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Fall update bricking lots of 360s [Updated]
Posted in Xbox 360, Hardware, Xbox Live by Curry on November 1st, 2006 at 12:00
November has barely begun but Microsoft has seemingly already won the Screw-up of the Month award. Yesterday’s big Fall Dashboard Update does a lot of good things to your 360, like 1080p support and WMV streaming. And it does some bad things, like reducing a lot of Xbox 360s to 4kg paperweights.
Panic!Update 13:29: Xbox Support is currently stating if you call them that a fix should be out within 2 days to solve the problems. For possible resolutions they’re suggesting meanwhile check this forumpost. Still no official word from Microsoft via the regular channels.
As our Dutch friends at Fok! Games have discovered, there seems to be a fatal error in the latest update causing recently purchased or replaced Xbox 360s to die on their owners (translated and summarized for your reading pleasure):
When you do the following with your new Xbox 360 you will be getting a fatal and permanent “System Error”. That means you should not do this!
* Boot the console.
* Select the language.
* Select “I am a member of Xbox Live”
* Mandatory dashboard update will download and install.
* The system will reboot and show the 360 logo.
* You’ll get “System Error E71″.
When you get this error the 360 is dead and cannot be revived anymore: you will need to take it back to your store for replacement or contact Xbox Customer Support.
The administrator of Dutch games site Insidegamer has reported this happening to his own 360, but the complaints are found on many forums such as the TeamXbox forums. Until more news is released on this from Microsoft, we suggest using an offline profile if you’ve bought your 360 recently and haven’t connected it to Live before.
In possibly related, or just as possibly entirely unrelated news, Xbox-Scene is reporting that Xbox 360s with a combination of certain Toshiba-Samsung TS-H943 DVD drives and certain hacked firmwares have been bricked by the update, this time giving an E66 System Error. Confirmation of this is abundant on the scene forums, and those in the know have already found out that restoring the original firmware will at least fix the problem, and accounts nor console is banned from Live after the repair.
Most people are lucky....
Both situations seem to be unrelated to our previous report about people getting banned from Live because of their console incorrectly believing it was modded. Reports suggest though that the system’s problems in both cases are entirely related to the DVD-drive and which firmware version it is using. Whether this means Microsoft is actively seeking out modded firmwares and screwing up big time on the detection or on the actions to be taken is anyone’s guess.
We’re looking forward to Microsoft’s explanation, and will report the minute we hear more about this. Meanwhile we wish those currently owning a $400 paper weight the best of luck with resolving their problems hopefully as quickly as possible.
http://www.xboxic.com/news/1897This post has been edited by OriginalCompGeek: Nov 1 2006, 06:24 PM
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