Another one bites the dust

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6th Xbox360 has packed in, thought I could give it some life with towels, kicking, loving and the like but no, dead as a dead thing!

Just phone Microsoft, emailed me the labels and expect a return in 30 days!!! :eek:

That's the LAN Party one 360 down - sorry guys.
 
~J~ said:
6th Xbox360 has packed in, thought I could give it some life with towels, kicking, loving and the like but no, dead as a dead thing!

Just phone Microsoft, emailed me the labels and expect a return in 30 days!!! :eek:

That's the LAN Party one 360 down - sorry guys.
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6! I feel sorry for your 7th already.

30 days seems bad, I thought it was supposed to be better now.
 
Nearly didn't get anything. You just couldn't make it up: I live on "Box Road", but their system wouldn't allow my address to go through because it was expecting a "PO BOX" number, and "Road" isn't a number!!!!!!!

So the lad had to do it as "## B0x Road" (a zero instead on an O) in order for it to go through.

Crazy!
 
~J~ said:
6th Xbox360 has packed in, thought I could give it some life with towels, kicking, loving and the like but no, dead as a dead thing!

Just phone Microsoft, emailed me the labels and expect a return in 30 days!!! :eek:

That's the LAN Party one 360 down - sorry guys.
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :(
 
Was on a launch console until last week :(

Now ms have it in for repair. Phoned today to track it and the lady told me it is normally 14 working days after the console was picked up. Another week to go then.

Just when I was getting back into my xbox aswell :mad:
 
Someone will lend you one for the LAN anyway, I'm sure of that.
Sucks that it died. Hopefully it returns a lot quicker.

Do you have yours horizontal or vertical Jason? My mates on his 5th now and he's never had it vertical and it's worked for over a year faultlessly, before that they were vertical and he had problems left, right and center.
 
Funny you should say that Mike, I'm on my 5th, it doesn't get moved, stands on it's side, no kids, no spillages, no uber long sessions, no mistreatment, vetalation all around the case, so there is literally NOTHING in which can cause it to go wrong. It's just sat on my desk doing what it should be doing...

Mine could well be giving up, when I turn it on via the controller it provides no output to the TV (though the sound still works, so it's booting up) waiting to RMA some time soon again.

If it does die, i certainly will be putting in a complaint, as it's beyond a joke now.

But that's the problem you get with the refurbished 360's, they aren't brand new, so will go wrong again.
 
They told me 20 days, and I received it yesterday 2 weeks to the day I posted it.

Can't believe you're on number 7 though. How long did the last one last / did it have the fabled improvements that resovle the red lights of extreme doom?
 
I think many months ago I was involved in a discussion on one of these threads, and I *think* it was DirtyDog and myself that were talking about my 'environment' and why I had so many failures.

The unit it stood vertically, although the first 2 or 3 were horizontal. Only reason why it's vertical, for me, was space saving and I had a crazy/logical idea that ventilation would be better that way.

No uber-long sessions, no kids, no moving it, no nothing. The "ONLY" possible explanation I can think of, for me anyway, is coal dust. I have a solid fuel fire and those who have or have had one will know that the damn dust will get everywhere! My PC has some damn good filter systems in it, and it's opened up and cleaned every couple of months. Only thing I can do with the console is blow in it, whether this blows out the air or forces it to pile up in a corner I don't know.

Only indication I had that it was failing was last night. About to go through Portal Advanced, phone rang, was on for an hour, came off the phone and saw someone had sent me a message so pressed the jewel button and as the blade opened up it hung. Waited a minute or two, switched the console off, left it 10mins while I went for a drink, came back and it gave me 3 red lights.

Tried it again throughout the night, but no joy. Same this morning but won't even switch on now, just gives 3 red lights (no fans activate or anything) so it's well and truely borked.

Microsoft have said they don't want the harddrive (thankfully!) but their procedure has changed since the last one I had a problem with as they are emailing me address labels which I've to attach to a "cardboard box", ring UPS to arrange a pick up and take it from there.

So well fed up, can't take it back to the shop as I bought it in Exeter (none high street, just a cheap little game shop) so has to go home to Microsoft.

O well.
 
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