my DNS is down so not updated yet!.. … this happened to anyone on here?/?

Nope, I installed it yesterday and everything was just as you’d expect it to be.

I had my replacement Xbox arrive on Monday, updated yesterday and everything is fine with me!

Again, this is sensation on the XBOX360. I mean, it is a severe thing that xbox’s are dying from an update. But how many people are actually performing those steps described?

I haven’t got any problems, and enjoying the new update to the fullest

Not havin any probs wit my 360 here in NY. I sincerely feel bad for anyone that has this happen 2 them. Wit gears of war so cose….its a fuckin shame

I’m sure all these stories came out when the Spring Update came out as well. Perhaps every Dash update will cause problems for at least one person out there. MS really need better testing techniques, like actually testing EVERYTHING.

And I hope the modders do get bricked, they deserve it,. It’s illegal and just plains stupid, causing problems financially to good developers who need the money to keep going.

OFF TOPIC — The 2 PDZ maps are now available along with some more EA money grabbing content for NFS : Carbon - Enjoy!

My 360 dates from August and I didn’t have any problems with the update… everything feels faster even and it’s been a while since I have been able to play an PGR3 for an entire evening without getting the bad disc error at some point. Still pissed that Microsoft didn’t give us xvid/divx though…

no problem here….nobody on my friends list had any problems either

weird, every time microsoft release an update somebody most complain and says “my 360 is dead” .. i got my 360 in January, and i didn’t have any problems till now !

Upgraded and lost online spotlight, replaced by a blank wallpaper from my media center pc??? hotmail, google maps, browser etc all doing the same. what’s going on ms?

I’m still stuck at “Update Required/Update Failed” …

According to the Dutch Servicedesk MS knew about the problem and it would also be solved by the new update. I hope so

I got a launch console and i’m just praying nothing ever goes wrong wit mine for at least 3 years 4 years being nicer! So outta jus bout errbody i’m the luckiest so far!

no problem for me 360

This happends every new update or every new game that comes out, people think that the update or that game ruined their xbox. It’s not true. What happends is a certain number of 360’s go bad every day. If it happends on a day that you got no update or didn’t play a new game, you don’t think anything of it. But if you are in the group that it goes bad the same day as the update or playing a new game, that must be what caused it, when it was going to go bad that day whether you got the update or not. Just as many 360’s went bad yesterday as any other day, but those people all point to the update.

It’s the same thing as people that believe in Friday the 13th. Bad stuff happends every day of your life, but when something happends that day they point to it and say it’s because of Friday the 13th that your car broke down. When no more cars broke down that day than any other.

Yup, this happened to my console today which had JUST come back from MS repair centre here in the UK.
Sounds like its picking on a certain type of DVD drive for sure. But what a shot in the foot days before the PS3 is out.
Testing obviously didn’t happen on a wide enough range of legitimate console.
Come on MS, own up

Somehow my HD settings got reset and kept putting itself back on 480p every time I set it to 1080i or 720p

I got mine in August/September. I don’t want to lose another Xbox, I don’t think my poor old heart can take it.

So who did the awesome picture? I guess Nino.

ust bought myself a brand newv 360 yesterday. Updated it and…….Paperweight. Didn’t know what the problem was, just figured it was faulty. 360 no.2 same, then staff in store had found out what the problem was. I now have another 360 and 6 games but can only play one of them until I can update.
What a bunch of donkeys.

Well this is very sad to hear, obviously MS will be providing a fix to your console but it will take atleast 1-2 weeks for your console to be shipped and then sent back to you.

For the ones modding - good; this is really good news that their consoles are being bricked. The fact is anyone modding today is doing so for piracy reasons. There is no way to run homebrew on a xbox 360 right now, thus the only reason anyone is modding the console would be to steal software. Good luck with that now, play all your old games, the newer games will require updated firmware and likely will come with the updates included thus theres no way around the updates and bricking your box. People using the lame excuse of backing up your games - bullsh8.

Mine is fine…

Can everyone stop WISHING that modders boxes will die? Before you worry about other people’s xboxes, you need to first worry about your own. M$ is the one you should be mad at, releasing updates like this.
Guess what mine is modded and its running fine. Except the fan is completely broke (360 is 2 months old) and i’m on my 3rd 360, previous 2 broke. So i don’t care about anyone elses box except mine, so stop bitching

yesterday i got a highstreet store to exchange my xbox purchased in april due to red lights indicating hardware failure. with the brand new one i brought home, i set it up including net connection. powered it up, it booted, showed language menu, i naturally let it download the mandatory update. it rebooted, and system error E71 was displayed. today i have a new xbox and will wait till they confirm the above sais issues and resolve it with a fix.

being un informed at preset on how to install a new firmware, can one of you fine folks point me in the right direction on how to do this.

They fuck you up, they ask you to call’em and eventually modders will come up and save the day, hell Team Xecuter posted instructions to fix your bricked 360 even !

Genius, i haven’t got the time to send my 360 for a weak or two every time they mess up and ask me to call’em, they better sort their shit together for god sake..

What steps do you do? These: * Boot the console.
* Select the language.
* Select “I am a member of Xbox Live”
* Mandatory dashboard update will download and install.
* The system will reboot and show the 360 logo.
* You’ll get “System Error E71″.

So if i did this, my box dies? So i shouldn’t do this?

What’s the point of 1080P on component, very few big 1080P screens support that. You need HDMI in most cases to use 1080P. It seems like it’s more of a marketing gimic. If MS doesn’t bring out an HDMI connector with HDCP with HD-DVD I will not be buying it.

Wish I could find the post from about a month ago where I said this would happen and like 10 ppl said ” We’ve already upgraded the firmware 2-3 times dumbass and nothing has happened”

ha =)

Whoever says that it isn’t the update is wrong. Just got my 360 (first one) today, worked and figured a MANDATORY update wouldn’t make it not work anymore, so downloaded it, it restarted and now I get the error and all the “steps” don’t work.

Just great.

Exact same thing happened to me… only i JUST got mine back from being repaired, turned it on, downloaded update, then WHAMMO broken again.
E71 extravaganza!
microsoft unleashing untested updates on the world… do they have 6 year olds working there? they must.

unfortunately, it seems people with the latest modded drives are more secure than the innocent people with factory boxes. oh dear

i feel bad for you all, especially if you need to repair them with games like CoD3 and Gears out all too soon

I’m afraid mine is goosed because of this problem. Gutted.

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unfortunately, it seems people with the latest modded drives are more secure than the innocent people with factory boxes. oh dear
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QFT, modders save the day yet again.

Majornelson.com is reporting that the Fall update has been fixed so it won’t brick refurb/new consoles. That’s no help to those already E71′d (myself included, and I just got mine back from repair on Halloween), but there you go.

Seriously, Microsoft… 1%? Before the PS3 launch? So now I’m without my system for a solid month, will miss Gears of War and CoD3 releases, already missed Splinter Cell Double Agent… and why? Because someone felt the need to rush an update out the door without comprehensive testing.

Sigh I just got my xbox back from repair … I download the update and it dies. I go back to the store to get a new one thinking its just the xbox and that one dies too.

Way to go Microsoft maybe do some testing before you release something next time?

I just got my “new” 360 back from repair… I though “maby I shouln’t start with internet connection or the HDD” and then said to my seft “aah, what the hell… what could go wrong?”
CABLAMMO… now I’ve got one fine looking paper waight for 4000 SEK

You can also open up the xbox 360 and unplug the dvd cable from the dvd rom then update and all is well.

http://ef32dweg.info

For those who are experiencing the looping problem (i.e. the update downloads, won’t complete, tries again on next boot), MajorNelson just posted that the update has now been fixed for this as well. Again, this doesn’t help you if your 360 is already E71′d/bricked.

microsoft and the updates …

Dl’d update 10/31 0300 PST. Froze within 10 minutes. Rebooted to three red rings of light. Unhacked, unmodded, unopened deck with Samsung DVD drive. Manufactured 1/3/06. Took a BBB complaint and an e-mail to VP of MS Cust. Support to get a no charge repair and free shipping. Meanwhile I sit on GOW; thats right I have the game and cannot play for probably 1-2 weeks.