hey that was pretty sweet playing co-op with you. The lag was bearable even though we are a gizzilion miles away, I don' t think I want to play versus like that though.

Oh yeah, I couldn' t use my mic because I was wearing headphones due to my roomate sleeping.

Thats what happened to my first 360, but what happended was that my warrenty ran out 3 weeks before it happend, but MS let me buy an extended warrenty even though mine ran out

I bought a 360 at EB Games on launch day and paid $50 (canadian) extra for a one year warranty. Today I walked into EB, told them my console was broken (it wasn' t), they gave me a new one I kept my HD and I paid 50 bucks again for the new warranty. Next year I will probably do it again; If you buy a launch unit of any console your crazy not to get rid of it for a new one via warantee. 50 bucks a year and no hassle, consider it with your next console purchase.

Same here I did the same thing what a great deal

Ahg my 360 is having the 3 red lights hissy fit now!

It was all workign fine when today I went and bought the HD-DVD. That all worked fine as well til I decided to program the universal remote it came with. During the setup I had accidently shutdown the 360 while the HDDVD drive was open... I freaked and shut it then turned the 360 back on ...and there they were...

Microsoft is saying that what happened to me isn' t a recognized " known issue" and so want me to leave the machine off for an hour and call back and run through another checklist.

I' m getting annoyed now.

Mass, did you fix it yet?

I bet tey' ll replace it, I' ve never heard of any problem with replacing the 360 (as long as you haven' t chipped it). Don' t you have some sort of guarentee? I think ours in Sweden stretches for 2-3 years (not sure) and we are suppousedly allowed to return the machine up to two years after we bought it, no matter what the reason and get our cash back, because the 360 didn' t pass some swedish minimal security checks (can' t guarentte how valid the latter statement is, as it was Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet who wrote that).

Btw: Is it possible to save ones save files under another gamertag?

Also, hope it works out Majik

No,its all electronic stuff have a warranty for 1 year in sweden,that costed above 300kr.
Basically 45$+

I think we got a 6 month warranty, but if it' s 12 months then it runs out within days...

I' m going to buy a new unit, have this one replaced and give it to a friend.

If 6 months then: Ouch!
If a year then: what are you waiting for, HURRY![:' (]

I' m sorry to hear this Majikdra6on. I' m still on my first 360 and hope that mine doesn' t go the same way anytime soon.

Meh, who cares eh?!

I' m going to buy another console later this week and have this one replaced. I' ll have 2 360' s and 2 copies of Gears of War.

Ghost, you didn' t get 3 red lights, it just did the same as what' s happened to mine?!

Original: Iad umboros

You might have seen something like this? Anyway, I hope deleting your save sorts it out - Geras online is awesome, not too complicated but it really highlights the need for good teamwork. And we need to get a quality Kikizo team together.

Original: QuezcatoL

Sorry majik for that joke,i hope they fix it for you fast,that sux

Original: Chee Saw

Sorry to hear about that Majik. Well, welcome to the club!

Original: Eddie_the_Hated

Dude, that sucks Majik.

Original: Dionysius

hope it works out Majik

Original: Calintz

I' m sorry to hear this Majikdra6on.

You guys are awesome!

Y' know, now that it' s finally happened to me, i can see why Gangsta wouldn' t buy a 360 until it was released in Poland and why even then he was bothered about it failing and wanted to wait for a newer version.

I wonder how much Microsoft have lost through having to replace faulty units...

I wonder how much Microsoft have lost through having to replace faulty units...

Obviously not enough to rectify the problems. That is one thing I' ve noticed, it' s just little problems that happen every so often. The console freezes, it spits out the disk. It' s not really that bad, but it gets me scared that there' s a recurring problem.

I' m going to buy another console later this week and have this one replaced. I' ll have 2 360' s and 2 copies of Gears of War.

I' m guessing you know this already but here goes: If you got your 360 from a shop, you can just take it back to where you bought it from and they' ll replace it free of charge if it breaks during 12 months warrnty. Well, Game, HMV and the like do anyway.

No need to spend all that money, unless you got yours online, in which case moan at MS and demand a brand new replacement.

Good luck with it dude.

Obviously not enough to rectify the problems.

Nope, where I work we keep getting nearly two or three back most weeks as faulty.

ORIGINAL: Kyo.k

I' m going to buy another console later this week and have this one replaced. I' ll have 2 360' s and 2 copies of Gears of War.

I' m guessing you know this already but here goes: If you got your 360 from a shop, you can just take it back to where you bought it from and they' ll replace it free of charge if it breaks during 12 months warrnty. Well, Game, HMV and the like do anyway.

No need to spend all that money, unless you got yours online, in which case moan at MS and demand a brand new replacement.

Good luck with it dude.

Hey dude! Where have you been?!



I got it from Play.com

Microsoft have emailed me some labels and they' re going to replace the unit. I spent 40 minutes on the phone with some super-hot-sounding American girl earlier today and she didn' t ask me to do anything with it. I explained what i' d already tried and she typed it all up.

I' m still buying a new console though. I have a fair amount of store credit at work and so i think i' ll buy the Sonic bundle on Friday. At least if i have two and one fails again i won' t have to go without for a week or two.

Woohoo had my 1 year warrenty still laying around. Went into EB said it dont work they said shitty and gave me a new one and that was that. Got most the stuff updated again just gotta d/l a few things again.

Gonna have to get the Transfer kit so I can backup all my files on my PC incase shit happens again.

[EDIT] This new 360 is a little bit of a bitch...gave me an error message on its first startu just to mock me. Then upon opening the disk tray it spit and sputters in strange and fiendish ways... On top of that I now know what people were talking about when they mentioned lotsa heat...its frightfully scary at times.

However its all still veyr bearable and If anything happens I got a new free 3 month warrenty. Plus I think they may have renewed my eb warrenty due to an error made when I got the origional warrenty.

I damn near had an Xbox 360 scare at 1 am this morning... I inserted the Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 game disc into the system for the first time and got some greyish/off-white screen of doom that instructed me to insert a game disc into the unit. At first I thought maybe I had a defective game disc, then I tried loading up some other games that I played countless amounts of time and I got hit with the same message every time. I thought I had finally screwed up the system by leaving it on for several days. Finally I decided to shut it off for a while and try again later to see if maybe giving it a break might help.. 3 minutes later (yeah, I know, that was some rest period I gave it!) I powered the system on with Smackdown vs. Raw already inserted and voila it loaded up fine. Then I tried Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 which finally loaded up. Maybe that was the system' s way of telling me to stop leaving it on for weeks at a time???

I' m still buying a new console though. I have a fair amount of store credit at work and so i think i' ll buy the Sonic bundle on Friday. At least if i have two and one fails again i won' t have to go without for a week or two.

Sounds good, didn' t realise you got your 360 from play though. I just tend to walk straight past the forums when I' m tired out from a shitty day at work, hence my apparent lacking on the subject.

Anyway with Sonic and probably Gears of War to buy on friday I hope me 360 doesn' t do the same.

Ghost, you didn' t get 3 red lights, it just did the same as what' s happened to mine?!

At one point I had the red lights, sometimes it would give me the fuzzy screen as you have, sometimes it would work but freeze and eventually I couldn' t even turn it on. The one I have now has quirks but still works, the disc tray won' t open sometimes unless i push it in a bit. The 360 is pretty cheap, it looks like its built on the lowest bitter, still love it though.

My friend got that,but it was lightproblem in his house the elitricity fucked up.