360 Elite repaired and Falcon

LadFromWales

LadFromWales

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Hey guys,
I recently had my Elite repaired by Microsoft as the drive was making an awful grinding noise constantly, and the video output went mostly pink and green when on for more than a few mins, followed by no video output after a reboot, until cool.

It come back, working fine, with a new optical drive...but upon looking through the vents on the bottom, following the various "which board do I have?" guides on the net, I have found that they have replaced my board with a Zephyr, same as I had originally. I've read all about people having launch day consoles replaced with the Opus board with a 65nm CPU...do they not also replace Elites with 65nm CPU boards also?

I wasn't sure the board had been replaced at all at first, until I'd noticed that its NIC mac address was different and wasn't getting the IP it was supposed to from DHCP. Not too bothered really, just wondered if it was standard practice with Elites atm.. :)

Thanks
 
If they did replace it with a Falcon, you'd need a new PSU for your console. The plug on your old one wouldn't fit, an MS ask you to send the console only to them.
 
Bigpops said:
If they did replace it with a Falcon, you'd need a new PSU for your console. The plug on your old one wouldn't fit, an MS ask you to send the console only to them.
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The Zephyr consoles plug fits a Zephyr console and a Falcon console.

The Falcon consoles plug will only fit a Falcon iirc.
 
That's correct, Minstadave, the 203w power brick will connect to both the Zephyr and Falcon...the 175w connector won't connect to a Zephyr.

It's not the end of the world though, it would have been nice to have had it replaced with a Falcon, but at least it works. I bought a new one to tide me over for the week and a bit it was gone, the new ones are so quiet in comparison!
 
LadFromWales said:
That's correct, Minstadave, the 203w power brick will connect to both the Zephyr and Falcon...the 175w connector won't connect to a Zephyr.

It's not the end of the world though, it would have been nice to have had it replaced with a Falcon, but at least it works. I bought a new one to tide me over for the week and a bit it was gone, the new ones are so quiet in comparison!
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you bought a new xbox when your current one was getting repaired?
 
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