Red Ring of Death occured after intense use, this seems to happen to day one (10 hour used) products. Shouldnt this have bern detected and fixed during test periods?
I mean 3 hours test run isnt long..
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Some Xbox One X Consoles Dying After A Few Hours
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I mean 3 hours test run isnt long..
I've been playing for less than 30 minutes. Had it on for about 3 hours, but that was mostly patching and downloading.
I don't remember a significant number reports of RROD on the first day, though.
My 360 lasted a couple of months in 2007. One day it started displaying this bright green in certain parts of games and anime I'd be watching. The green got worse and worse over time. I found out if I press the center of the console the green went away.
Sadly it wasn't much longer and finally the dreaded 3 rings lit up and it was gone forever. I loved that console. Blue dragon, beautiful katamari, eternal sonata, halo 3, condemned and many others.
Sadly it wasn't much longer and finally the dreaded 3 rings lit up and it was gone forever. I loved that console. Blue dragon, beautiful katamari, eternal sonata, halo 3, condemned and many others.
I do, but I was also on the IGN boards at that point so it was really busy (like here).
I was watching the Gamers Nexus teardown of the XboneX and they commented that the TIM on the APU reminded them of the kind of cheap, ineffective TIM Intel's been using recently so I have to wonder if that's playing a part in these consoles dying.
There is absolutely no way to know what percentage of units have defects right now. It could very well be within the industry standard.
I vote for "The Ring Effect" after the movies. You have seen the patch? Your console must die.
Witness
It seems the One X has some sort of Trouble with external Harddrives. I pluged in my 2tb Seagate Gamedrive that was tanked with 10 Games and my Profile directly when i set up my xbox. Xbox showed all my games but everytime i tried starting any game or app i just got an error code. Even reseting factory didnt help. I had to unplug the external an download everything to the internal. The whole system also has freezing aswell or just doesnt except any input anymore as if it was calling to microsoft servers that arent responding or something. Realy strange.
It seems the One X has some sort of Trouble with external Harddrives. I pluged in my 2tb Seagate Gamedrive that was tanked with 10 Games and my Profile directly when i set up my xbox. Xbox showed all my games but everytime i tried starting any game or app i just got an error code. Even reseting factory didnt help. I had to unplug the external an download everything to the internal. The whole system also has freezing aswell or just doesnt except any input anymore as if it was calling to microsoft servers that arent responding or something. Realy strange.
Well thats percentage from my analisys. On my forum we have faults too already and compared to number of users who bought it in my community - its 5%(even higher TBH). On a possitive side it could be only Scorpio editions.
PLus all bad stories begins like this.
Normal faults rates are quiet on the net. This one is not already
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I'm legit curious about where this number comes from... after only a few hours since launch...
edit: nvm I saw your answer to another post. still not sold on the accuracy of your methodology tho.
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Weren't you still good though with the 3 year warranty they gave everyone. I got 4 or 5 replacements in the end.
I never understood this either. in what bizzaro world do people live in where they have 5+ outlets on the wall behind their entertainment centers?
I have had no failures but my friends day one Xbox One failed a few hours after he got it, then the next one the controller broke.
My cousin got a PS4 and it didn't last a week.
It sucks but there is always a hardware failure here and there.
I remember the PS4 launch people where saying it was the models made in China that more often than not had the problems while the ones made in Japan were fine.
Is there anything like that here, like a certain serial number code etc that may help people know what to look for
My cousin got a PS4 and it didn't last a week.
It sucks but there is always a hardware failure here and there.
I remember the PS4 launch people where saying it was the models made in China that more often than not had the problems while the ones made in Japan were fine.
Is there anything like that here, like a certain serial number code etc that may help people know what to look for
They're not quiet, crowbcat makes money every console launch with a dumb video showing how the launch units are broken.
All bad stories begin like this, sure. But so do all console launches.
I would probably say that it is software rather than hardware. My first 24hrs were aweful, but I noticed a few things and corrected them:
- NAT plays an important role here, even if you are not playing online. You might stumble in a lot of license issues because of it and might corrupt the software and system
- if that happens, do a full reset and do not import and data from your old xbone
- NAT plays an important role here, even if you are not playing online. You might stumble in a lot of license issues because of it and might corrupt the software and system
- if that happens, do a full reset and do not import and data from your old xbone
I'm not sure. This was before they started the extra warranty and I was young. I decided to just throw it in the garbage and went out and bought a ps3 with heavenly sword.
Back then rrod was in the news constantly and I was scared of getting another faulty unit. My brothers launch unit from 05 started acting up as soon as we started playing rr6. So at that point I was like forget it I'll just get a Sony.
Fair enough.
I was in Europe at the time and everyone's xboxes were dying so everyone knew to send them back.
Your console is within the acceptable 3-5% failure rate. Please pay for shipping to send it back to us and we will be happy to replace it with a non-special edition refurbished console.
I feel like the worst part of this story isn't needing to get a replacement (which I bet is easy enough if this is limited to a small handful, not widespread), but possibly having to re-download everything. (I would hope returners could at least fish the HD out.) So many giant DLs and patches for the X. I burned through my last "courtesy month" of my bandwidth cap downloading as many games as I could during the review period. I'm already close to hitting my November limit, and it's not even the 10th.
(Sorry for the eff-you-Comcast derail.)
(Sorry for the eff-you-Comcast derail.)
Launch day blues. Microsoft really stepped up their console repair game after the rrod incident, so I would imagine those affected will be taken care of swiftly. I don't think these problems should stop anyone from going out and getting one.
This is nonsense. If you are actually Misterxmedia you have no idea what you're talking about and never have. People with faults are more likely to report them, people without faults are most likely playing on their console.
You do know that Rrod was detected by Microsoft during test periods before launch but because they wanted to beat Sony to the punch for launch they went ahead and swept it under the rug in hopes it wouldnt affect them significantly.
It had to be expected. The problem that led the 360 to get those RRoD was that it was a powerfull hardware (for its time) crammed into a small case. Which implies lot of heat to vent.
The X is smaller and many time more powerful so I can't imagine how challenging it was for the engineers to make it all fit inside without everything overheating.
The X is smaller and many time more powerful so I can't imagine how challenging it was for the engineers to make it all fit inside without everything overheating.
Yup initially the warranty was like a year and it wasnt covering rrod so many were screwed. It wasnt until the class action lawsuits tht microsoft finally changed their warranty and were forced by the courts to fix the situation. Initially they were not acknowledging rrod.
How many users total are you using to reach your five percent failure rate?
I'm reading that people are fixing issues of consoles not turning on by plugging them Into another powerboard....plug...seems the power draw might be creating issues in people's entertainment setups
On mine the insects demo has started closing just after it finishes loading and Demo starts. First time I ran it after downloading it originally it was fine but now exits everytime. Have deleted and re-download but still the same. No other issues with other games or apps that I have noticed.
Anyone else had something similar?
Anyone else had something similar?
Obligatory kaz laughing gif :)
In all seriousness, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. This is common for all mass produced electronic products. Let's not blow it out of proportion.
Hopefully it's not wide spread. I feel for those playing with their brand new console, It would've sucked for me too had it happened to my hardware.
Not exactly true.
The 360 was like a Frankenstein monster of third party tech [so much so that the amount of parts / pieces in it was a nightmare to assemble] all crammed into a box that MS designed.
I think I watched a doc on it on YouTube recently and it made the whole RRoD fiasco make 110% sense.
Less about power, more about bad hardware sourcing / manufacturing / planning.
It took an amount of time for rrod to become mainstream and even longer for MS to acknowledge and during that time many played it down.
Not saying this is a similar issue, but MS will be praying to someone it ain't even close.
There are some negative amazon reviews complaining of dead consoles too I just read. A few 1-Star reviews talking about turning it on then off then on again a few hours later and nothing. Seems to be a power supply issue could be faulty in these early units.
It's literally what MS told us old timers who dealt with the 360's RRoD in 2005 initially. Took a very long time for MS to do right by those of us affected. i had to pay for shipping to get my cardboard coffin and send my console to McAllen, TX in order to get a refurb replacement which also RRoD'd not too long after.
MS needs to get in front of this and show that they've learned from the RRoD fiasco. If there is, in fact, a widespread systemic issue.
That's the kind of negativity you don't want at a launch, especially MS who have the least momentum of the 3.
The fact this has been pushed as a premium console and is the most expensive as a consequence means any ongoing issues would hurt that little bit more.
The fact this has been pushed as a premium console and is the most expensive as a consequence means any ongoing issues would hurt that little bit more.
I wonder if this is an overvoltage protection issue, some residual charge being held in capacitors.
If anyone has one, unplug from power, hold power button for 30secs and try again.
Longshot but worth a swing.
If anyone has one, unplug from power, hold power button for 30secs and try again.
Longshot but worth a swing.