On the verge of breaking

Alright for the past month I've noticed that my Xbox 360-S (the small 250GB black ones) has been making some weird noises. Now before someone mentions that its the disc drive making noise, I know of that. I am completely familiar with that sound and I know
this is something else. Also I know that the disc tray can make noise from being a little loose. I hear that rattle sometimes but that is not what is worrying me.

I first noticed the strange noise when I was playing Diablo III (Marketplace Download if that makes a difference) sometime around Black Friday of this year. I had been playing for a long period of time, I'd say roughly 3-4 hours, when I heard my Xbox made
a sound like leaf blower. I continued to play with my volume muted to pay attention to the noise. It sounds as if the fan inside is failing or something is wrong with the CD drive, and the noise comes in intervals. It may be quite for 15 minutes and then it
will start roaring again.

Then my Xbox started to make the noise while playing GTA V (not having the play disc install on my HDD). Now these past two weeks, it seems like any game I have that was made in the past 2-3 years will make it start moaning. Older games, such as Oblivion
and Fallout 3, seem to play fine.

I've had 4 original white Xbox 360 with the 25GBish HDD which all broke and never lasted more than a year. The last white one I had had disc drive issues and made noises before it finally could not read any more disc, so I fear that this is the cause.

What I want to know is there a way that I can do something to fix my Xbox. I thought about maybe opening up the body to take a look inside to see whats going on, but I have no idea how hard, or if I can get the thing open. Maybe the fan just needs to be
cleaned. I'd really hate to send off my console so I was trying to save that as a last resort, but I will if I have no choice. Also, if the hard drive is located inside the Xbox, should I open it up and retrieve it if I have to send it off or just back up
my save data and format it?



TL;DR My Xbox 360-S is crapping out, what can I do personally to fix it?

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XB1X on the verge of breaking?

So I bought the XB1X Project Scorpio Edition back in November. Yesterday I was watching YouTube and got a notification that my saves were corrupted and needed to be deleted. When I tried deleting them the console froze on a gray screen for a good minute
and then gave me a message saying "Something went wrong" with the error code E105 00000000 8007045D. After that everything began running very sluggish, I tried starting a game and it crashed about 2 minutes in saying it was corrupted so I hard reset the console
and left it off for the night.

The next day everything was running fine, my game saves were deleted and the game that was "corrupted" the night before was working but about an hour later I got the corrupted saves message again so I tried to do a factory reset and the console froze giving
the same error code mentioned above. When I turned it back on the factory reset must have gone through but it kept freezing on the "preparing console" screen giving me the error code E200 000000EF 00000000. I turned the console off and unplugged everything
for about an hour. When I turned it back on I was able to get through the initial start up process but everything is still running very sluggish, I'm getting dashboard freezes, game crashes, and when I click on things like settings it sometimes doesn't even
register. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

XB1X on the verge of breaking?

Just an update, I got on my X1X today and again everything seemed normal but then a couple hours later I got the message again saying "There is a problem with your saved games" and prompted me to delete and re-sync them, again after the message the dashboard
began running sluggish and nothing was loading. I was able to go and test my network statistics during this and my network stats were completely normal, I tried deleting my saves but again the console froze on a black screen for a good 5 minutes. So I powered
down the console and as of now my console is bricked. When I hit the power button it chimes and the power light comes on but it doesn't display a signal on my tv. Again any help would be appreciated.

 

You can do nothing to personally fix it sans wiping away any dust you see on the exterior anything else warrants a violation of the ToS agreement. If wiping away dust near the vents doesn't work you'll have to officially send it in for repairs.

 

Thats what I feared. I'll give it a couple more days and make my decision. Thank you for your time.

 

Ya their is nothing that you can do to fix it you might have to buy a new Xbox360 console if you want more answers you can message the Xbox Ambassadors