I feel ya bro.. Mine died yesterday. I havent gone through the heartache you have but anytime you have to send away something for 2-3 weeks that you paid good money for sucks. They should start sending refurb ones to keep us busy. Anyways.. My friend just suffered his second Ring of Death also, about 2 weeks ago.. So of 2 people, we've expierenced the RRoD 2 times.. that's 200%.
I hope they replace the whole CPU.. I hear that the newer ones run cooler? Something like that.. Anyways.. On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The XBox 360 has completely run out of goodwill from me. > > I've playing (and really enjoying) "Mass Effect"... I've put in about 30 > hours and I've just hit a major climatic point in the story... and the > freakin' XBox (my THIRD ONE) dies on me. > > I thought it was actually a bad disc since I'm (for once) getting no Red > Ring of Death but instead just get a black screen and no error message, but > every game disc does it (basic functions and non-disc games work fine). > > So now it's run through Circuit City's protection plan policy (which means > sending in a request, getting a box sent back, sending in the unit then > waiting for a replacement). > > My first unit broke while I was playing "Oblivion". My second during "Gears > of War" and now this one. The damn things work great until some game > actually grabs enough to want to play for more than a few hours. > > So far my history has been: > > 1) Bought the first one soon after release. Not many games so I spent a > long time playing "Uno". > > 2) First one broke playing "Oblivion" about 6 months after I got it, Red > Ring of Death. Called MS, told it only has a 90 day warranty and it would > be $140 to fix it. Told that since it was out of warranty already there > was no problem if I wanted to try and fix it myself. > > 3) Fumed for several months. Finally tried to fix it myself (resetting > heatsinks). Failed. > > 4) Fumed for another month. MS announced extended warranties and > grandfathered repairs. Sent mine in to be fixed. Had it sent back as > "Tampered with" - they won't touch it. Argued that THEY SAID I COULD TOUCH > IT! Told that the RMA department can SAY whatever they like but the repair > department has the final say and won't touch it. > > 5) Fumed for a while. "Gear of War" comes out... convinces me to buy > another one (a core unit this time since I have all the extra gear already). > This one fails within a month. I return it to Circuit City under the > "Basic" return policy. > > 6) Last one works for nearly a year... until I start playing "Mass Effect", > now it bombs. Circuit City has a "one return" policy - if I want the new > one covered I need to buy ANOTHER extended plan! > > So far XBox 360 has cost me nearly $900 just in consoles and warranties. Of > course I also have a significant investment in games, accessories and LIVE > payments... so just plain shit-canning the whole mess is painful as hell as > well. > > But I will never buy another 360 game that even has a chance of making it to > the PS3 or PC again. > > Just needed to vent. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
