ive fixed a number of 360s with this problem and my advice to you would be keep playing it till it dies on you again and once it stops working infinitely then crack the case open. If you have any type of warranty or if the sticker seal has not been broken contact microsoft to see about a replacement.
If no such luck there then you can attempt a xclamp mod. youtube it to find info if you dont know anything about it.
There are a number of people on the forum who can fix it including myself, but its not hard and only costs like 10 bucks to get all the materials from home depot and radio shack.
to sum it up.. continue playing the 360 untill this happens again. DO NOT do the towel mod.. that will destroy the 360s components.
Ive fixed 360s before and they work for a week a month 6 months and some havent broken down yet. I wish i knew a PERMANENT fix but i personally do not think there is one with the old school chips. Now they have the falcon chips (think its call falcon?) and supposedly they dont have the RROD problem.
I bought myself an elite with that chip and so far I havent had any problems..
good luck! if you need any more info lemme know
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Originally Posted by Modding_out
My 360 gave me a scare, a few min ago.
It glitched, distorted the y axis of the pic and froze, While plying the original splinter cell double agent. (I was viewing the map at the time)
I was kinda surprised, But I thought the disk had a scratch on it....nope perfect, but I cleaned it off any way..But that's getting ahead of my self.
1. First thing I did after it froze was turn it off using the button on the console(the controller stopped responding)
2. After it completely powered down I pressed the eject button the clean the disk(see above) It successfully powered on to the dash board with no problems, and booted the game up when I put it back in with no problems.
3. Next I turned off again and this time with the disk still in I turn it on via power button. The 360 powered on....But no picture, and after a minute I got the 3rrod (my controller had all the lights lit too)
4. I freaked and powered it off immediately. Then tried step two again, It worked perfectly.
5. I forget what it did in here in step 5 but I did some thing with poweron/off
6. Next I killed power to the whole tv system (nothing was turned on) and with the power off I tried to turn them on to make sure their was no juice flowing any were.
7. Then I tried step 3 again and it started up and worked flawlessly from what I can tell, I didn't actually play any thing on it.
So that leave me here, coming to you guys my RCM homies for advice.
*Should I crack the case and tighten down those heat sinks to prevent any problems?
*Or should I just leave well enough alone?
Hey lincpimp....When I bought it off of you, you said it was like new right? And I have only played maybe 20 or so times, and never for more than an hour before turning it off. It's in a well ventilated area standing up (the most ventilated position) When done playing (most always under an hour) I check it's temps and it's always been rock steady, and not burning up.
That's all I can think of at the moment, what do you guys think? And please, no "you should've gotten a ps3" shit.
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