Well it happened to me...

[Lookingglassman]

While I dont feel I deceived the store since I didn't tell them it was broken, it was their responsibilty to check, I am man enough to apologize to those here who may have been upset at my actions.

I sincerely apologize to Servo and any others who were hurt/offended/disgusted/etc. I was upset because I wasted $400 bucks on this thing and was getting no help from the guy I called so I took a chance and traded it in.

I hope you accept my apology and can move on to other things like: Has anybody played Infamous? Is it any good?

LGM

 

[LightningStorm]

It's so cool to be rude to indian people in call centres. Like, wow, man. I'm so impressed. You're clearly a no nonsense kinda guy. I respect that. Let's have a beer sometime.

Cunt.

Pretty clear cut flaming here with the calling him a "cunt." This isn't TNZ.

Infraction for flaming. Comments to PM.

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Everybody else, OK so his actions may have been reprehensible, let's lay off of the religious attacks too.

 

[Ryan]

I did not say, "It works just fine." therefore I did nothing wrong

By that logic Microsoft did nothing wrong selling you the 360 because it never promised it would work for three years.

 

[PKerr]

I did not say, "It works just fine." therefore I did nothing wrong

By that logic Microsoft did nothing wrong selling you the 360 because it never promised it would work for three years.

Do onto to others as you wish done upon you.

 

[ALF]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THIS FORUM...

I am pleased to announce, that as of 5 mere minutes ago,
I became the proud owner of Red Ring Of Death!!!!!

 

[BigFoot]

^ Congrats!

 

[ALF]

To hell with it. When mine goes, I'll just have to pick up another one. It sucks, but the software is better than PS3 and the graphics are better than Wii.

Well... that is true.

I said this ten days ago.

That's more or less what will happen, shortly after I ascertain if the video card went boom or not. It's a classic three ringer but I think the video card or something about it connecting to a computer monitor via HDTV cable is going to make establishing cause-of-death a problem. I've read that some repair shops will only charge around $50 to fix a RROD and won't charge anything if they aren't recoverable. Does that sound right or not?

Funny story: My cat likes playtime, and he knows when I'm going to play the Xbox. Tonight he cheerfully swatted the wall mounted power extention cord which crashed on top of the printer and shut down the Xbox 360 as it was loading my Ghostbusters profile. He never does that, unless I'm playing games. He's an instigator! You know the part where it says, "Do NOT turn off the console..." that's the point where he turned it off.

On restart it displayed the rings. I admired the glow for a moment and the machine clicked on a few minutes later and loaded up Ghostbusters again. Loaded the profile, main menu, started the game and then crashed with a series of black and white zigzags and lines.

And so it does with every game. Gay Tony - same deal. The only royal pissoff in this situation is that the unit is Japanese. If I can't repair it, all my saved games are toast. The memory cards aren't region free. And 65% of my game library becomes useless.

Repair or replace. Any advice from Xbox 360 experts? Thanks in advance.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THIS FORUM...

I am pleased to announce, that as of 5 mere minutes ago,
I became the proud owner of Red Ring Of Death!!!!!

Your not truly a 360 owner unless you have had some form of RROD.....a few times.

Any advice from Xbox 360 experts?

Get another Japanese version....although I'm quite sure there is no region protection on memory cards, I'm sure you can use them in all systems, i still have my 64meg one which i have had since i owned a NTSC 360 way back in 2007.

 

[ALF]

Get another Japanese version....although I'm quite sure there is no region protection on memory cards, I'm sure you can use them in all systems, i still have my 64meg one which i have had since i owned a NTSC 360 way back in 2007.

Are you certain? When I put my Japanese region card into my brother's NA unit to load my Japanese file of a region locked game (Grand Theft Auto IV), it gave the usual region locking excuse... of course on his NA Grand Theft Auto IV game. I would normally play the PAL version. I think maybe the NA cards might work in Japanese machines, but possibly not the other way around?

Also, can I ask if anyone has had success taking their RROD machine to a repair shop? I was looking online and the cheapest I could find a walk-in unit to fix RROD, no charge if it can't be repaired: $50. But that's for a motherboard failure, I think. I'm willing to bet it was the video card that got fried on mine.

My precious! It burns!

Suspected video card foul up... chokes to death Atari 2600 style as it tries to render 3D?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Oh i thought you were taking about the actual memory card, not the saves on it.

As for getting the machine fixed i think you would be better getting another one, third party repairers can only use cannibalized parts from other RROD machines so its another coin toss if said repair does not also go belly up at some stage.

Take the repair money, add to it and get a new system.

 

[Chris3123]

If it's been less than 3 years since the purchase Microsoft will replace it for free. Of course, from what I hear you just get a refurbished system, and as such I would assume it would not be as resistant to the RROD as the newer 360 models are.

 

[ALF]

It's so strange... it loads stuff... starts the game and I even had it rendering some of the actual gameplay of Gay Tony this afternoon, then it cuts out. It was running for about 5 minutes before it cut out. Weird, that. I thought when it goes, it goes completely. Anyone else ever experience this?

I pried it open to see if I could get a look at if there was any gunk in the heatsink, but I didn't have those damn special screwdrivers, you know the 6 sided blasted things.

Ghaaa. I'll get a refurbished system and wait on that to go RROD.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

If it's been less than 3 years since the purchase Microsoft will replace it for free. Of course, from what I hear you just get a refurbished system, and as such I would assume it would not be as resistant to the RROD as the newer 360 models are.

MS don't cover import models so bill cant take advantage of the 3 RROD warrenty, i found that out first hand when my similar Asia model went belly up.

 

[LightningStorm]

Of course, from what I hear you just get a refurbished system

One of 4 the times I had to have mine replaced they replaced it with a brand new one. The manufacture date on the back of the replacement was a week after I had sent mine in to them. But, yeah, most of the time it's a refurb.

 

[Chris3123]

If it's been less than 3 years since the purchase Microsoft will replace it for free. Of course, from what I hear you just get a refurbished system, and as such I would assume it would not be as resistant to the RROD as the newer 360 models are.

MS don't cover import models so bill cant take advantage of the 3 RROD warrenty, i found that out first hand when my similar Asia model went belly up.

Oh, I didn't realize he didn't live in America. Silly for me to assume he did.

Of course, from what I hear you just get a refurbished system

One of 4 the times I had to have mine replaced they replaced it with a brand new one. The manufacture date on the back of the replacement was a week after I had sent mine in to them. But, yeah, most of the time it's a refurb.

Interesting.