GRAW killing Xbox 360's?
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 - 5:50am
I just called xbox customer services, as I am sending back a 360 console for my kid brother-in-law that has the dreaded '3 red lights of doom' problem.
The girl on the end of the phone asked "did he play Ghost Recon by any chance?"... I said yes, and she strongly suggested that he, and I, stop playing that game until a patch comes out, as it has a known "glitch" that can cause the whole console system to fall over!
True? I have no idea... but coming from someone who works in Microsoft, is there no smoke without fire?!?
The shock was enough for me to fill in a GWJ regestration form (formally just a podcast listener), post my first post here, and go get a glass of water!
Busy doing nithin'... but a cup of tea would be nice!
its doubtful that the person actually works for Microsoft.. usually phone support is farmed out.
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My 360 killed my GRAW the night before tonight's tournament. I didn't even move it while it was running, OR on. Now I have to attempt an exchange.
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true, but she had a lot of knowledge (without the usual pause and furious typing in the background between answers).
Busy doing nithin'... but a cup of tea would be nice!
Sounds like a myth. How would a game cause a machine to fail? Unless it somehow flashes the bios there is no way that game could effect the console once out of the machine so any problems would only be when playing GRAW.
"as it has a known "glitch" that can cause the whole console system to fall over!" Huh? How could a piece of software physically move the machine? I cannot even concieve of how that could work, but if they have managed to write software which can cause physical objects to move (without said machine being designed to move) they should be pattenting it.
Now the disks could be warped in such a way that sometimes they vibrate the machine so much it falls over when vertical but that won't be fixed with a software patch.
Yeah, there's no logic there.
How would a patch prevent a program from physically moving a machine not designed to be moved by software?
And even if that were true, you didn't say that was what happened to your relative. His just got the red lights.
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Maybe he meant fail over? I sure hope so..even though it would be grammatically incorrect.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure he meant 'fall over' meaning 'break down', not 'tip sideways'. And it's at least plausible, depending on what kind of system level access developers get when writing 360 games.
MechaSlinky wrote:
-on L4DSome how I doubt it... If the game has this kind of ability to damage hardware, then there will be an official announcement that would caution the consumers regarding such problem. I would think that MS and Ubisoft will try to avoid this kind of heat from people. Personally, I think the console was just faulty to begin with"… so it would have failed with any game.
Besides, I just think MS is using it as an excuse because they have no idea if this is actually the case or not. I'm sure they have a tech team doing testing in order to recreate the issue. It still sounds far fetch.
I personally had no issues with the game what so ever"… other than the noisy DVD drive.
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Keep in mind Slimbloke is from London. They have crazy talk there.
I've heard about this glitch too and it's why I haven't been joining you guys for multiplayer. Rumor has it, the game can hard-crash during multiplayer and hose your entire system. XBox Live's Major Nelson (MS staff) still plays it online so that should tell you what MS thinks of the problem... though he could probably get a free replacement anyway.
I'm playing it safe, myself. Especially since you guys all insist on doing those stupid escort VS matches.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Could be it was in self-defense.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Didn't the little sticker that came on the front of the dvd drive say to never move the console with a disc inserted?
Slim, chances are more likely that GRAW just came out coinciding with the wider availability of 360s and is a popular game so a lot of people are buying it and playing it a lot. Those that have new 360s that are bad units are failing while happening to be playing GRAW, and that rep is getting calls. Or it could be something else, who knows, but the timing might just make it a coincidence.
Fixed that for you.
Oh wait, that's my reason. Crap.
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Just goes to show you that internet rumors and isolated cases becomes fact and 100% certainty.
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85's face the truth you're too dumb.
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But you got better, I take it?
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It got better.
Edit: bah, curse you croaker and your speedy fingers!
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Ferret gets the point on this one, boys, for avoiding the tired and obvious joke and grabbing something fresh. Hurray, Ferret!
MechaSlinky wrote:
-on L4DAgreed, very clever Ferret
I like how we have this thread about a game possibly destroying consoles, and another about promising to play said game on a weekly basis right next to each other. Damn the possible (unlikely) consequences, we must blow each other's brains out!
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Hearing this rumor and then knowingly playing GRAW multiplayer must add to the thrill factor for the adrenaline jockey.... Like a scene out of Deer Hunter....
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Well, after reading this, I'm sure glad I don't have a 360.
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That's right, I'm jazzed about being denied the ... inconvenience.
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