Comments on: XBox 360 Freezing Problem… How do we fix this???

By: Jared Leiferman

Jared Leiferman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:17:58 +0000

the problem with the xbox’s freezing has to do with the design of the 360 itself. when MS was about 90% done with the 360 they encountered a problem, the disk drive wouldn’t fit. so they had to make something smaller in order for the disk drive to fit, that something was the heatsink(device responsible for cooling the GPU) for the GPU. they also used not the highest quality wires to soder everything together. resulting in the already small heat sink to come loose due to the vibrations of the console and the constant heating up from regular use. if you have ever heard about the “towel trick” to get the 360 working again don’t try it. all it does is make the console hotter, even though it may work it is only temorary and may result in permanent damage. all 360 owners have a three year warrenty on the THREE Red Rings of Death. if you are out of warranty however you have nothing to lose and could look for some one local who will fix it for less, preferably one who guarantees it.
Hope this helps.

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By: lynn scott

lynn scott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:30 +0000

my sons have had there xbox 360 for over a year but hav hardly played it, as it keeps freezing, i have heard alot of problems from people with the same thing, does anyone have any suggestions how to go about rectifying this, plz….

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By: xbox

xbox — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:42:28 +0000

i had problems with my xbox freezes as well. I moved apartments and slowed down my internet speed and have not had any problems with it freezes. Sometimes the internet speed is the problem.

By: scrpnstinga

scrpnstinga — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:27:45 +0000

I am right there with you guys. I bought mine last christmas and it worked fine til today. It froze up once last week playing madden and I just turned it back on, cleared it right up. I went to gamestop this morning and bought halo odst and nfs shift. I got home and played nfs for about ten minutes and it froze up. thought it was the disk so I put in odst, it froze when I hit single player mode. NOT COOL. I have decided to make my friend give me his, since he owes me about 1200 dollars, I don’t think he will say no. Microsoft has known about this for over two years, and yet they expect me to pay them to fix it. after my friends dies, I am trading all my games and extras in for a PS3!!!!!!!!!

By: ZZZZAC

ZZZZAC — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:17:10 +0000

mine broke about three days ago whenever I was playing halo, it froze up on me,..awhile back it froze up on me but I resarted it and it was fine but I guess this last freeze just broke it then it got the RROD…it really made me mad cuz ODST comes out today.

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:59:29 +0000

Well my Xbox 360 problem journey has begun. And only after exactly one year after purchasing it. I bought a Xbox 360 Elite one year ago but I had only played it for about 2 months the summer I bought in. I travelled to Egypt whilst my brother played every now and then but nothing hardcore. Now my brother never experienced any problems with it during the time I was gone. But when I got back to the US i started to see lagging and often freezing. See spending 499.99 $ on this console was the main thing bugging me because before going into Microsoft I had been a Nintendo kid. I deeply regret not buying the Wii instead. But I’m stuck. Now I just bought Madden 2010 and it freezes everytime I enter a new franchise in that mode. Also Fifa 2008 I bought from that summer freezes as well as GTA IV and Halo 3. But not only are they freezing the color changes into a brighter greenish color all over the screen while the game is running perfectly fine. Also I never updated my Xbox with the new dashboard. But before and after updating I had these problems. So what I did was I formated it and cleaned it up. And wiped the dust off of it (even though there was no dust to begin with). So I’m a bit confused should I take it in to get repaired or should I just try and figure it out myself through the internet?

By: Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:53:27 +0000

Im sorry i just wanted to add that when i said madden 09 i meant madden 10.

By: Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:39:52 +0000

Hey everybody i just want to start by saying i feel your pain with the xbox and am disappointed with the amount of problems it is having. I had an original xbox for years with no problems other than needing to blow the dust out every now and then with canned air so when i sold it and my 40 + games i had and bought a new one i was pretty excited. I bought my one and only one ive owned in Jan of 08 when i returned from my last deployment to Iraq. I purchased the xbox 360 elite Halo 3 edition and have been using it since that time with no problems ever. Not one single problem or unreadable disc error and still have yet to get a red light of any kind. I have also had it hooked up to xbox live the entire time andhave recieved all the updates. I deployed again in Jan of this year and decided to take my xbox to iraq with me even though i know the conditions here are not exactly ideal for use of the xbox. I have put alot of hours in on it when i am not on mission me and the other guys always play long hours of madden and never encountered any problems and other than blowing the dust out once a week at least i had not done anything to it. Then about a month ago the fun started, it started just not reading discs not even giving the unreadable disc error just not recgonizing that there was a game in it. So i got online and went to a website called Llamma and ordered a new dvd drive,whisper fans, dual heatsink fans, and a new xbox casing (just for fun not because i thought it would help anything). I installed the fans and swapped the chip board over from the old dvd drive to the new one so that it would have the xbox specific key and started playing again with no problems. Now when playing madden 09 it started the freezing during gameplay and controller freeze so i sat here and read every post on here and tried the hard drive cache clear, setting the dvd drive out of the xbox while playing, unhooking the extra fans, keeping the power brick cool and out in the open, and sitting the xbox on its side and standing it up it still kept freezing 5 minutes into the same game on the same franchise. Then i saw the post saying try a new profile and tada it has been playing madden for 5 hours straight now with no problems and no freezing. So long story short (a little late now i know lol) to anyone else seeing this and having a similar problem with freezing but no red lights i would suggest you try this simple fix before a few of the other fixes it could save you some time and money. I know it sucks to lose your achievements but at least it works. Just delete your old profiles off the hard drive and make a new one. This happens sometimes on computers as well on hard drives if the same information is saved and loaded over and over again (like starting and saving your favorite games everday) and it causes a bad cell in your hard drive. This problem could be fixed also possibly by taking your xbox drive out of its casing and hooking it to a computer to run a defrag on it i dont know for sure yet but im going to give a try on another xbox out here and i will post the results when i get them for everyone to see. Hope this helps some of you out there with the same problems i know me and the guys here in iraq are glad it worked as it gives us something to kill time and take our minds of not being home.