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My Xbox is Frooked
Entered on: December 16, 2007 6:54 PM by Ross

Yep, it's frooked, farked, fooked, wooo fucked up, whatever you want to call it, but my Xbox is essentially unusable.

It started with Mass Effect, not more than 30 minutes ago, it froze up shortly after I started the game up.  I have not, to my recollection experienced any in-game crashes with my Xbox, so I wasn't terribly concerned, I just turned the box off and back on again, and loaded my saved game back up.  But then it happened again, same spot.  Tried again, this time it froze up even quicker.  I tried a total of about 5 or 6 times, with it freezing sometimes on the opening screen.  I googled for 'mass effect crash' and found many people with a similar problem, but not much in the way of solutions that worked.

Some people, though, even reported it leading to problems in other games.  

Oh, shit.

So I immediately threw in CoD4, and fired up a multiplayer match.  Within 30 seconds, I was frozen.  And just now, twice in a row, I froze up on Xbox bootup!  That's right, I couldn't even get into the dashboard!  

Anyone got any advice on what I should do now?  I'm not getting any red ring or disc unreadable errors - just a hell of a lot of freezing behavior.  I guess I'll try Microsoft support - I know there are quite a few problems in general with 360s, and they have been replacing them, but mine is just about a year old - actually probably about a year and a week or two.  Wouldn't it just be my luck that it's a one-year warranty and I'm just a few days too late.  FUCKERS! 

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From: Ross Entered on: December 16, 2007 7:11 PM

Update: after talking with Zilla and attempting to play a Halo 3 online game with him twice, I am now getting the ring of death.  Looks like I'll be sending this back to MS, but will not have a machine to play with during the holidays!

FUCKERS! 


 
From: The Bone Entered on: December 16, 2007 7:21 PM
Like Hitler, are you desperate enough to get a PS3?
 
From: Ross Entered on: December 16, 2007 7:22 PM
On hold with brain dead MS customer support... so far so good...

 
From: Ross Entered on: December 16, 2007 7:31 PM

Okay, so they're sending me the box to ship it back to them for a repair.  Looks like a 2-3 week turnaround time. 

FUCKERS! 


 
From: Ross Entered on: December 16, 2007 8:49 PM
And no, still no desire for a PS3 - well, not to pay for one, anyway.
 
From: Bunky Entered on: December 16, 2007 9:04 PM
Maybe Zilla could loan you one of his many 360's for the holidays...
 
From: Ross Entered on: January 8, 2008 9:42 AM
I'm back, baby! My "new" xbox arrived last night... though due to my shenanigans at the ZAGNUT, I was unable to sign onto Xbox Live last night as their servers were apparently too busy to allow me to recover my gamertag.  But I tried it this morning and I'm in!  I think I need a couple of rounds of Halo to get me back in the swing of things...
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 8, 2008 10:11 AM
I've gotta find some time for some live shenanigans. I've been too busy putting in a second bathroom at the RadPad. I think I'm nearing completion on that project though so hopefully I'll be on before too long. As it is I have only one bathroom and 3 people renting rooms from me. The one bathroom we do have is connected to my bedroom via a door that seems to amplify the sounds coming from the bathroom. Needless to say I'm anxious to have the 2nd bathroom done.
 
From: Ross Entered on: January 8, 2008 10:25 AM
Where did you move to, Rad?  The Fatty Treehouse wasn't cutting it for you no mo?
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 8, 2008 10:56 AM
Nah, I bought a house near the corner of Knapp & Plainfield. Not too far from Dr. Swerbius' neighborhood I think. I've been there since mid-June I think. I"m liking being a homo.....ner. (That was Jack's joke for about 2 months after I moved in.)
 
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 8, 2008 11:02 AM

I'm back, baby!  After suffering with the flu over the weekend and even missing days at work, I'm back to being a productive member of society and among the living.  I still suffer a little -- the sound of a wild boar sometimes makes its way from my nostrils -- but the worst is behind me.

I need to do some gaming!  I haven't been on since the Bone was here!  Bone - did you get your machine yet?! 


 
From: Ross Entered on: January 8, 2008 11:14 AM
Well I plan to get on tonight for some gaming, somebody ping me and I'll jump in for whatever.
 
From: NickNick Entered on: January 8, 2008 12:10 PM
Welcome back, Zilla, to the land of the retarded. Yeah, Rad has moved and gotten himslef a girl... and since then he's been busy laying pipe. Rad's own words, mind you.
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 8, 2008 12:44 PM
NickNick said:
Yeah, Rad has moved and gotten himslef a girl... and since then he's been busy laying pipe. Rad's own words, mind you.
This is of course in reference to the plumbing for the new bathroom mind you.  Let's not get confused and take this out of context.

 
From: NickNick Entered on: January 8, 2008 12:53 PM
Isn't that all we do here on Jackassery. I thought the entire purpose of these musings was to see exactly how far out of context we could take it? Am I wrong, oh pipelayer?
 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 8, 2008 2:19 PM

Welcome back Zilla and Ramshackleton (to Live). I haven't been on much this last week. Let's kill some bitches!!!

I will be on tonight. I fly to St. Louis tomorrow and I could use some distractions before I go.


 
From: Ross Entered on: January 8, 2008 4:52 PM

St. Louis suuuuuuuuucks... I had a consulting gig there for a few months almost five years ago that I hated, it was very boring, as was the entire town as far as I could tell.  On the plus side, all I did was work on a website that I created called Jackassery.com during the day at work, and go to the gym once I left work each night.  Actually it was a pretty productive time of my life, come to think of it...

Anyway, yeah, I'm game for some ass whuppery tonight.


 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 8, 2008 10:06 PM
I just going for an interview at the corporate office. I will only be there one night, so hopefully it won't be too bad.
 
From: Creeko Entered on: January 9, 2008 3:13 PM

If you get to choose where you want to eat, try King Louie's it was one of the best places I ate when I was on a two month assignment there last year.


 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 9, 2008 4:45 PM
My interview was moved to Monday. Where do I find King Louie's?
 
From: BigFatty Entered on: January 9, 2008 5:22 PM
Hey Bunky.... they got this nifty new fad out there that you should try.  Its called 'The Internet'.  I think Al Gore invented it when he was not saving glaciers.  Its really good for porn and stuff.  Someone told me you can look stuff up on there.  You should give it a try.  Try it soon, who knows how long it will last!  I think all you do is call up Al Gore on the phone and ask about Louie's.  Then ask for porn pics of his wife.
 
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 9, 2008 9:16 PM
Dude, you're way off there.  Forget about the wife -- Tipper?  Ms. Anti-Darling-Nikki?  Bzzzzzzt! It's the Gore daughters you want!  Thanks for playing!

 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 9, 2008 10:09 PM
Hey Fatty..... they have this nifty new fad out there you should try. It's called XBOX Live. Why don't you Google it, buy the necessities, and then I can tell you to F off in your ear! F the Fatty and Al Gore! Since you finally got an internet connection speed that I had in high school when I was surfing the net on Prodigy, I hope you can find some better porn than Tipper. I am questioning your man credentials... Olson twins, and Tipper?
 
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 10, 2008 7:57 AM
I'm not the only one that feels the sexual tension between Fatty and Bunky am I?  It's starting to feel strange posting under this heading.  I think we should leave these two alone for a while and let 'em work it out.
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 10, 2008 8:30 AM
Those crazy kids & their hormones. A word to the wise for Bunky, once Fatty sets his mind to business it's best just to let him finish.
 
From: BigFatty Entered on: January 10, 2008 8:49 AM
Hey - I just called Al Gore.  Google???  Hell, I Goregle now!  He says the PS3 is better!
 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 10, 2008 9:29 AM
When Fatty is done kissing Al Gore's ass, he can kiss mine......
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 10, 2008 9:38 AM
Be careful Fatty. Goregle sounds a little too close to gargle, and we don't want to imply that do we.
 
From: Jackzilla Entered on: January 10, 2008 9:46 AM

Wow.  It's a Fatty/Bunky/Rad Frooking(Fruking)/Goregle orgy fest!

I'm out!  See the rest of you in another topic! 


 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 10, 2008 9:53 AM
Rad, I did pick up on the goregle and didn't want to go there! Bye Zilla.....
 
From: BigFatty Entered on: January 10, 2008 12:26 PM
I don't know..... Goregle sounds like something I'd like to do with Bunky. Its getting me all hernie. Man, that Bunky, I'd like to Goregle her. That's right, I'd Goregle her all night long! Search all up and down her mainframe! Boolean??? Hell no - Its Boo-YAH-in with my search technique. Unfortunately, I am very much like Google. I get my results in like 0.124 seconds. Sorry Bunk.... but I enjoyed myself!
 
From: Radmobile Entered on: January 10, 2008 12:33 PM
Phew! It's smells like the ocean in here! I'm with Zilla. I'm out.
 
From: Bunky Entered on: January 10, 2008 12:34 PM
Wait for me Rad..... I am right behind you...
 
From: BigFatty Entered on: January 10, 2008 2:39 PM
Hey..... where did everyone go? Hello......... Man, I feel like I've just been Goregled. Topic closed!
 

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