Halo 3 causing Red Rings, HDD Failures - Overclock.net

Oldboy · 09-27-07

http://kotaku.com/gaming/defective/h...ant-304600.php

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A storm is brewing in both the Xbox and Bungie forums, where over a hundred posters have now verified that their copies of Halo 3 are causing disc read errors. lockups, and even the dreaded RRoD on their Xbox 360 consoles. From what I can glean from skimming through the 22 pages of replies to the original poster's problem, most of the people affected purchased the standard edition, though a few are reporting having the problem on both the standard and the LE version of the game. Some believe the discs are corrupting the data on the hard disc itself, as some have had their game discs replaced twice or more now with similar results, and removing the hard disc seems to keep the error from occurring with some posters. Some can load the game fine and play it for short bursts before the problem occurs, while others are finding the issue limited to certain game modes. Check out the forum threads for more info on the problems had, and hopefully some official response will be given about the issue soon.

This is balls. I wanted to get this next week so i can play on live with work buddies, but now i'm hesitant to get it....:

Can microsoft do something right for once please!!! PS3 keeps looking better and better....

mth91 · 09-27-07

That sucks a lot. Microsoft just can't get releases right can they?

r3dh3adkid · 09-27-07

My 360 got the RRoD 3 days before Halo 3 came out...i'm still waiting on my box to ship it to then, then i've gotta wait for em to fix it and ship it back.

WOOO

startekee · 09-27-07

are you serious. i thought you wasn't going to buy hal0 3. i thought you hated it

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This is balls. I wanted to get this next week so i can play on live with work buddies, but now i'm hesitant to get it....: Can microsoft do something right for once please!!! PS3 keeps looking better and better....

ThePope · 09-27-07

How does Halo 3 cause Red rigs? Any game played for 15+ hours strait without sufficient cooling will over heat the Xbox 360 and cause issues.

**TaiDinh** · 09-27-07

Couldn't you just switch the hard drives like on the PS3?

Oldboy · 09-27-07

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Originally Posted by startekee

are you serious. i thought you wasn't going to buy hal0 3. i thought you hated it

That's what those other fanboys on here want you to think, but honestly i just thought the first 2 were boring and definetly not up to their respective hype. I'm really only buying to play with some work buddies on Deathmatch and CTF. I'll probably go thru the campaign with my gf's little brother who loves the game, we also co-op'd Gears which was cool. Though he likes to wander off a little to much.

SAVAGE!!! · 09-27-07

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Originally Posted by ThePope

How does Halo 3 cause Red rigs? Any game played for 15+ hours strait without sufficient cooling will over heat the Xbox 360 and cause issues.

Yeah that is what i am trying to figure out. I do not see how select games cause rings of death.

System32 · 09-27-07

Heh, funny my friend just went out and got Halo 3 on midnight madness and his is doing the same lol. It might not be because of halo 3 but simply a coincidence either way its not saying much for M$

ThePope · 09-27-07

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Originally Posted by SAVAGE!!!

Yeah that is what i am trying to figure out. I do not see how select games cause rings of death.

I think it might just be people posting bad things about halo 3 because they do not want to see it survive or succeed...

The Xbox 360 is known for Hardware failures and OverHeating issues.. So for people to say its because Halo 3 is just... blah?

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