Dead Rising makes 360s dead? [update 1]

I was playing 20 minutes ago when the game stopped and 3 rred rings flashed on my console. luckily it still works once i reset it, but i had only been playing for ten minutes, there is no way it was overheated. So i go online and read this and now i'm scared to play the game again in fear that i will be 360-less for months if I do.

I was playing the Dead Rising demo and my 360 froze. This was after playing a few hours with no problems. After that it froze right before the dashboard loaded and then the ring of death. Not sure if Dead Rising did it or my 360 was just messed. Getting a new one today.

It might even be that when a new good game comes out, people start to play their 360's more, and then they discover the underlying problem with their defective-ass first run video cards.
My refurb 360 is supposed to come home today.
It died when I was trying to stream music, not because I played some new game.

After playing Dead Rising for 10 or more hours, I have yet to experience a freeze, glitch, or something similar.

My 360 is from December.

I had thought it was coincidence - my 360 started freezing several months ago and Microsoft replaced it via warranty service. The replacement console has been working for 6 months or so and on Sunday, 3 days after buying Dead Rising, it started freezing again.

Microsoft is replacing my console -yet again-.

So, there may be something to this after all.

My 360 had a few annoying "Disc is unreadable" errors, and it froze once, and I got the 3 rings once. Thankfully, the 3 rings were because I hadn't plugged my power cord in all the way on the back of my Intercooler, so when I jiggled it, the power died, giving me the 3 rings. And then I played for about 4 hours straight last night, and nothing happened.

I give up trying to figure out what's up with this thing...all I know is that my 360 is sitting almost in the middle of the room, so it can ventilate. If it dies, I'm going to knock Microsoft's door down and make them give me a new 360. I shouldn't have to buy a service agreement for a console that can't make it past 4 or 5 months anyway.

I bought the game and it was crashtastic so I exchanged it for a new copy. The new copy is also crashtacular so I went and bought a memory card ( I read somewhere that this was a harddrive issue and running the game without the HD would fix the problem..... no dice. Now I am just trying to decide if I should send my 360 in the be fixed or just buy a new one. I would hate to drop another hundred or so on refurb junk when it is just ultimately flawed launch hardware. ( this is what I get for lining up at launch )

Mine was from December and started freezing 2 weeks ago. By the end of the week, I couldn't even turn it on without getting 3 red lights. I haggled 25% off the normal $129 replacement fee, but was unable to get any lower than that. Thiefs! Hopefully I'll get my new box before Madden comes out!

yeah ive never had problems with Dead rising but mine is a refurb becasue Hitman killed my 360 but ive had more problems with CoD2 when you try to view a gamercard during a game...LOCK UPS is something wrong with my console or is it the game?

I've had one DRE with this game.. Usually my system only acts up when playing Oblivion. My system was made in Dec.

Dead Rising generates a LOT of heat. I can play for roughly an hour and the back of the console is scortching and if I don't have a fan on it, I eventually get disc read errors. I pop out the CD which is usually hot itself (suggesting the DVD-ROM is constantly spinning) and let it cool off for a minute.

The same thing happened with Oblivion so I chalk it up to the DVD-ROM spinning like crazy and that very well could losen anything not soldered properly. I think if anything these games point to a symptom of some root cause that possibly may get handled eventually but most of the time it doesn't become a serious issue.

For those of you with 360 issues, are they older systems? Like from 2005? I got mine in June (no media remote in the box), so I'm kind of hoping it's from a different batch. I dread the red ring. I saw it once but it was because the power in my apartment dropped out for a second.

I had my first system randomly start to freeze a few months back, and now all it will do is flash the 3 red lights... What I can't believe is how horrible the warranty is for defective hardware. If I didn't do anything to cause the failure of the system than I don't see why I should have to pay $129 for a new one! I love the system when it works, but Microsoft needs to step up and acknowledge that there are way too many units failing to warrant such a steep replacement price.

picked up my 360 two months ago and have had no problems with any of the XBLA games or PDZ... Dead Rising has frozen on me several times with either the "disc is unreadable" message, a black screen between loads or just a frozen screen in the middle of gameplay.

fortunately there's been no red rings and it just takes a restart to get going again... hard to tell if its an xbox problem or a manufacturing defect in the game disc, either way it's annoying.

The way I see it, three things are happenning here.

1. The first few runs of a console has problems. This is unavoidable. PS2 had them, Xbox had them, SNES had them, and so on and so forth.

2. A very loud minority of people are complaining about their 360 freezing/overheating/breaking over and over again, so it seems a lot of people are havin problems. the 20 or so 360 owners in my area that I know personally all have first or second-run 360s, and none of them has had a problem yet.

3. Games are very demanding these days, if there is even the slightest flaw in a console, it would cause problems. Again, see number 1.

4. 360 haters who have nothing better to do are spreading rumors on the internet to make the 360 seem like a crappy console.

I bought 2 360s at launch, one Premium and one Core, both have never overheated, the Premium froze once while playing Oblivion, and I've never even seen a single graphical glitch. Go figure.

I picked up a 360 a few weeks ago and have not had any problems (yet?).
I have played Perfect Dark Zero and Dead Rising with no issues.
I think the first round of 360's definitily had some issues.
Some of these games are great but what a piece of crap the hardware is.

Dead Rising wont load for me past the opening scene (when the government helos chase you and you jump outta the helicopter) Just got it yesterday and havent been able to play more than taking pictures for 30 seconds. Freakin BS man...

Got mine in April, no problems. I play a lot of GRAW, Halo 2, Tiger Woods 06, COD2, and XBLA. Just started playing Oblivion.

i had 3RL the other day but people in the room where wrestling, i hope it was cuase of that....

I'm on Xbox 360 number 7 (for those who say i'm lying,I know exactly what i've gone through so I don't want to hear your crap) and this game hasnt done anything to my Xbox yet.

Dead or Alive 4 is the culprit that always freezes my guide and system.

Playing Dead Rising, game freezes, shut down console, powered it back on, no ring of light, no picture, controllers wont connect.
Called support, had me fiddle with all the connections, nothing worked, said to send it back, warranty expired, $130 to fix. Sucks.

F'ing thing lasted less than a year. Can't do a thing about it.

My 360 froze on Full Auto of all games back in March and had to be replaced.

I think this is a symptom of the system and not the games. These are the games that people just happen to be playing at the time.

Tards, Thats all I have to say, These people treat there stuff like crap. I have had mine sence december, bought it on a different state and flew it back myself. Havent even seen a red ring. I have had a couple freeseups. But i'm guessing thats more of internet network issues while playing multiplayer. Same as playing on a pc. These people need to treat there 360 like it is a work of art. Like me. Mine hasen't even moved an inch sence I set it up. Works like a charm!

"12. picked up my 360 two months ago and have had no problems with any of the XBLA games or PDZ... Dead Rising has frozen on me several times with either the "disc is unreadable" message, a black screen between loads or just a frozen screen in the middle of gameplay.

fortunately there's been no red rings and it just takes a restart to get going again... hard to tell if its an xbox problem or a manufacturing defect in the game disc, either way it's annoying."

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same here. i've gotten a DRE about 4 times now. it seems to happen right before or right after I beat a boss and decides to crap out before i can save.

Not a single crash, glitch or anything from my launch 360.

If youv'e gone through multiple one system, it seems like it wouldn't be the 360s fault. You may want to make sure you power isn't spiking and have good circulation.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Man thats funny. And to #17, your on your 7th xblock already? Come on man give it up.

I got the unreadable disc error a bunch of times so I exchanged the game. So far so good with the new one. Since I got my 360 in February, this is the 4th game I've had to exchange for the same reason. All the games have worked better the second time, but it's really getting annoying.

Surprisingly mine has been working fine, manufactured 10-21-2005 and a friend of mine has been playing Oblivion almost non-stop but he bought his about a month ago. Its sad to see these people having trouble while others doing fine, I guess I have been one of the lucky ones. The only thing I had to replace on my 360 was the controller because the down on the D-pad was not working properly. For all you people who are having trouble you may not have considered this issue, your 360 could be failing because dirty power. The 360 are a high performance piece of electronics and if it’s subjected to any form of power variations for an extended period of time it could fail because of this.

1. Try to determine what is running on the same circuit as the 360. Remove anything that might cause power surges, Air Conditioners, heaters, vacuum etc etc.

2. If you have a good surge bar not a cheap one it should tell you if the line is properly grounded. If its not try unplugging some of the devices from that circuit to see if the problem resolves its self, if not I would probably call an electrician to correct the issue.

3. Purchase an uninterrupted power supply with a voltage regulator on it. This will ensure that the power getting to the 360 is good and clean.

This is just another little tip for all you frustrated Xbox360 owners, good luck at getting your issues resolved.

I bought my 360 2 weeks ago, and its been on at least 8 hours a day (always have at least 2 people at the house hangin out) for 2 weeks now, and the only discs I have issues with are the OXM demo discs...they never seem to work...but all my retail games work perfect, without a single glitch (well minus the stupid wall glitches in PDZ...when the hell is rare gonna fix that shit?)

No freezes, no rings of death (other than the occasional ones I get when the machine doesn't quite boot), no problems. I've been playing the game extensively (Look, I shoved a bottle of ketchup in his mouth and then impaled him with a lead pipe) without any problems on a machine from the second batch (ie: the ones that showed up in stores immediately after the launch replenishment).

I really doubt that most of you guys are actually owning a 360. Even 360 in the midst of hot humid weather of countries like Malaysia and Bangladesh working just fine without any air-conditioner.

If all of your complains are true I've nothing to say but think of us as lucky one.

Theres about a .000002 percent chance that a game can cause hardware problems. The only way I can think of, would be wearing out a DVD player ala starforce. This doesn't sound like that though, I doubt capcom is rewriting how the Xbox360 OS accesss DVD's. A game should never overheat a console, if it does, it's a console defect not a game.

Three rigngs of death = console flaw.
Freezing = software flaw.

I consider myself pretty lucky, ever since the last auto update I've only froze in oblivion. DR rising hasn't froze once, though I'm still only have about 5 hours of the game finished.

Char

no wonder Micro$oft might actually start making a profit off the 360...all these replacement costs are starting to add up.

I haven't played Dead Rising yet, and I haven't had any red lights regardless...yet? I got mine back in December, got suckered into a Best Buy warranty at the time and now i'm kind of glad I did. If anything ever happens to my 360 for I think it's two years, I get a replacement (new) one for free. I feel for all you guys who are having problems with your hardware...sucks.

:knocks on wood:

Consider yourself lucky if your 360 hasn't died yet. I just got a replacement one, after my launch-day one died a slow, one week death coinciding with that last 'backward compat.' update.

It's sort of a problem with the 360, and getting mad at us because we caught a bad one doesn't help, or make us feel any better, jerk-offs. I'm looking at you DJ PhatJive - I can tell by your writing style, attitude, and played-out screen name that I treat my electronics stuff better than you ever could - and my unmoved, properly ventilated box died. So go figure. People like you are who allow Microsoft and others to get away with borderline products and poor warranties.

"Work of art?" Get educated, clown.

I've had freezes and shit on Oblivion and a few other games, but never any full-on deaths or red rings. I've had one "disc is unreadable" error with Dead Rising, which is f-ing annoying, but no biggy. Who knows...

I ate a hotdog and then turned on my 360 and got the 3 Red Lights. Hotdogs are killing 360's!!!!

Is this nothing but a smear campaign. I own 2 launch consoles and neither have had any issues. They get at least 60 hours a week use.. I've played all the above games that people say "broke their 360" with no problems. Someone is saying they've gone through 7 consoles, I'm sorry but you are full of it! If you've gone through 7 of any electronic device YOU are doing something wrong.

My 360 died almost 2 weeks ago. Locked up the first time I booted Prey. Restarted and deleted the partial save file it was creating while it locked up. Then the game worked fine, next day the machine locked up on Dead Rising Demo (day it came out). Guess the machine dies whenever it wants to. I'm still upset that M$ wants $129 to fix it. I decided not to pay them, but sell the broken machine and buy a new one with a warranty from the start.

first ask anyone on this board i am a 360 fanboy, it kills me to say this but

i am on my second 360, the first got was a premium lanuch unit from costco, a three ring hardware failure killed it about 3 months into ownership, im not sure, but outfit/NFS all worked fine. I currently playing dead rising but im not having any problems, except with chromehounds which did cause once a 3 ring, i powered off and restarted and it was fixed. it then occured to me what is problem wrong.

I really am thinking this is a powersupply issue rather then a hardware deflect, i think the use of powerstrips and crappy PWS is leading to a lot of 360 dying, it would make sense, a spike or lull in the flow of electrons would wreck havoc with them components of the 360. which over time would amount to a "hardware" failure.

I think the best thing to do is to plug your 360 directly into the outlet and let it suck up all the power it needs. that seems to have work for me so far, i have done some expriementing and when chromehounds was failing it was pulled into a power strip once i removed it i havent gotten a hiccup. a simple way to check to see if your powerstrip can't handle the 360 is to feel it, if you get a hardware error, check you powerstrip NOT the 360 PWS but the strip its plugged into, i bet it is VERY VERY hot, if not burning.

I wonder what the Power draw is for the 360, i mean if its 600w+ it would deaf needs a heavier grade power strip.

maybe its a overheating issue when your're putting too much demand on the cores? i dont know, do all the games use all three cores? i'm on xbox #2, the first one froze on NFS, but the second is doing ok.
i bought mine at costco cause they give you a no-hassle 1 year warranty...might just exchange mine 6 mines down the road anyway just to be safe..
cheers, and happy gaming!

I have been playing deadrising nonstop since it came out. My 360 has yet to do anything remotely bad.
I have a launch 360 and I love it

No problems to report here. My 360 is from May, and I've been playing Dead Rising retail without any issues.

Well Im not having any issues with Dead Rising and have had it since launch.. I have a prem that is only a few months old.. And Its plugged into a pretty nice powerstrip.. Nothing special but its higher grade than those lil plastic pieces.. Only problem I ever have is with BurnOut and the DRE.. But that even happend on my Core unit I had til May when my house was broken into..

i never had a problem with a game or xbox 360 till i put in dead rising, i had my first freeze, just as i was climbing uptop the blue section above the stairs at the beginning. Also i can hear the disk going nuts sometimes while playing, sounds like it would freeze up any moment

I get dirty disc error every now and again 3 times so far all three causing me to rage and want to through the system out the window.

i have had my 360 for two weeks... pretty much bought it because of dead rising and all the x mas games coming out soon.

last week i played dead rising for 12 hours strait 3 days in a row and not one problem. my 360 is near my air conditioner and i have the power brick off the ground so maybe thats helping.... plus i dont eat hot dogs so i that cant get me.

Well, i was getting Disc Error message all the time and those MS geniuses told me to format my HD or buy a memory card in order to play it properly. Since i thought this was stupid, i began to try some things and discovered that the package of freebies available were the responsible for the crashes. Game was running fine after i delete the extras and, sometime later i tried to change the clothes of the character and then the Error appeared again! Now im playing without changing clothes and its fine! Lame bug catching from Capcom!

Come on... nobody here took psych 101? Correlation does NOT imply causality!

Yea so ive got something a little different going on, my problem came from the demo. i downloaded it and was playing it for a while and then my system kept freezing up and then all the sudden the dreaded ring of death came up. i did the test by holding down hte controller sync button and pushing the eject button so the ring can show you your error code and it came out as an internal hardware problem but i find that hard to believe since it happened right after i got the demo now im forced to pay 130 for the repairs or live with out 360. IM PISSED

Last week, my Xbox 360 I purchased in January failed. I was playing SFII:HFE while downloading the Dead Rising Demo. It finished and I *finally* beat it and preceded to start up the DR demo. I would get to the point where Frank is about to clobber the blonde with the fire extinguisher and BOOM! Lockup! My machine only froze once since I had it; while playing DOA. I tried reconnecting everything and repositioning the system and the power brick to no avail. I finally gave up and the next day replaced my system with the protection plan I had bought (I knew I was going to need it). I also purchased another 2-yr plan. ^_- My new system is working great with the retail release of dead rising and things are working great. I have no complaints; I just wanted to share my story. I am a *VERY* satisfied with this console.

My Dead rising didn't load past the part just before you get on the rooftop right at the begining, I had to buy a memory card and move my gamer profile to it and now it will only load w/out the HDD in, the 18004MYXBOX told me it is a memory cache issue, I have 9GB free on my HDD?????