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bum-man · 03-12-2007, 08:53 PM

Well, ever since one of the major updates (fall update I think) mine used to freeze fairly consistanly on certain games mostly Gears, Vegas, and then Crackdown. Then a few weeks ago I unplugged it to move it rehooked it back up and I got the general hardware failure and three lights. Called Microsoft a few days later knowing that my unit was out of warranty by a few months. Went through the troubleshooting with that disturbingly happy automated guy. Then finally got through to some Indian dude that I could halfway understand. Anyways, they wanted $140 to fix it I told him no I wouldn't pay that he put me on hold for another 15 minutes so he could "speak with his supervisor," then got back on and said they could take 50% off and include shipping. I told him no again then a long exchanging of words to finally me hanging up with a confermation code of some sort if I ever want to take the deal.

In the end I lucked out with my roomate working at a certain game store. He said he would be able to exchange mine with a used one, so I did that after the phonecall. Though, unfortunatly I'm still stuck with another early model 360. I would recommend you try and get one of the Microsoft extended warranties if you still can since everyone I know has had their 360 go belly up on them.

Man, I can just smell a class action lawsuit coming their way...

BTW XBL Gamertag is CrewL
^ I'm actually not though, it's just everyone and their mother took all the good names.

03-12-2007, 08:53 PM	#6 (permalink)
bum-man Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,734 Thanks: 64 Thanked 88 Times in 59 Posts	Re: My XBox 360 is dead...Red Lights of Death! Well, ever since one of the major updates (fall update I think) mine used to freeze fairly consistanly on certain games mostly Gears, Vegas, and then Crackdown. Then a few weeks ago I unplugged it to move it rehooked it back up and I got the general hardware failure and three lights. Called Microsoft a few days later knowing that my unit was out of warranty by a few months. Went through the troubleshooting with that disturbingly happy automated guy. Then finally got through to some Indian dude that I could halfway understand. Anyways, they wanted $140 to fix it I told him no I wouldn't pay that he put me on hold for another 15 minutes so he could "speak with his supervisor," then got back on and said they could take 50% off and include shipping. I told him no again then a long exchanging of words to finally me hanging up with a confermation code of some sort if I ever want to take the deal. In the end I lucked out with my roomate working at a certain game store. He said he would be able to exchange mine with a used one, so I did that after the phonecall. Though, unfortunatly I'm still stuck with another early model 360. I would recommend you try and get one of the Microsoft extended warranties if you still can since everyone I know has had their 360 go belly up on them. Man, I can just smell a class action lawsuit coming their way... BTW XBL Gamertag is CrewL ^ I'm actually not though, it's just everyone and their mother took all the good names. Last edited by bum-man; 03-12-2007 at 08:58 PM..