Got mine back yesterday. A refurbished Elite manufactured last July.

Did you send in an Elite?

RROD today trying to play GTA 4

I notice the number of these post have gone down. I wonder if the problem has been fixed.

Yeah...

Thought I'd update since I saw this thread ...

My dad got his second replacement system through Microsoft and ... it would continuously hang on the splash screen or the intro of any game if he made it that far. He had to talk to a "supervisor" because it was his third system going back, then they sent him another "new" one ... without a power cord (after they told him to return his). Now he's sitting with a new box and no cord (which was supposed to be delivered in 3 days 7 days ago).

So ... he's gotten a month-and-a-half of play, and two months of continuous mailing with his 360. Right now, I think he's pretty fed up with quality control at the big M.

But hey ... according to the CSRs ... at least he's gotten 3 free 1 month cards to Live! Of course ... as he explains to them ... it doesn't do him a lot of good because he lives in the middle of the country and only has access to dial-up ....

Here I thought I would be one of the lucky ones. No such luck. After 16 months without problems I get the RROD last night playing GTA4

Did the online request for repair so now I wait for a box.

It better not rain this weekend or I will be doubly pissed off.

Well... my launch 360 which had no issues whatsoever finally bit the dust I got the video display issues. Weird colors, then just a black screen with white dots. There goes $99 bucks....

Why wouldnt they fix it free if you complained?

Because my console is out of warranty according to the person I spoke with. I told her about the ridiculous amount of people having this exact same issue and asked why is wasn't covered by the extended warranty but she gave me a blank answer from her sheet of blank customer service responses and didn't budge.

You could always try to force a RRoD and then when you submit it document the video issues as a precursor to the RR. That might get it fixed under warranty.

I love my 360, i have the extended warranty, but i think it is absolute garbage they are trying to just cover the RR but ignore other problems.

I would just tell them it gave you the red ring. Let it be up to them to tell you it didn't.

its worth a try. Worst that could happen is that they attempt to fix it and call you on it, at that point shell out the $99. Its already been shipped to them so it wont waste time

Yeah, i tried to force the red ring but had no such luck. I actually did tell the lady i got the RROD but she was like "RROD is different from the original problem you called us about and what you're repair is for". Whatever. I guess i'd be more upset but I'm not going to lie, my 360 has gotten quite a lot of use since launch day. Frankly, i'm just surprised it didn't give up on life sooner

Well, here's the reason behind the recall.

Same old story; going the cheap route, trying to save millions, but end up having to spend billions to make it better. My little rinkydink company learned that lesson years ago. Why does MS not understand any better?

Any chance of a summary for us non-technical folks? I kept wondering what tennis shoes (ASIC) had to do with anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applica...grated_circuit

An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed solely to run a cell phone is an ASIC.

Wow, is this thread dead, or has everyone been lucky with their 360 lately? Anyways, after a whole 7 months, my 360 elite bit the dust last night. It keeps freezing and getting the yellow and white checkerboard screen. Has anyone else had this problem? I filed a repair order online last night and it looks like the death box is shipping out today. Hopefully it will be a fast turn around.

It's just a grating title that doesn't need to be bumped. People usually put their "shit, system died" comments in the main 360 thread.