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Post: Kinect is causing RROD
12-30-2010, 09:32 AM #1
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I have an original xbox dating back to 2006 – so out of warranty by a year now. At the weekend I spent £130 on a kinect and a further £30 on Dance Central, so when I got home I excitedly plugged it into my xbox… … however within 5 minutes it froze up and when I turned it on again it had the dreaded 3 red rings showing. Since then it has failed to turn on at all. I have done the power supply test on the support site (knowing that wasn’t the problem) and then I called Xbox support. The guy was helpful and felt sorry for me and admitted that it did appear to be casued by the Kinect, but as it was not a known problem it would not be covered and I have to pay the £82 standard charge to get it fixed (or £62 via net support). My Xbox is not worth this being nearly 5 years old!!
This was posted by many users confirming this problem of critical failure, saying that their Xbox was not running hot or experiencing any other warning signs. Hopefully this can be fixed before too many Xbox’s get bricked.

So sorry to hear if you have an old Xbox you probably might want to wait until there is a statement about Kinect to do with the old Xboxes.
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12-30-2010, 09:12 PM #11
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Guys...Get some money trade the white shitbox in & buy the sexy black slim sexbox Cool Man (aka Tustin)

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12-31-2010, 08:00 PM #12
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wow that shit sucks... and I was thinking of getting a kinect Not Happy or Sad
12-31-2010, 09:47 PM #13
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to bad xbox is already shit
12-31-2010, 10:09 PM #14
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Originally posted by Dopey View Post
wow that shit sucks... and I was thinking of getting a kinect Not Happy or Sad


Well do you have the Black slim or the old white fat one?
12-31-2010, 10:26 PM #15
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Originally posted by Reznov View Post
Well do you have the Black slim or the old white fat one?


I have the old fat white one and the old fat black one, elite.
12-31-2010, 10:53 PM #16
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Originally posted by Dopey View Post
I have the old fat white one and the old fat black one, elite.


Oh that sucks :[
01-01-2011, 12:41 AM #17
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Wow that is interesting i glad i didn't buy kinect!
01-01-2011, 12:56 AM #18
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Originally posted by Reznov View Post
Guys...Get some money trade the white shitbox in & buy the sexy black slim sexbox Cool Man (aka Tustin)


agreed the new one is uber sexy...small but powerful :P.

Thanks for the post also i'll have to warn my friends with their ancient xbox's.
01-03-2011, 07:14 PM #19
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the old 360's are gonna die sooner or later same with the PS3 they arent made to last that long expecially if you play for hours time to upgrade if you havn't already why wait for it die and have it be worth nothing when you can sell it and it can be worth something still

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