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well my 2nd hand 360 that i bought last april-may has had a good innings,unfortunately it now gets the red light on the power supply (gets hot/as does the vent where the fan is 🙁
just wondering if it would be cheaper to just buy another one 2nd hand/or worth getting it repaired?
good job i transferred all my saves to the cloud save.
Didn't MS extend the original warranty due to the RROD. Might be worth contacting MS?
....if that's a no go, I would just buy a second hand one. Maybe consider getting a [url= http://www.game.co.uk/en/hardware/xbox-360/?attributeName1=Shop%20By&sortColumn=popular&sortTypeStr=DESC&inStockOnly=true&listerOnly=true&provenance=Preowned&attributeValue1=64&sortBy= ]preowned one from Game[/url], as then you get a years warranty.
....or a PS4 8)
cheers jamie,i think i may well buy another 2nd hand 360. the ps4/xbox one is just a pipe dream i'm afraid with my financial situation atm.
I think the RROD is incurable. I had two die on me, one replaced under extended warranty and I replaced that with a new one when it died. My newest one has the updated chip set which doesn't suffer from this problem, google it so you can tell before you get a replacement.
old style x box 360? once they've RROD'd they'll break again, even with a well executed repair.
I had a friend mod my old one for me after a RROD. As well as the usual fix (of remounting the heatsink on the GPU and replacing the thermal paste) he mounted the disc drive externally to give the heat sink on the GPU a bit of breathing room and installed two fans above the processors/sinks. looked ridiculous but worked a treat for another 6 months then died again.
I replaced it with a 360 slim 320gB , possibly the best £200 I've ever spent. You should be able to pick up a slim model cheap enough now all the fanboys are upgrading to XBox Ones
(the slim versions aren't supposed to suffer from RROD as they reconfigured the internals and added another fan to keep it cooler)
apologies should have said it's the new slim style 360.
it's not that red ring of death problem,it's the red led on the power supply (when i turn on the 360,it only works for a few minutes before the red led goes on on power supply and the console switches off).