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Killian12321

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Switched To A New Hard Drive - Get Red Ring Of Death When Connected
« on: February 03, 2020, 05:26:00 PM »
Hi guys,

I decided to get myself a new 120Gb harddrive for Christmas and as they were on ebay for £69.99 (from Hong Kong) and feedback was very good I thought I'd go through that channel.

I got the drive tonight, just plugged it in, 360 started, tv made a beep sound, xbox froze and the red ring appeared.  I panicked and did what anybody would do...... hit the power button and then unplugged it.  I took the harddrive out gave it a few mins and it turned on fine, even played online for about half hour.  Thought it may be a one off so tried again, still no luck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The weird thing is, there was a 20Gb one in there previously and thats always worked fine.  Now when I try to re-connect it it does the same thing.

Needless to say I'm now running from a memory card (had most my stuff on this luckily!) but wanted to see what you guys thought of it?  Has this ever happened before or do you maybe have an idea as to what it is?
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Switched To A New Hard Drive - Get Red Ring Of Death When Connected
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2020, 12:47:00 PM »
Thats weird, I just read somewhere that the 4 flashing red lights means a problem with the AV.... why would adding a harddrive cause that to happen.......???
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