The Red Ring of Death
If anyone owns an XBox 360, then they know the dangers and constant fear of what is called the Red Ring of Death. The RRoD is a demon so powerful, it destroys all your hopes and dreams of conquering the next level on Army of Two, or winning the Playoffs in NBA 2k8. The RRoD is a relentless beast that eats away your console, and ends all promise of starting up your system.
I recently encountered the RRoD when I tried loading NBA 2k8, and it glitched at start up. So I made sure it was elevated correctly [it was], and that the air vents were clear [they were], and that it was stable [again, complete]. I restarted the console, and when it restarted, there it was. The Red Ring of Death. Staring me blank in the face, blinking like it owned the world.
The RRoD, quite literally, is a red glowing circle around the start-up button of the XBox 360. Usually, it is green, and allows gaming possible. But when it glows that crimson color, it's game over.
So there it was. A friend of mine recently encountered this catastrophe, and had to pay $125 in order to exchange for a working console, until his was fixed. The problems with this method are that [1] this XBox actually belongs to my friend, and I'm simply borrowing it for now, and [2] I don't have the $125 to pay for this fix.
I checked a few web sites, and videos on YouTube, and they all said either turn it in, or perform actions that could potentially burn my house down. No thank you. I have too much stuff in there, and my parents would inevitably kill me.
So if you have any definite working fixes, let me know. As long as they don't cost me over twenty bucks, and I can be able to give it back to my friend, and at least say that I had no idea it existed.
Unless, of course, he checks my website. Then I'm screwed.
[/btyler]
I recently encountered the RRoD when I tried loading NBA 2k8, and it glitched at start up. So I made sure it was elevated correctly [it was], and that the air vents were clear [they were], and that it was stable [again, complete]. I restarted the console, and when it restarted, there it was. The Red Ring of Death. Staring me blank in the face, blinking like it owned the world.
The RRoD, quite literally, is a red glowing circle around the start-up button of the XBox 360. Usually, it is green, and allows gaming possible. But when it glows that crimson color, it's game over.
So there it was. A friend of mine recently encountered this catastrophe, and had to pay $125 in order to exchange for a working console, until his was fixed. The problems with this method are that [1] this XBox actually belongs to my friend, and I'm simply borrowing it for now, and [2] I don't have the $125 to pay for this fix.
I checked a few web sites, and videos on YouTube, and they all said either turn it in, or perform actions that could potentially burn my house down. No thank you. I have too much stuff in there, and my parents would inevitably kill me.
So if you have any definite working fixes, let me know. As long as they don't cost me over twenty bucks, and I can be able to give it back to my friend, and at least say that I had no idea it existed.
Unless, of course, he checks my website. Then I'm screwed.
[/btyler]
posted by btyler at
5:43 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home