Xbox 360 update bricking consoles?

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varun @ Nov 1st 2006 3:56PM

Mitch, that may be so, but I can attest to my completely unmodded Xbox360 (the little sticker in front holding the cases together is intact) now sitting deader than a doornail in my house. It's one of the September 2005 batch, got it on opening night, and it locks on startup - the noise plays, the image either doesn't display or gets jammed as the X ball rolls in from the bottom right. Looks like a bad update on Microsoft's part.

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Mitch R. @ Nov 1st 2006 4:30PM

The first batch had problems. But Microsoft will replace it for free.

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James @ Nov 1st 2006 4:26PM

Really? I have one from the same batch and my update went fine.

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Danny @ Nov 1st 2006 4:36PM

Varun,
The same freezing issue happened to me in September, with a tiny little xbox live update. My 360 would work for a little while, and then freeze, and eventually it got to the point where it would freeze on the startup screen, and then it reached the 3 red lights of death stage. Mine was manufactured in 11-05, and I just had to send it off to microsoft to get it fixed. It seemed like the live update, which didn't really do much, was the straw that broke the camel's back. So probably the same thing is happening with these fall dashboard updates.

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