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[FightyF]

I am.

Through a miracle (thank God!) I got a 360, and I've been trying to sign up onto Live, and to do that, you have to get some updates. It would never work, the download bar would reach 5/8th across and then claim that there was a failure in applying the updates.

I googled and got a download link from MS's site, for a patch that you can download to your PC and then burn onto CD and pop it in your 360.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6e-0c1a-4afc-9738-76f4f6cce1ef&DisplayLang=en

I applied it and now that error message does not come up anymore, but I'm faced with another screen that's trying to download updates, but is taking forever. It's an orange screen that simply reads "Downloading updates" in the middle. Ok, now it stopped and says "Xbox Live Signup is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

So it seems that Live signup is down. I wonder if Live is down for maintanance or something.

 

[ascully]

Not down for me I am playing PDZ right now actually. Are you sure your connection to the 360 is working properly?

 

[FightyF]

Thanks for checking!

I've looked at all the networking and it is connecting properly. On the local network I can stream music and get pics, and it does get past the "Connecting to Xbox Live" screen and then goes to "downloading updates".

I was thinking that Live was working in general, as nothing was posted here about it being down. I figure it's just the account sign-up/retrieval portion that's down.

 

[FightyF]

I'm still having the same issue. I tried calling Xbox support, I was on hold for 58 minutes and then was disconnected And this was on my cell phone (only phone I got) so I'm not going to bother to try again.

All the connections in Live look perfect (in the diagnostic) as I've already opened the correct ports for my router...and besides, it's happening when it's directly plugged into the modem.

Other users have been facing this, a google search shows, ever since launch, but there has yet to exist a solution!

 

[super-heated plasma]

I believe your hard drive is defective. I cannot download anything off of the marketplace nor the patches for games. I made sure it was not a connection issue and then tried my friends hard drive on my XBOX, and was able to downlaod with his. I am replacing my hard drive with a new one as soon as my Best Buy gets more in, because I have the PSP(not the handheld .)

 

[FightyF]

I believe your hard drive is defective. I cannot download anything off of the marketplace nor the patches for games. I made sure it was not a connection issue and then tried my friends hard drive on my XBOX, and was able to downlaod with his. I am replacing my hard drive with a new one as soon as my Best Buy gets more in, because I have the PSP(not the handheld .)

Daaaym that sucks. Thanks for the info! I got PSP as well...for 3 years I think...anyways, knowing BB they'll make you go through the manufacturer's warrenty for it's period and then apply PSP later.

I wonder if there's a way to format the drive correctly or something...

 

[CarlosX360]

I believe your hard drive is defective. I cannot download anything off of the marketplace nor the patches for games. I made sure it was not a connection issue and then tried my friends hard drive on my XBOX, and was able to downlaod with his. I am replacing my hard drive with a new one as soon as my Best Buy gets more in, because I have the PSP(not the handheld .)

Meanwhile, you might want to get the defective HDrive back to Microsoft, and have them either refund you/reumbursh you, or have it fixed, or hve it exchanged....

 

[Juice]

I remember when the Xbox was coming out and a bunch of traditionalists were saying "hey, the reason I play consoles is the ability to put the disc on and press power and not have to deal with anything. Now we're probably going to have download and apply a bunch of fucking patches."

Then the Xbox marketing team and its (yet children of) fanboys struck back, saying that the quality standards would be high enough and the hardware standard enough that it wouldn't tolerate patches.

Now not only are patches commonplace (to both dashboard, live shit, and fixes to games), but a lot of people are having trouble installing them.

Don't get me wrong, I love the convenience of playing games on Xbox, and I love the good things afforded by the HDD (not worrying about memory cards, the ability to download bonus content, etc etc), but I do remember the "no patches, ever" promise five years ago and can only shake my head at the fact that it seems that several (and two friends of mine) simply can't get the patches to work with their new 360s.

Burning the patches to CD from a Windows machine? Come on. Can it be any more of a pain in the ass to get on Live?

 

[FightyF]

I'm gonna pick up a mem card, transfer my saves to it, and then try formatting the HDD (the option exists in the Dashboard), and see if that helps.

 

[.Abras.]

I'm gonna pick up a mem card, transfer my saves to it, and then try formatting the HDD (the option exists in the Dashboard), and see if that helps.

After you format the HDD, look if any other file, like trailers, is already in you HDD.
Maybe you only have fews gigs free to use because there are some files hidden in another partition of the HDD, so if you need to format the HDD, it copies the files from there.

 

[Dave Long]

I remember when the Xbox was coming out and a bunch of traditionalists were saying "hey, the reason I play consoles is the ability to put the disc on and press power and not have to deal with anything. Now we're probably going to have download and apply a bunch of fucking patches."

Then the Xbox marketing team and its (yet children of) fanboys struck back, saying that the quality standards would be high enough and the hardware standard enough that it wouldn't tolerate patches.

Now not only are patches commonplace (to both dashboard, live shit, and fixes to games), but a lot of people are having trouble installing them.

Don't get me wrong, I love the convenience of playing games on Xbox, and I love the good things afforded by the HDD (not worrying about memory cards, the ability to download bonus content, etc etc), but I do remember the "no patches, ever" promise five years ago and can only shake my head at the fact that it seems that several (and two friends of mine) simply can't get the patches to work with their new 360s.

Burning the patches to CD from a Windows machine? Come on. Can it be any more of a pain in the ass to get on Live?

QFT

 

[sangreal]

I remember when the Xbox was coming out and a bunch of traditionalists were saying "hey, the reason I play consoles is the ability to put the disc on and press power and not have to deal with anything. Now we're probably going to have download and apply a bunch of fucking patches."

Then the Xbox marketing team and its (yet children of) fanboys struck back, saying that the quality standards would be high enough and the hardware standard enough that it wouldn't tolerate patches.

Now not only are patches commonplace (to both dashboard, live shit, and fixes to games), but a lot of people are having trouble installing them.

Don't get me wrong, I love the convenience of playing games on Xbox, and I love the good things afforded by the HDD (not worrying about memory cards, the ability to download bonus content, etc etc), but I do remember the "no patches, ever" promise five years ago and can only shake my head at the fact that it seems that several (and two friends of mine) simply can't get the patches to work with their new 360s.

I've never once patched a game for my Xbox (1), and I've gotten along just fine.

Burning the patches to CD from a Windows machine? Come on. Can it be any more of a pain in the ass to get on Live?

The downloadable patch references in this thread has nothing to do with getting on live. It is the December update to the backwards compatability profiles.