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there is supposed to be a new 'fix' for the 3 red lights - solves 90% of afflicted consoles.

it involves something to do with re-attaching a bracket or something like that...
 
Spunk_of_MJ said:
there is supposed to be a new 'fix' for the 3 red lights - solves 90% of afflicted consoles.

it involves something to do with re-attaching a bracket or something like that...
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Yeah, round Peter Moore's head............ ;)
 
sure:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=595746

seems like it has a 99% success rate.

note, there are two different methods - having quickly browsed through it, it seems 'lawdawq0931' has the easier method...

good luck!



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anyone in the UK, it might be worth scrolling down to smittykoi's post (in the lawdawq0931 thread, 6th post down) to see the parts he obtained from B&Q to fix his 360...
 
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has anyone with a modded 360 got the new update yet. mine is modded but I don't play copies. all my games are originals but I am a bit worried about the spring update.
 
WARNING!!

My nephew has just updated his console (he hasn't got it chipped or anything like that, 100% legal machine bought at Christmas time - it's one of the newer models, the one with the chrome front on the disc drive).

He's downloaded and applied the update this afternoon and his 360 will NO LONGER READ DISCS.

When he puts any disc in (he's been through seven games trying to get them to work), he gets the "Unplayable Disc" message. He's tried switching it off at the wall and all that, but it's not fixed it. He's got a guarantee on his, thank God. I haven't.

You might be alright, but I'm just telling you all what has happened to him. No way in hell am I updating mine yet.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
 
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Microsoft obviously aren't aware that there's a problem yet because he's just rang the 360 UK support number and they've just said "unplug it all and plug it back in again, does it work?" After he'd done that and was still having the same problem, he got "okay, take the hard drive out and put it back on again, ring me back after you've tried that, okay?" That's not fixed it either.

What the hell is going on? Is this some kind of anti-piracy thing that's taken out a normal machine? He's never had anything but a store-bought UK game in there for God's sake! It's too much of a coincidence to be anything else - he was playing it last night and it was fine - it must be the update.

Has anybody else updated yet? A few of his mates have updated and they seem to be alright...
 
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They've told him it must be a massive coincidence, his drive has suddenly died and arranged for his 360 to be picked up and replaced.

Sorry but that's bullshit, his drive was fine last night, it's never had a single error before and all of the cases of broken 360s I know about end with the red-light errors.

I'm not updating mine until I've seen a few more people update theirs.
 
Jack, why are you replacing it with MS?
Just go to where you bought it from for a straight swap, no need to worry about anything like getting a refurb etc.
 
ashmufc said:
Jack, why are you replacing it with MS?
Just go to where you bought it from for a straight swap, no need to worry about anything like getting a refurb etc.
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It's not mine, it's the nephews. His parents have rang up and arranged it all already (and they've given my address to pick it up from as well, cheeky bastards, so I've got to stay in for the next year while I wait for them).

I've had a look around and it doesn't seem like anyone else is having a problem. Way too much of a coincidence not to be caused by the update though, surely...

I mean, literally, he was playing a game, turned it off, and then half an hour later he turns it on and the update is waiting to download. Then when it's downloaded none of his games work.
 
I'm watching the forums for the next week or so. I'm not in a rush to go on Live and see these new features, I'd rather wait a week and see how things pan out. Like people are saying, for all we know they could be preparing a list of 360's that are modded and drop the ban-hammer after 48 hrs/a week/whenever ... apparantly they did the same with the XBox 1.
 
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I'm watching the forums for the next week or so. I'm not in a rush to go on Live and see these new features, I'd rather wait a week and see how things pan out. Like people are saying, for all we know they could be preparing a list of 360's that are modded and drop the ban-hammer after 48 hrs/a week/whenever ... apparantly they did the same with the XBox 1.
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yeah maybe your right man. I did read an interview with a xbox modding group and they said that the update cannot detect if the drive is modded so i should be okay. It can only detect if the game is a backup.

I want double dragon now. :)

The week of May 7th 2007 might not be know for any great historical references, but for XBOX 360 gamers it might just be the beginning of a bitter battle between XBOX 360 modders and Microsoft.

It has been know for some time that there is firmware modification that would allow gamers to simply flash their existing XBOX360’s with some modified code and allow them to play backups of both XBOX and XBOX360 games off and online without being banned or even detected, that is until this Monday.

You see…. along with all the other little tweaks and features of the spring update it seems Microsoft is planning on slipping in a little bit of code that can allow Microsoft to detect any users who use backed up games to be identified and then possibly banned from XBOX Live, but not so fast Bill. It seems some key players in the mod scene have also been preparing for this day and have decided to preempt Microsoft update with a new version of their own version of the firmware called Xtreme firmware 5.3 which will prevent Microsoft’s newest update from being able to detect burned backups. If this sounds confusing that’s because it is.

I spoke with Commodore4Eva who is coding the updates for the Xtreme firmwares and he did a quick Q&A with me

Gameswank: With a current working firmware, why is there a need for a new version of the Xtreme Fw?

Commodore4Eva: It was let known to me that MS received a report on how to detect backup games sometime ago and were working on it for the dash update, so I thought it timely to release this firmware this weekend

Gameswank: You say that you had some inside info that the spring update would have the ability to detect and possibly ban 360 modded users from their console and or XBOX Live?

Commodore4Eva: The method won’t detect modded drives but can detect a backup disk and make it not boot, banning someone for a copied disk would be harsh and damaging to MS themselves both in revenue and popularity

Gameswank: So you say version 5.3 will fix that? How can you verify that your patch will keep users from being banned if the update from Microsoft is not out yet?

Commodore4Eva: That doesn’t matter, the theory behind the detection is valid, so overcoming it is good for the future, makes it harder for MS to detect. The current Xtreme firmware already has many FEATURES that prevent detection, 5.3 just adds another.

Gameswank: So what if you release this patch and it does not work out the way you planned? Do you have a plan for that?

Commodore4Eva: Yes, The plan is to do an emergency patch if required after the update if the detection is put in by MS, otherwise a full update for Hitachi to bring it up to V5.3 from V2 will come in the next several weeks, and Since I don’t own an Hitachi it has been difficult, but friendly people have donated drives and are enroute to me including the new Benq drive which is in the Elite

Gameswank: Thanks for your time; I better let you go so you can make some gamers happy! Oh by the way when can expect the new Xtreme V5.3 Patch to be released?

Commodore4Eva: Saturday night at midnight before Microsoft gets a chance to release theirs.
 
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Strange thing is (and I'd read that interview too) that backups are still running fine on people using 5.2 firmware. So the disc jitter protection C4E put in 5.3 isn't needed anyway it seems?
 
Looking around, it seems that (with the modded 360s) they work okay, but with the original Xbox they recorded each console's hard drive ID and serial number before the bans started.

I'd have a bit more patience if I were you Kobashi...
 
As would I, patience is well worth having mate, worth having patience more than a broken/banned 360 I'd say ;)
 
If that actually came up, I would wee. And not Nintendo Wii either.

Anyway, an update about my nephew's fucked console...

The guy on the end of the phone when Xbox 360 UK support was called stated categorically (and repeatedly) that it couldn't have been the update that caused his Xbox to go pop, and it was pure coincidence. Well the UPS guy who came to pick up the broken Xbox came this afternoon (at least they're quick), and do you know what he said as soon as the door was opened?

"I'm here to pick up a 360 that was blown by the update."

I laughed and said to the guy "when I rang the support center the guy kept saying NO WAY is it the update, it's impossible for the update to do that, it's just a massive coincidence."

He said "well this is the most Xboxes I've had to collect so far, I've got absolutely tons to pick up yet, so it seems too much of a coincidence to me. I've had that many added to the list this morning that I can't collect them all today."

So there you go, it's not an isolated incident, and this is an Xbox that's never been modified and never even had a CDR/DVDR in it.
 
If I remember rightly, they screwed up the last update too didnt they? People were getting E66 errors (or E65, something like that) and had to send their console in for repair. Shortly after a fix was released.

MS - always fucking something up.
 
Anyone noticed the new VGA options in the console settings. You can have 1 of 3 options and the 3rd one makes the blacks blacker if you know what I mean. It makes everything much more vibrant and the way it's supposed to be.
 
Well I figured sod it, updated my firmware and got the spring update, tried FIFA 07 and all is good on this end (so far!)

Using component here so not been able to check VGA out.
 
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