Strange Colours in Gears of War..

Hey guys, I recently rented GoW since GoW 2 is coming out soon, and everything was fine since Saturday (the day I got it). Today though when I popped in the game there was this wierd colour thing. As in grey would appear as blueish lumps of pixels. I ejected the disc, no problem on my Dashboard, put it back in, same problem with the game. Ejected it, then my Dashboard got it. Turned off the Xbox, put in BioShock, no problems after half a hour of playing (noticed the GoW colours immideately).

Any ideas what is wrong?

Graphics card is dying. I had an old card that did something similar, and my laptop's card fizzled out like that earlier this year as well, going from sparkly pixels on some textures to everything, and eventually it started popping green pixels in everywhere, including my boot screen.

I don't imagine the 360 would be any different, although usually it doesn't die slowly, it goes out with a bang.

Thanks Moz, it oculd be that, as I rented it off a online store, so it could be old.

Well, if it keeps doing it, that may lead to the three red rings, which would be covered under warranty. The towel trick wouldn't do anything, since it's just rumoured to re-melt the solder connecting the video card to the motherboard, which was one of the more common red-ring causes.

At least, that's what I think it's supposed to do. I can't imagine wrapping the console in a towel doing much of anything other than burning out components.

Well I think what it is supposed to do is melt the components and be left for half a hour so they can harden. So I'm guessing that it would kind of re-connect it. And as I said, it was only GoW it appeared under (and only today), and I've sent it back in the post about half a hour ago.

I think I'll try the towelie trick anyway if it does read RRoD. Then hopefully when I send it off I'll get the new Falcon motherboard... (smaller CPU from 90mm to 65mm, reducing the chance of RRoD from 30% to 10%) :)

Well, if it keeps doing it, that may lead to the three red rings, which would be covered under warranty. The towel trick wouldn't do anything, since it's just rumoured to re-melt the solder connecting the video card to the motherboard, which was one of the more common red-ring causes.

At least, that's what I think it's supposed to do. I can't imagine wrapping the console in a towel doing much of anything other than burning out components.

DJ_Lae

Well I think what it is supposed to do is melt the components and be left for half a hour so they can harden. So I'm guessing that it would kind of re-connect it. And as I said, it was only GoW it appeared under (and only today), and I've sent it back in the post about half a hour ago.

I think I'll try the towelie trick anyway if it does read RRoD. Then hopefully when I send it off I'll get the new Falcon motherboard... (smaller CPU from 90mm to 65mm, reducing the chance of RRoD from 30% to 10%) :)

OXM-Madman

Oh ok, it's just last time I sent off my Xbox to them (I'm in the UK) I got a brand spanking new one (which is now a brand spanking breaking down one).

I am not bothered about it, as long as it lasts another 2 days (getting Far Cry 2 this friday ). But then again a 3 week wait... :(

By the way Othello I am very sure that it is only GoW, as I played a few games, stopped moving, then looked around on the screen for blue areas a couple of times.

And I am beginning to hope more and more it is the disc that was the problem, as as I mentioned GoW is the only game that does this.

Edit: After playing BioShock for 15 mintues I am more convinced it was a problem with GoW. I spent around half of the time looking for blue pixels, and I found nothing.