My Xbox 360 keeps forgetting who I am
Earlier today, I tweeted about something that's turned into a daily scare: My Xbox keeps forgetting who I am. Now, while the box knows my Gamertag and will log me in and show my list of friends, it forgets all of my Avatar data and, more importantly, my Gamerscore. I'm not as crazy about my Gamerscore as I used to be (I don't play craptastic games just for the score anymore), but when you have over 66K and you turn on your Xbox and see four years of work down the drain, it takes a toll.
Mind you, I have fixed it by recovering my Gamertag a few times, while other times it'll just kick in automatically, but the point is it's scary as hell! A couple coworkers at The Stiq confirmed they'd had this happen to them on occasion, but it's at least once a day for me. What's the deal?
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October 30th, 2010 - 16:53
I’ve been having this EXACT same problem for a while now; Except it recently turned from a daily occurrence (Like your problem) to a permanent problem that signing out and back in/ account recovery won’t fix. It’s even prompting me to set my avatar again! I’m not entirely sure if it’s the hard drive or the console itself- I’m going over to my friend’s house this weekend to try my hard drive in his Xbox to see if I can’t identify that the hard drive is or isn’t the problem. I’ll be sure to let you know when I get back, and maybe we can both get this problem fixed.
Good luck regardless, Chris (GT= Umbreon_0)