red ring of death
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- kinetic0
when i went to UPS to ship it out, i was saying to the girl behind the counter, i don't really know how to pack it up so its safe so maybe you could make some recommendations
she said "don't worry, i've done like 4 of these this week already"
- mg330
Dammit. I came home from vacation today, and when she picked me up my girlfriend was telling me about how when she was watching a Netflix movie at my place while I was gone and "it stopped working, these red lights were flashing."
Sure enough I turned it on when I got home and it was the 3 red lights flashing. FUCK! I've been out of town since monday and am seriously looking forward to getting back on MW2...
I bought it in January 2008, so it's still under warranty, but man I don't want to be away from it for 2-3 weeks, not to mention I'm going to be in Texas for half the month of December, from December 12 - 29th. And I also really don't want to just go buy a new one for $199... FUCK!
What's the best thing for me to do?
- ps3 has netflix and modern warfarescarabin
- but you can have your xbox fixed and it will last usually another 6 mos or soscarabin
- (from what i hear)scarabin
- best thing to do is fuck your girlfriend silly for three weeks and give up the retarded video gamesmonospaced
- Listen to Mono.********
- Point50
Damn mg33, you caught the curse. this shit is worse than H1N1. Well, I finally remembered to call and get mine set up for repairs today. I'm going to try to get it shipped tomorrow. One solution might be to have them return ship it to whatever address in Texas that you'll be at. I'm having them ship it back to my office since it requires a signature.
- ok_not_ok0
Ship it as soon as you can. MS won't even try to fix it they'll just send you a refurbished one.
- ETM0
Just buy a new one at Wal-Mart and then return it when your old one comes back. Keep the packaging and return it in clean, salable condition and you should have no problems for 90 days.
I have heard of several people doing that. You don't even need to open or unwrap the accessories/cables since you have your old ones. I wouldn't normally advocate such behavior, but the 360 is a PIA and I don't care.
- ETM0
Even better, return it after Christmas and say it was a gift. Maybe even less hassle with an open box.
- ********0
NO NO NO. I get that all the time,
Just unplug your xbox then plug in back in.
Only send it to microsoft after you have tried to the above several times.
I have gotten the red ring of death about 20x but nothing is wrong with my xbox.
PS. this is my second xbox box after the first ring of real death lol
- ********0
PS. If you do buy an xbox, you can get one with out a hard drive. That way you can slap on your old hard drive and get a credit for your broken machine, $40 I believe.