Author Topic: How often does your 360 freeze up? (Read 3303 times)

CajoleJuice · « **on:** September 26, 2007, 09:46:44 PM »

It's happened around a half-dozen times to me in the month I've had it. It's been while playing an XBLA game or doing something with the navigation button every time. Is this bad?

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2007, 09:50:01 PM »

It hasn't happened so far with my HDMI-equipped 360. Freezing is bad news, unless you know it's just due to a bad disc not being read . However, that's clearly not the problem here. I'm guessing that it's a heat related issue like most 360 problems.

Vizzys · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2007, 09:50:44 PM »

its happened once after countless hours of halo 2 at a "lan party".

Also I believe it was a backwards compatibility problem, as this was before the latest updates for said game

Never had any other problems since I got it a year+ ago in regards to x360 games. No rrod, nothing.

IMBLESSED

Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 26, 2007, 09:46:44 PM

It's happened around a half-dozen times to me in the month I've had it. It's been while playing an XBLA game or doing something with the navigation button every time. Is this bad?

My box "freezes" when switching from the friends list to say recent players sometimes, but its more of "takes a long time" rather then freezing. You may want to be more patient and see if its not frozen, just doing something intensive.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2007, 09:54:15 PM »

a freeze which I have to restart the console for is maybe once a month. sometimes I press the guide button when a game is loading and it'll lag for a little while (game or guide button or both.)

drohne · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2007, 09:56:30 PM »

i had a ton of freezes playing oblivion and chromehounds, but those are just buggy games. i also had several freezes leading pretty quickly to an rrod. but otherwise i've been ok.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2007, 09:57:14 PM »

Quote from: Viz on September 26, 2007, 09:50:44 PM

its happened once after countless hours of halo 2 at a "lan party".

Also I believe it was a backwards compatibility problem, as this was before the latest updates for said game

Never had any other problems since I got it a year+ ago in regards to x360 games. No rrod, nothing.

IMBLESSED

Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 26, 2007, 09:46:44 PM
It's happened around a half-dozen times to me in the month I've had it. It's been while playing an XBLA game or doing something with the navigation button every time. Is this bad?

My box "freezes" when switching from the friends list to say recent players sometimes, but its more of "takes a long time" rather then freezing. You may want to be more patient and see if its not frozen, just doing something intensive.

Maybe. I waited a decently long time when it just happened now, though. $:-\$

And this is one of the HDMI ones...

Ichirou · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2007, 10:00:16 PM »

So, wait, does this mean the HDMI units are buggy too? This sucks. $:-\$

wtf MS...I want to buy your console...do some quality control already.

Vizzys · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2007, 10:01:14 PM »

yeah i dont know, sometimes I'm going around the guide looking for shit then I press A accidentally and I go to press back but I have to wait it out for some strangely long reason

No other problems here, I have a near-launch premium.

tiesto · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2007, 10:07:24 PM »

Mine froze up just after finishing the Upper Mecha Base optional dungeon in BD, after spending 2 hours killing every enemy and looting the shit out of the dungeon (no save points in the dungeon, only when you first enter), I went to pick up the final chest (after you beat the boss), and BOOM, it froze

The Sceneman · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2007, 10:18:34 PM »

Quote from: tiesto on September 26, 2007, 10:07:24 PM

Mine froze up just after finishing the Upper Mecha Base optional dungeon in BD, after spending 2 hours killing every enemy and looting the shit out of the dungeon (no save points in the dungeon, only when you first enter), I went to pick up the final chest (after you beat the boss), and BOOM, it froze

man I hate it when shit like that happens.

demi · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2007, 10:22:28 PM »

Never

Mupepe · « **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2007, 11:24:47 PM »

Quote from: Viz on September 26, 2007, 10:01:14 PM

yeah i dont know, sometimes I'm going around the guide looking for shit then I press A accidentally and I go to press back but I have to wait it out for some strangely long reason

No other problems here, I have a near-launch premium.

same here. but my 360 has never actually frozen. and to be fair, the pause only lasts around 10 seconds

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #12 on:** September 26, 2007, 11:30:07 PM »

Yea, mine is definitely not 10 seconds. I wish I could defrag the hard drive. I think it's only going to get worse. $:-\$

brawndolicious · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2007, 12:23:18 AM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 26, 2007, 11:30:07 PM

Yea, mine is definitely not 10 seconds. I wish I could defrag the hard drive. I think it's only going to get worse. $:-\$

you can't defrag the hard drive but you can clear the cache.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/09/xbox-360-hdd-cache-clear-code-discovered/

Vizzys · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2007, 12:27:08 AM »

Yeah ive done that, be aware it gets rid of all game patches/updates so you also have to redownload them when you launch a game

it worked well though

bluemax · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2007, 04:16:45 AM »

A few times last year on Madden trying to play online, but that is it.

Lucretius · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2007, 04:19:34 AM »

I actually just had my first freeze ever tonight. I was streaming a movie from my MacBook to my 360 and it froze about an hour into the movie. I don't think it had to do with overheating. The freeze happened when I dropped another file into the movie folder. Not a big deal though. I just reset the console. I've never had it freeze up during a game before though.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:22:31 PM »

Fuck, I'm gonna clear my cache. It's freezing up all the time with the fucking guide. And the SKATE demo locked up on me for the second time. God fucking damn it.

MCD · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:32:49 PM »

Reasons for this:

1- MS servers are hammered/slow at the moment.

2- your internet is hammered/slow.

3- demos might cause this due to bad programming...etc...even full games might lock down as well due to this.

4- overheating 360, let it cool down for a moment.

5- shit is about to go RROD.

*solution:

1- open the 2 Xbox Live ports in your router: http://portforward.com/

2- delete cache.

Robo · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:39:08 PM »

I saw this thread yesterday and went HAU AUH UAH, but then I got home and mine froze on me TWICE when I was dicking around with the dashboard.

demi · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:40:45 PM »

I've had my 360 on all day grinding in Blue Dragon

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #21 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:46:26 PM »

Quote from: McDragon on September 28, 2007, 06:32:49 PM

Reasons for this:

1- MS servers are hammered/slow at the moment.

2- your internet is hammered/slow.

3- demos might cause this due to bad programming...etc...even full games might lock down as well due to this.

4- overheating 360, let it cool down for a moment.

5- shit is about to go RROD.

*solution:

1- open the 2 Xbox Live ports in your router: http://portforward.com/

2- delete cache.

Well, I've had the ports opened the whole time.

MCD · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:54:47 PM »

Well, is your internet stable? no slowdown?

do you feel your connection to the 360 slow?

try clicking on friends and see how fast their gamepics/info generates, then press B to see how fast it goes back to the dashboard.

if it's more than 15/20 sec at max, then there is something fishy with either your connection or MS servers.

NOTE: Also open NAT and UPNP on your router, it could help.

demi · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:57:08 PM »

Halo completely decimated Live, everything has been going wonky

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #24 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:58:37 PM »

Quote from: McDragon on September 28, 2007, 06:54:47 PM

Well, is your internet stable? no slowdown?

do you feel your connection to the 360 slow?

try clicking on friends and see how fast their gamepics/info generates, then press B to see how fast it goes back to the dashboard.

if it's more than 15/20 sec at max, then there is something fishy with either your connection or MS servers.

NOTE: Also open NAT and UPNP on your router, it could help.

My NAT is open. Like demi said, it's probably just Halo 3 destroying everything in its path. When I went to Best Buy to pick it up, their servers were down because of Halo 3.

MCD · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:00:34 PM »

Fucking Halo 3.

demi · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:01:05 PM »

The same thing happened for the BioShock demo

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #27 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:02:13 PM »

There's almost a half million people playing it right now. Wow.

thekavorka · « **Reply #28 on:** September 28, 2007, 08:44:34 PM »

my 360 froze today and I just bought it yesterday!

I was looking at the friend's list, and it froze.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #29 on:** September 28, 2007, 10:11:51 PM »

yeah I've been getting some freezes when looking at friend's lists/messages but that's never happened before so I'm guessing Live is the problem.

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Author Topic: How often does your 360 freeze up? (Read 3303 times)