Dreaded ring of death

Poseidon · **Dreaded ring of death -** 03-27-2008, 07:10 AM

I've had the dreaded Xbox 360 ring of death on my console a couple of times now. It has only happened after the 360 has crashed midgame! Screen making a loud cracking noise and the screen going crackly. I then open the tray to remove the disk and I get the ring of death (all 4 lights flashing red). I shutdown the 360 and reboot, all seems fine.

Its an intermittent problem, as I dont play on my 360 all day every day, iIve not managed to get a paturn on how often this occurs.

I've just read about moving the powersupply somewhere more ventalted. any other ideas before I waste my phone bill ringing M$?

Nyck · 03-27-2008, 07:39 AM

reseat your AV cables

4 rings is not the ring of death its just an error code

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906652

ninty · 03-27-2008, 09:29 AM

put your penis inside the ring of death.

[DAS REICH] Blitz · 03-27-2008, 10:06 AM

and watch it glow

Poseidon · 03-27-2008, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyck

reseat your AV cables

4 rings is not the ring of death its just an error code

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906652

thats a sigh of relief (I guess)- took it to my mates yesterday, and it did it again - he described it as the ring of death.

I've tried a completely new cable (as my mates is currently with Microsoft being repaired) which is why I took it to his house last night.

[DAS REICH] Blitz · 03-27-2008, 05:35 PM

or grow

gtboys34 · 03-28-2008, 01:36 AM

sucks! when did you buy the console? i just recently bought mine from target and nothing yet...hopefully it doesn't happen

elstatec · 03-28-2008, 06:13 AM

it has a 3 year warranty so you are covered for longer than owning any other consoles.

mine happened over the xmas period - but didnt bother me too much as as they replaced it within 2 weeks and all is good.

anyone here got rainbow six vegas 2? so glitchyyyyyyyyy

Pyro · 03-28-2008, 04:52 PM

iw as thinking of getting vegas 2 but i thought otherwise

geRV · 03-28-2008, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elstatec

it has a 3 year warranty so you are covered for longer than owning any other consoles.

Yeah but with that warrenty it extends ONLY to the 3 rings of death error, any other error and you have to pay for it. December there a friend of mine had to get his replaced, the error was 1 red light and it was something on the motherboard dieing (ethernet port i think). Since he had it over a year he had to fork out £60 for it.