If you only had it for 2 years, you can send it in for free. Microsoft covers RROD's for 3 years at no cost.
So my console finally bit the dust...
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I was expecting the PC crowd to start whining and I wasn't disappointed! Thank you Escapist for being so painfully predictable.
As to the OP: My 360 red ringed a while ago, just after the 3 year mark. The guy on the phone just told me to send it off anyway and it got repaired. Haven't had a problem since.
As to the OP: My 360 red ringed a while ago, just after the 3 year mark. The guy on the phone just told me to send it off anyway and it got repaired. Haven't had a problem since.
I like to think it was a little from column A, little from column B.Eleima said:Good sir, that sounds *awesome*! Either your friend's a genius or his PC's "unbreakable".King of the Sandbox said:
Yeah, me too!...King of the Sandbox said:I was like....
Last I went up to visit (He lives in Indiana now, faaaaaar away), it was still running. He lets his littler kids play games on it and stuff and it still worked.
I bring up the story everytime I see it.
I think the only gaming tragedy I ever had to go through was last year when my room flooded from a faulty sump and terrible street cleaning of leaves from the fall. The sewer was blocked and unfortunately I live in a bit of a valley, so all the water came rushing down to the house. It also was subject to clogging because of some sticks and leaves that made it into the sump. That meant when I went to go take a leak at around five in the morning, I was ankle deep in negative degree (celcius) run-off water from the rain outside. What a pleasent surprise!
As for how this involves gaming, my first ever pruchased piece of gaming technology was ruined. It was a blue N64 controller, including the save pak that I had bought a few months later for it (also purchased with my own money). It was horrifying to know all my hard work on games such as Perfect Dark (I never got Rank 1, but I was soooo close!), Gauntlet Legends (maxed everything, including experience) and other such memorable games. My sweet, sweet Blueie, how you shall be missed =(
As for how this involves gaming, my first ever pruchased piece of gaming technology was ruined. It was a blue N64 controller, including the save pak that I had bought a few months later for it (also purchased with my own money). It was horrifying to know all my hard work on games such as Perfect Dark (I never got Rank 1, but I was soooo close!), Gauntlet Legends (maxed everything, including experience) and other such memorable games. My sweet, sweet Blueie, how you shall be missed =(
Epic Fix!King of the Sandbox said:Heh, my friend Dave once chucked a tower onto his porch, in the middle of winter, then poured Mountain Dew in the now-visible innards, all because he was playing X-Com and he kept BSOD'ing.
The best part? After the rage died down, he brought it inside, hit it with the blow-dryer, and bingo, it worked perfectly. No more BSOD.
I was like....
Oh, I forgot about the time I dropped my original Gameboy down a mountain.
I was visiting friends up at Appalachian State in Boone, NC, when my friend Mike suggests we go do some hiking. So, we drive out to a local hiking spot and start making our way up the mountain.
I was rocking some Super Mario Land on my Gameboy, following the sounds of my friends voices, when I lost my footing and slipped.
Out of my hands goes the little gray box that had brought me so much joy. Down the mountain it goes, tumbling end over end in quite a fantastic aerial display.
I could still hear the 8-bit tune coming out of it before it hit the mountainside the first time. After that, it was all shrapnel and sad faces.
I wanted to go find its remains and give them a proper burial, but alas, there was no way of finding it in the sea of flora in the canyon below.
I was visiting friends up at Appalachian State in Boone, NC, when my friend Mike suggests we go do some hiking. So, we drive out to a local hiking spot and start making our way up the mountain.
I was rocking some Super Mario Land on my Gameboy, following the sounds of my friends voices, when I lost my footing and slipped.
Out of my hands goes the little gray box that had brought me so much joy. Down the mountain it goes, tumbling end over end in quite a fantastic aerial display.
I could still hear the 8-bit tune coming out of it before it hit the mountainside the first time. After that, it was all shrapnel and sad faces.
I wanted to go find its remains and give them a proper burial, but alas, there was no way of finding it in the sea of flora in the canyon below.
So your PS2 got Cheesed? Did it get to bathe with that chick with the huge melons?TheNumber1Zero said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCFXY_cSYQ
My ps2 still works fine with every single game but God of War 2.
My video card died on me a few years back, got a shitty replacement one for it. Since then I've been too poor to afford a newer one. Everything on my computer is fairly up-to-date, but because my video card died I can't play any of the newer games on it. Those I can play are restricted to minimum settings, and even then my computer has to strain.
I could go get a job and get an entirely new computer I supposed. However I'm incredibly lazy, as well as unmotivated. I'll just wait untill I'm settled and on my own before I get a good gaming computer. I'm stuck with consoles as a result, which I suppose isn't that bad, but I miss the PC gaming experience.
I could go get a job and get an entirely new computer I supposed. However I'm incredibly lazy, as well as unmotivated. I'll just wait untill I'm settled and on my own before I get a good gaming computer. I'm stuck with consoles as a result, which I suppose isn't that bad, but I miss the PC gaming experience.
I'm pretty sure that microsoft will fix RROD if you've had it less than 3 years. So you should be able to find the information on what to do with it/who to talk to/where to send it on the xbox website.
You may be without your xbox for a ridiculously long time though, my boyfriend sent his off and it took him a month to get it back. They did give him a free month of XBL to compensate for the month he'd lost.
I finally got The Sims 2 working and my laptop now point blank refuses to read discs. So I thought hmmm maybe I'll try runescape to kill some boredom, my laptop is so incredibly that it cannot run runescape without it lagging my laptop.
You may be without your xbox for a ridiculously long time though, my boyfriend sent his off and it took him a month to get it back. They did give him a free month of XBL to compensate for the month he'd lost.
I finally got The Sims 2 working and my laptop now point blank refuses to read discs. So I thought hmmm maybe I'll try runescape to kill some boredom, my laptop is so incredibly that it cannot run runescape without it lagging my laptop.
Well, me and a friend of mine accidentally mixed our xbox power cables, and we had top send them back to each other. Unfortunately, my cables arrived AFTER I had already left for university, so I was without a console for the entire first term. Hell. On. Earth.Sir Kemper said:
And if your console is dead, try and see if you can really fry an egg on it! You'd at least get some entertainment, (if not food) out of it