"RED RINGS OF DEATH SOLVED"
- Thread starter YUNG $PIDER
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Just had my third xbox get the red rings.. I've actually been trying to get it to get the rings for a week or so because it was doing the freezing thing it does when its about to, that doesn't allow you to play games.
So yeah, got the rings and already ordered my box..
Its not hard to do this shit, which is why it doesn't bug me too much. just go to service.xbox.com, select the three red lights option and you get a free coffin sent to you. and you just load that bitch in and take it in and send it out.
So yeah, got the rings and already ordered my box..
Its not hard to do this shit, which is why it doesn't bug me too much. just go to service.xbox.com, select the three red lights option and you get a free coffin sent to you. and you just load that bitch in and take it in and send it out.
I wasn't sure if they'd give me shit or not. because the extended warranty doesn't cover anything but the red rings, not sure if they'd turn it on and it not get the rings, and send it right back, but I think they just take yours, put a new one in the box and send it out. Since everytime I've sent mine in, I got a new xbox.
I've read that in 2005 Microsoft knew that over 50% of their consoles were defective. I'm on my 4th Xbox. The fist one RROD'd me in less than a week, then the replacement RROD'd me a month after that... Then the refurb'd one I got back from them RROD'd two or three months after that.
3 out of 4 Xbox's failing sounds like 75% to me. The sad part is, I'm not the only one I know on their third or fourth box. I would tend to believe that as you go further down the timeline, perhaps another 2-3 years, the failure rate would be well over 50%
Microsoft didn't tell me that months of delayed gameplay and fucking with a UPS guy to get them to leave the fucking box on your doorstep was a feature I was paying for when I dropped my 400 dollars. Since it's "not hard" to be inconvenienced in this way, maybe you'll be nice enough to ship us YOUR working xbox when ours fail. Then you can simply call the number, talk to the dummy on the other end of the line, (most likely "Joe" from Uzbekistan), wait for the coffin, send it out the next day, wait a month and PRESTO, there's your XBox!
I'm not attacking you personally, but the difference between "hard" and "unnecessary" is huge. Especially for something that you pay a good amount of money for, before you even buy a game or peripherals to use with it.
And on the note of "fixing" the red ring, I'm sure that's exciting for someone who is just going out now for an XBox. For people like me, I'm just waiting for my fourth to malfunction, so that three years and thousands of dollars later, I'm finally getting the product that I paid for. They should offer to just send you one no matter the condition of your current XBox.
3 out of 4 Xbox's failing sounds like 75% to me. The sad part is, I'm not the only one I know on their third or fourth box. I would tend to believe that as you go further down the timeline, perhaps another 2-3 years, the failure rate would be well over 50%
Microsoft didn't tell me that months of delayed gameplay and fucking with a UPS guy to get them to leave the fucking box on your doorstep was a feature I was paying for when I dropped my 400 dollars. Since it's "not hard" to be inconvenienced in this way, maybe you'll be nice enough to ship us YOUR working xbox when ours fail. Then you can simply call the number, talk to the dummy on the other end of the line, (most likely "Joe" from Uzbekistan), wait for the coffin, send it out the next day, wait a month and PRESTO, there's your XBox!
I'm not attacking you personally, but the difference between "hard" and "unnecessary" is huge. Especially for something that you pay a good amount of money for, before you even buy a game or peripherals to use with it.
And on the note of "fixing" the red ring, I'm sure that's exciting for someone who is just going out now for an XBox. For people like me, I'm just waiting for my fourth to malfunction, so that three years and thousands of dollars later, I'm finally getting the product that I paid for. They should offer to just send you one no matter the condition of your current XBox.
Yeah, i was really pissed when i had to send my shit to 'em.. They should break me off wit' a free game or somethin.. My shit didnt even RROD, it had tha gay ass disc reading error thing.. And worse of all it happened like 3 days after GTA4 came out.. I remember i was farther then anyone on tha siccness on that game when it first came out, then i got the RROD and didnt get my shit back a month later.. By then y'all was posting spoilers 'n ruined tha game for me lol.. Idk, it took 3 weeks to get the box, but only 1 week to get that shit sent back to me wit' a new brand new xbox..
It's defantly more then an inconveince.. and worse of all microsoft's actin like their doin you're ass a favor by fixing tha peice of shit they sold you.
Dont get me wrong, i love my 360, but that shit is/was poorly built.
It's defantly more then an inconveince.. and worse of all microsoft's actin like their doin you're ass a favor by fixing tha peice of shit they sold you.
Dont get me wrong, i love my 360, but that shit is/was poorly built.
I had the E74 error which isn't a heat issue but involves the graphic processor of the 360. Technically it isn't covered under the RROD warranty, but I told them I had both so they fixed it and also gave me two cards for live (one month each.) My 360 is a Falcon, and I hope it doesn't die out, but if it does, I'm gonna send it in for repairs and just mod it when I get it back.
That's not what I said. I said the E74 error wasn't covered under the RROD warranty. These are two different problems. One has a 3 year warranty and the other one a 1 year warranty. My system was just past the one year warranty, so I told them I had both problems, and they went ahead and fixed it. If not, I would have been out of $99 like these idiots:
http://news.teamxbox.com/comments/18608/Error-E-74-The-New-RRoD/
http://news.teamxbox.com/comments/18608/Error-E-74-The-New-RRoD/
i never knew they only cover 3 red rings, i always thought it was any red rings. good thing i got a extra warranty on top of the microsoft one.
edit: fuck after reading that i might as well make it get RROD with a towl. i aint payin $99 for them to fix my 360. the fucked up thing is i bought my 360 from walmart and those faggots didnt tell me anything about their stupid system. i would have to send it too wal marts company to "fix it". but wait thats not all, wal mart wont fix the RROD until MS 3 year warranty is up. so now i have a 6 year warranty, which i will most likely never use bc by then a new syster will be out.i should just stuck with best buy
edit: fuck after reading that i might as well make it get RROD with a towl. i aint payin $99 for them to fix my 360. the fucked up thing is i bought my 360 from walmart and those faggots didnt tell me anything about their stupid system. i would have to send it too wal marts company to "fix it". but wait thats not all, wal mart wont fix the RROD until MS 3 year warranty is up. so now i have a 6 year warranty, which i will most likely never use bc by then a new syster will be out.i should just stuck with best buy
I know that. I'm saying the overheating rings, two red rings, is probably due to bad ventilation.
Three red rings is just from shitty made hardware. The one person I know who's had an xbox for an extended period of time that hasn't broken keeps his xbox on the carpet and shit and it never got the rings.
Three red rings is just from shitty made hardware. The one person I know who's had an xbox for an extended period of time that hasn't broken keeps his xbox on the carpet and shit and it never got the rings.
