how common is it for a 360 to die?

Blackstar_solar said:
I've had my Premium (HDMI falcon 65nm yadda yadda) for 4 months and it just red ringed. Xbox Support are being rubbish getting the postage labels to me though :(
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Mine just red ringed and as it is my third repair they sent me a box for express delivery. They said the turn around is 7 days as it is the third repair.
 
My launch RROD, the 33% figure was probably about right for those units.

Now that they have released the Falcon I think it seems to have dropped considerably. My 360 that got replaced before the Falcon still scratches my discs and I might take it back to the store (I had a 3 year guarantee) to replace it with a Falcon.

If I do that though the DRM system buggers my accounts again and I'll have to be on the phone to MS about 20 times.
 
SS-89 said:
Luck of the draw in all honesty. Still on my 1st from Dec05 and its still going strong. Be happy it's a great console, if it fails you have 3 years warranty with regards RROD.
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Does it not concern you that yours will be out of warranty then in December this year? It would me and I would even want it to red ring so that I could send it for repair/replacement before it expires tbh.
 
Always find this an interesting subject. Got mine on release day, failed the next but MS had a new one at my door within 72 hours. That machine is still fighting fit to this day, and that includes 4 house moves, my daughter attacking it more than once, frequent travelling and heavy use.

Some of its down to luck I guess, but I think a lot of times these things die that the user is somewhat responsible. Without a decent amount of space around it (and the PSU where possible) your asking for trouble with the 360. I also think that having the machine 'standing' is another reason for there being reliability issues.

Then again, maybe Im just lucky to have a used and abused 360 thats over 2 years old now and having no problems. But sometimes I feel like Im the only person not to be on more 360's than I have fingers on one hand ;)
 
Blackstar_solar said:
I've had my Premium (HDMI falcon 65nm yadda yadda) for 4 months and it just red ringed. Xbox Support are being rubbish getting the postage labels to me though :(
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take it back to the store you got it from then if its 4 months old, you've 12 months warranty that the store is responsible for too.
 
had mine for about a year and a half and broke once, disc reading errors. Toke it back to *competitor* got crap from the guy told him if he didn't replace it right there and then I was going to trading standards, was still in its warrenty aswell, I walked out with a brand new xbox with old hard drive included. :)
 
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