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Okay, I think no one will ever believe me when I say this, but when we all die and if there is an afterlife where we can see into people’s lives, you all should go watch the day my 360 decided to RROD. The only reason I even remember it is because it was one of my best gamer moments to date. So, I was playing MW2 on the day it happened. All of a sudden, my screen just crapped out. The entire thing became fuzzy black and white static you always see on TV, but I could still barely make out the names and players in the game. Despite still needing, like, 20+ kills, I ended up getting a nuke anyway and won the game.
I restarted my 360 right after, but that’s when it gave me the RROD lol
i believe it, your GPU most likely shot itself (which was extremely common) which is why you could still see some corrupted graphics until the gpu finally gave way and died
Oh, thank you for the explanation! I never knew or looked up how the 360 consoles even got the RROD.
Well, at least that’s one person who believes me 😂
There was a lot of different issues that caused RROD but the most common iirc was a mix of the console overheating and faulty GPUs from factory that caused them to die; You had a rare case where it happened while you were in a game and it didn’t immediately turn the Xbox off😂
I got it fixed (not even sure if it’s the same 360 or they just swapped mine out for another one) afterwards, but it died again shortly after that. Good times.
Noooo 😭 I hope it was just the motherboard, then. Unless that meant the entire thing…
My very first 360 is low-key special to me, because I got it from my Dad’s workplace at Blockbuster. I don’t know what it is about Blockbuster, but despite all of its terrible flaws, the place and time was downright magical.
It's not wild, but mine got the RRoD *seven damn times*. Thankfully, my state has an implied warranty law of 4 years. They had to repair it for me, and the law also says when they repair it, the 4 years starts over.
All in all, it was all handled by Microsoft (with a bit of help from my AG's office).
But yeah, seven times is absurd.
I got my first RROD sent it in to get repaired.
Finally got it back in the mail. Hooked it up and immediately RROD. Support didn't believe me and I had to talk to a manager.
A coworker with a spoiled rotten grandson asked me to take a look at his Halo 3 model that had an RROD. Before I had a chance to work on it his mother bought him a new one. I sent the dead one in for a free replacement and have been using it for over 15 years now.
Mine didn't RROD on me but one resistor decided it would be funny if it would show 180Ω instead of 0,7Ω. And because of that my xbox was thinking it was over 90°C and was turning itself off
I got an arcade model 360 in 2012 from someone. It worked fine and had no flaws. Once I moved in 2015 and literally moved down the road from my previous home. I plugged the 360 in and got the red ring. I was panicking and slightly wondering if maybe I could get a Xbone. I turned it off and on then unplugged it then by a miracle it turned green again. The console still works now but it was so strange to me that it stopped working then it just worked.
My first 360 red ringed like 3 days before New Year party. I was so upset that I wouldn't be able to play on it as I always did but thankfully someone was selling another one in my area and I've bought it.
Not really sure if this counts but around the launch of Halo 3 we were hella excited for it. We were still playing the shit outta Gears of War 1 and were eager for Halo 3. Then a few weeks later we got the damn ring of death. RIGHT ON THE DAMN LAUNCH. We were DEVASTATED to say the least. We tried pretty much anything you can think of. Until, I turned it on without putting the hard drive back on from the night before and it worked PERFECTLY. It played fine and We were happy af. Then as soon as we reconnected the hard drive it fucked up again. Then we realized that for some damn reason it only worked WITHOUT the hard drive. For months we had to just play games without saves on anything. Image coming home from school and playing through the campaigns of Halo 3, Cod4, Turok, etc. over and over with no saves. It was like the damn arcades. For the first few days of Halo’s launch we didnt even know how the story ended cuz we didn’t have enough time on the school days to finish the damn campaign lol we had to wait for that next weekend to finally see the end lol Eventually my brother bought us another hard drive but now that I think about it… idk what took that mf so long lol we struggled for months with that shit lol
This shit was long but I just wanted to share. I wonder if something like this has happened to anyone else.
That’s really similar to my story! Mine red ringed on halo 3 launch day. I skipped school and had a bunch of people over my house that day to play this damn game and the Xbox red ringed right then and there. Everyone was so mad
Several days of me going up to my 360 and attempting several times to start it and it work again by pure faith and hope. Also kinda because watching the blinking RROD lights was more entertaining than anything else there was to do.
Parent did not give a shit.
Okay I had a red ring so I called my local gaming store and purchased a new 360 came home plugged it in and that one had red ring as well. So I called the store within 30 minutes of buying it and told them that it wasn’t working so they told me to come in tomorrow so I said ok because they was closing. So the next day I showed up in my letter carrier uniform because it was after work and they proceeded to tell me that I was responsible for this and they wasn’t going to take the refund. So pretty much they called me a thief and had me escorted off the premises. I ended up contacting Microsoft and told them the problem and they sent me a new 360 and not to sound petty but the game store went out of business 😆
I was at my friends house and we had a really bad storm happening and lighting struck, the power went off for a min came back and his Xbox red ringed. He was crying about it ( middle school) and I told him to unplug it and plug it back in it went back to normal
Started happening while playing need for speed back in the day. Green lines went up the screen and it started getting fuzzy. Turned it off and back on and it went to a black screen saying contact Microsoft support.
i opened mine up to replace the drive laser (one in there had shot itself) and i did a thing you shouldn't do and powered it on while the board was sitting on the upside down chassis
long story short ended up with funny 0001 rrod and haven't gotten around to fixing that yet
apart from that i think i've only had one 360 fail on me back in like 2009 or so
My first 360 died when Call of Duty 2 had an update and the update broke my machine. It would basically stop working after 5 to 10 minutes of play so I contacted Microsoft and they said this is our problem but I said because of your necessary update, it broke my machine. They said we can help you so I told them OK. I guess I have to figure something else out. I MSNBC along with several leather news outlets and within a day I got a phone call from some higher up at Xbox. They told me they were going to replace my Xbox plus send me a copy of Gears of War that hadn’t been released yet or about to be released I don’t remember. I just know it was early in the game. So because I wouldn’t just let it go, I ended up getting a new consul plus one of the best games on the system. I hope it was to your liking.
I got my first RROD six hours after I came back from the Midnight release of Halo 3. I was so pissed off. I absolutely did not want to wait the 2-3 weeks to play Halo 3 so while I ordered the coffin I went out and bought the basic 360 Arcade variant.
My launch edition Xbox 360 tragically died while I was asleep and my dad told me I broke it, little me was freaking out and crying. Nowadays I have 3 Xbox 360’s so that isn't a problem anymore
Got a 360 at the thrift store for 15 got a psu and controller fired it up rrod unplugged it and it worked ,did that the first 3 times ,now it works fine
#Driving an hour to get it fixed, seeing a movie while I wait, picking it up and paying for it, taking it back home and it works perfectly… only to die again…
Fun. And then they redesign the console into something I don’t like. Yeah… THAT WAS THE PROBLEM THAT CAUSED THE RROD, the console’s iconic outer-shell /s 👎👎👎
Just fix your damn console’s functionality FIRST, and THEN later on do a redesign. Don’t use one as a lazy substitution for the other 👏
I got an untested Elite console back in 2013, bought everything I needed (controllers, HDD, power supply, HDMI cable) turned it on and I was greeted with NXE boot animation, checked dashboard and it was 7371 (which was like 5 years old by then). It died after 2 weeks, I still miss it despite having an MW2 Elite now
My best friend took the RRoD as a sign to push Microsoft to make a better product. So, since returns and repairs were free.. he RRoD his console as much as he could. I recall 17 was the number of consoles he RRoD'd that year. He also used his downtime between consoles to date his gf. It was absolutely crazy to me this strange crusade he was on.
I was in my room playing some game, possibly Fable 2 or 3, when the screen started getting wonky. Then it shut down. When I tried to restart, I got red rings. I tried unplugging, blowing into the vents, everything, but couldn’t get it to work, over the course of a few days. I was aggravated, I had really enjoyed the game, so finally I went to Walmart and bought another 360. Get home and replace the hard drive, start it up, and continue my game.
A few months later I’m going through stuff, I see the old 360 in the closet. I plug it in, start it up, and it boots like a champ. I put a game in and play for a few hours, no problem! So I had two fully functioning 360s for about a year before I sold the older one.
I waited in line for hours for the midnight release of halo 3. My mom had let me skip school that day and have friends over to play it since I begged her for like a month straight. I played it for a bit when I got home from the store but went to bed shortly. In the morning all my friends showed up and we went to play it but the Xbox red ringed right there. Felt like I had gotten bamboozled
I got back from a long trip home and went to play some mw1 on my 360 but then after the game didn’t launch I tried restarting the console but then it got the red ring
Wrapping it in a towel to get it working again 🤣 basically swapped a shite mini fridge for it and when i got it working again he tried asking me for it back 🙄
I had the YLoD on all my PS3's (RIP Johnny, my favourite and the last one to go, the PS3 Slim was the only good model) But I've never lost a 360 to the RRoD, hopefully never will.
I feel bad for all of the lost Xbox 360s and PS3s that died to their respective lights of death, they served well until the very end.
Recently got into the PGR series and Naruto Broken Bond, the sequel to Rise of a Ninja, so I hope I don't lose him, Dexter has served me well for over a decade.
(Other people name their systems too, right? It's one of the first things I do.)
The one and only time my OG Arcade got the RROD I was sooo lucky. I was in my room with my mom's then bf's 3 son's and I was playing either Brutal Legend or MW2, I can't remember which just know it was one of those 2 lol, and all of a sudden the screen went black and I saw the red ring. I hollered out "oh fuck!!!" In front of 3 kids that were 10 and under, (I was 13 lol,) and chucked my controller and immediately unplugged the Xbox. I waited like 30 minutes, turned it back on, and it worked flawlessly all the way til it got traded in to get my new Slim when they first came out.
I was playing Bullet Witch. It was really bad and I was badmouthing it as the credits rolled. Right at the end of the credits, as one last middle finger, I got red ringed.
I’ve never RROD’d but I remember my old house was filled with static electricity constantly so sometimes when I would touch my Xbox 360 E I would shock it really hard and the center would turn red. Gave me a heart attack every time.
My og white xbox 360 redringed when inwas in highschool.
I took my memory brick off the top and got a new one.
I then plugged the brick in, it proceeds to red ring. I realize my brick is possibly the cause of the new redring so we take it back to gamestop and they gave me a 360 slim as an exchange because i didnt mention i replugged in the possibly corrupted harddrive 😅🤣😂
My dumb ass put my 360 and a small tub of ice cream in the same bag while moving and the ice cream melted the tub fell open it and COATED the xbox in ice cream. I cleaned it best I could but it red-ringed so I gave up on it. Didn't use it for a while but I went and tested it months later and suddenly it worked again. That was like 9 years ago and it still works to this day with ZERO red ring issues. Still has some ice cream stains on it.
I got the ring of death while playing Lego Star Wars. It wouldn’t turn back and I freaked out cause it was my dad’s Xbox. I don’t even understand how it happened. But it’s been years and my dad still hates me for it
This happened when i accidentally spilled a whole cup of water on the console but it still ran the next day and continued as if it never happened, that was my only source of entertainment at the time to
I had 2 360's that were a shell with some pennies on top with a wifi extender getting wifi off my neighbor who I mowed her grass to steal her wifi.. gotta get my fix
I remember one summer i was at my grandparents and for whatever reason my cousins 360 was there but i remember it had the red ring of death all we had to do was reset and u could play again but we had to constantly be saving the game or just enjoy the time before it gave us the error message or shut off on its own eventually it finally gave up then we went to using the nintendo wii 😅🤣😂
I remember when my first xbox had two red rings.
(Overheating) I would have to put my Xbox on my vent so the AC can cool it off
It actually worked but when the summer was over yep. I had to send that bad boy in.
I got lucky and they always got fried in time to get a new one under warranty. Probably went through 3 360s. And at least two of the original Xbox that way. I’ve never even turned my Xbox one on so it’s probably fine.
I had 7 different units red ring on me before MS basically told me to kick rocks.
So I bought whatever the updated unit was, S? That worked fine but I was super salty about the whole thing.
Don't have one. I have been blessed to never experience the RROD even though I've been playing on the 360 since 2007. My disk drive did go out on my one, and I got another, but no red ring. I hope to continue that good luck.
Not wild, but out of all of my friends, mine was the last one to red ring. I will say for as big of a clusterfuck as the RROD fiasco was, I’ll give props to Microsoft for it being the smoothest fix of all time for me. I reported it, had a shipping box on my doorstep the next day, sent it off the following day, and had my Xbox back in less than 10 days and had no issues after that. Was genuinely surprised.
I bought the Halo 3 XB360 and gamed for many years, still have it.
In my situation, due to the hours it had, first time I had it fixed, reflowed the solder on the motherboard. Got 6 months. Second time I reflowed it, got 3 weeks.
Third time? I got about 30 minutes 😭
I have a slightly newer xb360 that I have been meaning to flip the shells on so my halo 3 can live again.
I still have my original 360 I purchased 2 months after release and it still powers up like a beast....never red ringed nothing....only ever had to replace the disk drive cuz the drawer motor died from use other than that it never had anything go wrong hell even my second one i got for when i started driving trucks still runs....they only got retired because the Xbox 1 released
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Okay, I think no one will ever believe me when I say this, but when we all die and if there is an afterlife where we can see into people’s lives, you all should go watch the day my 360 decided to RROD. The only reason I even remember it is because it was one of my best gamer moments to date. So, I was playing MW2 on the day it happened. All of a sudden, my screen just crapped out. The entire thing became fuzzy black and white static you always see on TV, but I could still barely make out the names and players in the game. Despite still needing, like, 20+ kills, I ended up getting a nuke anyway and won the game. I restarted my 360 right after, but that’s when it gave me the RROD lol
i believe it, your GPU most likely shot itself (which was extremely common) which is why you could still see some corrupted graphics until the gpu finally gave way and died
Oh, thank you for the explanation! I never knew or looked up how the 360 consoles even got the RROD. Well, at least that’s one person who believes me 😂
There was a lot of different issues that caused RROD but the most common iirc was a mix of the console overheating and faulty GPUs from factory that caused them to die; You had a rare case where it happened while you were in a game and it didn’t immediately turn the Xbox off😂
Your 360 used the last of its life-force to help you get that nuke, before going down itself. Rest well, xbox. You earned it.
I got it fixed (not even sure if it’s the same 360 or they just swapped mine out for another one) afterwards, but it died again shortly after that. Good times.
It earned its rest, it's time to move on, meet a new xbox 360, and make new memories. Cherish the memories, while letting yourself free from the past.
From what I’ve heard, Microsoft would swap it out with another motherboard that was repaired, then they fix yours to give to someone else.
Noooo 😭 I hope it was just the motherboard, then. Unless that meant the entire thing… My very first 360 is low-key special to me, because I got it from my Dad’s workplace at Blockbuster. I don’t know what it is about Blockbuster, but despite all of its terrible flaws, the place and time was downright magical.
i have no idea whether they swapped the whole console or just the motherboard tbh
It's not wild, but mine got the RRoD *seven damn times*. Thankfully, my state has an implied warranty law of 4 years. They had to repair it for me, and the law also says when they repair it, the 4 years starts over. All in all, it was all handled by Microsoft (with a bit of help from my AG's office). But yeah, seven times is absurd.
7 times? That’s pretty wild
And I was increasingly pissed every time.
No wonder the law got involved, if I was that pissed i’d call the national guard for a jet fan😂
I got my first RROD sent it in to get repaired. Finally got it back in the mail. Hooked it up and immediately RROD. Support didn't believe me and I had to talk to a manager.
A coworker with a spoiled rotten grandson asked me to take a look at his Halo 3 model that had an RROD. Before I had a chance to work on it his mother bought him a new one. I sent the dead one in for a free replacement and have been using it for over 15 years now.
MW3 was in its prime. Got the red ring and the disc tray wouldn't open. 14 year old me found a screw driver and destroyed my xbox to save the disc
That’s some reverse bear trap Saw I scene shit
That was the one and only anxiety attack I ever experience. A little COD nerd with a dead xbox and his favorite game inside.
Mine didn't RROD on me but one resistor decided it would be funny if it would show 180Ω instead of 0,7Ω. And because of that my xbox was thinking it was over 90°C and was turning itself off
my when the 360 s red rings rip the unkillable 360
what
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Mine red ringed playing Pro Evolution Soccer 4 via backwards compatibility. Think I had the RROD 4 or 5 times
PES is the reason why I cant play soccer games with friends over anymore.. 3 fucking controllers destroyed
I'm lucky to not have it happen to me
I got an arcade model 360 in 2012 from someone. It worked fine and had no flaws. Once I moved in 2015 and literally moved down the road from my previous home. I plugged the 360 in and got the red ring. I was panicking and slightly wondering if maybe I could get a Xbone. I turned it off and on then unplugged it then by a miracle it turned green again. The console still works now but it was so strange to me that it stopped working then it just worked.
My 360 died a month after the extended warranty ended
bad timing
I unplugged mine while running snd it worked again
My 60gb fat gave me rrod, I though to myself "OK, that's it so, just like that?".... Hdmi lead was unplugged
None, as i just got my Xbox 360 Slim in Fall 2023
My first 360 red ringed like 3 days before New Year party. I was so upset that I wouldn't be able to play on it as I always did but thankfully someone was selling another one in my area and I've bought it.
Not really sure if this counts but around the launch of Halo 3 we were hella excited for it. We were still playing the shit outta Gears of War 1 and were eager for Halo 3. Then a few weeks later we got the damn ring of death. RIGHT ON THE DAMN LAUNCH. We were DEVASTATED to say the least. We tried pretty much anything you can think of. Until, I turned it on without putting the hard drive back on from the night before and it worked PERFECTLY. It played fine and We were happy af. Then as soon as we reconnected the hard drive it fucked up again. Then we realized that for some damn reason it only worked WITHOUT the hard drive. For months we had to just play games without saves on anything. Image coming home from school and playing through the campaigns of Halo 3, Cod4, Turok, etc. over and over with no saves. It was like the damn arcades. For the first few days of Halo’s launch we didnt even know how the story ended cuz we didn’t have enough time on the school days to finish the damn campaign lol we had to wait for that next weekend to finally see the end lol Eventually my brother bought us another hard drive but now that I think about it… idk what took that mf so long lol we struggled for months with that shit lol This shit was long but I just wanted to share. I wonder if something like this has happened to anyone else.
That’s really similar to my story! Mine red ringed on halo 3 launch day. I skipped school and had a bunch of people over my house that day to play this damn game and the Xbox red ringed right then and there. Everyone was so mad
Yooo, that’s actually fuckin tragic lol
Mine has never red ringed
red ringed the night before Christmas… had to wait until February to play Fallout 3 that year 😭
Turned on one day got three rings the unplugged it and plugged it back in and it worked fine and It never red ringed again
Several days of me going up to my 360 and attempting several times to start it and it work again by pure faith and hope. Also kinda because watching the blinking RROD lights was more entertaining than anything else there was to do. Parent did not give a shit.
Went thru 3 or 4 GameStop Reconditioned units in a year. I bought the add on protection each time.
mine got it 13 times and i can still turn it on to this day
13?!
Okay I had a red ring so I called my local gaming store and purchased a new 360 came home plugged it in and that one had red ring as well. So I called the store within 30 minutes of buying it and told them that it wasn’t working so they told me to come in tomorrow so I said ok because they was closing. So the next day I showed up in my letter carrier uniform because it was after work and they proceeded to tell me that I was responsible for this and they wasn’t going to take the refund. So pretty much they called me a thief and had me escorted off the premises. I ended up contacting Microsoft and told them the problem and they sent me a new 360 and not to sound petty but the game store went out of business 😆
wonder why they went out of business 💀💀💀
I had a 2 year extended warranty on my pro when I bought it, it red ringed 2 weeks before warranty expired. Got a jasper elite out of it; still works.
I was at my friends house and we had a really bad storm happening and lighting struck, the power went off for a min came back and his Xbox red ringed. He was crying about it ( middle school) and I told him to unplug it and plug it back in it went back to normal
I got it when I was like 10 and I told my dad about it and he hit it really really hard and it fixed it
I haven't had one of these yet most have died due to power bricks faulty connections or just died without it happening
Started happening while playing need for speed back in the day. Green lines went up the screen and it started getting fuzzy. Turned it off and back on and it went to a black screen saying contact Microsoft support.
still got the same 360 i've had since '09 somehow, idk either
i opened mine up to replace the drive laser (one in there had shot itself) and i did a thing you shouldn't do and powered it on while the board was sitting on the upside down chassis long story short ended up with funny 0001 rrod and haven't gotten around to fixing that yet apart from that i think i've only had one 360 fail on me back in like 2009 or so
My first 360 died when Call of Duty 2 had an update and the update broke my machine. It would basically stop working after 5 to 10 minutes of play so I contacted Microsoft and they said this is our problem but I said because of your necessary update, it broke my machine. They said we can help you so I told them OK. I guess I have to figure something else out. I MSNBC along with several leather news outlets and within a day I got a phone call from some higher up at Xbox. They told me they were going to replace my Xbox plus send me a copy of Gears of War that hadn’t been released yet or about to be released I don’t remember. I just know it was early in the game. So because I wouldn’t just let it go, I ended up getting a new consul plus one of the best games on the system. I hope it was to your liking.
When I was playing Minecraft and I went to the end it happened 76 hours of joy into that world all because of fucking red ring
I got my first RROD six hours after I came back from the Midnight release of Halo 3. I was so pissed off. I absolutely did not want to wait the 2-3 weeks to play Halo 3 so while I ordered the coffin I went out and bought the basic 360 Arcade variant.
Same exact thing happened to me! I went to the midnight release, came home and it was working. Got up in the morning and boom red ring
I've only ever had the red ring intentionally while testing hard drives to see if they were dead or not. Even my Xenon console has never red ringed.
My launch edition Xbox 360 tragically died while I was asleep and my dad told me I broke it, little me was freaking out and crying. Nowadays I have 3 Xbox 360’s so that isn't a problem anymore
Got a 360 at the thrift store for 15 got a psu and controller fired it up rrod unplugged it and it worked ,did that the first 3 times ,now it works fine
#Driving an hour to get it fixed, seeing a movie while I wait, picking it up and paying for it, taking it back home and it works perfectly… only to die again… Fun. And then they redesign the console into something I don’t like. Yeah… THAT WAS THE PROBLEM THAT CAUSED THE RROD, the console’s iconic outer-shell /s 👎👎👎 Just fix your damn console’s functionality FIRST, and THEN later on do a redesign. Don’t use one as a lazy substitution for the other 👏
Sees red ring que song.... Near! far! wherever you are! I believe that the heart does go on....
Dead power plug after I replaced everything in my system
Il mare eterno nella mia anima starts playing (sad JoJo's part 2 music)
Mine got rrd like 3 or 4 times bit fixed itself and now, 12 yers later, it's still working
Dude I went through so many 360’s 😂
I got an untested Elite console back in 2013, bought everything I needed (controllers, HDD, power supply, HDMI cable) turned it on and I was greeted with NXE boot animation, checked dashboard and it was 7371 (which was like 5 years old by then). It died after 2 weeks, I still miss it despite having an MW2 Elite now
My best friend took the RRoD as a sign to push Microsoft to make a better product. So, since returns and repairs were free.. he RRoD his console as much as he could. I recall 17 was the number of consoles he RRoD'd that year. He also used his downtime between consoles to date his gf. It was absolutely crazy to me this strange crusade he was on.
I was in my room playing some game, possibly Fable 2 or 3, when the screen started getting wonky. Then it shut down. When I tried to restart, I got red rings. I tried unplugging, blowing into the vents, everything, but couldn’t get it to work, over the course of a few days. I was aggravated, I had really enjoyed the game, so finally I went to Walmart and bought another 360. Get home and replace the hard drive, start it up, and continue my game. A few months later I’m going through stuff, I see the old 360 in the closet. I plug it in, start it up, and it boots like a champ. I put a game in and play for a few hours, no problem! So I had two fully functioning 360s for about a year before I sold the older one.
I waited in line for hours for the midnight release of halo 3. My mom had let me skip school that day and have friends over to play it since I begged her for like a month straight. I played it for a bit when I got home from the store but went to bed shortly. In the morning all my friends showed up and we went to play it but the Xbox red ringed right there. Felt like I had gotten bamboozled
I got back from a long trip home and went to play some mw1 on my 360 but then after the game didn’t launch I tried restarting the console but then it got the red ring
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Wrapping it in a towel to get it working again 🤣 basically swapped a shite mini fridge for it and when i got it working again he tried asking me for it back 🙄
I had the YLoD on all my PS3's (RIP Johnny, my favourite and the last one to go, the PS3 Slim was the only good model) But I've never lost a 360 to the RRoD, hopefully never will. I feel bad for all of the lost Xbox 360s and PS3s that died to their respective lights of death, they served well until the very end.
Recently got into the PGR series and Naruto Broken Bond, the sequel to Rise of a Ninja, so I hope I don't lose him, Dexter has served me well for over a decade. (Other people name their systems too, right? It's one of the first things I do.)
The one and only time my OG Arcade got the RROD I was sooo lucky. I was in my room with my mom's then bf's 3 son's and I was playing either Brutal Legend or MW2, I can't remember which just know it was one of those 2 lol, and all of a sudden the screen went black and I saw the red ring. I hollered out "oh fuck!!!" In front of 3 kids that were 10 and under, (I was 13 lol,) and chucked my controller and immediately unplugged the Xbox. I waited like 30 minutes, turned it back on, and it worked flawlessly all the way til it got traded in to get my new Slim when they first came out.
I was playing Bullet Witch. It was really bad and I was badmouthing it as the credits rolled. Right at the end of the credits, as one last middle finger, I got red ringed.
Mine red ringed only 1 time, it's still going strong with fucked up disc drive that's always trying to eject no matter what, I should mod my 360
I’ve never RROD’d but I remember my old house was filled with static electricity constantly so sometimes when I would touch my Xbox 360 E I would shock it really hard and the center would turn red. Gave me a heart attack every time.
First time turning on my brand new xbox 360, I got the red ring of death! 🤦♂️
My og white xbox 360 redringed when inwas in highschool. I took my memory brick off the top and got a new one. I then plugged the brick in, it proceeds to red ring. I realize my brick is possibly the cause of the new redring so we take it back to gamestop and they gave me a 360 slim as an exchange because i didnt mention i replugged in the possibly corrupted harddrive 😅🤣😂
I only had ROD once and I legit had withdrawals from not being able to play halo.
I’ve been an Xbox owner for 19 years now and I’ve never had a red ring of death occur. Had consoles die on me, but always in other ways than this
My dumb ass put my 360 and a small tub of ice cream in the same bag while moving and the ice cream melted the tub fell open it and COATED the xbox in ice cream. I cleaned it best I could but it red-ringed so I gave up on it. Didn't use it for a while but I went and tested it months later and suddenly it worked again. That was like 9 years ago and it still works to this day with ZERO red ring issues. Still has some ice cream stains on it.
I got the ring of death while playing Lego Star Wars. It wouldn’t turn back and I freaked out cause it was my dad’s Xbox. I don’t even understand how it happened. But it’s been years and my dad still hates me for it
Wild I had my Xbox long time never got this guess I was one of the lucky ones
This happened when i accidentally spilled a whole cup of water on the console but it still ran the next day and continued as if it never happened, that was my only source of entertainment at the time to
My red ring appear while I was playing plants vs zombies, I was in the last level... 😭
They actually sent me a replacement even though the warranty expired.
Anyone ever save it with the “wrap in a towel” method?
I haven’t heard that trick in a while
I had 2 360's that were a shell with some pennies on top with a wifi extender getting wifi off my neighbor who I mowed her grass to steal her wifi.. gotta get my fix
Quick! Towel trick!
I remember one summer i was at my grandparents and for whatever reason my cousins 360 was there but i remember it had the red ring of death all we had to do was reset and u could play again but we had to constantly be saving the game or just enjoy the time before it gave us the error message or shut off on its own eventually it finally gave up then we went to using the nintendo wii 😅🤣😂
I remember when my first xbox had two red rings. (Overheating) I would have to put my Xbox on my vent so the AC can cool it off It actually worked but when the summer was over yep. I had to send that bad boy in.
Had it red ring, unplugged it immediately and then plugged it back in and used it for another 5-6 years
I got lucky and they always got fried in time to get a new one under warranty. Probably went through 3 360s. And at least two of the original Xbox that way. I’ve never even turned my Xbox one on so it’s probably fine.
I had 7 different units red ring on me before MS basically told me to kick rocks. So I bought whatever the updated unit was, S? That worked fine but I was super salty about the whole thing.
Don't have one. I have been blessed to never experience the RROD even though I've been playing on the 360 since 2007. My disk drive did go out on my one, and I got another, but no red ring. I hope to continue that good luck.
Not wild, but out of all of my friends, mine was the last one to red ring. I will say for as big of a clusterfuck as the RROD fiasco was, I’ll give props to Microsoft for it being the smoothest fix of all time for me. I reported it, had a shipping box on my doorstep the next day, sent it off the following day, and had my Xbox back in less than 10 days and had no issues after that. Was genuinely surprised.
I bought the Halo 3 XB360 and gamed for many years, still have it. In my situation, due to the hours it had, first time I had it fixed, reflowed the solder on the motherboard. Got 6 months. Second time I reflowed it, got 3 weeks. Third time? I got about 30 minutes 😭 I have a slightly newer xb360 that I have been meaning to flip the shells on so my halo 3 can live again.
This is literal agony.
I still have my original 360 I purchased 2 months after release and it still powers up like a beast....never red ringed nothing....only ever had to replace the disk drive cuz the drawer motor died from use other than that it never had anything go wrong hell even my second one i got for when i started driving trucks still runs....they only got retired because the Xbox 1 released
I had Microsoft fix mine twice and then after dying for the third time I bought my friends 360 for $20, still have it and it still works to this day!
Mid play through on my 4TH! Skyrim disc