Anyone else hit by Guitar Hero II deadly upgrade ?

Hi,

Anyone else in the UK been hit by problems with Guitar Hero II on xbox
360 ?

yesterday my Son installed and played the game and the console froze
after about 10 minutes (never frozen before in 18 months). he rebooted
and it froze again after 5 minutes. Ejected game and rebooted. Played
CoD 2 and Oblivion. Both froze (Static screen image with white
vertical dashes) after about 5 minutes. The Dashboard even freezes
some times. Sometimes we also get the circle of death. I tried
uninstalling the game via the dashboard (2 things were listed against
it which makes me think we unwittingly got the update ?). I also
removed the cache and game profile. Still the unit is unusable.

Now some would have you believe this is a coincidence, but I'm not
convinced.

The xbox is connected to the internet, and I'm guessing the prefs are
set to auto-update games, hence we fell foul of the whammy bar update
that can kill your xbox 360. Incredible that a game could appear to
corrupt the device so thoroughly , as I assume the dashboard runs from
the BIOS ? Maybe the guitar controller does something bad to the USB
port.

I'll get a refund from where I got the game, but I guess I'll have to
ship the 360 to Microsoft , which will be a new experience as so far,
it's been without problem.

My advice if you have this game is be very careful, especially with
the update.

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 27 May 2007
05:17:55 -0700, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.xbox,
yawatina tan reek esk jives11 <jonathan.ives@gmail.com> fornis do marikano es
bono tan el:

>My advice if you have this game is be very careful, especially with
>the update.

The thing is, the patch highlights a problem with your 360 that was there,
dormant, already. The patch didn't break it.

deKay
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On 27 May, 13:23, deKay <a...@deleteme.lofi-
gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 27 May 2007
> 05:17:55 -0700, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.xbox,
> yawatina tan reek esk jives11 <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> fornis do marikano es
> bono tan el:
>
> >My advice if you have this game is be very careful, especially with
> >the update.
>
> The thing is, the patch highlights a problem with your 360 that was there,
> dormant, already. The patch didn't break it.
>
> deKay

OK interesting, do you know what the original problem was that was
dormant ?

Of course the net effect is the same whether it's the update alone or
it's interaction with something already present on the console - 1
dead 360 brick

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 27 May 2007
05:30:52 -0700, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.xbox,
yawatina tan reek esk jives11 <jonathan.ives@gmail.com> fornis do marikano es
bono tan el:

>> The thing is, the patch highlights a problem with your 360 that was there,
>> dormant, already. The patch didn't break it.
>
>OK interesting, do you know what the original problem was that was
>dormant ?

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned in this group before.
Some other updates have "caused" the same thing, too.

deKay
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My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Zomoniac is wrong"

I had this last week, sometimes white dashes, sometimes a white mesh effect
over the screen. But the machine would freeze up.
Bottom line I took it back to the shop and they swapped it over for a new
one with no hassle.
I had a couple of months warranty left so that was okay.
I took a picture of the screen and showed it to the guy in the shop and he
reckoned it was hardware failure.
So if you have any warranty left I'd get your machine back to the shop and
change it for a new unit.

Not impressed with the 360 after this though. Mine had only seven months
light use before it rolled over on it's back and bit the dust.


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On 27 May, 16:20, "Teranews" <the_schizoid_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I had this last week, sometimes white dashes, sometimes a white mesh effect
> over the screen. But the machine would freeze up.
> Bottom line I took it back to the shop and they swapped it over for a new
> one with no hassle.
> I had a couple of months warranty left so that was okay.
> I took a picture of the screen and showed it to the guy in the shop and he
> reckoned it was hardware failure.
> So if you have any warranty left I'd get your machine back to the shop and
> change it for a new unit.
>
> Not impressed with the 360 after this though. Mine had only seven months
> light use before it rolled over on it's back and bit the dust.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com

Thanks - that's the same symptom I'm seeing. The machine has actually
had 18 months heavy use. I read that the bricks overheat and this is
lifted off the carpet and sits on an inverted oven trivet, which aids
air circulation. The PSU actually has air hole at both ends and I
think an internal fan as one end appears to have a slight air flow.
Anyhow the brick is kept as well ventilated as I can get it.

I'm still suspicious of GH2 though, if you google it , there seem to
be lots of people experiencing instability after the game update

My brick was always kept well ventilated too, so I'm guessing it isn't a
problem with the brick.

However, even though I don't have Guitar hero, my problems began directly
after the last update and until that happened the unit was fine.

One other thing I noticed after the update was an irritating squeak on power
up coming form the disk drive, that was definitely not there before.

All things considered I guess I was lucky that I was still in the twelve
months warranty period.

However if this new one goes tits within eighteen months I'll be jumping
ship and replacing it with a PS3,which hopefully will be price cut, and will
have some decent games by then.




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On 27 May, 17:15, "Teranews" <the_schizoid_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My brick was always kept well ventilated too, so I'm guessing it isn't a
> problem with the brick.
>
> However, even though I don't have Guitar hero, my problems began directly
> after the last update and until that happened the unit was fine.
>
> One other thing I noticed after the update was an irritating squeak on power
> up coming form the disk drive, that was definitely not there before.
>
> All things considered I guess I was lucky that I was still in the twelve
> months warranty period.
>
> However if this new one goes tits within eighteen months I'll be jumping
> ship and replacing it with a PS3,which hopefully will be price cut, and will
> have some decent games by then.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com

Do you think that OS patches are trojan'd into these updates ? On
Windows I'm always being asked if I want to update the DirectX, so
plenty of game suppliers re-distribute parts of the underlying OS.

I wonder if the same thing happens with the 360 but in a silent way ?
It also occured to me if GH2 attempts to reduce the noise of the box
(slows fan, runs internal disks in acoustic management mode) ?