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Red ring sighted on Halo 3 limited Xbox 360 consoles

Posted Sep 30, 2007 at 11:54PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: GPU, Microsoft, Ring of Death

It didn't take very long for first reports of the infamous Halo Red Ring of Death (RRoD) to infect the newly released Halo 3 limited edition Xbox 360 consoles. Despite Microsoft's assurances that the new 65nm CPU/GPU (the Falcon chipset) would reduce cases of the RRoD, the image above shows evidence contrary to this statement.

The main problem was said to lie in the overheating of the GPU. There were also speculations that not all of the limited edition consoles had the supposed Falcon chipset. Either way, this does nothing to change the fact that Microsoft's console is still plagued with a host of hardware problems.

This was hardly the first time that reports of the RRoD has spoiled gamers' experience with this next gen console. Hopefully, Microsoft will be able to provide a truly permanent solution to their console's limitations.

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you don't have to go giving out excuses. The halo 3 xbox is not as messed up as the older xboxes but still has its flaws. I know it was not done on purpose because i tried to burn my own 360 (my disk drive got *****ed up and was out of warranty). I tried wrappng a towel but jusk kept getting 2 red lights. After a minute it would just turn on.

# ... — DVSDevise 2007-10-01 04:43

I can't believe you wrapped it in a towel. The uy that came up with that fix needs to be shot. There is better do it yourself fixes and most of them cost less then $5 in parts.

# ... — McAwesome 2007-10-01 05:36

This is no surprise.

# As expected from M$ — houaruto 2007-10-01 06:41

M$ is bad news period. Tell me one good thing about the xbot hardware that didn't blow up on their face and directly denied it to the public.........these xtards never learn their lesson I won't be suprise if the xbot's malfunctions became so bad it grew arms and stabs you with a knife in the middle of the night.

# This is pathetic — killfox 2007-10-01 06:55

Some of you people crack me up. Oh but he did it on purpose. Give it a rest. The 360 hardware isnt perfect. It still find it pathetic that they still get RROD even with the new chipsets and everything. I would have rather had a bigger console with better cooling than one thats smaller with crappy cooling. Mine overheats a lot. Funny thing is after it freezes once I can play it for hours after I boot it back up. MS is still a bunch of newbs. How do they not know how to fix the overheating issues??? They better not have problems like this with there next console or I wont buy one.

# . — MikeyMike01 2007-10-01 08:57

Your panties are in a bunch because you wasted $600 on a PS3.

# thats what i meant common sense — football800 2007-10-01 10:30

as long as the new 360 drop to a faliure rate of below 10% we should all be happy. We still have warranty so whats the problem? And to those trying to make the new 360s break, you should get slapped for wasting 400 dollars.

# @Mr com sense — na2rul 2007-10-01 10:34

I brought this limited edition xbox. I'll let you kno how it gets on after treating it as NORMAL as the PS3 like any other regular consumer.(unlike you who goes overboard with the taking care part)

# That's kind of upsetting — Seoulfood 2007-10-01 12:23

I don't mean to start any bashing(because it's already going on) but I was really looking forward to buying a new 360 because of the HDMI, and coupled with a new chipset, I was just about sold. I just hope they can figure out how to get the GPU to be solid.

# wow — RavenSPe 2007-10-01 13:33

Already!? So much for those new heatsinks and chipsets. They obviously aren't doing the job if a console is going to burn out in a week. MS needs to step up and totally re-design the 360, as long as it has the same functionality then I don't see why not?

# . — hooger 2007-10-01 14:13

lol

# Another toss comment from common sense... — Unregistered 2007-10-01 17:38

As if someones going to buy a new halo console just to wrap it in a towel. I'm the same as you though, have had my 360 since day one in Australia and have never had a problem.

# 1 console — Jobo50 2007-10-01 17:48

I dont care if its 1 console, maybe if all of them failed they'd have a problem, one console that failed should worry anyone. for all we know someone wanted some attention so taped their air vents closed(I'm not saying they did, but who knows).

# Like others have said, the 360 hardware is flawed, but — Master Chef 2007-10-01 21:56

One pic of a dead new console should not stop you from buying one if you really want one. That's just being paranoid. If it makes you feel any better, I have had three 360s so far, and no, none of them have been replacements. Two of them I purchased at launch, one I still have and it has never given me a single problem, the other I had up until the Elite came out, again, no problems at all with this unit, I sold it and bought an Elite. The Elite has also not given me a single issue.

BTW QJ, regarding this:

"Despite Microsoft's assurances that the new 65nm CPU/GPU (the Falcon chipset) would reduce cases of the RRoD, the image above shows evidence contrary to this statement."

I usually don't like to stick up for MS, because I usually don't like what they do or the way they do it, but this is just downright stupidity. "Reduce" does not equal "eliminate", so I fail to see how one pic of one defective 360 even hints that the defect rate has not been reduced despite MS's claims.

# Mr no sense what so ever! — aramze 2007-10-02 01:39

So what you are saying is that every broken console is down to the user?

So Microsoft extended the warranty because? EXACTLY, YOU LOSE!

# . — MikeyMike01 2007-10-02 11:47

He didn't say that EVERY one is a fake, indeed there is a problem.

But because Joe Schmoe in East Jebip has a RROD doesn't mean that the new ones are faulty.

# mikeymike01 — aramze 2007-10-03 00:50

I think you misunderstood me. Mr common sense likes to brag to the fact that he has never had a problem with his 360. Good for him I say, if it wasn't for the fact that he assumes that all other failures are down to users, and I quote "Yeah it still works great. Oh wait that's not luck, I take care of my consoles." He has posted to that affect many times. Personally I can't wait for his 360 to go bye bye the smug git.

# The date in the picture — twelve 2007-10-04 23:11

It looks a lot like the manufacture date says 2007 - 8 - 18 (or 16) to me.

if that's the case then this console DOES NOT have the falcon CPU.

Falcon CPU's are only present on consoles manufactured on or after 2007 - 8 - 24.

Congratulations to the guy that got the RROD this console. You've just proved that the fancy case doesn't disguise this being any old premium console inside.

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