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Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD?

Posted Jun 21, 2010 at 11:34PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Microsoft, red ring of death, xbox 360 titles

It looks like Microsoft has added an extra trick for the newly slimmed down version of the Xbox 360 to prevent the console from the infamous red ring of death. Instead of the seeing the usual three flashing red lights that indicates your system is doomed, the new hardware now displays a warning message that notifies owners of a forced shutdown to protect the console from "insufficient ventilation."

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Everyone I know with a 360 has had rrod at least once, none of these people are children (meaning 24+), all looked after their 360 and all had adequate spacing around the console.

It is a real problem caused by bad design. Dont kid yourself that it was in anyway consumers fault.

I mean its even going to happen to their newest design.. why do people like you feel the need to excuse their shit work and continue to support them?

M$ see that people will still buy their broken console (and even be dumb enough to think up excuses for the reason it breaks) so why should the bother fixing it.. understand?

blind fucking loyalty imo!

# RE: RE: RE: HAHAHAHA,,, — jacobian91 2010-06-22 12:24

I've had my Xbox for over a year and it hasn't even gotten more than warm once.

My friend has gone through 3 Xboxes.

There's really no telling whether an Xbox will RRoD or not. It seems pretty damn random.

+1 # ... — tunacan 2010-06-22 12:29

THANK YOU!

+1 # .... — tunacan 2010-06-22 12:34

THANK YOU!

-2 # RE: RE: RE: HAHAHAHA,,, — slash_th 2010-06-22 20:50

Agreed, why is MS gonna FIX a problem that makes them millions.. yes millions.

People who are rabid loyal fanboi are to blame here, if people STOPPED buying x-boxs THEY"D FIX IT cause sales would kill them.. BUT thanks to the RROD (Which i think is a conspiracy made by MS) This makes them their money.

Yea... maybe they made it "Less likely" to happen.. but they're not gonna eliminate the problem all together.. that'd be money out of their pockets for the holidays

+4 # Not really... — XBGuy 2010-06-22 06:40

I got the RROD on my 360 Elite and I kept it on top of my entertainment center directly under my AC vent so it was always getting cold air provided to it. I would obviously move it during the winter time if I put the heater on... I took really good care of my 360. I even put a filter on that particular vent just to insure that it wouldn't blow dust in to the 360. It is clearly just a bad design all around. Short of taking the entire thing apart and water cooling it i'm not sure what else I could have done to prevent the RROD.

+1 # Not Quite — ShadowMechachu 2010-06-23 12:41

I don't believe they Ignored the issue, as I heard they fixed it mostly for the elite consoles. But when you put the same Hardware in a smaller place, it gets hotter much quicker. So to prevent the RROD and have to have your console out a few weeks. Vs. a Few hours. Fair trade if you ask me.

# Swordsman — Dante Sparda 2010-06-22 02:08

HAHAHAHAHAH

Big Fail indeed, they didn't fix the ROD, but instead will tell you to shutdown because you are about to get the ROD.

RROD is still there, hahahaha

+2 # heh... — ptspyder 2010-06-22 02:09

How funny is it that their "insufficient ventilation" is clearly a design failure? There is no way that people have had slim xboxs long enough to have dust build up or some other residue blocking the vents. Usually, when companies make newer models, they improve upon things that were wrong with the old model.

+2 # RE: heh... — Dark_Skai 2010-06-22 02:36

Quoting ptspyder:

How funny is it that their "insufficient ventilation" is clearly a design failure? There is no way that people have had slim xboxs long enough to have dust build up or some other residue blocking the vents. Usually, when companies make newer models, they improve upon things that were wrong with the old model.

Yeah... about that... IMO they didn't really slim it down... I mean at least from the articles I've read they really just redesigned it rather then slimming it.

+1 # ... — papajag 2010-06-22 04:57

I want to know if they actually allow the players to save or at least get a warning before it shuts down.

Seriously, though this is like when I was 13 and my parents telling me that I've played for too long and need to stop. Only MGS4 tells me when I need to rest.

# RE: ... — Musev 2010-06-22 05:37

~I would imagine it at least sort of auto saves before it shuts down? like when you turn off the psp while in a game.

+1 # lets just hope — lunas 2010-06-22 06:13

Lets hope they have a game suspend feature or an auto save trigger or something cause there are alot of games that you could loose progress on.

# RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — jackstraw419 2010-06-22 07:53

LOL. This is a joke!

# RE: RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — boyboy 2010-10-02 21:36

how true!!!

# This is... — squeeks 2010-06-22 10:19

feak'in hilarious. Remove the red LEDs and now this? Way to cut corners again M$. Those of you expecting a game save state may be disappointed.

# Haha — rapturestar 2010-06-22 10:41

Like Nelson from the Simpsons say: HAHA!
Seriously.... M$ should fix the problem more than providing a software alert on the issue. If they were going to do that, it would be wise to push it out as a dashboard update. I just see more & more gamers get madder at M$ than being helpful.

-2 # RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — Gangsta457 2010-06-22 10:56

why not just make a new console different from the xobox since obviously they cant fix the problem.

# RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — Chronocaster 2010-06-22 11:17

God damnit...

-1 # RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — SuperQuest 2010-06-22 12:06

problem solve

M$ your a big joke to me

+1 # All Xboxes have this — BulkSlash 2010-06-22 13:11

I had the fans fail on my Xbox once and I saw this message. It's not an RROD prevention tool, it kicks in when the system isn't being cooled sufficiently, either because the fans have failed or because someone has put something so close to the vents and they can't exhaust the heat out of the system. If the fans are working it runs them at 100% to try and cool the system.

I would expect the PS3 and Wii to have exactly the same temperature monitoring features in case of blocks or fan failures. If they don't then they're going to cook and die.

Finally, RROD isn't caused by overheating, it's caused by solder becoming brittle and shattering through long term power cycling. In actual fact overheating the console can fix the problem as it causes the solder to melt and reflow!

# Pretty lame — Billy Mays 2010-06-22 18:32

Pretty lame idea. The reasonable fix for the issue would be to GIVE IT BETTER COOLING! Not shutting off for hours randomly while your trying to play a game. I would like to know about how long it takes for the Xbox to become overheated to this point? Does it take 1 hour or something ridiculous, like 3 days?

# Well... — Cypher 2010-06-22 18:59

I did get the RROD on my very old one, which is a Core System. I haven't called MS yet, but lemme tell ya, that thing's worked for two years STRAIGHT, and I got it after attempting to play UFC Undisputed 2010. Fail, I know, but I don't think MS is greedy, they just had an internal design fail anyway. (Oh, almost forgot: MS has enough money anyway; why would they design a shoddy console that fails constantly?!)

# funny — Skeeter 2010-06-22 19:39

i find this really funny... ms sucks at being the suckiest out there.... they fail at failing... xbox can go to hell... PLAYSATION FOR LIFE BITCHES!!!!!!!! lololololololol

# I can see it now. — Saito Forte 2010-06-22 20:30

Playing Dead Risings Infinity mode, only minutes away from getting the 7 day survival achievement (14 hours of straight gameplay with no saves).

"The Xbox 360 is shutting down to protect the console from "insufficient ventilation."

Me: FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU UUUUU!

# RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — Ballz 2010-06-23 09:17

MAJOR SNAFU. great don't fix the issue, give it a fail safe. WTF MS, They really need to fire of the the R&D staff.

# RE: Xbox 360 slim shuts down to prevent RROD? — 8675309 2010-06-23 14:46

good to see them making use of thermal sensors like how pc's have done for years

# EXPERIMENT TIME — 00Douchebag 2010-06-26 06:04

hmmm I guess it only does this when it gets to a certain temperature because I got the slim like 4 days ago and still hasn't tried to shut-down on me, I haven't turned it off because I want to see how long it can last, I have another one for when it does go out... I did this same experiment with a Jasper model, I got it when it first came out, and it finally went out 2 weeks ago, it was on since I got it. Maybe this one will go for much longer.

# vlahblah — smmssm 2011-02-21 11:45

FUCK MICROSOFT BECAUSE THEY ARE A BUNCH OF DOUCHEBAGS FOR NOT SOLVING THE RROD PROBLEM...MS SUCKZ DICK

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