Xbox 360 update may be killing consoles

Anything made by microsoft always has bugs and failures... Windows BSOD, Xbox RROD, To be honest, ive never heard of anything for Playstation and the rest of the consoles...
 
Solidus said:
When will it ever end? *sigh*
Must be horrible living in constant fear like that.
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Please dont even mention it. The pain is just too much to bear for some!

I would have gathered a huge following and taken M$ to court and demand a refund on all $'s spend on the Xbox360 console unless they issue a Jasper as replacement. Then pray the problem is really solved.
 
People complain about MS products, but I honestly have no problems. Running Vista on 3 PCs at home, I have an XBOX 360 and haven't had any problems with any of them. Don't know what all the fuss is about.

I did the new 360 upgrade... all fine on my side.
 
I was unfortunately hit by this updated patch that was supposed to fix sound issues over HDMI.

I switched on my XBox on Friday morning (6-Feb) as I wanted to download the Resi Evil 5 demo while I was at work.

I try to connect onto live, and it tells me there is a mandatory update to be downloaded. I select No, I will update the update later. But then I cannot log into Live to download the RE5 demo. So I thought screw it....decided to wait to download the update.

The update took about 15 minutes to download and 2 restarts of the box. Once it was downloaded Live finally logged in. I thought everything was fine. I went to download the RE5 demo. Started downloading, turned off the TV and left the machine to download the demo. (I have left my XBox on many times before during the day to download stuff off XBL.)

Came back home at 6pm and the box was still on and was still busy downloading the demo, I think it was at 90%, so I just left it to finish downloading. But noticed something strange at that point. I wanted to download a few more demos and arcade trials, but certain things were missing from the menu. Spotlight, Video Marketplace and Game Marketplace were missing. I thought nothing of it and decided to rather leave the demo to finish downloading and come back later.

Came back later and the demo has finished downloading. I decide to restart the box so that I can download more stuff off XBL. I switch it off, and switch it on again, and nothing. No lights, no RRoD, no picture on the screen. Switch if off again and pull out the plug at the wall, and put it back in again, and power it on. I see lights, it's starts and logs into XBL. I think nothing of it and continue to download some other videos and trial arcade games.

Later in the evening, I decide to stop the downloading on the XBox as I wanted to download other stuff on my computer, so I go to turn off the XBox. Left it off the whole night and only on Sunday evening decided to switch it on again to check out the RE5 demo.

Switch it on, log into XBL, start up the RE5 demo and it starts. I get to the menu and "Start new game"....and it freezes. Leave it for a minute or 2, then decide to switch off. Switch it back on again.....RRoD. Unplug from the wall, leave it for 5 minutes, switch it back on again....RRoD.

I have disconnected everything from the box and left it unplugged since Sunday evening. I'm tempted to try start it up again.

I've had my XBox since December 2006, so I still got another year left on the warranty. I've never had a problem with the box once, until I downloaded that damn update.

At first I thought it was finally time that it gave in and died. But then researched online...and found out that many other people were having the exact same problem that after the update, their boxes bomb out.\

So yeah, that's my experience with the latest Microsoft update.

I still need to phone MS to get a reference number, and then follow the warranty swap out procedure. But I phone MiD and they still have no stock of XBox's yet. Some people have been waiting since before November for their swap out warranty boxes. So I'm not sure when MiD will be getting new stock.

I was hoping if I left the box turned off, until Microsoft release a new patch to fix the broken XBoxes, that I could get it fixed that way.

BTW, Microsoft have pulled the patch already, so they known it's a problem. This was supposed to fix a problem with sound issues over HDMI. My XBox doesn't even have HDMI. Yet, this patch was mandatory.

I've read this problem is not happening with all XBoxes. Some are new (Elite and Jaspers), some are old (Xenon and Falcon's). So it looks complete random, but lots of people are having the same problem after the 2.0.7363.0 patch.

http://gamer.blorge.com/2009/02/06/xbox-360-rrod-returns-with-update-issue-getting-out-of-hand/

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11911&Itemid=1

http://xbox360.gamespy.com/articles/952/952341p1.html

http://forums.xbox.com/25603474/ShowPost.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_System_Software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems#.22New_Xbox_Experience.22_update_issues
 
Apparently this update is still floating around.

I heard rumors that it was removed, but some people are reporting that when they connect to live, it is still asking them to update.

Any local confirmers?
 
Well there was that time where one of the PS3 updates were bricking PS3's around the world.

At least Sony owned up to their fault and sorted the problem out. Even removed the patch from being downloaded.
 
I have been noticing my console freezing at certain times. Doesnt happen very often but this never happened before I did the update.
 
kokaine said:
I have been noticing my console freezing at certain times. Doesnt happen very often but this never happened before I did the update.
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Well that's what I've heard happening to people on the XBox forums. After the update, random freezing of games. Then one day, RRoD.

I'm hoping I'll be able to switch my XBox on when MS release a new update to fix this crap.
 
nuyork said:
Apparently this update is still floating around.

I heard rumors that it was removed, but some people are reporting that when they connect to live, it is still asking them to update.

Any local confirmers?
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Apparently Microsoft have not removed the latest patch, it's still available to download. People are still posting on the official XBox 360 forums that they have done the update and their consoles have RRoD's or started freezing randomly.
 
Well I managed to get my XBox working again, but as soon as I did I switched it off and left if for a while.

I was trying to rollback the firmware using the X,LB,RB,X,LB,RB,X on the Hard Drive. It did something, but did not remove the last system update, as I had hoped it would. I don't know what it did, but it removed my avatar, and when I try to go to the avatar customization, it doesn't allow me in, saying I need to update my system. When I check the firmware version, it is still sitting on 2.0.7363.0. So I switched it off and left it.

Someone mentioned that maybe try updating from a CD of the system update. I actually remember now that I downloaded the NXE update - 2.0.7357.0 - for a friend's XBox and I still have the CD image. I think I should give that a try! Will let you know, once I've tried it.

Microsoft should really implement a rollback feature like they do with Windows.
 
Well just to let y'all know, using a CD with an older firmware did not work. Wrote the 2.0.7357.0 NXE update to a CD, loaded up the XBox and it did nothing. Pretty much what SA X360 said when he tried the same thing.

I then decided to connect to Live and see if it would work. Well as soon I connected it asked to update again. I'm not sure what it was updating because when I checked my firmware was sitting at 2.0.7363.0 still. I think when I tried to remove the system updates via X,LB,RB,X,LB,RB,X, what it did was remove the avatar creating program. So I think it might have downloaded and installed that again.

The update took AGES to download. I think I left the XBox online downloading for at least 3 hours before it was finished. Strange. After the update downloaded, the box restarted and I was greeted with lovely graphical pixelation on my plasma (kinda like the pixelation I saw on my old notebook a while ago).

I thought now it's gotten worse and totally screwed up the graphics processor or something. So I switched it off for the night and unplugged everything.

In the morning I came to switch it on again and everything was back to normal. No more pixelation. Maybe it was getting too hot or something. So I logged into Live and no new or more updates. Then I tried out the Resident Evil 5 demo. It started up and went into the game. No freezes yet. Played for about 5 minutes and everything was still fine. Went back to the dashboard and the graphics were still fine. Then switched it off again.

Will test for longer periods tonight, but I dunno. I'm worried that playing it for long hours will indeed either make it freeze, give it graphical glitches, or give it the RRoD again.
 
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