Xbox 360 finally died! - A question about what to do now?

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Hey there, my xbox 360 finally died on me and so I went to the microsoft repair website and on their repair section when I filled in the details for the "repair request" it said enter credit card details because mine is out of warrenty and is gona charge me £68.

I looked on ebay and gumtree though and you can get 2nd hand xbox for £50 so am leaning more towards 2nd hand xbox coz I'd get it quicker as well and also I could try and find a drive to suit me such as hitachi for example haha!

Plus if I send my xbox 360 back to microsoft would they repair mine and send mine back to me or would they just bin mine and send me a brand new one? or a different 2nd hand one?

What do you think? any suggestions?

P.S. I've been really lucky because I bought the first xbox 360 that was ever released so I've had it since day one and its never crashed or froze or had any red rings until now, when was xbox 360 release? 7 years ago? I think I have been really luck upto this point because I know loads of people that had theres a few months or a couple of years and theirs broke.


Thanks in advance.
 
Actually yeah good idea, I'll try fix it myself, should be fun, been watching some videos on youtube, I already have thermal paste that I used on my CPU for PC so I'll try take it all appart, clean it up and reapply some thermal paste.
 
I managed to fix it myself, well happy! Took ages tho coz some of screws were really hard to get out, also found those X-clamps tricky as well on back of the motherboard, removed both heatsinks and put some artic silver thermal paste on and put it all back together and been playing on it for past 2 hours and it seems fine now. Before it wouldnt even turn on.

Enjoying dead space 2! :D
 
Well it was fine for a few weeks but now its died again, and Microsoft charge £68 to fix them?

I have a question though, will they defo be able to fix it? or Will they just bin it and send me a new one?
 
Mine is first xbox that they ever made, like 7 years or something? But mine has hitachi drive, for those of you who know what that means! wink wink....lol....so really not sure what to do, spend £68 on microsoft fixing it or buy another one off ebay/gumtree.
 
Well I guess the options are, pay microsoft £68, pay someone else £45 to fix it, or pay £50 for a new 2nd hand xbox or buy a brand new xbox for £150.

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones tho, coz I've had my xbox since release and it lasted 7 years, I've known people that bought an xbox 2 years ago and it broke one year later.
 
So if I send it to Microsoft and pay £68 when they send me back the working console do they give it a new warranty for like a year?

And "DreXeL", you've made me think thats probably what allot of people do now and sell theirs on ebay/gumtree and so I'm now leaning more towards getting mine fixed/replaced from microsoft rather then risk spending £50 on a console from ebay that might brake weeks/months later.
 
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