Comments on: Tech Talk: A Guide to Xbox 360 Overheating and Repair

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:59:27 +0000

It does not bother me that people are exploiting a failing of MS. What gets me is that this is a design flaw of MS and they are not publishing a solution. They would rather that others exploit and make money rather than help the people who bought their product in good faith and have since abandoned those who found the design fault. My son has lost 3 games due to warping discs from the heat but he does not have a red light on the front of his game. One game he had for a total of 2.5 hours before it could not be used in anyone’s xBox 360. The other two saw a total of less than 5 operating hours before they could no longer be used. MS stateside will not repair because we are in the military overseas, MS in Germany will not repair because they do not have the same type. In either case, you are forced to pay $150 to correct a MS design fault or pay people who like to exploit MS failings. MS needs to get on the ball and find a fix and publish for all, free.

By: Big Coop

Big Coop — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:38:51 +0000

As far as I know, it does work. I agree with fireblade and tho I have already fixed 2, I do think that the info was indeed very informative. If anyone has any other advice, maybe more indepth or whatever, please post the link or info. Thanks

By: fireblade

fireblade — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:07:11 +0000

this works i did my first one 2 weeks ago now i am fixing a few more. all the bolts and washers are on ebay. it takes about 1 hour to do

By: teeme

teeme — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:26:48 +0000

I received the Red Ring of Death. I went to wikipedia, researched ROD and followed the process that was defined. As much as I didn’t like the fact that I had to send my 360 off, the whole process of waiting for the box to arrive that I was to ship the 360 in and the time the 360 was gone was only 3 weeks.

By: luke

luke — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:44:01 +0000

I bought this piecce of crap brand new,Jan 15th 2009.To date this has froze almost 30 times.I paid top dollar and got junk.Im very dissapointed MR GAtes.Shame on your greedy piece of junk.Shame on your rude evil corrupt way of life and your monopoly.You should be hanged and shot and then fed to the pigs.You may be rich but your a retarded(slow) idiot.

By: Dave3

Dave3 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:38:31 +0000

@Matt

Again, people don’t pay us to publish articles. Anthony asked if we would like an article regarding Xbox and we agreed, as long as it was a unique article written for us and not syndicated spam. A large part of the articles that appear on Geeks of Doom are from contributors who selflessly email us content that we think works for our site, and I honestly have no problem with the fact that his ultimate intention is to help promote his repair guides. We get press releases day and night that are used, not only by us, but by thousands of sites to generate news and content and they are far less helpful (and more vacuous) than this articles is in regards to actual content. I think the article is informative and well written. If you already know all about this kind of thing then kudos, but regardless of your personal knowledge level the content is sound.

Now, if your link proves to show me an article that changes the terms for which we agreed to publish this article (i.e. it is a dupe or near-dupe of this content), we will have it immediately removed from our site. Otherwise, take it for what it is.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:44:25 +0000

Sure Dave, that’s why the same article appeared nearly verbatim over at QJ.net today.

http://xbox360.qj.net/Xbox-360-Rings-of-Death/ pg/49/aid/127692

It would be a great article if it actually told you how to fix anything. Diagnosing the problem isn’t that hard, hell M$ will even tell you how to interpret the Red Rings. I don’t care if it’s an advertorial, but at least have the decency to call it what it is. Now, if you really didn’t get paid anything to post this rubbish, then you guys got hosed.

By: archeron

archeron — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:29:52 +0000

This article is a joke. “you can accomplish this repair using only tools that you likely already have on hand and about an hour of free time”. Do tell. Oh wait, that is where the author stops. It’s called a guide to repair. Except there is no guide. Great. I will write an article called “fix your car” and just say “Hey, don’t take it to a mechanic, fix it yourself!” Some guide.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:27:34 +0000

ARTICLE DIDN’T TELL YOU HOW TO FIX A DAMN THING! ALL THIS WAS IS A DIET COKE(JUSTONE INFORMATIVE CALORIE!) STYLE INFOMERCIAL, BRAVO!

By: Day V

Day V — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:04:25 +0000

I actually have to give Microsoft props for customer service when my 360 went haywire. The repair did cost $90 but they sent me a pre-paid shipping box, I got the 360 back two weeks later and it looked like they just replaced it with a new one. They also send a voucher for a free month of gold Xbox Live. I’m a glass is half empty kind of guy so when I have anything positive to say about a company, it’s high praise.

By: Siah

Siah — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:13:17 +0000

get the Nyko cooler for ur 360 – i had an elite burn out on me, since then i’ve gotten the Nyko cooler (that clips on to the back of the xbox) and im good to go, the machine is cool to the touch after hours of play..

By: Dave3

Dave3 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:31:42 +0000

@matt

Nah, we’re don’t accept pay for any of our submissions. Uccello wrote a great informative article that’ll be sure to help people who are less tech-savvy and informed as you are, and we’re proud to publish it :)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:51:47 +0000

Nice advertorial, I sure hope GoD was paid to post this article since it really didn’t tell us anything new other than someone is selling an instructional DVD that shows you how easy it is to fix RRoD on your own. :P