Shagrath

I got my box back on Thursday. Looks like they repaired and sent back my original box, as it has the same SN and has no problems with XBLA games or anything. What a relief!

Brooklyn

In a lot of cases it's the investment we already have in the system. I have
upwards of 60 games for it so it's not like I'm just going to pack it up and call
it a day. After my RR issue I have decided to buy for the PS3 whenever
possible in the case of multiplatform releases. Rainbow Vegas 2 was the
exception due to friends from the 1st carrying over to the 2nd not having
a PS3.

Is the RB Rainbow Vegas 2? If so, while playing splitscreen with my wife last
night I noticed the center would sometimes have a blue and red blob appear
for a split second in the center of my screen (similar to rainbowing, but more
of a centralized blotch).

tonyc3742

No, Rock Band. I haven't tried any other games since this happened. I was thinking it might be a video card overheating or something, although why it should start now, I don't know. Nothing has changed; I don't move the console when it's on (I rarely move it at all), it's on its own unenclosed shelf (well, the Wii is vertical next to it) and nothing's on top of it except the Rock Band USB switch.

No, I agree, I don't have 60 games but I've got enough that I still enjoy so I wouldn't want to just 'quit' with the 360. I think MS should be pilloried for creating such a relatively shoddy product, but they should also be praised for such a wide variety of great games and the Live system that makes us take the risk of the hardware dying.

ultimaton

Well, looks like I made it 11 months before my disc drive decided I should join the exclusive fraternity of defective 360 owners.

Giantrobo

The 360 at my local Toys r Us RROD'd.

SmackDaddy

Funny! I was at TRU to pick up some Wii games on their buy one get $20 off deal. I noticed their 360 was displaying the RROD. I asked the guy behind the counter about it and he seemed pretty annoyed with it, saying this was the 3rd time they had to deal with it.

I am personally still leaning towards selling my 360 when I get it back. I only have 3 games and an extra controller for it and never really found many games I was willing to spring $60 on. I think, with what will be my 4th 360 in less than a year, the thought of another failure looms to large for me to want to invest anymore time/money.

Such a great concept for a console, such horrible execution.

Trigger

For anyone interested - not sure if this has already been discussed or not, but that guy that had MS repair erase all those signatures from his xbox got some cool goodies... a Halo collector's kit signed by bungie and then later he got a new Xbox 360 signed by even more people including Bill Gates. Pretty neat end to that story.

young

if i remember correctly, that is what started to happen before my xbox died and i got the RRoD. and guess what... it's happening again! (while playing viva pinata today).

debating whether to actually send it in again or just give up.

tonyc3742

Hm. That's good and bad. Bad in that I don't want it to die at all....good in that it'll be covered. I guess I'll keep turning it on even though I can't play, to get the rings, then get them to send me a new one (I bought it in Aug 07.)
I'm sorry its happening to you again

porieux

That's nice to hear, thanks for posting it.

jonw9

Finally got my 360 back. I missed the delivery last week.

I got MY Xbox back, not a replacement, so that is good.

All in all, not a terrible ordeal. At least I didn't lose any signatures!

J_J

Wow, I got my xbox back, exact same one, and it started up ok, for now!

Hope to play Call Of Duty 4 and get through the single player campaign.

They gave me a 1month subscription to xbox live which was nice.

JJ

ultimaton

Sent my 360 off first thing this morning. Hoping for a quick turn around, but I guess we'll see. Luckily it looks like Smash Bros. was going to take over for awhile anyway, so I shouldn't miss it too much.

tonyc3742

My off-color thing got worse, now I get no video, just lots of cycling purple dots all over the screen. I've tried in another TV port and on another TV, using the "TV" setting, still the same. I called support and they sent me a new cable pretty quickly, which I just put in, same thing, so it's obviously the unit. I don't have any red rings though (yet).

Giantrobo

Yeah my first 360 had "video issues" and it wasn't the cord. I was getting a green tint and weird checkering. Sounds like you're up for a "new" unit.

CPA-ESQ.

Well I got the circle of death last night.

I don't even use this thing every day I play a game every now and then after work - then I don't use it for months.

They are sending me my coffin.

Do you need to sign for the package when it is returned?

SmackDaddy

Yes, they require a signature. I had to have my delivery address changed so they could deliver to where I work so it could be signed for.

Alas, my time with the 360 is over!!! Sold it yesterday,hopefully the new owner won't inherit my bad luck (3 systems with problems, latest one with a build date of 07/2006). I may come back to the fold if they ever do a real internal re-design.

Shagrath

That's your problem. It was lonely and now it's punishing you!

Seriously though, my experience wasn't that bad. It took just a little over two weeks to get mine back and I got the same box (which meant not having to worry about DRM issues).

CPA-ESQ.

well it's going to get a lot of attention at the grave yard.

Good to know that people are getting their boxes back in less than 3 weeks - and they are getting the same one back.

ultimaton

Got the replacement 360 today and it only took a week, so not too bad, I guess living only a few hours from the repair center help.

It's a different box then the one I sent in, so now I get to start my pointless calling about a DRM transfer ( ), but at least it looks like it's an actual new unit instead of a refurb (manufactured on 2-22-8).

Nosmo Rex

I got a refurb back on my last repair, and I didn't have any issue at all with my saved/purchased stuff. I just plunked the old hard drive back in and everything was fine.

ultimaton

While you're on Live. If your internet goes down, or Live is down you're pretty much SOL because all your DLC is connected to your old box, which Microsoft has now. I just tested it w/o being connected to Live, and all my XBLA stuff will only let me play trial versions.

Considering the amount of people that no longer have their original box due to hardware failure, you'd think they'd come up with a better system.

Nosmo Rex

Ah - I see what you mean. I guess I've never really been offline while gaming at all.

tonyc3742

Sent mine off Wednesday. Still not even halfway there, but that's UPS.

I swear I read somewhere, some gaming blog, that you can download your content on the new console and it's "yours", you don't have to go through the beg/plead/demand thing? I'm sorry I don't have a link, and come to think of it it might have been on the 1st when I read that.

Brooklyn

I'm not saying that it hasn't happened that way for some, but from my own
personal experience, over 30 days later after being told it takes "upwards"
of 30 days I'm still in the process of trying to get MS to authorize the
license transfer for my DLC so I can play the full versions without having
to be online (or my wife play them on her silver account at all).