Like 16% of other Xbox 360 owners, I too now have a dead console. Unusually, mine doesn’t suffer from the “red ring of death”, but instead seems to dislike playing games.
You might recall the problems I was having a couple of months ago with Eternal Sonata, crashing and freezing. Well, a couple of nights ago, Viva Pinata Party Animals started doing the same thing. Last night, it froze completely, and will no longer play at all.
Here’s what I sent to Microsoft:
My 360 has started marking my game discs, preventing them from playing. Every time I try to play Viva Pinata Party Animals or Eternal Sonata, the game will crash (freeze) at some point and I may or may not get a dirty disc error. When I take the disc out, two short curved lines about 1.5cm long (one 0.5cm and one 1cm in from the outside) running round the disc appear. At first, I have been able to wipe the worst of these marks away, but now wiping the discs is having no effect and the marks remain.
I have been able to play some other games without a problem, but over the last few months more and more titles have been giving me dirty disc errors. I’ve tried cleaning the discs, deleting my saved games and (where possible) clearing the game caches, but the faults reoccur and are becoming more frequent.
My 360 is (and always has been) sat horizontally with plenty of ventilation on all sides, as is the PSU. I have never moved my 360, let alone moved it with a disc in.
What is the problem, and what can be done about it? I don’t wish to play games on it any more as I fear they too will become unplayable.
Lets see what happens, yes?
