Second dying Xbox in 7 days

Nuclearbaggins · 7 May 2006 at 23:01

Seems im going to be visiting my local not so useful game store again tomorrow morning for a second replacement xbox in 7 days, the first one started random crashing on the new fifa and also PGR 3 and was replaced last tuesday(2nd).

Now tonight ive settled down for a few games of PGR for the first time since swapping my console(i have played fifa and other games since) half a lap into the race this happened(see pics) , I restarted my console and tried again only getting half a lap in and the same started happening again.

Nuclearbaggins · 7 May 2006 at 23:15

yeah my first one was fine for about 3 months just hope they have got one to swap me tomorrow.

Nuclearbaggins · 7 May 2006 at 23:19

yes i did they said i had to

Nuclearbaggins · 8 May 2006 at 09:49

VIRII said:
Have you hoovered it and did you remember to sacrifice a pigeon to the altar of Gates?

O this gets better it seems my only gripe is to be with my home town game shop, having just got off the phone to Nigel the deputy manager who informed me I need to take my copy of the game in so they can test it. Maybe he’s forgetting I just informed him the game worked fine for 30+hrs on my old Xbox and when I informed him of this again he says well it could be a HD cable problem (when all the other games work fine).

I have already told him ill bring the pics of it doing it id like to say there fake but why the hell would anyone want to package up there Xbox twice in a week is beyond me, basically i've taken his name and intend to complain about his service/manner. Apparently its a process they have to do when accepting returned Xbox’s to check if there faulty, obviously this guy is a technician as well as being a useless git.

This is all compounded by the fact I ring stoke game as soon as I get off the phone and 20 seconds explaining to him what’s wrong with it, im blessed with a reply "no probs mate bring it in will swap it you"

/end rant

Nuclearbaggins · 8 May 2006 at 09:58

Bennah said:
Thats a shame mate...

Could be a fault batch at the store? I would get a refund and go somewhere else tbh...

First one lasted 3months so its just this one hopefully, see how my new one goes when i get it home fingers crossed.

Nuclearbaggins · 8 May 2006 at 13:30

Ive got my new one at home now and the first game I tried is PGR ive played it for about 30mins all seems fine at the moment, TOUCH WOOD :rolleyes:

Nuclearbaggins · 9 May 2006 at 07:26

Well im hoping there is not an impending problem with Mr 360 the third, once last night and again this morning ive had the three red quadrants show up on my console on start up. After switching it off and back on its fine (3 red lights-MS help page) says its a hardware issue.

Please dont die, please dont die :mad: