The Xbox 360 Slim which was announced and released during this year’s E3 might already be having problems.
Images have been discovered on a Forum showing an Xbox 360 Slim with what is believed to be the “Red Dot of Death”. The Forum, NeoGaf has not confirmed whether or not the images are 100% real, but the images posted show one of the Xbox 360 Slim with the RDOD, and another image showing the error message on the Dashboard.
Take a look for yourselves and decide:
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This is 100% real. I know so because this just happened to my xbox last night. I bought the Slim on August 7th. Ive worked for most of the week so i didnt play much but when i did i noticed how hot one area of the console was getting. It was almost too hot to touch so i knew everything wasn’t working as intended. Last nite i finally sat down and played RDR for about 2 hours and then it happened. The game froze so i turned it off and back on.. and all i got was the red dot and a black screen. I waited about an hour for it to cool down and turned it back on and it worked. Knowing that i can only play 2 hours at a time is not what i signed up for.. although it is ingenious if it was meant to be used as a timer so that parents can monitor their childrens screen time… maybe ill give microsoft the benefit of the doubt… …
It’s not a problem. It’s a feature Microsoft added to the new XBOX 360 models that monitors the console’s temperature and when it gets hot from lack of air circulation it alerts the user that the console will shut off. This is a form of self-protection from overheating, which will save your hardware from frying itself out. The original 360 consoles were famous for overheating, which was the cause of the Red Ring Of Death.
If you look at the first picture you’ll see that the XBOX in question is inside of an entertainment center behind a glass door. Placing any console in such a location gives it no air circulation because the back is closed up and the glass door in front of it is closed also. This means your console is expelling hot air from it’s fan into an essentially sealed environment with no fresh air to draw in and cool itself off.
So in this case it’s not another hardware issue stemming from Microsoft. This is merely a case of users selecting a poor location to place their new XBOX 360 Slim consoles, which makes the new temperature monitor system integrated into these consoles a smart idea.
I agree with the console overheating and shutting down issue and disagree with the comment by Lordram18 (no offense). I bought an Xbox yesterday and placed it on a board (horizontally)in the middle of my living room to set it up. Within 30 minutes of game play, I received the error message shown on the screen above. I then placed it vertically. Within one hour it overheated again.
I returned it today for a full refund.
Just to clarify my above comment and opinion on the Xbox. I owned a PS3 for 3 years. During the second year of ownership, I experienced disc freeze for the first time. Since I was out of my warranty period, I paid $150 to have it repaired.Within 6 months, the same thing happened. I decided to buy a new matte finish version of the PS3. 11 months after ownership (Dec 2010), I experienced disc freeze again. This time it was under warranty and I am having it repaired for free. I decided to call it quits on the PS3 and try Xbox since many of my friends have them. What happened with the overheating was extremely disappointing. The research I did leads me to believe it was an older version issue. Anyway, I’m done. When my repaired PS3 comes back, I will use it until it fails and it won’t be replaced either. For the record, I purchased the Xbox at Walmart and have the serial number if anyone is interested.
fpsGoddess, pull your head out of your ass. You see one picture of some dumbass with his Slim in a glass case overheating, and “The slim 360 has all the same issues as the old ones… which means it will continue to be the most defective electronic product in history.” OF COURSE ITS GONNA OVERHEAT! There are vents all over the Slim, but they cant help if you trap the damn thing in a game cabinet!
And just for the sake of argument, I, being an “xtard” WILL defend that video. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS IS SHAKING THEIR CONSOLE TO THE POINT WHERE IT SCRATCHES THE DISK?! Im not playing my XBox in a cement mixer, its on my desk, where the disk stays perfectly safe.
And the pathetic one is the PS3 fanboy, (fpsGoddess of course!) who jumps on one incident, and looks up crap videos of stupid people screwing up their disks by shaking them around.
Next time you wanna F**k around with us “Xtards,” maybe get your facts and arguments straight, actually play on an XBox, or at least stop arguing out of your ass.
After doing some more research, I felt obligated to update my initial comments. I have heard (and I mean only “heard”) that some console owners who are technically proficient, will buy a new console when theirs fails, cannibalize parts from the new one, repair their old one, and reseal the new box for a return. This way they get a repaired console for free. I am not saying this is what happened to my Xbox mentioned above but it is sort of coincidental. Also, if this is true and people are doing this, I hope the store does a thorough inspection every time because if they don’t do it the first time and resell a defective console (such as to myself) that eventually gets returned and they inspect it the second time, the second owner may have some issues explaining it.
I have to agree more with Lordram on this issue. I bought my first XBox 360 Core system so long ago I cant even remember and it got the RROD so I was given a brand new 360 Arcade console which I rocked for about 6 months before the disk drive went out…luckily MS had renewed my Warranty for a year and another three full years for the RROD because at that point the RROD problem with the older models was coming out into the light. I then received another 360 Arcade console…this one became infected with the RROD after 2 short weeks of gaming. The brought me to my 4th replacement console which has been kicking ever since. I own a slim now as well but my Arcade still runs great. I keep it on the edge of my desk lying flat with a box fan behind it tilted to blow the hot air away from the rear and sides of the unit. I don’t use any BS coolers or anything else but the fan. My Slim sit either right next to my Arcade unit or on the big TV in the other room and my son plays it for marathon length sessions almost 4 days a week and it has yet to even overheat. The trick with any console/PC/electronic device is ventilation and as long as you keep the air around you system circulating your device is going to last much longer than if you just let those tiny little fans inside the console do all the work.
I Noticed the hot spot on my Xbox also and it is in a very opened up area but what i did and it helped cool it down was i took the intercooler from my laptop its like a flat deck with to fans and lined it up with the side vent on the Xbox and it seemed to cool it down quite a bit.