Today I am a MAN! 360 finally died.

Today I got home and booted up my Xbox, went to play my game and for lack of a better term everything was plaid....this weird graphical error...tried a few things and Realized my console was about to RedRing, so I called Microsoft up to get a leg up, spent 40 minutes with a rep in which only about 5 of it was talking the rest was hold time before she finally told me to check my AV cable...."It's good" ...."Take it to a friends house and try it on thier"...GREAT use of time, unplug it and take it over to Wills......REDRING!!!!!

SO I call them back up and get more inane trouble shooting (Seriously you think unplugging my network adaptor is gonna fix a graphical error?) before the guy says ok send it in....BUT WAIT!!! I only got ONE red indicator not 3, so it's not a TOTAL system failure which means....I gotta pay microsoft $100 to fix it.....still beter than $400 for a new one, but still.....my bum has been rapededed by the Microsoft.

DOH!
So you won't be able to join us for tomorrow's festivities

You have my condolences.

I thought Microsoft were making the fixing service completly free?

MaskedShuuyu said:

I thought Microsoft were making the fixing service completly free?

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Yeah, IF you got 3 red indicators, I only got one...so my system failed...but ity didn't fail in a very specific WAY!

I can't remember, but I think there's a way around it and force it to have more than one red ring.

Is your 360 a launch?

Pretty close, but they have on record at thier call center that I only have 1 red sector. if I suddenly call up with 3.....

Somehow I think Microsoft purposely made faulty systems to make you repair them, so you could fork up more bucks. Not to mention, they released it early to get your commitment and to use that as an excuse for faulty systems. Not only that, but I think Microsoft released it with minimum parts, so getting extra things, like a HD-DVD drive and whatnot need to be bought seperately would add to the costs.

Sure, a basic 360 would cost a small amount, but then repairs, upgrades, etc that are essential would rack up the total costs to something along the lines of a PS3, which so far, I have not heard of that many faulties as the 360 has.

Yeah my first one died out on me. I was so angry i was sheding tears. My condolences to you and your loss. Do what I did though. Enter in a contest to win one.

*looks at thread title* So what was you before it died? :hmm:
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