>Milleoomers were okay with this.
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except we weren't, it was a big controversy at the time, zoom zoom
I managed to get my red-ringed 360 to last long enough for the moron at gamestop to test it and give me money
I crapped myself when I had the four rings of death. A friend told me that one was just a cable problem and easy to fix.
Never got the actual RRoD and my Xbox 360 is still here and it still works. lol
Seriously why the frick would they even make the four rings the least serious problem? Seems moronic to me. Four rings should've been the worst problem.
Whats the diff between one and three?
one is a private the other is a general
>watching youtube documentary on red ring of death
>youtuber uses (stolen) b-roll footage of a hundreds of xbox 360s on a rack all flashing 4 lights
>close video
moron didn't do any research
or he just doesn't care
>you'll watch it anyway
not me.
everyone who owned an Xbox 360 knows that 4 red lights means video unplugged
why was it ALWAYS three lights?
and what's the difference between 1 and 3
It makes me wonder how many consoles were returned over the four rings error.
I bet you don't even know about the fact that 75% of original Xboxes self destructed due to a faulty clock capacitor placed on the motherboard.
this is like the 10th time today I've seen a zoomer moron on Ganker make a completely moronic revisionist history claim that is easily verifiable
You're the dude that claims to be a millionaire? Is your life as a millionair to enter thread just to be mad?
>You're the dude that claims to be a millionaire?
I guess they also posteschizo weird shit since they thing all 100000 users of this board are their personal boogeyman
What did the broccoli haired moron mean by this?
what actually caused this
i always heard about it back when the 360 was airing but i never knew
The cooling system in 360s was trash. Even a properly ventilated 360 would overheat. Funnily enough, the best home remedy to an RROD was to wrap it in a towel and let it run for a little while to overheat it even more, can't remember why that worked though.
Forgot to mention, there was the 2 rings but that never actually showed up. The RROD people talk about is the 3 rings because the overheat would cause components inside the 360 to frick up.
the overheating was just enough to reflow the dry solder a little bit. It was only a temporary fix. Same reason you hear about people putting broken graphics cards in the oven.
lead-free solder
The solder on the GPU would melt and disconnect. The "towel trick" could re-melt the solder and cause it to reconnect sometimes.
I had the single red light on my 360. I was told it was a software error though.
That’s so moronic
Every hardware manufacturer at that time fell for le green environment meme and adopted the usage of lead-free solder which was not production-ready and you'll see that a lot of hw at that time fails because the solder would eventually break due to stress (heating-cooling down for a long period).
manufacturers didn't choose that, RoHS (europeans) forced it
as other people have said, it was lead free solder becoming brittle and breaking. It caused the heatsink to become disconnected from the chipset and overheat
dogshit lead free solder balls on the gpu + terrible cooling solution
both the old 360s and ps3s suffered from this, but these days you tend to see cope from the ps3 fat owners saying it can be fixed by replacing the nec tokins (lie)
i still have my old xbox and it never happened to me
life is good
>They also paid to go online.
It's true
Many of us went through 3+ consoles and kept buying a new one every time
Milleoomers were not okay with this and we b***hed
Don't care, it got fixed.
>okay with this
red ring of death is a thing that has been often talked about since the release of the fricking console because it wasn't okay then and is a topic that STILL comes up today because of how not okay it continues to be. what the frick are you talking about?
nobody was okay with this, it cost microsoft over 1 billion to fix.
They still beat Sony in the 7th gen.
Being a PS3 chad was based dabbing on all my moron friends who had to buy more Xboxes or wrap it up with a towel.. although I eventually got the ps3 equivalent years later
Gen 7 truly was a generation of timebomb consoles
in 15 years the only surviving gen 7 consoles will be Wii's
aren't revision of both PS3 slim and Xbox 360 slim fixed?
yeah I have a PS3 and a 360 and they both work fine
there were xbox 360s that were fixed even before the s model
a lot of people would say the 65nm gpu were 'fixed' because the failure rate was super low compared to the previous models
45nm chips were made using hugely different lithographic processes that were much more durable
Right now I have a PS3 Slim, Xbox one S, PS4 pro, and switch. Everything but the switch could go it’s such a waste of space. Consoles are useless to me now that I finally have a good pc.
The Wii had its own problems tbh wiiconnect24 caused the hardware to overheat in sleep mode, resulting in video artifacts. Wiis will work in 15 years but any that actually saw use by normalgays who didn't know better will display pic related. I used to work in a pawn shop during gen 7 and even back then I never saw a Wii come through the store that didn't suffer from it
It was fixed within a few months though. It was only an issue with the original batch of 360s. I had the very original model where the eject button was flush with the disc drive, that one had problems. The 3rd time I got it they sent me the model where the eject button slightly protrudes out past the disc tray and it never got it.
it was not fixed for a long time. it affected all the original form factor SKUs to varying degrees, just extending the timer on the bomb. it wasn't actually considered fixed until the S model.
>had the OG 360
>got RROD once
>did the towel trick
>it actually fricking fixed it
>tfw it still werks to this day
Noobs BTFO.
Peak parody
>MGS4
>Game
That by itself is also a joke.
it wasn't
the 360 was a piece of shit
it also popularized paying for online multiplayer
too bad the ps3 was quite shitty too but for different reasons. it was some dark times. wii was fun but also shit
We dealt with it because it had games like
>chromehounds
>Halo 3
>Gears 1
>Ninja Gaiden 2
>Lost Odyssey
>Tales of Vesperia
>best version of multiplats
no we werent zoomertoddler
Sony, as usual, was king at this sort of thing already. The PS3's YLOD and Xbox RROD were NOTHING in comparison to the PS2's disc read error. Snoy even lost a class action lawsuit about it, it was such a piece of junk lmao. Thats the real reason the PS2 sold so well - everyone had to buy 3 of them!
You could fix this by opening up your console and spraying compressed air on the lens. It took 5 minutes.My launch PS2 still works.
>zoomerinos don't remember having to run the playstation on its side or upside down just to make it read disks.
I mean, I got two free and working X360's out of the RROD era so not sure why I wouldn't be okay with that. Sure it sucked to have your console go down, but eventually MS stepped up and decided they would fix them free of charge which is more than most could say. How many OG PS3's are still kicking around these days? I'd wager the X360's have it outnumbered 10:1
were okay with this.
We wuz teenagers. What the frick could we do?
Was there anything more soulful in gaming than wrapping up your red-ringed 360 in a towel to get it to work?
turning your PS1 upside down to make the CD laser work properly
blowing the N64 cartridge