Comments on: Fall update bricking lots of 360s [Updated]

By: Tim Miller

Tim Miller — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:02:34 +0000

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.

By: Xbox 360

Xbox 360 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:14:53 +0000

microsoft and the updates …

By: Reverend Slim

Reverend Slim — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:19:26 +0000

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.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:26:16 +0000

http://ef32dweg.info

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:26:36 +0000

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

By: p1er from Sweden

p1er from Sweden — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:03:29 +0000

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

By: sigh

sigh — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:03:47 +0000

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?

By: Curry

Curry — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:42:09 +0000

That’s why it says “don’t do this” yeah

By: Reverend Slim

Reverend Slim — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:41:17 +0000

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:53:29 +0000

Hitachi ftw. Mine is modded and works great still ..

Had some friends with ms28 sammys that got bricked but they just reflashed too the original and then back too the new hacked fw and all works ..

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:56:31 +0000

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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.

By: Ch3W

Ch3W — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:58:59 +0000

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

By: alk3

alk3 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:04:19 +0000

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

By: alk3

alk3 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:03:36 +0000

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

By: snarf

snarf — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:52:24 +0000

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.

By: Charlie Page

Charlie Page — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:39:22 +0000

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:54:01 +0000

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 =)

By: Bob Ancle

Bob Ancle — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:56:56 +0000

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.

By: Julio

Julio — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:14:24 +0000

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?

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:10:57 +0000

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..

By: A.Fisher

A.Fisher — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:10:22 +0000

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.

By: A.Fisher

A.Fisher — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:07:50 +0000

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.

By: alk3

alk3 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:47:28 +0000

Oh BTW, if you want to unbrick your system, mod the FW to 4.2. There’s your fix, bit ironic isn’t it. well done M$

By: alk3

alk3 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:46:15 +0000

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

By: newmodel

newmodel — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:34:55 +0000

Mine is fine…

By: PG4

PG4 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:24:32 +0000

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.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:20:12 +0000

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.

By: me

me — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:59:09 +0000

same here, update caused problem officially!
get your head out the sand.

By: Curry

Curry — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:44:58 +0000

I got that picture from an MS employee actually

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:42:39 +0000

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.

By: Daan

Daan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:38:18 +0000

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

By: Symbiosi

Symbiosi — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:34:05 +0000

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

By: Nino

Nino — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:08:00 +0000

Try going through the steps listed in the post if you’re so sure.

By: Curry

Curry — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:49:30 +0000

Sorry mate, but Xbox Support confirmed it’s in the update

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:47:53 +0000

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.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:46:37 +0000

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.

By: christian

christian — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:39:19 +0000

no problem for me 360

By: Thugboy4

Thugboy4 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:25:29 +0000

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!

By: exception360

exception360 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:17:40 +0000

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

By: Curry

Curry — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:28:29 +0000

Uhm did you READ the steps?

That’s exactly what I did when I got all my 3 360’s (yes 2 refurbished).