unomas said:My third 360 just arrived today, and with a new born on date of 11/30/06.
You mean 11/30/05?
unomas said:My third 360 just arrived today, and with a new born on date of 11/30/06.
Gek54 said:You mean 11/30/05?
Meier said:My 360 isnt getting here until tomorrow apparently. I sent it in on the 6th and am getting it back on the 19th.. bleh. The 2 replacements prior to this didnt take nearly that long and this is supposed to be a new one -- what the **** would the hold up be?!
ant1532 said:Wow. Those mothers just got their $140 from me.
What the **** with that stupid warranty!? Three ****ing monthS!??? Cmon assholes, i just cashed out $400 and the best you give me is three months?
Ah, I wouldn't have done this so quickly if it wasn't for the fact that Gears of War comes out the same week as PS3 and there would be no way I could pay it then.(And the vision comes out and the TGS/X06 thing)
Heh, well I'm 16 so I pulled the usual "put mom on the phone" who bitched them out quite a lot and asked for a discount several times and to not pay completely. It usually works about 95% of the time too. This fell under the 5%... damn it.(she is paying half and I pay half)op_ivy said:fyi, its pretty easy to talk to a supervisor and get 25% off your repairs...
ant1532 said:Heh, well I'm 16 so I pulled the usual "put mom on the phone" who bitched them out quite a lot and asked for a discount several times and to not pay completely. It usually works about 95% of the time too. This fell under the 5%... damn it.(she is paying half and I pay half)
op_ivy said:sounds like an ok deal then!
me, i'm too pissed to pay them to repair my system.... so i'll wait it out and buy a new one. that'll teach em! :lol
HokieJoe said:Have you considered trying the hot air gun trick mentioned earlier op_ivy?
op_ivy said:i think i'm the only one who has! been posting my results, and while it helped, and seemed like it would work, it was, at best a temporary fix. at first everything seemed fine, then i noticed some of the more troublesome games (from unconfirmed reports) crashing 5-15 min in, and now the system will crash regardless of what its doing in about 5 min. really sad.
HokieJoe said:That sucks dude. I watched the hot air gun video and then googled over to the XboxHacker board and did some reading. I have a launch sx that's still running, but I'm starting to get worried.
Like a moron, I waited too long to buy the MS 2 Year Warranty that came with the system.
op_ivy said:yeah, its a bummer. the first time i tried it, it booted to the dash, but i kept getting the graphical errors. i did it again thinking that i just didnt heat it enough and it was much improed but has since returned to the constant crash stage. i'm not getting any errors though, which is good i guess. its still entirely out of its case, so i figure i'll give it one more good go at the heating thing, though i dont expect much.
fartblast said:prologue
Mine took a shit on me as well. I'm pretty much through with that thing unless Halo 3 lives up to the hype and after 2 I can't say I have much faith. Not even trying to troll, just still a little pissed off is all. It was a launch unit BTW -- camped out 14 hours for the pos too. Called M$ and told them I supported them since day one, thousands of kids cried on Christmas because they probably had a broken 360, and that they're a billion dollar corporation and the least they could do was replace a day one adopter's system for free. They still wanted $140 so I told them to get ****ed. Also like how it started to shit the day after I paid off my HDTV.
epilogue
Anyway, it all started a few months ago with GRAW. I was playing single-player and then geometry started disappearing... moments later the screen just locked up. Could it have been overheating, or a software glitch? Maybe a glitch within the 360 itself? I still don't know. After I boot the system I got those three AWESOME RED LIGHTS. Messed around with the thing for a bit and it booted up. A few days later the same thing happened. Could have been a few hours later, I still don't remember because it was a while ago.
Months went by with errors at all. I thought I was in the clear! Nope.
Then a few weeks ago when I was playing Dead Rising, I started getting these weird graphical glitches in Dead Rising. It was like everything had this weird tone to it... I don't really feel articulating what it exactly looked like. (Ever get the purple texture errors in HL2/CS:S on PC? It was sorta like that, but way minor.) I turned it off and played the next day and didn't notice a thing and had a little fun I guess -- DR wasn't really my bag anyway so I moved on to Saint's Row.
That's where my 360 just started to crap the diaper -- Saint's Row. I'd just be wandering around Stilwater and whenever the camera hit whatever arbitrary angle, the shadows would get all weird. It looked like snow, if snow could take on the form of shadows. Pretty much just a weird graphical glitch. I tried taking the speaker off the top of my TV thinking it was electromagnetical interference and booted the system up... the glitch was gone! Oh wait no it wasn't, it only lasted for a short while before coming back.
So then I tried going back to Dead Rising. This time, it was just completely absurd. I couldn't even make out the graphics... it was just a whole bunch of artifacts out the ass and shit, distorted color and all. I couldn't even play the game it was so bad.
Turned the system off, turned it back on. This time the system wouldn't even boot up and gave me and error code, E-74. I said **** Xbox 360, **** Microsoft, and **** this overheating, loud piece of shit.
It really is quite ridiculous how bad the failure rate is on this Xbox 360 is. The day it finally shat on me, I took it to Best Buy to try and exchange it for another one. The funniest part of this, and I'm not making this shit up, is that there were two other gentlemen in the returns/exchange line. Two guys, you say? Big deal. Both of them had broken Xbox 360s and one of them said he was at the EB nearby and there were three (3!!) people there returning broken 360s. That's six of us in a two-mile radius with broken Xboxen.
So I took my Xbox (RIP) to EB and got store credit, a nice shiny PS2 slim, and a handful of awesome games. Having not played much PS2 this whole gen, on top of not owning one, I figured it'd be a perfect time to catch up on some classics: God of War, DMC3, GT4, Ratchet & Clank 3, Metal Gear Solid 3 (yes a new sealed copy of Subsistence bitches), not to mention others (and Okami which comes out tomorrow!).
You may remember me (yes that's right fartblast) as the proud Sargent at Arms of the Xbot Defense Force. Not anymore. Like I said, I'm done with 360. Until Microsoft can make a console that doesn't require a third party accessory to remain cool and finally adds an HD-DVD drive, I'm PS3 for life. You know, the console that's actually quiet as a hummingbird and doesn't overheat.
If you read this, consider yourself a true internet friend... until then, happy gaming. I know I'll be enjoying my PS2 and plethora of awesome games til PS3 comes out.
I'd get into other reasons why I hate 360 but that's for another day.
yesTekunoRobby said:Am I your true internet friend?
Sucks about the 360 man, sorry to hear.
DopeyFish said:wow.
my xbox 360 arrived
i got the box, sent the box out and received all in 4 business days
WOH. Can you make this a little easier to udnerstand though?DopeyFish said:wow.
my xbox 360 arrived
i got the box, sent the box out and received all in 4 business days
Foil said:Does anyone know if the MS warrenty for the 360 is transferable? For example if you sold your system, could you transfer the warrenty over to their name?
Meier said:I finally got my 360 today.. after sending the original out like 3 weeks ago. The born on date is 4/23/06 which makes me worry it isnt a new unit like I was told I'd receive, but I guess it's at least not 11/05 or so like most of the replacements are. I'm worried this is gonna **** up on me too.
ant1532 said:WOH. Can you make this a little easier to udnerstand though?
Ex:
Called Monday, got box next day and put system in and shipped it same day(Tuesday, and then got my 360 back Thursday.
Is that how it went down?
DarkAngelYuna said:Just wondering, I'm waiting for my coffin to come. What speed is the prepaid box I'm going to be returning it in? Also what city is it going to go to?
Joeroll said:3 day select. Goes to McAllen, TX. I sent my console on Saturday, apparently it will arrive there tomorrow(wednesday). I'll probably get it on Monday and miss some cool demos and crap. :\
I'm in southern CA if you want anymore information on how long to expect the process to take. It's usually 14 days for me(yes i've done it multiple times).
DopeyFish said:called tuesday night, got box thursday morning, sent out box on thursday night, received email on monday night that they got the 360, got my 360 this morning
Joeroll said:3 day select.
How exactly can you tell?Mojovonio said:hey guys, got mine back today.
Its a brand friggin new console, manu date in the 06 range.
Thank you MS!
VibratingDonkey said:How exactly can you tell?
Got mine in one of those Xbox 360 plastic bags, along with an Xbox Live folder for some reason. Stickers were in place on the discdrive and infrared thingie. Born on date: 2006-07-02. But none of this necessarily means it's new?
Grifter said:Awesome! Did you have to request a new one?
MS is on a roll.
Grifter said:Man, my wish is loud as hell. =(
Wish I could get that replaced.
Hajaz said:mine had been given the three red lights error for about a month.
in my country we have 2 year of waranty but unfortunatly i voided it by opening my case.
anyway. yoday i finally opened it up and performed the hot airgun fix.
for now it seems to be fixed, has been running saints row and pgr3 for an hpir or so without hanging
DarkAngelYuna said:Well it seems my 360 I sent them is out for delivery. I'll be calling them as soon as it's signed for today. They WILL send my new system out fast or they're csr's will fear me.