Elite

Lateralus68 · 22 Oct 2007 at 11:58

My 360 Premium died on saturday... RROD

However... It was still under warranty from the high street store I bought it from in January so I paid an extra tenner and got this...

I am happy again now

NokkonWud · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:15

Glad you were able to get it swapped over without much hassle.

Darkwave · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:16

Legendary wallpaper incoming!

Nice setup though.

Lateralus68 · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:19

Ulfhedjinn said:
Legendary wallpaper incoming!

Nice setup though.

Aye.. haha

My wife has so far refused to spend money on decorating my gaming room... but that will change after Christmas thank god :cool:

ic1male · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:26

How come you only had to pay a tenner?

Lateralus68 · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:30

ic1male said:
How come you only had to pay a tenner?

My original bill for the Premium in January was £289 with a couple of extras thrown in (VGA cable etc). The manager at the shop today said to just put in a £289 refund and the Elite was £299.

ic1male · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:34

I'd've thought you'd only get a refund for the current price of the console £249 - after all it has devalued over 10 months. Nice one, anyway!

punky_munky · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:43

Did you lose your saved games and whatnot or is there some way to transfer them over?

Darkwave · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:45

punky_munky said:
Did you lose your saved games and whatnot or is there some way to transfer them over?

Are you asking because you're genuinely worried about his savegames, or are you thinking that £10 loss is worth it to make your 360 have a little "accident"? I imagine a few people are contemplating the latter.

Slogan · 22 Oct 2007 at 12:46

punky_munky said:
Did you lose your saved games and whatnot or is there some way to transfer them over?

I imagine the hard drive would still have been fine on the failed console. After that you can use a Microsoft cable to transfer data from one 360 to another.

I think that's how it works.

Judging by his gamer's score, he got the data switched over.

AngeluiMorte · 22 Oct 2007 at 13:13

Slogan said:
Judging by his gamer's score, he got the data switched over.

Cant you just keep your gamer score by recovering your gamer tag? If so then you would still lose the save games if you couldnt transfer the data across.

Kreeeee · 22 Oct 2007 at 13:49

AngeluiMorte said:
Cant you just keep your gamer score by recovering your gamer tag? If so then you would still lose the save games if you couldnt transfer the data across.

Yep, gamerscore proves nothing except that he remembers/has recovered his password.

DanMc07 · 22 Oct 2007 at 14:52

Lateralus68 said:
My original bill for the Premium in January was £289 with a couple of extras thrown in (VGA cable etc). The manager at the shop today said to just put in a £289 refund and the Elite was £299.

Lucky git

Payed £280 for mine, hopfully when i return mine I can get one too

Highly doubt it though lol

Master_X · 22 Oct 2007 at 16:22

Thats cool, How did you hook it up to your monitor and speakers, what connections did you use??? I am looking to do the same but dont want the bother of unconneting and reconnecting cables everytime i want to play 360..... :confused:

Kreeeee · 22 Oct 2007 at 16:59

Master_X said:
Thats cool, How did you hook it up to your monitor and speakers, what connections did you use??? I am looking to do the same but dont want the bother of unconneting and reconnecting cables everytime i want to play 360.....

VGA cable.

Lateralus68 · 22 Oct 2007 at 17:04

Yes VGA cable to the monitor and the speakers... works a treat!

Master_X · 22 Oct 2007 at 17:15

Lateralus68 said:
Yes VGA cable to the monitor and the speakers... works a treat!

But then how does the VGA connect to the sound as i am presuming i would need to use a converter from the normal (3 head phone jacks) that go into the back of my PC to the VGA sound cable???

NokkonWud · 22 Oct 2007 at 17:36

Master_X said:
Thats cool, How did you hook it up to your monitor and speakers, what connections did you use??? I am looking to do the same but dont want the bother of unconneting and reconnecting cables everytime i want to play 360.....

VGA cables to a KVM is the easiest way to swap between PC and Xbox360 on one monitor.
If you have something with 2 VGA ports such as the older Iiyama Pro 45x series or one with DVI-D and VGA then you can just swap without any need for a KVM.

Buffman · 22 Oct 2007 at 20:57

Wow, I wish I was able to do that with mine D=, mines currently being shipped in to be fixed :'(

JBeck · 23 Oct 2007 at 09:24

Nice deal, a tenner is nothing, shame Microsfot can't do the console the same colour as the controller instead of a manky Grey...