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When playing a new game I bought the screen started to go yellow, then blues.
Now I cant get any picture at all, just a blue screen.
I get sound with it though and i sounds like it's working just no picture.

I've tried a different tv and a different av cable but still no luck.

I bought it second hand about a year ago and dont know how old it was from then!

Any ideas?

Sounds like the graphics card has given up the ghost, don't know if its built into them or a replaceable item. But i did find a fix or two involving a towel and making it overheat until it cuts out then switch it off and restart and apparently it should be fine, can't quite see how it works unless it overheats and does a total reset as a built in safety feature and restarts the video. Anyway here is the link

http://www.fixya.com/support/t260067-xbox_360_no_video

Johnnyb wrote:Sounds like the graphics card has given up the ghost, don't know if its built into them or a replaceable item. But i did find a fix or two involving a towel and making it overheat until it cuts out then switch it off and restart and apparently it should be fine, can't quite see how it works unless it overheats and does a total reset as a built in safety feature and restarts the video. Anyway here is the link

http://www.fixya.com/support/t260067-xbox_360_no_video

Sounds like a easy fix BUT you are then stressing all the electronic components and increase the probability of premature failure of other parts. If item is under warranty then send it back. Better still if its under 3 years old then claim it has red ring of death then use the MS red ring of death sending back details on the web.

As far as they/you are concerned it had a red ring of death when you sent it back, I would expect them to carry out checks to ensure its working and repair any faults found. Just don't mention anything about the other fault. Ahmmm.

Gutted, turned it on just now and have the ring of death
rang xbox and they're going to pick it up, fix and return with a years xbox live,
all for £60
Warranty ran out in may

R6 STU wrote:Gutted, turned it on just now and have the ring of death
rang xbox and they're going to pick it up, fix and return with a years xbox live,
all for £60
Warranty ran out in may

The 3 year warranty? If you went through the website it would tell you mate.

I thought I'd give the towel trick a go, why not, cant get any worse!
And what do you know it actually works! But for how long though!!

R6 STU wrote:Gutted, turned it on just now and have the ring of death
rang xbox and they're going to pick it up, fix and return with a years xbox live,
all for £60
Warranty ran out in may

£60 sound better than the skip...... Considering the ARCADE now costs £130.

R6 STU wrote:I thought I'd give the towel trick a go, why not, cant get any worse!
And what do you know it actually works! But for how long though!!

What you will find is that you have a dry Joint on the PCB , all you have done by overheating the device is caused the pins or solder to expand pluggin the hole for now...

It's still going to go back to be repaired, I've already paid for it

Ok so now I have another problem.
the xbox was sent off to be fixed and came back a week later, it has now started to play up again,
playing forza motorsport at the moment and it wont load the races, just freezes, and sometimes when i do get to play the cars dont have wheels on, you can just see the disc brakes!
Very strange

what to do?

R6 STU wrote:Ok so now I have another problem.
the xbox was sent off to be fixed and came back a week later, it has now started to play up again,
playing forza motorsport at the moment and it wont load the races, just freezes, and sometimes when i do get to play the cars dont have wheels on, you can just see the disc brakes!
Very strange

what to do?

chuck it and buy a PS3

Send it back again as its still not right, the repair might be under some warranty or other, much easier playing games on a PC, fault finding and upgrades are a piece of piss...

i tend to disagree with that comment

bloody blue screens

Atleast you don't have to spend hundreds of pounds every year or so on new hardware to keep the Xbox updated

Send it back again, clearly not right.