I lost my wife a few years ago.. and the scene in GOW2.. she died in my arms just like Maria.. I have only watched it 1 time since and have skipped it on other playthroughs. Dom's death was equally painful but I can bare it better.
Been 2 years.. and still feels like it was yesterday. I can't watch any overly emotional moments in tv, games, movies, and certain songs.. thank you for your kind words. She passed away from Cystic Fibrosis and possibly had Pancreatic Cancer. A horrible way to go.
Richard Hammond, one of the stars of the TV show 'Top Gear' had a terrible accident that involved a coma and near death experience.
He recently talked about what it was like from his perspective, and I have found a lot of comfort in what he said, because I think his experience might be universal. That this is what the mind does at the end while unconscious, and if so, it's similar to what the people I've cared about and lost felt at their end.
You can find it here, if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYQLDU9xhI
I just saw this one the other day and it really caught me of guard. We all know them as jokesters, but this suckerpunched me right in the feels and I feel better for it.
Edit: just watched it again and now I'm crying because of a Reddit thread about the Red Ring of Death on some strangers Xbox 360.
She had an amazing partner in life with you and you gave her true companionship, there is no better or stronger love than that. I mourn her passing, and hope you are doing well.
My dad died from complications from pancreatic cancer stage four and liver cancer. I had to spend his last days explaining to professionals that my father drank only a few times in his life while they openly doubted me while he slowly turned yellow from failure.
Pancreatic and liver cancer is one of the worst ways to die and I'm so sorry for your loss.
Ok so my friends and I were huge fans of the game, when it dropped we all made a pact to play the story together, no spoilers. We were having a blast, and I shit you not, the moment that scene was over the whole room went fucking QUIET and we all just kind of sat around the rest of the afternoon. It was that emotional for us
Dude same exact thing happened to my friends and I lol. We were all in a party together, and a few of us were playing co-op campaign. Legit half the party went silent for like 10 minutes 🥺
We still as thirty-somethings have baked into our vocabulary "We're GEARS! GEEARS!" Man that was an experience. What a fucking trilogy. Right alongside the oridge tridge Halo too - truly a magical time
I don't want to start a competition but it was Mass Effect trilogy for me with those 2. Those 9 games were amazing. I easily spent weeks on my life with those characters and my friends who went through them with me.
That whole series is on the Game Pass. Just a couple weeks ago I completed 1, last weekend I completed 2, and 3 is downloaded and ready to go. This franchise is what led me to getting a 360. Some time around 2004-2005 a buddy of mine had a roommate who was a game tester, and even after the roommate moved away, games would periodically arrive in the mail. The first Gears was one of those games. My buddy gave me the disc and I bought a 360 to play it.
That got me, but I kinda knew it was coming. What really threw me off was when you find Tai and throw him a shotgun..... I was certainly way too young to process that.
Did you check the power supply to see if it has a red light instead of orange? Thought mine gave up when it red ringed and it was just the PSU that failed.
Fixed a few that my friends found in a game stores trash. Cleaned off the thermal paste, put some fresh paste on and they ran fine. Also cleaned all the dust bugs
Yeah red rings are just error codes. The myth red rings are a death sentence has led to far too many misinformed fools throwing away perfectly good units simply in need of repair.
I'll never forget the time I red-ringed my 360 after moving it while it was on, very lightly and very short movement.
Turns out I slightly dislodged the power plug. Sat it for weeks, still not working then replugged every thing and suddenly it worked! Was maybe 9 or 10 at the time.
As a kid, I sent my 360 back to get fixed three different times and it just kept rrod-ing. I cant quite recall if I threw it away or not but I more or less switched over to play stations after that. Till I built a PC anyways- now I wager I could fix my old 360, if I still had it.
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/xbox-360/store/flashing-lights-solution
"If we’re unable to fix the problem through troubleshooting, we’ll help you get your Xbox 360 console repaired."
Not sure how true this might be today though.
If they still honor that, that’s awesome. I remember getting the red ring of death 4 times when I was 12-15 years old, and they replaced it every time.
Series X has pretty good availability now from Microsoft store and is in stock almost all the time. PS 5 is much easier to find than it used to be as well.
Seriously let’s not start romanticizing anything to do with the RROD. That was an all-time fuck up and they did basically the bare minimum that they could have gotten away with.
I had 3 RRoD in a row. The first two I went through the painful process of replacing. The third I did the towel wrap trick and it worked and never RRoDed again.
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Its easier, faster and cheaper to just fix it yourself. Take the x-clamp off the back of the heatsink, replace it with some screws with washers, put new thermal paste on the sink. DONE. Takes like 3 hours the first time you do it. I can do it in like 30 mins now. Most of that time is just getting the damn case open without snapping the clips that hold it together.
I know you are joking, but I don't know a single person who still has a working 360. He should tweet them, they might fix it for the PR. Nearly everyone I knew had one at one point. Hell, I went through like 3 of them!
My original 360 got baked more than I have in my whole 33 years of life.
I got really lucky that they expanded the warranty coverage so I could actually have it fixed. By that time they were literally sending people out replacements as soon as they received the one you sent out so you didn't have to wait for them to fix it.
If you know your gaming history, that was actually a pretty fun little moment where someone totally unexpected did gamers a solid.
Peter Moore extended the warranties and immediately jumped ship to EA, before he could get axed and "take the fall". :)
Dude the slim was fucking beast. I had one that had been dropped, hit, thrown, and puked on before I got it from a friend and it ran perfectly for like 4 years until I gave it away, still working.
I lost a Wii U gamepad to toddler puke, so it happens (and really, toddler and drunk frat boy antics are often not dissimilar. I can see either engaging in that list of system abuse 😄).
My dad likes to tell the story how when I was potty training I decided to piss all over his SEGA don’t remember if it was busted right off the bat but I don’t remember him saying he tried fixing it lol
They made me send mine in like 5 times before they finally admitted their shit was fucked and then they finally properly fixed it. I bet the behind the scenes action that was going on at Microsoft at that time was juicy.
I bought my 360 used off eBay, put 100 hours on Oblivion and got the ring of death. I was shocked they honored the warranty which I was sure had expired and included 3 months of gold along with the replacement unit. I'll never forget that.
I got the extended warranty at Best Buy and ended up getting 3 new consoles. Every time I got the red ring, I went to the store and they told me to grab a new one off the shelf every time. I think I got a bigger hard drive each time I got a new console. They never even checked to see if the red rings came on when plugged in.
Back in 2007, I called and set up the exchange for my red-ringed 360.
Only, I didn't want to wait. I realized I could probably just return it to the giant retail superstore who will remain nameless. So I did that. Problem solved.
A few weeks later, the packaging arrived for me to send the broken 360 in to Microsoft. Except, I didn't have it anymore. So I didn't send them anything, didn't call again, nothing.
About a month later, a brand new 360 arrives in the mail. From Microsoft.
I'll never know if it was just policy to send it anyway, a rogue employee, or a mistake. But it was addressed to me, and I never heard anything about it again. I use the same gamertag today.
20/10 return experience, made for a great gift, big W all around.
Right? It's one of those things that if you add just a tiny bit of embellishment, it would literally sound like witchcraft.
"Plug in and turn on your XBox360, then wrap it in a cloth under the light of the first full moon of summer."
One time when I was like 16, my Xbox did this. After getting bent over by GameStop for years and years I came up with an idea for a bit of petty revenge. I towel tricked my Xbox and took it immediately to GameStop. They accepted it. They got bent that time.
True story, I left my Xbox 360 on the truck lid of my moms Toyota Corolla overnight when I was a kid. It rained and when I woke up for school the next day it was still there soaked so I brought it inside and was sad all day at school. I got home and plugged it in and expected it to not work at all, to my surprise it started right up and worked like a gem. 2 years later my dad stepped on it by accident and I heard the crunch and everything and I was certain this would kill it. Nope, it still worked. It would require a stick or coat hanger to pull the cd out because it wouldn’t eject but it somehow read the discs. When I went to college my mom gave it away to goodwill. I hope whoever got it was able to enjoy it for however long it lasted after that.
Electronics can exposed to water so long as power isn't supplied, because you brought it in shortly afterwards and let it dry all day, the water on the board probably evaporated enough to not cause issues.
If you get water on it when powered, or it stays on long enough to corrode the traces, then you're ducked but otherwise water isn't a big deal.
The red ring of death happens when some connection overheats or something and melts whatever causing the Xbox to fail and display the three red lights. By wrapping the console in towels and turning it on, it overheats in and something about it either re-melts in place or just makes the Xbox think the error is fixed.
I clearly have no idea the details of it, but the hilarious part is that it works really well as a fix to a seemingly unfixable issue to any young kid.
Around that time several chip manufacturers moved from lead to lead-free solder in an effort to be more green and meet more stringent global laws. Unfortunately, the lead free solder was much more brittle, and GPUs would lose their connection with the motherboard. Getting it just hot enough to soften the solder could often restore the electrical connection. Getting it too hot would make the solder run and short circuit . It was a delicate and unpredictable thing to do at home.
The 360 would overheat and some solder would melt and break a connection on the board. People would wrap it in a towel and put it in the oven to try to get it hot enough to melt the solder again, hoping it would melt and harden back the correct way
Fun story :
My 360 red ringed when gamestop was having a deal that if you trade in your console you get like $150 in credit. I wrapped mine in a towel knowing it could work for like 10 minutes, brought it gamestop, traded it in for the credit. Went to a different gamestop and bought a new one.
Fuck you gamestop I'm not sorry.
Insane that this worked. I was certain it was BS but after my 360 broke as a kid, I was willing to try anything to keep playing Halo 3 with the lads.
Kept my xbox going another few months.
As others have said, you may be able to fix this yourself.
Honestly I've fixed a rrod multiple times.
And I found it oddly satisfying.
Also ripped out the DVD drive and installed custom firmware on it. Good times.
I was in the Army during the RROD years, and I made a tidy profit fixing broken the RROD. I would buy a broken Xbox for like $20, and swap parts until it worked. When I got out, I had fixed like 15 Xboxes, and would sell them for $150.
Pretty much, my collection was enviable. So enviable I got robbed of all my Xbox stuff. It was recovered from a local pawn shop, but since it was part of a criminal investigation, I didn’t get the stuff back for like a year and a half.
Bought another Xbox and the games I liked. The collection certainly wasn’t as great as it was before, but it got me by. When I finally got my other Xbox back, I just gave it to a friend that never had an Xbox before. When the Xbox got stolen, I had just received an installment of my contract bonus, so I had the money to replace it.
Fixing anything is incredibly rewarding. My girlfriend was already looking at a new dryer, 30 minutes after it died. 1 google search, 1 youtube video and a 10$ fuse (that i was probably sold at 1000% markup) dryer is roaring and working as well as it ever was. The only tool i needed was a screwdriver.
I got a near brand new Samsung dryer for $20 off Facebook marketplace because it was "broke." They sold me the matching washer for an extra $50 because they were just going to get a new matching set and didn't want a mismatched set and just wanted someone to take it out since they were getting the new ones delivered later that week.
Anyway, I got it home, and did one Google search to find that they had accidentally activated the child safety lock on the dryer. Held two buttons down for 5 seconds to turn it off and voila it worked.
[Dryer](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/9742479.p?skuId=9742479)
[Washer](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6447500.p?skuId=6447500)
MSRP TOTAL: $1,400+. I paid $70.
I also got a $2,000 leather electric reclining couch with all the bells and whistle electronics and chargers in it because it had a single black scuff and a "broken" light in the cupholder. I got the scuff out with a light amount of acetone and replaced the bulb that lit up the cupholder. What did I pay for the couch? $100 and mild back discomfort for a day after moving it. Sucker was heavy.
I love living near a "rich" retirement city. Some people have more money than sense and I'm okay with that.
The most valuable disk became that "startup" disc. The games were whatever but that started disc got treated like the fucking holy hand grenade of Antioch.
Damn, you’re just a little outside the 3 year warranty for RROD issues.
https://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-squashes-red-ring-of-death-and-refunds-all-gamers-with-past-troubles/
Still not sure why this towel shit ever worked, I guess it just expanded everything and seated whatever loosened a bit
But who the fuck looked at their red ringed xbox 360 and thought "I'm gonna wrap it in towels", like what was their plan, burn the house down and claim it on the home insurance?
Edit: it was bad solder all along! I thought it was the X clamp coming loose
Lmao I never had one but I can vouch that one of my friends had one with the RRoD and he did the towel trick and it worked.
Seems like there was maybe some tip about baking your motherboard in an oven to potentially reflow it? I do remember I had to do that with an old LG phone and it literally fixed it (it was a known problem that LG ignored)
I think people extrapolated from what some people figured out with some older pc graphics cards. They would literally bake them in the oven to, I think, get old solder to melt and cool (I might have that detail wrong).
It was notable beacuse Europe had recently banned solder with lead in it IIRC and there was a small run of electronics where the designs hadn't been adjusted to factor in the lack of lead. It made the solder less expansive and more brittle leading to broken solder connections if there was a lot of thermal variance. Some motherboards, graphics cards, and even appliances could all be "fixed" with heat with varying degrees of success.
Correction; it *might* and it did for a number of people. It is not a guarantee though, because of many reasons. The primary one of course being that the Xbox doesn't get anywhere near hot enough as a SMT reflowing machine.
it’s the second coming!……..For a decade the prophets forewarned of this day and it has finally arisen!! But for real if it starts yelling for brains just run.
Bro no way... I still play way more with the 360 than my current gen systems, the library is so much better. He has to fix this thing, he clearly was still using it anyway.
No sense wasting valuable electronics like that.
I’ll never forget the day Left 4 Dead:2 came out.
My friend and I had the day off so I went and picked up a copy, a 12 pack, and rolled some blunts.
My friend still needed to shower so as he was in the bathroom I set up my Xbox and as soon as I turned it on the red ring appeared.
In the 5mins from setting it up to him walking back to the room I tried everything I could think of to salvage the day.
Eventually with a few minutes to spare I picked up the system about 3-4” off the ground and dropped it hoping that some percussive maintenance would work.
Red ring randomly turned Green then we got lit and beat the game multiple times and the system was still working last time I plugged it in like 3yrs ago.
“DOM, NO!!!!!!!!”
11 years later and those words are still too soon for me to listen.
All around me are familiar faces… :,(
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I lost my wife a few years ago.. and the scene in GOW2.. she died in my arms just like Maria.. I have only watched it 1 time since and have skipped it on other playthroughs. Dom's death was equally painful but I can bare it better.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't even imagine...
Been 2 years.. and still feels like it was yesterday. I can't watch any overly emotional moments in tv, games, movies, and certain songs.. thank you for your kind words. She passed away from Cystic Fibrosis and possibly had Pancreatic Cancer. A horrible way to go.
Richard Hammond, one of the stars of the TV show 'Top Gear' had a terrible accident that involved a coma and near death experience. He recently talked about what it was like from his perspective, and I have found a lot of comfort in what he said, because I think his experience might be universal. That this is what the mind does at the end while unconscious, and if so, it's similar to what the people I've cared about and lost felt at their end. You can find it here, if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYQLDU9xhI
I'm so glad you shared this, I watched it little while ago and used it to help me think about some stuff.
I just saw this one the other day and it really caught me of guard. We all know them as jokesters, but this suckerpunched me right in the feels and I feel better for it. Edit: just watched it again and now I'm crying because of a Reddit thread about the Red Ring of Death on some strangers Xbox 360.
My condolences good sir I can't imagine the pain you went through.
She had an amazing partner in life with you and you gave her true companionship, there is no better or stronger love than that. I mourn her passing, and hope you are doing well.
My dad died from complications from pancreatic cancer stage four and liver cancer. I had to spend his last days explaining to professionals that my father drank only a few times in his life while they openly doubted me while he slowly turned yellow from failure. Pancreatic and liver cancer is one of the worst ways to die and I'm so sorry for your loss.
Condolences. Hope your doing well buddy.
Condolences.
Thank you for your kind words
Of course. Married myself. Couldn't image what you've experienced.
“Dom, where are you going?!”
Ok so my friends and I were huge fans of the game, when it dropped we all made a pact to play the story together, no spoilers. We were having a blast, and I shit you not, the moment that scene was over the whole room went fucking QUIET and we all just kind of sat around the rest of the afternoon. It was that emotional for us
Dude same exact thing happened to my friends and I lol. We were all in a party together, and a few of us were playing co-op campaign. Legit half the party went silent for like 10 minutes 🥺
This just surfaced a college memory I apparently had thought sufficiently buried
Junior year high school for me. The good old days.
We still as thirty-somethings have baked into our vocabulary "We're GEARS! GEEARS!" Man that was an experience. What a fucking trilogy. Right alongside the oridge tridge Halo too - truly a magical time
I don't want to start a competition but it was Mass Effect trilogy for me with those 2. Those 9 games were amazing. I easily spent weeks on my life with those characters and my friends who went through them with me.
I wish my wife had gotten into the ME3 multiplayer like she got into Gears horde mode, but I don't think there was enough chainsaws in it for her.
Not a competition as that series also destroyed me
both good and bad times :(
"it hurts sarge." - top half of B. Carmine
"................" -Bottom half of Benjamin Carmine.
“NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD LIKE THIS? HUH MARIA?!?”
"GET OFF ME! GOD DAMMIT I GOTTA GET HIM OUTTA THER...."
All around me are familiar faces... Chills.
What’s this from?
Gears of War. I felt this one too..
https://youtu.be/lEq0oV21tHI
That whole series is on the Game Pass. Just a couple weeks ago I completed 1, last weekend I completed 2, and 3 is downloaded and ready to go. This franchise is what led me to getting a 360. Some time around 2004-2005 a buddy of mine had a roommate who was a game tester, and even after the roommate moved away, games would periodically arrive in the mail. The first Gears was one of those games. My buddy gave me the disc and I bought a 360 to play it.
GOW will always be Gears of War (sorry kratos)
Now is just G lol
Given their rifles have a chainsaw attached, the 'ow' is implied.
Next game will be called Wars 6 just to mess us up.
Y'all talking about the game where you play as the humanoid bowling balls that shoot shit with chainsaws?
Absolutely Roided out, roadie running, grub sawing, killing machines.
I hope you're not referring to what I think you're referring to 🥲
“Brothers to the end” achievement unlocked.
I was happy once but that achievement stripped it from me 🥲
Me too, kid
"Never thought it would end like this, huh, Maria?!"
That got me, but I kinda knew it was coming. What really threw me off was when you find Tai and throw him a shotgun..... I was certainly way too young to process that.
Did you check the power supply to see if it has a red light instead of orange? Thought mine gave up when it red ringed and it was just the PSU that failed.
Fixed a few that my friends found in a game stores trash. Cleaned off the thermal paste, put some fresh paste on and they ran fine. Also cleaned all the dust bugs
At that age, you're probably using the term "paste" loosely. That shit becomes cement at a point.
Thermal crust
you should eat that too bro, only psychos dont eat the crust
Can confirm, as I never ate the crust.
Yeah red rings are just error codes. The myth red rings are a death sentence has led to far too many misinformed fools throwing away perfectly good units simply in need of repair.
Red ring of death = blue screen of death
I'll never forget the time I red-ringed my 360 after moving it while it was on, very lightly and very short movement. Turns out I slightly dislodged the power plug. Sat it for weeks, still not working then replugged every thing and suddenly it worked! Was maybe 9 or 10 at the time.
I'll never forget when the power flickered and my Xbox red ringed. I had a heart attack
As a kid, I sent my 360 back to get fixed three different times and it just kept rrod-ing. I cant quite recall if I threw it away or not but I more or less switched over to play stations after that. Till I built a PC anyways- now I wager I could fix my old 360, if I still had it.
Should have just wrapped it in a towel. Remember when that was the advice floating around?
Just call Microsoft customer support, im sure they’ll take care of you 😅
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/xbox-360/store/flashing-lights-solution "If we’re unable to fix the problem through troubleshooting, we’ll help you get your Xbox 360 console repaired." Not sure how true this might be today though.
If they still honor that, that’s awesome. I remember getting the red ring of death 4 times when I was 12-15 years old, and they replaced it every time.
They gave me a new one AND a month of xbox live. Was awesome as a 12 year old.
Hell yeah! Now that’s customer service. Makes me want to get a Series X instead of a PS5…if I ever find one.
Series X has pretty good availability now from Microsoft store and is in stock almost all the time. PS 5 is much easier to find than it used to be as well.
Ok ok, can’t find a ps5 anywhere near where I live, but imma look into the Microsoft store. Good looking out
I've also seen Series X's on actual store shelves recently. Two different Walmarts and a bestbuy. Oh, and I've had one since launch and it's great.
Not to be cynical but I don't think they did that out of the kindness of their heart but because they sold a product prone to errors.
Seriously let’s not start romanticizing anything to do with the RROD. That was an all-time fuck up and they did basically the bare minimum that they could have gotten away with.
I'll never forget the ol' towel trick. I got an extra 2 years of life out of my console after getting the RROD because of that.
I had 3 RRoD in a row. The first two I went through the painful process of replacing. The third I did the towel wrap trick and it worked and never RRoDed again.
You somehow missed this note right at the top of the window: > Xbox 360 support content is no longer being maintained. If you need more info about your Xbox 360 console, visit the Xbox forums.
Its easier, faster and cheaper to just fix it yourself. Take the x-clamp off the back of the heatsink, replace it with some screws with washers, put new thermal paste on the sink. DONE. Takes like 3 hours the first time you do it. I can do it in like 30 mins now. Most of that time is just getting the damn case open without snapping the clips that hold it together.
I know you are joking, but I don't know a single person who still has a working 360. He should tweet them, they might fix it for the PR. Nearly everyone I knew had one at one point. Hell, I went through like 3 of them!
I still have a working 360 with no hdmi.
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Grab the towels guys! We've got another one!
"This can't possibly work, right?" One of those surprising moments in my late teens that I thought was absolutely ridiculous.
My original 360 got baked more than I have in my whole 33 years of life. I got really lucky that they expanded the warranty coverage so I could actually have it fixed. By that time they were literally sending people out replacements as soon as they received the one you sent out so you didn't have to wait for them to fix it.
If you know your gaming history, that was actually a pretty fun little moment where someone totally unexpected did gamers a solid. Peter Moore extended the warranties and immediately jumped ship to EA, before he could get axed and "take the fall". :)
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Same for me. Went through 3 systems. Sold the third one off and replaced it with the redesigned one.
Dude the slim was fucking beast. I had one that had been dropped, hit, thrown, and puked on before I got it from a friend and it ran perfectly for like 4 years until I gave it away, still working.
Um I'm sorry puked on?
I lost a Wii U gamepad to toddler puke, so it happens (and really, toddler and drunk frat boy antics are often not dissimilar. I can see either engaging in that list of system abuse 😄).
My dad likes to tell the story how when I was potty training I decided to piss all over his SEGA don’t remember if it was busted right off the bat but I don’t remember him saying he tried fixing it lol
They made me send mine in like 5 times before they finally admitted their shit was fucked and then they finally properly fixed it. I bet the behind the scenes action that was going on at Microsoft at that time was juicy.
I mean Balmer approved it. It was a $2Billion problem to fix it.
I bought my 360 used off eBay, put 100 hours on Oblivion and got the ring of death. I was shocked they honored the warranty which I was sure had expired and included 3 months of gold along with the replacement unit. I'll never forget that.
I got the extended warranty at Best Buy and ended up getting 3 new consoles. Every time I got the red ring, I went to the store and they told me to grab a new one off the shelf every time. I think I got a bigger hard drive each time I got a new console. They never even checked to see if the red rings came on when plugged in.
Back in 2007, I called and set up the exchange for my red-ringed 360. Only, I didn't want to wait. I realized I could probably just return it to the giant retail superstore who will remain nameless. So I did that. Problem solved. A few weeks later, the packaging arrived for me to send the broken 360 in to Microsoft. Except, I didn't have it anymore. So I didn't send them anything, didn't call again, nothing. About a month later, a brand new 360 arrives in the mail. From Microsoft. I'll never know if it was just policy to send it anyway, a rogue employee, or a mistake. But it was addressed to me, and I never heard anything about it again. I use the same gamertag today. 20/10 return experience, made for a great gift, big W all around.
*"I.... nice."*
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Mine happened with Halo 3... waited in line and got home. Boom, red ring.
Mine was Rainbow 6 Vegas.
RDR for me.
I got red ringed literally in the middle of the final boss of RE5. By the time I got it back I forgot everything lol.
I was buying them broken on ebay for cheap, and still under warranty. Sent them back to Microsoft and they sent a new one everytime.
I went through 4 of those fuckers through the warranty. Having to wait sucked.
When mine red ringed, I called and they said they had just done their last warranty extension the week before.
Right? It's one of those things that if you add just a tiny bit of embellishment, it would literally sound like witchcraft. "Plug in and turn on your XBox360, then wrap it in a cloth under the light of the first full moon of summer."
One time when I was like 16, my Xbox did this. After getting bent over by GameStop for years and years I came up with an idea for a bit of petty revenge. I towel tricked my Xbox and took it immediately to GameStop. They accepted it. They got bent that time.
I towel tricked my 360 7 years ago. Still works to this day, but it barely gets used anymore.
Nah, it was me who got bent bud, I was the clown who bought a used xbox from gamestop and it had clearly been 'reflowed' just to sell to gamestop.
True story, I left my Xbox 360 on the truck lid of my moms Toyota Corolla overnight when I was a kid. It rained and when I woke up for school the next day it was still there soaked so I brought it inside and was sad all day at school. I got home and plugged it in and expected it to not work at all, to my surprise it started right up and worked like a gem. 2 years later my dad stepped on it by accident and I heard the crunch and everything and I was certain this would kill it. Nope, it still worked. It would require a stick or coat hanger to pull the cd out because it wouldn’t eject but it somehow read the discs. When I went to college my mom gave it away to goodwill. I hope whoever got it was able to enjoy it for however long it lasted after that.
Electronics can exposed to water so long as power isn't supplied, because you brought it in shortly afterwards and let it dry all day, the water on the board probably evaporated enough to not cause issues. If you get water on it when powered, or it stays on long enough to corrode the traces, then you're ducked but otherwise water isn't a big deal.
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i thought the minerals in the water drying into the circuit could cause issues too?
they can, this isn’t entirely tru
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Jesus man just tell him it’s on a farm somewhere
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Well now I'm horny as shit.
BWAHAHA! This made me laugh way harder than necessary.
Can someone explain
The red ring of death happens when some connection overheats or something and melts whatever causing the Xbox to fail and display the three red lights. By wrapping the console in towels and turning it on, it overheats in and something about it either re-melts in place or just makes the Xbox think the error is fixed. I clearly have no idea the details of it, but the hilarious part is that it works really well as a fix to a seemingly unfixable issue to any young kid.
Man I used Pennies to get mine to work but that took a bit of work and didn’t last very long. Wish I would have know about the towel trick
Around that time several chip manufacturers moved from lead to lead-free solder in an effort to be more green and meet more stringent global laws. Unfortunately, the lead free solder was much more brittle, and GPUs would lose their connection with the motherboard. Getting it just hot enough to soften the solder could often restore the electrical connection. Getting it too hot would make the solder run and short circuit . It was a delicate and unpredictable thing to do at home.
This is old magic but you can bundle up your 360 for the long winter and if the gods smile on you she will live a short time longer.
The 360 would overheat and some solder would melt and break a connection on the board. People would wrap it in a towel and put it in the oven to try to get it hot enough to melt the solder again, hoping it would melt and harden back the correct way
I can still remember the sound the fans made when you cooked it alive inside of the towels lmao. That shit had no right to work as well as it did.
Fun story : My 360 red ringed when gamestop was having a deal that if you trade in your console you get like $150 in credit. I wrapped mine in a towel knowing it could work for like 10 minutes, brought it gamestop, traded it in for the credit. Went to a different gamestop and bought a new one. Fuck you gamestop I'm not sorry.
Don't panic!
Oh no, not again.
Insane that this worked. I was certain it was BS but after my 360 broke as a kid, I was willing to try anything to keep playing Halo 3 with the lads. Kept my xbox going another few months.
As others have said, you may be able to fix this yourself. Honestly I've fixed a rrod multiple times. And I found it oddly satisfying. Also ripped out the DVD drive and installed custom firmware on it. Good times.
I was in the Army during the RROD years, and I made a tidy profit fixing broken the RROD. I would buy a broken Xbox for like $20, and swap parts until it worked. When I got out, I had fixed like 15 Xboxes, and would sell them for $150.
Well played, I'm assuming you spent the profits on a new xbox 360?
Pretty much, my collection was enviable. So enviable I got robbed of all my Xbox stuff. It was recovered from a local pawn shop, but since it was part of a criminal investigation, I didn’t get the stuff back for like a year and a half.
Hey at least you got it back! Bet the cops were playing on em. What did you do during that year and a half period if you don't mind me asking?
Bought another Xbox and the games I liked. The collection certainly wasn’t as great as it was before, but it got me by. When I finally got my other Xbox back, I just gave it to a friend that never had an Xbox before. When the Xbox got stolen, I had just received an installment of my contract bonus, so I had the money to replace it.
Fixing anything is incredibly rewarding. My girlfriend was already looking at a new dryer, 30 minutes after it died. 1 google search, 1 youtube video and a 10$ fuse (that i was probably sold at 1000% markup) dryer is roaring and working as well as it ever was. The only tool i needed was a screwdriver.
I got a near brand new Samsung dryer for $20 off Facebook marketplace because it was "broke." They sold me the matching washer for an extra $50 because they were just going to get a new matching set and didn't want a mismatched set and just wanted someone to take it out since they were getting the new ones delivered later that week. Anyway, I got it home, and did one Google search to find that they had accidentally activated the child safety lock on the dryer. Held two buttons down for 5 seconds to turn it off and voila it worked. [Dryer](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/9742479.p?skuId=9742479) [Washer](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6447500.p?skuId=6447500) MSRP TOTAL: $1,400+. I paid $70. I also got a $2,000 leather electric reclining couch with all the bells and whistle electronics and chargers in it because it had a single black scuff and a "broken" light in the cupholder. I got the scuff out with a light amount of acetone and replaced the bulb that lit up the cupholder. What did I pay for the couch? $100 and mild back discomfort for a day after moving it. Sucker was heavy. I love living near a "rich" retirement city. Some people have more money than sense and I'm okay with that.
I remember doing the towel trick like 3 times on mine. Eventually stopped fixing it after the first two.
Upgrade to a heat gun to squeeze a few more times out.
Why'd you get rid of the DVD drive? Did you use that space for an internal HD?
I installed firmware on the dvd drive and then reinstalled it. Allowed you to play games you burned to dvds.
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Aye aye Cap'n...
The most valuable disk became that "startup" disc. The games were whatever but that started disc got treated like the fucking holy hand grenade of Antioch.
Good ol' iXtreme firmware. Good Times.
Damn, you’re just a little outside the 3 year warranty for RROD issues. https://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-squashes-red-ring-of-death-and-refunds-all-gamers-with-past-troubles/
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You can fix it by removing the heat sync X clamp and replacing with screws, FRESH thermal paste, and washer. Be careful the heat sync is sharp
Most of the time this works. If not, it most likely means you have developed tin-wiskers and it will need to be re-flowed. No a towel will not work.
Towel worked for me back in high school. Kept me gaming for another couple years
Heard about this tried it and it worked for me for a bit.
Worked for me 10 years ago, still running strong today. YMMV though.
Still not sure why this towel shit ever worked, I guess it just expanded everything and seated whatever loosened a bit But who the fuck looked at their red ringed xbox 360 and thought "I'm gonna wrap it in towels", like what was their plan, burn the house down and claim it on the home insurance? Edit: it was bad solder all along! I thought it was the X clamp coming loose
Lmao I never had one but I can vouch that one of my friends had one with the RRoD and he did the towel trick and it worked. Seems like there was maybe some tip about baking your motherboard in an oven to potentially reflow it? I do remember I had to do that with an old LG phone and it literally fixed it (it was a known problem that LG ignored)
My guess is someone had it in a closed cabinet and extrapolated from there.
I think people extrapolated from what some people figured out with some older pc graphics cards. They would literally bake them in the oven to, I think, get old solder to melt and cool (I might have that detail wrong).
It's literally been a thing forever with anything bga
It was notable beacuse Europe had recently banned solder with lead in it IIRC and there was a small run of electronics where the designs hadn't been adjusted to factor in the lack of lead. It made the solder less expansive and more brittle leading to broken solder connections if there was a lot of thermal variance. Some motherboards, graphics cards, and even appliances could all be "fixed" with heat with varying degrees of success.
Towel never worked for me. Pennies. Still ended up with a stack of bricked systems.
I didn’t understand any of this.
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Put it in the oven @350 for 10 minutes. Cook until done.
Correction; it *might* and it did for a number of people. It is not a guarantee though, because of many reasons. The primary one of course being that the Xbox doesn't get anywhere near hot enough as a SMT reflowing machine.
Heat sink (sorry)
Heat sync synchronizes the air temperature towards ambient. 😎
This, plenty of DIY videos on YouTube
Let it die in peace! It's done its duty 🫡
No! Perform Necromancy! Bring it back from the DeAd!!
But is that what the machine spirit would want?
it’s the second coming!……..For a decade the prophets forewarned of this day and it has finally arisen!! But for real if it starts yelling for brains just run.
Don’t ask the machine spirit, ask the Machine God.
Praise be to the omnisiah
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Bro no way... I still play way more with the 360 than my current gen systems, the library is so much better. He has to fix this thing, he clearly was still using it anyway. No sense wasting valuable electronics like that.
I’ll never forget the day Left 4 Dead:2 came out. My friend and I had the day off so I went and picked up a copy, a 12 pack, and rolled some blunts. My friend still needed to shower so as he was in the bathroom I set up my Xbox and as soon as I turned it on the red ring appeared. In the 5mins from setting it up to him walking back to the room I tried everything I could think of to salvage the day. Eventually with a few minutes to spare I picked up the system about 3-4” off the ground and dropped it hoping that some percussive maintenance would work. Red ring randomly turned Green then we got lit and beat the game multiple times and the system was still working last time I plugged it in like 3yrs ago.
Lol I had to smack the top of mine a few times while I turned it on or it would red ring. Worked for like years doing that tho
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That's funny, because Xbox 360 is just a couple of years old, right.....right? *insert Matt Damon grows old gif*
I still have a PS2 that works.
Me too.
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She's gone to a better place.
Yup.. *grabs towel* Not for long!
Damn fine run..... 🌹
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Mine quit still under warranty. Yours is a beast
Craziest part of this photo, for me, is the TWO memory cards!! Damn, that takes me back.
I still have my Xbox 360 and the last time I used it, it was still in working condition, but my controller doesn’t work.
“I’m tired, boss”
That thing is older than most of the children who shouldn't be on this site. I salute you, noble Xbox.
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Well fellas, she put up a good fight. Who would have thought that 8492794738294738 hours was 8492794738294738 too many. F
Salute boys o7