> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:31 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: [XBox] Damn it! Every time I get into a game! > > 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.
Well - you might very well get a refurb. It's really up to them whether to send you a new one or fix the old one. I was actually kind of lucky this time since I was replacing a "core" system and they don't actually make them any longer - so I got an "Arcade" system in exchange. No biggie, but now I have an HDMI port and a memory card that I didn't have before... I'll look at the silver lining. ;^) > 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%. It's anecdotal but I only know three people around here with them and one of them has had two failures, another one failure and the last one (a 12 year old kid) none. It really does seem, to me, like the problems are centered on thermal failure: all the failures that I know about occurred after multi-hour sessions (while playing a great game). I think since that 12 year old isn't allowed to play more than an hour a day he's pretty safe. But every time something new comes out I dread it. I save constantly and every little twitch and fan noise hits my nerves. Gaming shouldn't be nerve-wracking in that way! I can't really argue that the PS3 has better games, but I defiantly feel more comfortable/confident playing it. > I hope they replace the whole CPU.. I hear that the newer ones run > cooler? Something like that.. There's a "falcon" chipset out that uses a smaller die size and so lots less power (and so lots less heat) but I'm not sure how to tell if you've got one or not. I'm sure there's some way to decode the serial-number to tell, but I've not tried yet. 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:257710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
