Xbox 360 Video Glitch

[Blargaman91]

I'm having an issue with an Xbox 360 Slim. You can the video is very glitchy, more towards the right of the screen.

It happens after about 5 minutes of having the console on and gets worse by the minute. It only happens through HDMI, too. AV is fine. I don't have any idea what caused this, but a related issue seems to be that it also won't boot Saints Row 3 and 4 (they're both digital, downloaded), Arkham City, and possibly some others.

I can't be certain but I feel like audio also gets a little wonky when this happens, suddenly lowering in volume.

 

[Mawile]

is the HDMI cable properly connected?
try switching it with another if you cant get it to work.
did you recently change any settings?

 

[Blargaman91]

No settings have been changed recently. Several different cables were used with several TV's. This seems like an internal hardware issue...

 

[Mawile]

the HDMI chip could be broken, overheating or shorted.
other than that i don't know what the problem is.
sorry.

 

[Blargaman91]

Any ideas what may have damaged the chip in that way? I didn't have much of a chance to inspect the motherboard.

 

[Mawile]

overheating: you may have left the console on for too long.
age: the console may just be old.(unlikely)
manufacturing defect: the manufacturers may have stuffed up something which only now affected it.

 

[Zero]

Yeah that's not supposed to happen with HDMI. My bet would be on overheating, but I haven't heard of this happening on any slims.

If you don't want to repair it yourself, a temporary fix can be buying/using a VGA cable, since most HDTVs should have a VGA port. It's not ideal, but you really shouldn't notice much difference in quality.