Microsoft has released a new bug for their successful Xbox 360 console, complementing the popular “Red Ring of Death”, which for years has been ensuring a steady stream of broken consoles are supplied to end users.
The new bug, known only as “E76”, adds an exciting new graphical element to the business of sending consoles to Microsoft’s support centers; Microsoft describe the problem:
“One part of the power LED lights up, but additionally the error message ‘E76’ will be displayed on screen. The cause is quite different to that of the ‘Red Ring of Death’.”
Microsoft asks that those afflicted send their consoles to a support centre in the usual fashion.
The hardware defect is already proving popular, with Google Trends data showing a sharp and sudden increase in incidences of the issue from a zero starting point, starting August of 2008.
Fans speculate that this could be due to a GPU malfunction, though Microsoft is not spoiling the excitement by revealing the cause.
Via Technobahn.
Sony is not content to let Microsoft lead in this way, and lately has been rolling out its own line of drive malfunction on the PS3… Only time will tell whether Microsoft’s lead is indeed too far advanced.
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lmao...this news feels sooo wrong...
nice faceplate btw!
very noice...
nice
If it hasn't released its magical blue smoke... its still good... if it has... it's just a brick....
seriously... microsoft should die a painful death for doing this to there customers...some people have gone through 3? 4? machines already? pathitic
Hey, you know Macro$ponge's motto, right? "If it ain't smokin', then it ain't broken."
People like me have gone through 3-4 machines, and the only reason I stick with the 360 still (but haven't purchased multiplat games for it) is because I invested in 20 some games and 11+ XBLA games before my first RROD. IMO I'd be depressed to drop the system after having put down so much $ into so many games. The 3 year warranty extension further gave me an incentive to stay with the system. Now that warranty is up, if I get a 5th RROD I guess it'll just become a dust collector.
thats odd that you went through so many im still on first it red rings on and off but its a failed mod that causes the trouble.
@ Geerie:
Yea I don't think I'm a lucky one compared to some. My bro-in-law's on his 3rd. My friend's still on his "first" - he ebayed his launch system and got a jasper.
When I got my first RROD on the 1st system, it was on and off, and then it started to have "checkerbox" screen on the tv, though I could still hear the startup sound. After that it was a permanent blackscreen w/ no sound.
Mind you my 360 sits on its own end table horizontally (had it that way after it scratched my lotr disc when vertically), and I only play games maybe 4-5 hrs a week. I highly doubt it was overheating or any heat issues.
Yea Im on my 3rd xbox, and its just barely still in warranty. So if it breaks again, im not buying a new one. What I find more retarted, is that since natal is coming out, they want to make the xbox 360 last 10 years. So apparently they want to make the system most notorious for breaking, last 5 years longer than any other system. Greedy bastards...
And with this we pray for next-gen backwards compatibility.
With DLC are you kidding?
Why put BWC in when they can re sell you they game you bought!
The most common reason for the "Red Ring Of Death" is failure of the cooling system. There is a thermometer in your 360 that reads the temp on the cooling unit. If it reads the temp as too high then it gives the Red Ring. To simply bypass this, take some putty or clay and cover the thermometer so that it can not take a temp reading. Make sure you don't use a permemant substance as this will probably void your warranty. Note: this may or may not put your 360 at risk of damage from overheating. Try using an additional cooling device when trying this. Additional note: this may or may not solve your problem as coolent failure may not be the source of your 360's malfunction. Although it usually is... unless you modded, physically damaged or altered the hardware on your 360... but then your warranty is pretty much void at that point anyway. Disclaimer: This worked for me, but I later put a better cooling unit from a spare comp. I had into my 360. Only do this if you don't give a damn about the warranty and FUCKING HATE Microsoft technical/support personnel.
^ Sorry buddy but I shouldn't have to spend my money on a system and have to mod it further just to make it function properly. Microsoft should have spent more money on QA/QC before releasing their product. You'd think with all the money they have they'd put more into that division, considering quality control is so important to the food, science, health industry and all that six sigma crap corporates are getting into these days.
Not that I have any angst against MS, just that I work in allied health, and quality control/infection control is utmost importance. We get flak if we fiddle daddle about it and can be fined severely if caught. Other companies should get flak too for neglecting proper QC.
Agreed. The 360 already sounds like a fucking jet taking off. Why should it need even MORE cooling?
The RROD saga is what caused me to choose a PS3 instead of an XBOX 360. I want to play my games, not send the console to Microsoft every 3 months.
Everyone I know that has a 360 has sent it back at least once. That is SAD.
I'd take the faceplates.
Bad luck for 360 owners.
does the trend spike has anything to do with Nokia "iphone ripoff" E76?
cause it was announced for the first time in July 08
btw, e76 means network-related error
is artefact a devoted sony follower :p?
Are you a devoted Microsoft follower?
Fanboy indeed :p
im a sony
you mean a S**y!
hahahaha I lol'd :D:D:D
Im a PC
I was about to say "I'm a Mac"
But I'm not. And I hate Macs. :P
I'm a dreamcast and a gentoo linux :(
i like this guy Dreamcast FTW but PS3 over 360 any day hardware and modibility in a 360 are not to my liking
>stewie
Please fucking kill yourself.
It never fails. The two giants in the console game find ways to have their consoles crap out, while the much-maligned & lol-inducing Wii gets off (practically) free of such debacles. :3
With the way that Nintendo's added SDHC support -- by causing it to buffer content from SDHC cards to the internal memory -- expect THAT to give out within a while as well.
What do you mean? reads from pretty much any storage device use a buffer in ram for efficiency reasons! (unbuffered access would aquire data on-demand, and therefore there would be the latency time of the storage medium dragging behind every fgetc/fgets call -- this accumulates fast. Whilst if a buffer is used, latency is only suffered from the first read event, and potentially by any seek events.) So this doesn't strike me as anything abnormal at all.
However literally buffering the whole card in to ram would be a little crazy if that's what you meant.
People don't play their Wiis enough to notice the problems. It can't fault if it's sitting covered in dust in the back of the TV unit...
Unfortunately, with the 3rd party publishers QUALITY releases, that is the truth.
Well that is obviously why the Wii outsold the PS3 and 360 by a mile. Sad to say that these newer consoles ain't as bulletproof reliable as the older consoles. Only the PC has withstood time and technology...... =P
If 360 owner like bugs let them. 360 the best system in the world they said as their reship it back 3 and now 4 times. Hell how can you have fun with it if you have to return your system about once a year? I got my PS3 shortly for launch and no problems. That's 3 years ago! Microsoft is having a fun time reaping the US gaming market. I can't think of any product so badly made winning over the market. I can see part of the reason the Japanese are staying so far away from it.
i just bought my 3rd ps3 first one just died the seconds hard drive malfunctioned and ive yet to kill my 360...
Thats statistically difficult to archive since the PS3 fail rate is around 5%(industry standard) though thats roughly 1.05 M units to go bad at current unit sale numbers.
The 360 is more like 15% current, 30% a acouple years ago that's at least 4.5 million units to go bad and around 7M if you count the first few years of high fail rates.
The 360 is just made badly it has the worst build qaulity of any modern console.
I have a friend who replaced his PS3 7 times, all with differente failures, in the space of 1 year. I also know people whose 360 died on them, but never heard of something like this.
I've had my 360 for about 3 years now and haven't had any problems with it. I admit that I only play maybe and hour a day, but when my son is here on the weekends it's running for almost 48 hours straight.
Now my friend did get the RRoD a couple of years ago, but Microsoft had it fixed and back in under 2 weeks and he had no problems with it. They also pack the box with a bunch of freebees when they sent it back.
But seriously I prefer the Xbox user interface more then the Sony and the PS3 really has nothing to offer me that my Xbox doesn't have so even if my 360 dies now I would probably buy another.
i have 4 friends with a 360 one of them has gone through 7 consoles with red rings the other 3 have all gone through 2 i have a ps3 an have had no issues whatsoever no overheating or anything i leave my ps3 on 24/7
Sony has problems too, but instead of a red light, it's a yellow light! Although rare in some case, the problem for PS3 is "related" to the firmware or patch 2.60. So I doubt Sony will ever catch up really at the rate they're dealing with their problems. :P
Holy crap, I must get meself one of them bugs asap!!
Seriously though, just get a Wii. Sure, it doesn't have as nice graphics and not that many games either, but at least it's stable.
Or I could just buy a football - more games than the Wii and even more stable! Pity, y'know, it's just not what I want?
Until the Wii gets one game that interests me it's just a big waste of money. We haven't switched ours on in over a year.
>Or I could just buy a football
Yeah, problem. That involves going outside to use said football, and actually interacting with other people. C'mon anonymous, or wait... Are you /really/ Anonymous???????
People actually buy a Wii to not interact with other people?
I think that's what he means when he says it has "no good games"
Lets see...no real control configuration so I can play a game the way I want(tho they have better control config standardization than PS3,360).
But the WII suffers from the same decline of qaulity games as the PS3 and 360(and PC), minimal content, limited controls, over priced(40$ for a simple under deved game is 20$ to much) and unfinished....
Hate to say it, but Microsoft is doing their best to wrestle away the "Flimsiest Console" award from Sony. The PS2 and PSX were pretty bad, I still remember having to flip my PSX upside-down to get it to play games, but the 360 is in a league of its own.
The PS2 had the DRE issue that got as high as 15% for 2 or 3 revisions.
Don't recall alot about the PSX.
The PS1 had read errors too
Weirdly, turning the console upsidedown fixed most of them
I had one of the original 150 PS2s made for Sony system developers and execs and it never failed. Don't ask me how I got one of these... LOL... supposity it was a "soupped up" version of the mass-production models. I got it about 4 months before the release of the PS2. Pissed off a lot my friends. LOL.
My brother has a 6 year old PS2 running copies on crappy media like Princo and being constantly beaten by a 7 year old, and it works flawlessly.
Same deal for me. Except I'm not 7 years old.