Xbox 360 Elite: Same Old Problems?

Actually no, there are different DVD drives many know this already.

I have never had any issues with my Elite and I have the Falcon edition.

Once again, you are wrong.

http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12467/Xbox_360_Elite_DVD_Drive.html

The Elite can have the same drive that are found in the other, multiple, RROD'ing machines.

"Can have" and "does have" are very different statements. You can have sex with a goat, but I don't go around assuming that means you do.

Do have, then.

And I mean about the DVD drive, not having sex with a goat - although I do that too, but only if she's willing to talk dirty.

how can i get my xbox360's password

Does anyone else have this problem, 360 elite nearly a year old,, and only one quarter of the ring of death (2nd quarter). Did the usual checks leads out blah blah blah and error 74 came up do I need to send the bloody thing off again ??Never had a PS 1,2 or 3 but thinking of switching, getting a bit miffed off doing this every year.

xbox 360 rules especially the elites jasper model not falcon model

Ok.. I have the xbox premium and havent had a problem with it for the 6 months I've owned it now. I barrowed my friends Elite, had it for ten minutes, its froze on me then I got the red ring!! All I did was hook it up and pushed power at this point and now he wants me to pay for it!
Honestly I have no problem with paying for it if only I knew what I did to it! But only having it for literally 10mins! I know it couldnt have been anything I did!
Somebody help me Please!!! I'm stressing my brain out right now.

I mod and fix xbox 360's. There are drives from 4 manufacturers. Toshiba-Samsung, Lite-On, BenQ and Hitachi. Microsofts answer to illegal modding was the Phillips Lite-On DG-16D2s which doesn't give out its DVD drive key over SATA, and needs a TSL-RS232 converter. Anyway, the a red ring of death can have a number of causes; the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU heatsink has burnt away enough to not properly conduct heat to the heatsinks, resulting in the chips getting too hot to function correctly. Also the clamps which pin the heatsinks to the motherboard can some times warp the motherboard and cause the cpu an gpu to lose contact with the bus. This can also happen with the RAM chips, Team Xecutors Rrod repair kit will sort most of these errors. The E7 error is related to a problem with video output, this could be cabling or a problem with the GPU. The red ring of death has mostly been solved in the latest version of the motherboards by changing the cpu and gpu to a 65nm process from a 90nm, resulting in a lower thermal output from the chips. In most cases this has worked. It should be noted that when hardware gets a red ring you can fix it numerous times but generally eventually it will get to a point where it won't come back on. And the elite hardware is exactly the same as any other released recently with a bigger hard drive an better looking case.

@Jason now thats a good reply;)

Im having problems with my disc tray when I insert a game disc it doesn't play it just says open tray over and over.

xbox 360's always seem to fail and with microsoft saying they fixed the RRoD on the elite system and people still report problems with it im wondering if i should get a elite any suggestions???? please reply

I am also in the same boat. I bought a NEW xbox 360, had it for 2 months and it died, so I sent it to microsoft to fix(?) and instead they send me a refurb xbox 360-someone else's problem given to me thanks microsoft. After another year, the horrid red ring of death. Get this, they want me to spend another $100 to fix or more like send me another refurb-NO THANKS! I throw it into the garbage and got a PS3. Oh thank you Sony, you never let me down. True story.

i have an xbox elite and it works fine ive got it for about a year now and im worried about the red ring of death will it happen :(