Yeah right now I'm a little bit angry but if they handle this well I'll have a good feeling about their customer service. If they handle it poorly, it'll start to rekindle my M$ is the devil days ;)
Here's hoping it all works out well.

still no new demos, *tear*

I know that for practical purposes it amounts to the same thing, but let's distinguish the above from the reports of defective/faulty hardware. The problem you describe is apparently due to a screw up with making sure refurb units and/or the Live accounts associated with them are appropriately authorized to access Xbox Live, not to faulty hardware per se. The problem is most likely related to the checks Microsoft's servers and the Xbox itself does to limit/prevent hackers, cheaters, and modded consoles on Live.

still no new xbox live arcade games, :mad:

How hard can it be for Midway to port another arcade game on there? C'mon, I can probably port Rampage if you give me a week.

I know that no firm date was set for GR:AW demo but I really did hope the rumors of having it hit Marketplace today were the real deal.

Yeah....I'm REALLY looking forward to this game.

Hopefully I get my 360 back from MS today...and I can actually connect to LIVE.

Well I got my return box earlier today and it's all ready to go back to TX via UPS Next Day air. I'm going to ship it off later today. Here's hoping for the best!
The one thing I was a little bummed about, I couldn't copy my Halo and Halo 2 save files from my HD to the memory card I'm borrowing from my brother, nor could I copy my PD Zero save :( Oh well, I guess that just gives me an excuse to play through those games again.

You don't have to send back your hard drive unless they specifically asked you to.

Nope.. When I called, they told me to send nothing but the 360. They said take out the hard drive, any memory units and make sure there were no games in the drive.

They received my unit yesterday, according to UPS and an email from XBox I got yesterday, so hopefully I'll get a unit friday or monday back.

The guy on the phone said to send back the XBox and the Hard Drive. I know the Hard Drive isn't the culprit (It worked fine connected to my brothers) but the guy on the phone mentioned the hard drive twice so I probably should.

Do NOT send it. It will wipe everything out. If your system does NOT run wihout the HD connected, then your system is the problem. The guy told me to send my HD the FIRST time, but I ignored that, since the general consenous is do NOT send it. They tell you that it will be erased pretty much.

so you didn't send it and the repair process still went as normal? Maybe I should keep it. I'm not so much worried about losing my data but I just wonder if not sending the HD will delay the process.
Edit-I saw there is a sticker that says don't send ANY accesorries so I'm not going to send the HDD back, if they give me problems I'll just say I thought that was considered an accessery.

What were your 360s doing that made you want to send it back? Mine will show the cannot read disc error every once in a while. If I'm lucky I can go a couple days without it coming up, but then theres also those days where I get the message a couple times a day. Not sure if I really want to go through the hassle of sending it in.

My FIRST 360 died with the AUTO update. It frooze my machine and I got 3 red lights. Wouldn't even start up. The SECOND one was MS fault, it would NOT let me log onto LIVE, and MS knew about that error. I should get mine back today...it shipped yesterday.

Well, so far I am really impressed with XBox support.

My timeline is as follows:

Thursday(2/23): 3 red lights on Xbox 360 unit. Called XBox support. Gave me a case number and mailed out coffin to return unit on. And I receive an email with confirmation of support request.
Monday(2/27): Received coffin and shipped back unit
Tuesday(2/28): They receive unit and email me letting me know they received it.
Thursday(3/2): I receive an email with a tracking number that a 360 is on its way to me. Since they should have shipped overnight, I will have it tomorrow if I am at home when UPS delivers. Otherwise I'll have to wait until Monday to pick it up after receiving the yellow slip from the delivery person.

So far, I am impressed that things moved so quick. I've heard horror stories where people waited weeks for a return unit.
Now, I will say that until I get the unit and make sure it all works, I won't say I'm completely satisifed. But at least it is on track for that.

I finally got my 2 year service agreement from MS today Effective till Jan. 31st 2008. So now I have two years to think about how I'm gonna break the poor bastard on Jan. 29th 08. :D

There are some more Midway games in the works for Xbox Live arcade this year:

Paperboy
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Root Beer Tapper
Cyberball

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2006/03...s_6145174.html

:rock2: SWEET!

yahoo for paperboy and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

YAY PAPERBOY!

cool paperboy video:
http://www.mega64.com/paperboy.htm

If you guys had a 360 that froze up every once in a while, would you send it in? I'm still undecided if I want to go through it all.

Which would you be more pissed about?

1.) A bunch of dumbass kids recreating a videogame from 20 years ago while you're trying to drive down the street.
2.) Being a thirtysomething year old paperboy.

Did you get an extended warranty?

If you did, I wouldn't worry about it.

If you didn't, I'd get it taken care of now while it's still in warranty.

How long is the original warranty? I've had mine since early Dec and didn't buy the extended warranty. How much is it for the 2 years and am I too late?

Chris