Topic: Freezing Due To Overheating? (Read 99 times)

elbombillo2 · « **on:** August 09, 2006, 07:48:00 AM »

I just got my replacement 360 about 2 months ago. I just started playing it after I modded the Firmware. Now for some reason It Freezes all the time now. It started to happen when I was downloading a Demo from XBL, it frooze about 5 times before I can get download the full demo. Now after I got the demo the games freezes at different part of the demo. Now it's happening to all my games including orginal and backups. Here is what I have tried....

1. Remove all wires and plug back in.
2. Boot orginal game
3. Boot back up
4. Boot Xbox without HHD
5. Blast the A/C in the room

Still it freezes, any suggestions?

WinbonD · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2006, 08:58:00 PM »

try using that code that resets everything to stock and deletes any updates that you have installed

ive seen the codes here yesterday , not sure where , do a search

BCfosheezy · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2006, 08:20:00 AM »

Everyone blames the crashes on something else but at the end of the day it's always the same. It's not the software. It's not the firmware. How could it work for someone else on an identical piece of equipment but not yours? The answer is it couldn't. The difference here is that MS has a poor cooling solution so all of the gpu's they make run very close to their heat threshold. If you got a chip with a lower tolerance than most, you will experience problems and depending on how close to the threshold your chip was your chip could last MONTHS before the transistors have had enough and begin to experience problems. It's Heat. It's always been heat.

Tito2k6 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2006, 08:28:00 AM »

QUOTE(BCfosheezy @ Aug 11 2006, 02:51 PM)

Everyone blames the crashes on something else but at the end of the day it's always the same. It's not the software. It's not the firmware. How could it work for someone else on an identical piece of equipment but not yours? The answer is it couldn't. The difference here is that MS has a poor cooling solution so all of the gpu's they make run very close to their heat threshold. If you got a chip with a lower tolerance than most, you will experience problems and depending on how close to the threshold your chip was your chip could last MONTHS before the transistors have had enough and begin to experience problems. It's Heat. It's always been heat.

WORD! I thought I was one of the lucky ones. Mine lasted 8 months before I had a single problem. Now it has the same problem that many had right out of the box (started locking up then red lights of death). I'm sending it in to get a replacement (for a $130 ransom). I just hope that they figured this out with the newer units. Mine was manufacured and purchased in December.

Anyway, moded or not, these things are TIME-BOMBS!

Hey BC where you from? I'm in Belleville, IL.

This post has been edited by Tito2k6: Aug 11 2006, 03:31 PM

elbombillo2 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2006, 10:22:00 PM »

Forget it now I get 3 lights of death. Since I modd it i will have to try the heat gun trick. If it dont work i'll get mad enough i will just buy one at bestbuy and return this one. I was waiting about a month for Dead Rising to come out now I can't play it.

Tito2k6 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2006, 10:35:00 PM »

QUOTE(elbombillo2 @ Aug 12 2006, 04:53 AM)

Forget it now I get 3 lights of death. Since I modd it i will have to try the heat gun trick. If it dont work i'll get mad enough i will just buy one at bestbuy and return this one. I was waiting about a month for Dead Rising to come out now I can't play it.

I totally feel your pain. Mine did exactally the same thing, execpt it gave me the red lights the first time I stuck in Dead Rising (oh man was I p*ssed). I Hope all works out for you. Since I haven't opened mine (still waiting for somethjing better than the firmware mod), mine is going to MS with a $130 ransom.

Not really sure if I'm better off than you or not (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Good luck anyway. I love the XBOX & 360, but MS has really p*ssed me off this time!

Chancer · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2006, 03:56:00 AM »

QUOTE(elbombillo2 @ Aug 12 2006, 04:53 AM)

Forget it now I get 3 lights of death. Since I modd it i will have to try the heat gun trick. If it dont work i'll get mad enough i will just buy one at bestbuy and return this one. I was waiting about a month for Dead Rising to come out now I can't play it.

Thats fraud so we don't want to know in here.

This post has been edited by Chancer: Aug 12 2006, 10:57 AM

elbombillo2 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2006, 12:56:00 PM »

Sorry MOD but I was a little pissed with all this Xbox BS. We are all getting F*cked by M$ and I don't feel like taking a $400 hit.

sinister slipknot · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2006, 01:39:00 PM »

QUOTE(BCfosheezy @ Aug 11 2006, 01:51 PM)

Everyone blames the crashes on something else but at the end of the day it's always the same. It's not the software. It's not the firmware. How could it work for someone else on an identical piece of equipment but not yours? The answer is it couldn't. The difference here is that MS has a poor cooling solution so all of the gpu's they make run very close to their heat threshold. If you got a chip with a lower tolerance than most, you will experience problems and depending on how close to the threshold your chip was your chip could last MONTHS before the transistors have had enough and begin to experience problems. It's Heat. It's always been heat.

but not everyone's 360s overheats, so it could be down to ventaliation and room temp.

Tito2k6 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2006, 02:14:00 PM »

QUOTE(sinister slipknot @ Aug 13 2006, 08:10 PM)

but not everyone's 360s overheats, so it could be down to ventaliation and room temp.

Yea, mine's not overheating, but it is somewhat heat related. Mine has the 102 error which is pretty much a cold soder point. They under baked my system and the heatup/cool down of this very hot system has, over time, resulted in cold(dead) soder points.

The bottom line is this: It seems regardless of your error, 99% of the failures are manufacturing related, not consumer abuse. If your's hasn't died YET, consider yourself fortunate (I guess). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

sinister slipknot · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2006, 04:10:00 PM »

I can understand that there have been many flaws with the console's design and manufactoring, but some overheating 360s are down to bad ventilation and high room temp.

IAmCanadian · « **Reply #11 on:** August 13, 2006, 04:25:00 PM »

QUOTE(sinister slipknot @ Aug 13 2006, 03:41 PM)

I can understand that there have been many flaws with the console's design and manufactoring, but some overheating 360s are down to bad ventilation and high room temp.

After 4 hours of oblivion and playing in my room (Ambient temp: 29*C, no AC) my console didn't overheat once, so I think it's mostly bad ventilation.

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