RRoD

[Batman]

Noooooooo! Our 7+ Yo Xbox 360 finally had the dreaded Red Ring of Death this evening....the damn thing crapped out on the kids right in the middle of a game. It froze and had video artifacts all over the screen. We turned it off and tried to reboot to no avail and 3 of the 4 red lights were flashing. I did a little research and viewed a few YouTube vids and thankfully it's not a total hardware failure. I ran out to the rat shack picked up some thermal paste and a couple small torx bits and several hours later and a couple tries at repair, I have it functioning normally again. Hopefully it will last long enough to transfer save data to another console and hopefully it's as easy as it sounds. But I've also never had to do a transfer. Any of you avid Xbox gamers have any advice concerning what is sure to be an inevitable downward spiral to throwing this thing in the dumpster?

 

[Doghart]

New console in November... try to make it last.

D

 

[Rope]

F.Y.I.
Thermal Paste:
A great substitute proven to be more effective than Artic Silver and various other brands is Permatex Anti-Seize Lubricant.

Rope

 

[Batman]

F.Y.I.
Thermal Paste:
A great substitute proven to be more effective than Artic Silver and various other brands is Permatex Anti-Seize Lubricant.

Rope

Interesting, looks like I can find it in any auto parts store. I picked up a small vial of the arctic silver in anticipation of having to repair it again. I just may try that instead if need be, Thanks Rope!

 

[The DirtMerchant]

Noooooooo! Our 7+ Yo Xbox 360 finally had the dreaded Red Ring of Death this evening....the damn thing crapped out on the kids right in the middle of a game. It froze and had video artifacts all over the screen. We turned it off and tried to reboot to no avail and 3 of the 4 red lights were flashing. I did a little research and viewed a few YouTube vids and thankfully it's not a total hardware failure. I ran out to the rat shack picked up some thermal paste and a couple small torx bits and several hours later and a couple tries at repair, I have it functioning normally again. Hopefully it will last long enough to transfer save data to another console and hopefully it's as easy as it sounds. But I've also never had to do a transfer. Any of you avid Xbox gamers have any advice concerning what is sure to be an inevitable downward spiral to throwing this thing in the dumpster?

Confused. Can't you just take the HDD off the system and put it on another system?
Why transfer?

 

[Rope]

F.Y.I.
Thermal Paste:
A great substitute proven to be more effective than Artic Silver and various other brands is Permatex Anti-Seize Lubricant.

Rope

Interesting, looks like I can find it in any auto parts store. I picked up a small vial of the arctic silver in anticipation of having to repair it again. I just may try that instead if need be, Thanks Rope!

I experienced a situation during tax season where my CPU chip was over heating late at night. Ran across a site where a super geek had tried and measured the thermal capabilities of substances from cheese to peanut butter to thermal pastes. This person inadvertantly used Permatex (which I have on hand for aluminum head spark plug installation) which tested better than most if not all the thermal pastes.

Rope

 

[Batman]

Noooooooo! Our 7+ Yo Xbox 360 finally had the dreaded Red Ring of Death this evening....the damn thing crapped out on the kids right in the middle of a game. It froze and had video artifacts all over the screen. We turned it off and tried to reboot to no avail and 3 of the 4 red lights were flashing. I did a little research and viewed a few YouTube vids and thankfully it's not a total hardware failure. I ran out to the rat shack picked up some thermal paste and a couple small torx bits and several hours later and a couple tries at repair, I have it functioning normally again. Hopefully it will last long enough to transfer save data to another console and hopefully it's as easy as it sounds. But I've also never had to do a transfer. Any of you avid Xbox gamers have any advice concerning what is sure to be an inevitable downward spiral to throwing this thing in the dumpster?

Confused. Can't you just take the HDD off the system and put it on another system?
Why transfer?

I would do a transfer because my 2 other xboxes have larger HDDs. This one is an original (G1) premium 360 which at the most had a 60gb HDD and may be as small as 20gb...

 

[The DirtMerchant]

Noooooooo! Our 7+ Yo Xbox 360 finally had the dreaded Red Ring of Death this evening....the damn thing crapped out on the kids right in the middle of a game. It froze and had video artifacts all over the screen. We turned it off and tried to reboot to no avail and 3 of the 4 red lights were flashing. I did a little research and viewed a few YouTube vids and thankfully it's not a total hardware failure. I ran out to the rat shack picked up some thermal paste and a couple small torx bits and several hours later and a couple tries at repair, I have it functioning normally again. Hopefully it will last long enough to transfer save data to another console and hopefully it's as easy as it sounds. But I've also never had to do a transfer. Any of you avid Xbox gamers have any advice concerning what is sure to be an inevitable downward spiral to throwing this thing in the dumpster?

Confused. Can't you just take the HDD off the system and put it on another system?
Why transfer?

I would do a transfer because my 2 other xboxes have larger HDDs. This one is an original (G1) premium 360 which at the most had a 60gb HDD and may be as small as 20gb...

Ah...understood.