Xbox 360 keeps freezing

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PostXbox 360 keeps freezing
by PaperMacheMario » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:00 pm

This started a couple of nights ago. Whenever I go to turn on my Xbox it stays on the white Xbox 360 screen for a good minute, before the grey screen with the rotating circle stays on for around the same amount of time. Then on the dashboard, if I try to go to my friends list the Xbox will just freeze. I've left it for a couple of hours and came back and it was still frozen. However, playing games is fine, apart from that it takes ages to load up from the dashboard.

I have no idea why it's doing this, it's a 120gb elite, never had any problems before. Anyone got any clue as to what the problem could be? I want to have it for PES and FIFA. :(

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by darksideby182 » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:13 pm

Take the hdd out and see if it happens when it boots up.

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by PaperMacheMario » Thu Sep 20, 2012 3:43 pm

Thanks, had a play around with my brother's Xbox too and turns out it's my hard drive. No idea what's wrong with it but I've found an old hard drive to use instead, just annoying that all of my saved data won't be on it.

Cheers again!

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by darksideby182 » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:00 pm

PaperMacheMario wrote:Thanks, had a play around with my brother's Xbox too and turns out it's my hard drive. No idea what's wrong with it but I've found an old hard drive to use instead, just annoying that all of my saved data won't be on it.

Cheers again!

Probably a corrupt profile.

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by jawafour » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:14 pm

Not sure if you're already changing the drive - if not, try clearing the hard drive cache. Select the drive from system options and press Y to get drive options. Then select the clear cache option.

!CARE! This course of action does remove any game updates you made from Xbox Live, but they'll re-download the next time you play the game.

I had a similar situation (dashboard taking four minutes to load; regular profile corruptions; dashboard like treacle) and it really helped. The system is now a lot quicker and more reliable.

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by PaperMacheMario » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:59 am

Just seen this, cheers I'll try it. It won't delete any saves games will it?

@darkside - do you mean my Xbox live account? Because that seems to be working fine now I've got a new hard drive.

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by darksideby182 » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:47 pm

PaperMacheMario wrote:Just seen this, cheers I'll try it. It won't delete any saves games will it?

@darkside - do you mean my Xbox live account? Because that seems to be working fine now I've got a new hard drive.

Just the profile stored on the hdd will not affect your profile if recovered on another hdd or xbox but will have to download dlc/games again

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PostRe: Xbox 360 keeps freezing
by PaperMacheMario » Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:41 pm

darksideby182 wrote:
PaperMacheMario wrote:Just seen this, cheers I'll try it. It won't delete any saves games will it?

@darkside - do you mean my Xbox live account? Because that seems to be working fine now I've got a new hard drive.

Just the profile stored on the hdd will not affect your profile if recovered on another hdd or xbox but will have to download dlc/games again


Brilliant thanks, I'll give it a go when I get home.

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