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.
 
If its was me and my launch console just died I'd grab a brand new xbox 360 slim.

Funds permitting of course.

But out of the 2 options you mentioned I'd probably go second hand.

Oh BTW has anyone noticed that Hitachi is only an "ld" away from HitAChild. :D
 
Try and fix it yourself?
I took a friends apart earlier that had the open tray error. Few videos on youtube and a bit of luck later and it now works !
 
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.
 
My lauch console died on boxing day too m8

I got myself a nice 250gb slim for £175

Did keep the old one though with a mind to having a go at repairing it(when i can be bothered)
 
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?
 
Depends really. I had one that got the RRoD and they sent me a new one out but my friends did the same and just got fixed, depends how hard it is and the age of the console I would have a guess at
 
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.
 
I've got the same dilemma at the minute. I'm loathe to pay them £68 to fix something that is a known problem, when my original SNES is still working fine. It just seems a waste to pay £160 for a new console and also transferring all my HD contents over for game saves etc. will be a nightmare.
 
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.
 
Do the x-clamp fix again, but do the oven-bake at the same time. Then part ex for a slim before it stops working again.
 
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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.
 
SkScotchegg said:
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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In all honesty yes, that is what a lot of people do. It's just not worth the risk buying a non-jasper old shape model any more.
 
SkScotchegg said:
Whats jasper, is that what new xbox's have like the slim?
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Smaller manufacturing process which has supposedly stopped RLOD all together. Basically it runs cooler so that the motherboard and solder points don't break and warp when the console gets turned on and off, this is probably the main cause of RLOD.

You would have seen yourself when you took your xbox apart, as to how warped the motherboard becomes, because the apertures on the casing are nowhere near where they should be. Amazes me that my benq one still works!;)
 
SkScotchegg said:
Whats jasper, is that what new xbox's have like the slim?
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As above, it was the last revision of the motherboard in the old shape consoles. Amongst other revisions it used a cooler running CPU and GPU, and due to the improvements it doesn't suffer from RROD. I fix 360's on an almost daily basis, and I'm yet to come across a RROD Jasper.
 
DreXeL said:
As above, it was the last revision of the motherboard in the old shape consoles. Amongst other revisions it used a cooler running CPU and GPU, and due to the improvements it doesn't suffer from RROD. I fix 360's on an almost daily basis, and I'm yet to come across a RROD Jasper.
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Does the Xbox 360S use Jasper?
 
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