Dazza@TeamFord

For all you 360 owners, as you may know the 360 suffers from running too hot. Recently my 360 has been crashing alot and I thought id need to get it replaced. It was stood upright (better cooling IMO) but sandwiched between by Tv and PS2.

For the last 3 days Its been stood upright in a open space and It was noticable that it didnt crash as much (twice in 3days). You can buy 'intercoolers' that clip onto the back and they are ment to be the dogs danglies at solving this problem - Although they are NOT an offical Xbox product. There about £15 from places like GameStation or Play.com

Anyone else noticed this or bought an intercooler for there 360?

JamesH

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Had mine a couple of weeks now and touch wood its been fine both standing up and lying down!

TIFF

I bought an intercooler from Play just to be safe....worth the £15 imho

Stu.H

The GRS/Kenlowe option is supposed to be a good upgrade

Chris Honeywell

had mine over a year now laid down
not had a problem

slowpoke

IIRC microsoft has said its better laying it down

JoeE30

Fuck that i wouldnt pay that much money for something that has a problem i have to pay to fix....Get fooked take it back and get the reddies

stonehavencossie

had mine for a year laid flat, never a problem

Dazza@TeamFord

Hmm might try that... if not I'll buy the intercooler, does it just clip on?

Zetecfiesta

lye it flat and move the power pack away but make sure they are both well ventilated

Bullett

iTrader: (2)

had mine since june in a tv stand laid flat with sheves above it.must admit it does get hot in there but never had a prob with the unit.may look into the intercooler.



so now you can chip consoles and fit intercoolers.so whats next lowering them?

S2martin

I've had my 360 for absolute ages now and it is boxed in next to other bits and pieces the back is virtually against the wall and it is left on for days at a time and i've never ever had any problems whatsoever and it is standing up

I'm thinking you just have a dud of a machine as you couldn't get more enclosed in than mine it has a mini fridge bang next to it running all the time and dvd,video,sky stacked up next to it and all in a cabinet so no air goes near it... can you not send it in for warrenty repair?


Martin

coswurv

iTrader: (8)

I had a little trouble with mine freezing in some games so i started building them into clear cases and adding extra fans and ive never had a problem since everyone loves them so if your interested in having it done pm me cheeRS.

BM08

Thats what you call modded

Fiddy

ive just had mine replaced by microsoft last week, mine started freezing and crashing all the time, then it wouldnt load games, and kept saying, this is an xbox 360 disc, please put it in an xbox 360 , new one has froze once since i got it, ive got mine laid down, may buy an intercooler see if it makes a difference.

S2martin

coco16i

I had problems with my one freezing and got so bad that it wouldnt even fire up! Just kept on getting the dreaded 3 red lights

I bought it off ebay over a year ago and had no receipt or guarantee but thought i would try Microsoft and see what they said about it.....had it collected from me on 15th Dec and was taken away for repair and got a new console delivered back to me on Wed

Proper chuffed to get it sorted for fook all

I also bought a cooling fan for mine and always have it laid flat and kept well ventilated, heard a rumour that it was something to do with the first batch of consoles that were made had something dodgy fitted inside them from a cheap supplier that isnt up to standard and Microsoft changed the part for a better quality one and so far i think the newer batch of consoles have been trouble free.

stuartrst

had mine about 8 months, last week it has started freezing on the first screen gutted.

se mk3 cabbie

i got an intercooler on mine and its been fine, gets a lot of use too

Zetec Andy

Mine gets hammered but im not paying £15 for something microsoft should provide!

Mines still fully guarenteed so il wait till the 11 months period is here then send it back with a fault

Then il get it chipped

SS1

iTrader: (3)

lie it flat not upright ..on the floor

with at least 2 dvd covers the book end jobbys .

under both sides and imo you wont have a problem

flat on the floor its not a happy bunny

bigneck

i notice they sell a core pack without a hard drive and a premium with one



so do they work without a hard drive then?

BM08

yes but you cant download any games so its useless without one really

Shings

Have u tried a bumper cut out and bad boy bonnet?

bigneck

has anyone got the microsoft number for faulty units?

ive got one that wont load games, presume fsulty cd drive, but its just out of warrenty and lost receipt so gonna get the wife to call em and try her luck ya never know

xr2i-carl

i am thinking of getting one and chipping it up

will the intercooler be a must for a chipped 360?

OvaBoost

http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=86249

tocca

iTrader: (1)

I know someone who got a brand new imported PS3, fired it up and it keeps freezing. LOL

xr2i-carl

they all sound shite

i wanted a 360 aswell

bigneck

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