However, it is covered under the warranty because it is exhibiting the 3 flashing red lights of death!!!
!ZOMG!
At any rate....I'm trying to look on the positive. Positive #1: Hey, at least I'm not having to pay to get it fixed. Postive #2: I'm about to be back in school and really, really busy anyway. Positive #3: Maybe some of that gaming time can be spent writing instead.
But...but...but...I was about halfway through Half Life 2 in the Orange Box, and I hadn't made it past Level 18 in Portal and I had not gotten cake yet.
Though...I wasn't going to finish that anyway because I borrowed the Orange Box from the library and it's due today. *sigh* I guess I shall not renew it.
Farewell XBox 360...I'll miss you while you're gone. *sniff*
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I had the same problem a few months ago and mailed mine in. I got a brand new console after about 6 business days so I am quite happy.
I understand your sadness, Orange Box is pretty much the essence of awesome in a box. I think you will find that Pillsbury can get you cake far FAR faster than Portal can.
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Ah, the infamous RROD. I'm currently on my second 360, the first one having died after about a year.
I consider myself lucky after hearing about folks who are on their 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. units. It's a good thing Microsoft extended the warranty to 3 years. They're also pretty quick about replacements. They gave me an estimated repair time of 5 weeks, but instead sent me a different refurbished unit not even 2 weeks later. I didn't mind that, but if you want to get your own 360 back you might want to mention that to customer support.
I was thinking about upgrading to an elite, as I've heard they're less susceptible to the red rings, but on the other hand I've read a lot of anecdotal posts saying otherwise. I guess if my 360s keep breaking, I'll just keep having them replaced until the warranty ends, and then see if the console itself has enough life left to be worthy of a second purchase.
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Yeah, they gave me a long estimate too, but in my experience, those estimates are usually on the long side, to protect them. Very nice guy on the phone. Actually, mine was still within the original warranty, before it was extended. But, regardless, it shall be fixed.
Yes, I borrowed Orange Box from the library. There's one library in town that has a decent collection of 360 games. You have to time it right, however - I look online to see what day it's due, and try to be there that afternoon. In my experience, most people turn them in on the last day. You cannot reserve them - they keep the games on first come, first served.
I was on level 18! 18! I was close to the cake!
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I'm on my third, but I'm confident this one is not going to die. I also had a faulty hard drive and that was a major pain.
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Mine flashed three red lights when the power went out while I was playing once, I was really worried the entire time the power was out. Haven't had any problems with it since though.
Sorry for your loss, when do you expect to get it back?
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My friend had the same problem. He mailed his in, and it took two months to get it back because of some issue with the shipment. He got back a "refurbished" system. It lasted a week and died in the exact same way. So he had to send it in again. After that it worked fine though.
Hope you have better luck than he did.
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I thought you were going to hold out, Belle I seem to remember that when I was talking about getting mine. Of course, that was on the other side of buying a refurbished one to start with which went RROD in less than 10 hours of play (spread over a couple of days) and then there was a 4 month comedy of errors involving the vendor and the postal service, then another month during which time no 360s could be bought anywhere. So let's see, I bought it on September 17th in time for the Halo 2 release, and I don't think we got our 360 pro (which has the 175w power supply which is supposed to be better) until March. So pretty much a 6 month turn around.
Ha ha. I found the discussion, and you were holding out until Christmas.
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I was going to hold out, and in fact did not buy this one. My mother bought it and gifted it to the whole family.
We are not on live, because then we would never get anything done. We usually just play things like Halo splitscreen (nothing like coming up behind your seven year old for a beat down, or splattering your husband with a ghost), or Star Wars Battlefront II Galactic Conquests. Then, there's NCAA football, in which we've built a pretty impressive dynasty with Alabama. My husband is the quarterback and I'm the halfback on offense. He plays linebacker on defense and I play defensive tackle.
Good family fun.
Anyway, we like our 360, the whole family uses it and we will miss it while it's gone.
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I'm on my third 360 as well. My first two units both got the RRoD. The third one is a new model (December 2007 manufacture date), so I'm hoping it won't die on me for many years. Especially since EBGameStop doesn't offer the $50 product replacement "warranty" on 360s anymore, so the mechanism I used to get two new 360s for $50 each is gone.
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This is why i perfer the Ps3, it doesn't even have a ring to turn red! ALthough i do have a 360, and have gotten two rings and didn't realise it wasn't dead, it scared the crap out of me.
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Mine went out a couple months ago. I looked online and found a bunch of free tutorials about how to fix it yourself. I spent about $15 and 2 hours later my xbox was working again and hasn't given me a problem since.
The only problem is that it voids your warrenty so I would only do it if you really, really don't want to wait two months for microsoft to fix it.
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I found all those tutorials too, but decided NOT to void the warranty and let Microsoft take it.
I know it's going to be a while, but I'd rather that than take the chance that once I opened the case, it wouldn't be something simple that was easily fixed.
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It was gone only one week - I shipped it out last Wednesday, and they tried to deliver it yesterday but no one was home. Today, someone will be here and they've already called to make sure we'd be here to sign for it.
I'm happy to have it back. And, I'm impressed it was only gone one week.
I'll let you know later if it's truly back and working as it should.
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When mine ringed I had it back within a week or so of when I sent it in. It had the same serial number as the one I sent, though I had a brand new DVD drive, which was nice because my old one was sticking and wouldn't open half the time.
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This is the same one, I don't know if it's a new DVD drive or not, but it is on, and working and I'm happy again.
Trust me, the XBox 360 not working during the summer when the kids are home all day...bad thing for my household.
Not that I like my kids to play video games all day or anything, but it's also our DVD player. And, with temperatures in the 90's, there are some hours of the day when they are much better off indoors.
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Wow, 360s don't seem to last long. I've been playing video games for nearly 20 years and I've never had a system break down on me. Of course, nearly every system I've ever owned was made by Nintendo.
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I have logged plenty of hours on my 360 in the 2 years that I've had it and have yet to have a problem. The RROD(red ring of death) is heat related if I remember correctly. Maybe I've just been lucky.
I try to keep mine in a cool room and away from other operating appliances. How many hours a day does yours operate Belle?
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quote:Originally posted by neo-dragon: Wow, 360s don't seem to last long. I've been playing video games for nearly 20 years and I've never had a system break down on me. Of course, nearly every system I've ever owned was made by Nintendo.
I had my Gamecube break down on me once, but nothing else ever has.
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My 360 has been flashing the three red lights when I turn it off, but I'm still able to turn it on and play normally. Should I be worried?
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quote:Originally posted by MEC: My 360 has been flashing the three red lights when I turn it off, but I'm still able to turn it on and play normally. Should I be worried?
Possibly. Mine did this for a while before it finally died and wouldn't turn back on.
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If you have not registered your 360, do so. That makes things easier if/when you have to call to report the RRoD. I had to register first, then they took care of everything so it was just an extra step.
Mine was less than a year old, so it was still under the original warranty, but they didn't even ask for a copy of the receipt. I had it, just in case, but it was unnecessary.
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quote:Originally posted by Belle: That was the pattern with mine as well.
If you have not registered your 360, do so. That makes things easier if/when you have to call to report the RRoD. I had to register first, then they took care of everything so it was just an extra step.
Mine was less than a year old, so it was still under the original warranty, but they didn't even ask for a copy of the receipt. I had it, just in case, but it was unnecessary.
In case I need to, how do I go about "registering" my 360?
Mine is under a year old.
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Well, I've just been red ringed. I've already registered and called so hopefully this won't be too long.
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Poor dumb microsoft. First they bring us the blue screen of death, then the red rings of death.
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