Halo3 causing RROD

[big daddy]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/defective/halo-3-disc-read-errors-rampant-304600.php

Halo 3 Disc Read Errors Rampant

A storm is brewing in both the Xbox and Bungie forums, where over a
hundred posters have now verified that their copies of Halo 3 are
causing disc read errors. lockups, and even the dreaded RRoD on their
Xbox 360 consoles. From what I can glean from skimming through the 22
pages of replies to the original poster's problem, most of the people
affected purchased the standard edition, though a few are reporting
having the problem on both the standard and the LE version of the
game. Some believe the discs are corrupting the data on the hard disc
itself, as some have had their game discs replaced twice or more now
with similar results, and removing the hard disc seems to keep the
error from occurring with some posters. Some can load the game fine
and play it for short bursts before the problem occurs, while others
are finding the issue limited to certain game modes. Check out the
forum threads for more info on the problems had, and hopefully some
official response will be given about the issue soon.

[ChadTower]

 

 

[big daddy]

although I tend to agree with one of the commentors on the thread that seems to suggest the problem isn't in the disk or the game, just that people are actually PLAYING their 360 more, and as you put in more time with it, the inherent architectural flaw (you know the one MS admitted and wrote off $1B for) is more likely to show it's teeth.

[tommy]

I don't think I've played even 15 minutes of the original Halo. I'll stick with my Half- life 2 Deathmatch.

[ChadTower]

I beat Halo 1 in single player... good game.  Haven't ever played multiplayer (if it's even available in 1... don't remember).

[SithMaster]

I beat Halo 1 in single player... good game.  Haven't ever played multiplayer (if it's even available in 1... don't remember).

Its the reason it became so popular amongst the xbox crowd.  Basically it let all the xbox owners do what the pc owners have been for years, having a lan party.

as for the discs they should have done a better job with the packing to avoid this.

[Samstag]

I think I can confirm that Halo 3 is causing lockups.  Every time I look at my friends list, every single one of them is shown as being in Halo 3.  This has been going on since Tuesday.  They'll be offline one minute, the next they are in Halo and it seems to stay that way for several hours.

That's one heck of a lockup.