It's frozen up twice on me in Left 4 Dead, not to mention a few close calls in call of duty too.
Minor 360 dashboard update causing RROD (supposedly)
- Thread starter Jim Steele
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It's frozen up twice on me in Left 4 Dead, not to mention a few close calls in call of duty too.
Indeed. Dean Takahashi wrote an article a few months back that said during the manufacturing of the launch wave of Xbox 360 systems, 68 out of every 100 were coming off the lines faulty. And in January 2007, Microsoft stopped production cold in an effort to fix the problem.
More than two-thirds defective at the onset. And Todd Holmdahl still has his job.
Adam's got RROD
he must be going mental...Surly if this is caused by a software update then its not a real RROD and something goes off with the 360 O/S to simulate that failure...Big problem is then an update won't fix that because you can't turn the 360 on to get it.Microsoft have just potentially made SONY's 2009 a very happy one. I am refusing to turn my 360 on to the internet, because I don't want the update till something is done.
Fucking hell.http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/02/05/xbox-360-update-causing-rrod/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/02/06/nxe_patch_rrod/
I'm a bit skeptical that such a tiny fix for a less-than-ubiquitous problem is causing such a critical hardware failure across the board, but it does seem to have affected too many people to be a coincidence.
Now though I'm worried about accepting this "mandatory" update in case it shitbricks mine too. I've never had any problems with my 'box in 12 months, but still.
Has anyone accepted the patch? Any problems at all?
Also, why the hell is an update like this "mandatory"? That's absurd. If it were a PC, would you install patches to fix issues you didn't even have? Most 360s don't even have HDMI ports, and of them, not all of them are being used. Of those, not all of them are using HDMI for audio (I myself use HDMI and optical). Of those, not everyone was getting the sound issues.
Why the hell does EVERYONE need to install this, Microsoft? Assholes.
I'm still waiting for Microsoft to ship me back my 360.
I don't want to get it back (finally), only to install a faulty update and have to send it right back.
Updated back when the patch was released. No problems.
Thanks for this thread as a heads up. Makes me glad that I normally play my games as a disconnected user rather than a Live user. A good reason not have any friends to play against online 
It just means I won't sign in anytime soon for updates.
It just means I won't sign in anytime soon for updates.
Well, I've played a good 5 hours of Oblivion since updating and everything is peachy. So I guess I had nothing to worry about.
Still, no shame in being cautious.
Still, no shame in being cautious.
Well i took the dive and did the update, no issues, apart from the time it takes that bloody dashboard to disappear after you press the red button...talk about sloooowwwwwwww.
? Not had that.
No issues here either. But now that y'all mention it, the guide button is back to being as laggy as it was in the old interface. It just annoys me - all this processing power and it takes 10 secs+ to bring up a few lines of text? Get fucked.
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This is weird, I'm not getting that either.
If they want to establish a consistent software platform, they would appear to have an uphill struggle if a wee patch like this seems to affect every system in subtly different ways.
The only thing I noticed was that, right after the update, the "inside xbox" panels took a wee bit longer than usual to load up, and flickered unattractively when cycling through them. But that stopped after all the images had loaded, and hasn't happened since. I figured the update must have cleared some cache files or something. But I certainly haven't had any recurring issues.
This is weird, I'm not getting that either.
If they want to establish a consistent software platform, they would appear to have an uphill struggle if a wee patch like this seems to affect every system in subtly different ways.
The only thing I noticed was that, right after the update, the "inside xbox" panels took a wee bit longer than usual to load up, and flickered unattractively when cycling through them. But that stopped after all the images had loaded, and hasn't happened since. I figured the update must have cleared some cache files or something. But I certainly haven't had any recurring issues.
You know what just occurred to me about the NXE and that new dashboard layout.......Its all advertising, you have one slice with "Your Xbox" and the rest is some form of adverting, be its released games or features or arcade games.......How did that happen..
I don't mind all that stuff. I like seeing some of the short video previews, looking at what DLC is available, etc. The one thing I would love to see is the NXE coming up and landing on My Xbox where I can launch my game or access my info, rather than starting up on Spotlight and having to scroll up. It's just a single step up, but it would be great to start off at what I would consider my Home spot. Won't happen though - advertising and dollars speak big, and that's what they're going to stick with here.
Thanks for this thread as a heads up. Makes me glad that I normally play my games as a disconnected user rather than a Live user. A good reason not have any friends to play against online
Unwarranted fear really. This update could not possibly force the chip to
disconnect from the board... which is what's happening with the RROD.
If your Box fries after an update it was going to already.
You know what just occurred to me about the NXE and that new dashboard layout.......Its all advertising, you have one slice with "Your Xbox" and the rest is some form of adverting, be its released games or features or arcade games.......How did that happen..
Um, the old Dash was already like that. You had your marketplace
and your ads and all that. It's just more accessible now and looks
less like a menu, which is fine by me.
Speaking of things taking a long time to load up, how totally useless is the new friends list? Even before the update, it can take an eon for your friends list to populate with the names and avatars of everyone in it. Really, that's not good enough.
That has to do with your network, not the Dashboard.
As does any lag on the marketplace.
Mine loads up pretty much as soon as I flip over to it.
Try checking your friends list using the guide button if you're having trouble.
That's not even close to true. Considering I get a "blank" friends list with the name bubbles of my friends online and nothing else and experience lag looking at marketplace items on a fast broadband connection that works perfectly 99.9% of the time and is not being used by any other device, that's an issue MS needs to iron out.
I personally hope they gut the new friends list in the next update in favor of something more usable. Seeing one friend at a time is useless, even without the lag issues.
