What the heck are you doing to yours? You don't have it crammed inside an entertainment center or anything do you?? And not standing it up on its side right? Oh by the way, mine should be back tomorrow, exactly one week turnaround from the day I dropped it off at a UPS drop-off location. Not too bad.
Nope, its free to breathe on all 4 sides, laying horizontal. I have 3 dogs which might contribute, but the system is a POS. I've owned just about every video game system since the 2600, and none have died. I now dust it before each time I play, just in case.
Ya they really weren't designed well. I am a long time XBOX fanboy and I gave up on it finally and switched to PS3. No more worries about whether or not I'm gonna be able to play when I want to play.
I sent mine to Microsoft 2 days ago and it's alread on it's way back. I made the mistake of putting it in an entertainment center. Didn't realize it was so fragile until I googled "xbox death" later.
Mine died only a couple weeks ago. There is an option to have them send you the packaging materials if you want to wait for them.
Mine died just last week. It's a launch 360. I'm pretty sure that no warranty covers a launch 360 anymore. Anyone know of a possible way to get it fixed? If not, I guess I'll be buying a new one...
Go to the xbox.com website and in the support section, indicate that you have a 360 and that your problem is the three red sections of the ring, and then it will ask for your serial # if you had not previously registered it with them. It will tell you instantly if you are covered under the extended warranty they created for this problem.
Consider yourself lucky. I had to have mine replaced after 2 years and was no longer in warranty(I didn't have RROD, but some disc read error). A little while after I got it back the tray didn't open with the button on the console, so I'm going to send it back near the end of my new warranty just to get that fixed and get another year of warranty. Edit: Apparently you only get another 90 days when you are getting it repaired while under warranty.
I just did mine online and they have a third choice that says Standard, that is the one you need to choose and get them to send a box. Only an idiot would choose the send label choice, because it takes the same amount of time as getting the full box. Printing it yourself saves 4 days.
Hmm I didn't see that; in the drop down menu it only had two choices I thought. But I just printed the label. Not really a big deal to do my own packaging and I'll get it back a little sooner.
I almost missed it too because it is hard to see at the bottom of the list. I can't blame you for printing it out.
I gave away my PS3 to a friend who wanted a Blu-ray player. I had to send it in twice because it stopped reading discs. Both times were within one year of purchase.
Well UPS is no stranger to shipping out busted XBOXs. They've done it so much they already have a pre-priced packaged specifically for it.
They just are problem machines, it comes a bit down to luck as well and also you get some people who probably mistreat them, they are fragile... just a hard knock to the console will kill it, same with the controllers. A guy I work with has had no luck... similar to the previous post.. 3 years and 5 boxs, once even got sent back a dead box when he sent one for repair and he doesn't do a thing to them, just has it sitting on top of his entertainment unit with space all around. I can remember the old Sega Megadrive would take a beating in the day and keep on going, I used to throw tantrums when I couldn't pass levels and throw the controllers into the ground all the time and they would still work!
I am on my 2nd 360. I would probably be on my 2nd PS3 as well if I ever played it, but I have not turned it on in months, I think around Christmas time. Both system have faulty disc drives. Both go through long stretches where it tells me there are disc errors or it simply cannot read any disc.
^^ Think they discovered that can cause the system to break down as well, since the disc drive is so fragile.
My 360 went RROD on me but I use the xclamps fix about 3 months ago and it still going so google xclamps fix.
I had a problem with my Xbox 360 Elite about a year ago. I called Microsoft. They sent me a package to ship it in. I shipped it (you remove the hard drive and do NOT ship the hard drive). About 10 days later, I received the repaired unit. It was pretty painless.
I don't know whats worse, the experiences you all are having or the fact that it seems to be cool even after multiple failures. Wow. I guess there are no limits to being stubborn. I almost got a 360 too. I'm glad I made the right call.
