing for a while and the xbox just shut off while it was loading a map and i got the flashing red ring. i pressed the power button, waited 10 seconds and pressed it again and it works fine now, i think it just crashed, w/e, xbox replaces them because they break like crazy
Jun 9 2008 1:30PM
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VT_scratch
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my friend did too.   then it still came back like 3 hours latr
Jun 9 2008 1:34PM
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Astomp
Posts: 10090 - Karma: 344
im just gonna go buy a new 360 and return my old one in the new box. and say i cant afford it right now.
Jun 9 2008 6:18PM
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860
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 166
Just get a new video chord, I'm going to guess thats your problem, its semi common. Just replug the video cable back in and see if its works. If that doesn't I'd try another cord first
Jun 9 2008 6:22PM
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Proze
Posts: 1094 - Karma: 7
My friend got GTA4 and broke it walking out of the mall so he went in bought another and put the broken one in the new case then returned it. Its kinda dirty though...
Jun 9 2008 8:22PM
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