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Originally Posted by bum-man  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. |
Exact same problem as me. Moved it, plugged it in and got 3 red lights. Before that my games would freeze a lot. Luckily it died like a month before the warranty out. I got the Xbox the same day it came out so it was definitely one of the earlier ones.