Stop paying for xbox repairs!

[Firia]

You know, more often than not Microsoft just sends you a new 360 with your HDD on it. they've done that with me 6x.

EDIT: complete with the 'new product' smell that is oh so sweet.

Yaknow, the smart consumer in me just won't buy cheap products, no matter how sweet it smells.

You get what you pay for, I argue that. And that's why I also haven't turned it on since getting it back. My PC, PS3, and Wii sort out all my needs.

Aye, getting what you pay for is indeed a trueism. However, some companies like to belive their product can be overvalued, and therefore overpriced. The 360 is held together with outsourced bails of hay and chewing gum. The global market pays the massive mark-up from a product that was put together with about as much care as a retarded monkey and sculpting clay.

I play the 360 when I'm at my friends house. I own a PC and a PS3, but enjoy games that the 360 has to offer. If the product was better made, I might actually buy one (except for the fact that whatever goes 360 always seems to turn up on the PC eventually). I fondly belive that gaming is for fun and there isn't any one console that dictates a higher quantity or quality of fun. But there is a crap factor, and the 360 stepped in it. It stepped in the crap, and expects us to pay the markup. If it's a red ring of crap, they'll foot the bill.

 

[Chickenlittle]

This would have been useful for me a few months ago. MS technicians broke something and wouldn't fix mine. My brother ended up getting help from his tech teacher on this.

 

[Snotnarok]

I got a warranty for my 360 at best buy, never paid for any repairs on it, and I've returned mine 6 bloody times in 5 months for a new system each time.

 

[oAmadeuso]

I've sent a couple back and they were replaced for free.

I've also done the X-Clamp replacement a couple of times for peoples machines that were out of warrenty.
The X-Clamp replacement is whilst cheap (just some washers, nuts and bolts. it's not free in terms of time. Done properly took be about an hour including replacing the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU with arctic silver.
Those that i've done this on are still working after a year but I wouldn't do it on a in warrenty system.


Plus if you send it in for repair you should get the revised heat sinks with the pipe and extra sink.

The towel trick is like a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
You're melting all the solder on your console just to re-flash the GPU and CPU solder.
Massive over heating over all parts too. It may work for a while buy your machine will suffer in the long term and you've done nothing to fix the cause. (x-clamps and poor cooling)

[edit] just watched the second video and he's putting coins on the Memory chips?
Whilst the chips can fail somethings the main problem is the GPU stuck under the DVD drive and the X-clamp causing the board to bend breaking the chips solder points.

This is how you fix an RROD properly
http://copronymous.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/fix-for-the-3rlod.pdf