red ring of death
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- ********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.
- ********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
- ETM0
Even better, return it after Christmas and say it was a gift. Maybe even less hassle with an open box.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.********
- 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"
- satogami0
throw it away. get a ps3. its what i did after sending it bak to MS and then it getting a red ring only 4 months after that and doing towel tricks i taped a M-80 to its center and took it to a deserted parking lot and put a cig to its fuse and watched as it blew apart into a few pieces i went to bestbuy and got a PS3 happily i am downloading new games from the online store... oh yeh online is free and ridiculously easy to use... u just find your wireless or anyones wireless... and done et done... if you get a 60GiG ps3 you can use both ps1 and ps2 games... currently the ps2 games dont work on the 80GiG ps3s... ive been playing naruto ultimate ninja storm, uncharted 2, batman arkham asylum, street fighter 4 and enjoying a very silent running machine which i have played on for 3 days straight and it still purrs like a new born ps3... fantastic!!!
xbox360 does have a better game library but the system is a complete failure even fouty knows not to get it!!!
- how is uncharted 2? i dled the demo this morning but haven't played it yetscarabin
- i have the demo and i like it. iim thinking of getting the full version.satogami
- "ive been playing naruto ultimate ninja storm"
jesus christ...Milan - im loving zombie apocalypse and the new katamari is always good time passing funsatogami
- naruto ultimate ninja storm is amazing!!! it has all the characters too!!!satogami
- i LOOOVE katamariscarabin
- in the new one the king is a robot!!! its cool and really fun!!!satogami
- BattleAxe0
if bought with in last 3 years it is still under warranty
you can do the support ticket online http://support.xbox.com/support/…
but I had a frustrating time , so I just called the 1800 # and said I have no internet , cause they will want to send you online
if you are under warranty by sending it in you get a 1 year warranty on the work
mine has gotten RROD 3 times already , never paid a dime to get it fixed
- egosmoke0
goatse?
- d_rek0
Just send it into to Microsoft. It'll take 2-3 weeks to get it back but at least it'll work again...
- ok_not_ok0
Send it back to microsoft. While you're waiting for the box you can do the towel trick to reboot your xbox.
- scarabin0
amazing.
how can you put out a product that doesn't work?
why isn't a bigger deal being made out of this?
- ********0
My XBOX died earlier this year. Sent it in via the links above, and was told I would wait upwards of 8 weeks. Had my XBOX back in two weeks, just in time for Resident Evil 5.
- Point50
I was waiting for this to happen. I have had absolutely no problem with it at all over the past year; then when I turned it on earlier this week I got slapped with that red ring of death that I had only heard about.
It was only fitting. 8 days ago my HD failed in my iMac, so this was just the icing on the cake.
FML.
- Knuckleberry0
My neighbors xbox has died 3 times. They are pieces of shit. OG Nintendo all the way.
- Milan0
btw, i don't know a single person whose xbox hasn't died at least once...
- Milan0
you can request a repair/replacement online:
xbox.com/support/
they used to send you a box, but now you have to provide your own. just print the label they email you and stick it on the box. mine died for the 2nd time last week, just sent it in yesterday.
- no need to pay for shipping or anything if it's under warrantyMilan
- scarabin0
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