I survived the RROD?

Got a scare this morning, especially considering I just bought Gears 2 and haven\'t even tried it yet.
 
But I hit the power button on my 360 to watch some more of the DVD I had in and I was treated to three blinking red lights around the power button.

Thinking "shit my luck ran out." I turned off the power. Then I tried pressing eject to see if that would work since that\'s one of the ways I usually turn the thing on. It did work and I\'m in the middle of watching the dvd right now.

What the hell happened?
 
I\'m all nervous now thinking it might not boot up any more. Guess we\'ll see.

[Viper_Fujax]

iv had that happen to me randomly too. i dont know what it is. i usually turn mine on with the controller and never had a problem, but the one time i turned it on by pressing the eject button i got a 3-red ring and have never done that since..so who knows

[clips]

This is why nobody buys american...their products suck...go pick up that ps3!!!.......is this thing with the 360 really as common as i hear? I don\'t plan on getting a 360 anytime soon, but i may get one for my son,...but i always hear stories of the 360 "RRod" problem.

I mentioned some months back that my son\'s friend purchased a 360 back maybe around early spring/summer and within a month his 360 got the "rrod" error....why is it so hard for ms to fix this?

RROD is fairly common from what I understand, but not on the newer systems.

It should not be hard to fix a shitty solder on the board.

[Paul2]

i thought ms fixed this like 2 years ago or so with newer model, but i still hear about this RROD...interesting.

If LIC son\'s friend bought a 360 around last summer - which is over 2 1/2 years since the launch of 360, but the later model still suffers from RROD, then that\'s really odd of Microsoft for not fixing it.

Lately, I still hear the 360 scratching disc if you rotate it from horizontally to vertically or vice versa, and microsoft didn\'t bother fixing that area because they claimed it\'s not the design\'s fault and any machine like cd or dvd player could scratch the disc too if you move it while the disc is spinning in the player.  Honestly, I think this is mostly the design of the 360 that causes the problem because of the hourglass shape console.  The center of the console is concave, and that thin space really makes it more vulnerable to disc scratching when flipping the console over.  But it\'s unlikely a person would move a console while playing a game unless it has problem reading disc.

But beside that, I am pretty sure the RROD has been fixed for models made after late 2006 and early 2007 or later....I think.

[Jumpman]

i thought ms fixed this like 2 years ago or so with newer model, but i still hear about this RROD...interesting.

If LIC son\'s friend bought a 360 around last summer - which is over 2 1/2 years since the launch of 360, but the later model still suffers from RROD, then that\'s really odd of Microsoft for not fixing it.

Lately, I still hear the 360 scratching disc if you rotate it from horizontally to vertically or vice versa, and microsoft didn\'t bother fixing that area because they claimed it\'s not the design\'s fault and any machine like cd or dvd player could scratch the disc too if you move it while the disc is spinning in the player.  Honestly, I think this is mostly the design of the 360 that causes the problem because of the hourglass shape console.  The center of the console is concave, and that thin space really makes it more vulnerable to disc scratching when flipping the console over.  But it\'s unlikely a person would move a console while playing game unless it has problem reading disc.

But beside that, I am pretty sure the RROD has been fixed for models made after late 2006 and early 2007 or later....I think.

Quoted for time.

[Paul2]

you quoted me because i wrote too long?  oh well...lol.  i am still trying on making shorter reply.

FYI, my system is a launch system.

My system has been sitting in storage for three months while I was living in LA.  I\'m rather afraid of unboxing it.

[Viper_Fujax]

id get one of those air cans and blow any dust out of the vents

[Living-In-Clip]

i thought ms fixed this like 2 years ago or so with newer model, but i still hear about this RROD...interesting.

If LIC son\'s friend bought a 360 around last summer - which is over 2 1/2 years since the launch of 360, but the later model still suffers from RROD, then that\'s really odd of Microsoft for not fixing it.

Lately, I still hear the 360 scratching disc if you rotate it from horizontally to vertically or vice versa, and microsoft didn\'t bother fixing that area because they claimed it\'s not the design\'s fault and any machine like cd or dvd player could scratch the disc too if you move it while the disc is spinning in the player.  Honestly, I think this is mostly the design of the 360 that causes the problem because of the hourglass shape console.  The center of the console is concave, and that thin space really makes it more vulnerable to disc scratching when flipping the console over.  But it\'s unlikely a person would move a console while playing a game unless it has problem reading disc.

But beside that, I am pretty sure the RROD has been fixed for models made after late 2006 and early 2007 or later....I think.

Huh?
My son?
Friend?
What?

I have zero clue on what exactly was just fucking said.

[Paul2]

lol.  its my broken english i suppose.  nevermind it then.

The RROD is still happening on newer systems (Jaspers), but it\'s not as common as it used to be. I\'ve had my Elite for 5 months now...I get nervous every time I turn it on thinking my luck is about to run out.

I have a newer system.  Got the RROD in the same way a few weeks back.  Had it, unplugged the thing, turned it back on, and all was fine.  No problems since.  My console is only a little over a year old though.  So, who knows.

[Paul2]

oh.  I guess Microsoft still skimmed on fixing RROD problem.