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Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: eversio11 on November 25, 2005, 01:02:00 AM
I was thinking.. I bet this 3 flashing red light internal hardware problem is pretty easy to fix. Probably a faulty resistor or something that the power supply screws up. I bet if someone were to open their defective (3 red light) Xbox they would find the problem and be able to fix it pretty easily.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: the stupid one on November 25, 2005, 02:44:00 AM
The power supply is contained inside that brick, not inside the 360 itself, if I recall.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: eversio11 on November 25, 2005, 10:47:00 AM
QUOTE(the stupid one @ Nov 25 2005, 03:15 AM) View Post

The power supply is contained inside that brick, not inside the 360 itself, if I recall.

Right, but I'm saying the power supply broke something inside the Xbox itself.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: MrDarkflame on November 25, 2005, 01:23:00 PM
I've opened mine and couldnt see anything blown or out of ordinary.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: eversio11 on November 25, 2005, 01:13:00 PM
QUOTE(MrDarkflame @ Nov 25 2005, 01:54 PM) View Post

I've opened mine and couldnt see anything blown or out of ordinary.

Are you serious? Are you capable of posting high resolution detailed shots of the motherboard? We can use all the help we can get.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: MrDarkflame on November 26, 2005, 07:04:00 AM
I just had it back at the retailer and had a friend who works there bring in his power supply unit for the xbox360 and mine worked fine. Definately something isolated inside of the power supply unit.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: Shadow Breaker on November 26, 2005, 07:34:00 AM
QUOTE(MrDarkflame @ Nov 26 2005, 08:35 AM) View Post

I just had it back at the retailer and had a friend who works there bring in his power supply unit for the xbox360 and mine worked fine. Definately something isolated inside of the power supply unit.


Your definantly correct. A lot of people (and I mean alot) who were having problems used another persons power supply unit on there 360 and everything worked fine. Sadly I don't think Micrsoft would replace them if there faulty. It would take alot more like houses burning down... mad.gif
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: MrDarkflame on November 26, 2005, 08:02:00 AM
I just got off the phone with MS and they wont replace just the cable/brick. They wanted the console (just the console). After rexeplaining everything (that it worked fine with someone else's brick) The rep put me on hold and got back on asking for console and power unit. (they wont touch my xbox as i opened it  wink.gif  ) So i declined. Seems they absolutely refuse to believe that just the power unit could be the problem as their initial response is to take the console away  dry.gif

I called Circuit City and their Customer Service Manager called 18004MYXBOX and explained my situation to them. She got them to ok just the power supply unit to be sent to me!  tongue.gif  The customer service manager called me back and gave me the confirmation number and told me i should have it in a few days. YAY Circuit City  love.gif

Now that i have a new power supply unit on its way, anyone know how to open the power brick up? I wanna see if theirs something messed up in there  wink.gif
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: m82a1 on November 26, 2005, 12:13:00 PM
if its a faulty  psu, hammer, or more realisticly just take a butter knife and pry open
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: Dipset_Juelz on November 26, 2005, 12:23:00 PM
the solution is alot easier than that. the psu is over heating. so if you tie string to hang the psu up so air can get to it from all sides i bet it will work
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: MrDarkflame on November 26, 2005, 09:43:00 PM
its not overheating... ive moved it hung it, left it off for hours (even a day once) and nothing ever comes on cept green for a millisec, red for a millisec, then orange... not even enough power goes to the xbox 360 to turn the fans on for more than a sec. the power supply unit, in my case, simply does not work... about opening it, i may find a butter knife soon (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: NeoJew on November 26, 2005, 10:20:00 PM
Careful, PSU's are dangerous. Even if they've been left off for a while, they can still hold a charge.
Title: Anyone With A Defective 360...
Post by: Mjkthirdeye on November 29, 2005, 01:48:00 AM
QUOTE(NeoJew @ Nov 26 2005, 10:51 PM) View Post

Careful, PSU's are dangerous. Even if they've been left off for a while, they can still hold a charge.


This is true, to circumvent it, unplug the psu from the wall but leave plugged into the console, then press the power button to discharge the caps in the psu, and you should be alright.