My xbox, has followed, like many others, the reaper into the fields of forever with the bright and pretty red ring. And yes it was Gears of War that killed my machine, i guess being pushed to the limit isnt something the 360 likes, at least not the early ones.

Now i need to call the damn support, is it open in the evenings?

All the early 360' s were defective, its just a matter of time before they die.

Bummer man, now I' m freakin scared. I don' t wanna send my baby back!

I' ve had 3, and since Gears has been in this one, it' s just started being really slow,
Gears used to load up the textures rather quick, but now it' s like they purposefully
place me in a Red Steel universe, which is none too exciting..

Vx, I will pray for you.

Im hoping for a new from factory, probably wont be that lucky! and the WoW servers are down as well, fuck i might have to play on a last gen consolde, RE4, or SotC

If you haven' t completed SotC I suggest you do.. It' s amazing.

Can you still claim on your warranty?

Also, did your heart jump when you saw the red lights? Mine does, all the time.

yeah, its still under warranty, MS extended it as well! and its two years, standard here!

Aw fuck no!

What a joke. After an entire year yours, mine and Mass' s die within 10 days of one another. The one i bought when my launch unit (which they replaced with a defective refurbished unit, *sigh* which has gone back again) was only manufactured in October and seems to be holding up just fine. Fortunately i have my receipt and if it fails i can replace it at the store rather than deal with Microsoft' s dumb repair team.

Tiz, that sounds like what was happening to my launch unit. I' d die and then when the game loaded the checkpoint the textures took longer and longer to load. Then it started freezing, and well you know the rest already.

VX i hope you get sorted out quickly...

yeah me too, i could take it to the store, but they' ll probably just ship it to MS themselves, and fuck I hae a copy of R6 i havent put in the machine!

Bah, it worked briefly then died! Fuck im bored!

Yeah mine died after a few months after I bought it Dec 13th last year, and the second one which was new has some quirks as well. The disc tray doesn' t always want to open, and sometimes it won' t turn on but that problem seems to disapear when I restart it. The build quality and the mic sound quality are my only two complaints about the 360. I think I' ll wait a few months and send in my second unit. Hopefully they will give me one on the 65nm proccess as Canadians always get new units.

ORIGINAL: Vx Chemical

Bah, it worked briefly then died! Fuck im bored!

Kikizo beauty pageant 2006?! You did start that last year didn' t you?!

Well you could...you know go outside. HAHAHA man I must be losing it. nevermind.

ORIGINAL: Majikdra6on

Tiz, that sounds like what was happening to my launch unit. I' d die and then when the game loaded the checkpoint the textures took longer and longer to load. Then it started freezing, and well you know the rest already.

Argh!!! Oh well... It' s just a case of waiting until the after emergence day effect.

Which blows, blows and hums, blows and blows.

My 360 will join you guys ones soon..

yeah its around that time again :P ill start it up soon :P

The disc tray doesn' t always want to open,

Same here, sometimes mine freezes after exiting certain XBLArcade games, (Doom & Small-Arms mainly)

And yes it was Gears of War that killed my machine, i guess being pushed to the limit isnt something the 360 likes, at least not the early ones.

That isn' t true.

first gen title isn' t usin 360 at maxium,even epic dev said they can press more of 360.

You was just unlucky with having a bad system,even though it hold this long(short in reality though...) anyway i feel sorry for you.
Hope u get a new one soon m8.

I think Gears is killing EVERYONE' s 360 at the moment...

Like when Shenmue was released on Dreamcast, that game pushed the console
to it' s limits, my Dreamcast never ever experienced any strain until I put
Shenmue in there, luckily for me I always knew what was wrong with my
Dreamcast and had a continuous Phoenix Down for the damn thing...

I just found out that my room mates 360 is a launch unit. And it played gears no problem!

For the time being.