It finally died.
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The death of my Xbox was a weird one. When my brother was home from college for winter break, he got really into Fallout 3 along with me, and played some rather long sessions of the game. Then, when he decided to play the game for a second playthrough, he started notices some rather extensive glitches; shadowing issues, discoloration, and all other glitches started wreaking havoc all over the game. He then decided to turn off the 360 and then turn it back on again, but when he turned it on, while the sound and control was working fine, the screen displayed a bunch of fast moving lines of purple dots. After calling up 360 support and testing the 360 on multiple tvs/component layouts, we soon diagnosed the problem as a video input issue as the graphics card was messing up. After re-registering my Xbox 360 and paying for the non-warranty repair charge ($95? seriously?), it was soon sent back to microsoft. While the repair was happening, I soon got a rather odd call from the microsoft repair facilities; they said that the problem with my graphics card was something that required a replacement of the motherboard, and that I had two decisions I could choose: I could wait for the motherboard to be replaced, or they could send me a refurbished 360 with my old hard drive. Being the gaming-deprived self I was at the time, I chose decision two, and soon my new 360 was sent. While not as dire as the RROD, my situation was quite random, as my system was about 1 and 1/3rd years old. Then again, putting about 90 hours of Fallout 3 with me and my brother combined playtimes can really burn up a system.
Mine's blitzed twice in the last few months. First time I was gearing up for a Halo match with my mate, and then I saw it Red Ring. It was a bitter but quiet moment. I knew it would happen eventually, but you can never fully prepare yourself for something like that.
After two years, my Xbox, oh why did you go?
Remember our good times with Gears?
With Bioshock? With Halo?
Was it your time? Were your parts growing old?
I'll not forget that last time we played,
When your green lights went red, and you left me cold...
Remember our good times with Gears?
With Bioshock? With Halo?
Was it your time? Were your parts growing old?
I'll not forget that last time we played,
When your green lights went red, and you left me cold...
sorry for sounding like a fanboy but each time i hear of another 360 casaulty, i imagine myself as some kind of evil overlord stroking a PS3 instead of a white fluffy cat...
The infamous SCAMola said:
why do you keep using it than? It's a shitty product and you deserve your money back.sirdanrhodes said:
I don't get it.
It'll be fine, IT'S OK TO CRY!Hoppetussa said:
After two years of service, Mr.Bananahat (Aka Xbox 360) died on me. I turned it on and the three red lights... It's burned into my mind. I know some people don't like that people make threads about their Xbox dying, but He must be remembered! Let's have one minute silence.
To add some discussion to the thread: What was the first thing you did when your Xbox died?
In all seriousness, Microsoft will probably have it back in 1-2 weeks most likely.
your post count when I posted this reply: 360
kind of weird huh? anyway it must have been a terrible loss he had many friends and family to ive for and wont be forgotten. anyway what will be on his epitipah
kind of weird huh? anyway it must have been a terrible loss he had many friends and family to ive for and wont be forgotten. anyway what will be on his epitipah
My Xbox also died recently to. But I saw it coming. The disk tray had been having trouble functioning and the deadly rings had been appearing occasionally. Then one day it finally let out a horrendous groaning sound and stopped functioning.
Then it got repaired about 2 weeks later.
Then it got repaired about 2 weeks later.
I immediately blamed it on my younger brother, who had just gotten off. Now most of you might say I might be to blame for turning the thing on, but you don't understand: my brother emits this damn field that destroys technology (and on some days my generals in Total War games). It's like that Penny Arcade comic a few months ago, only living in my house, destroying iPods, the home PC, my wireless router, and anything with a microchip. I think when Skynet takes over, I'm just going to stand outside of my house with him tied to a very large stick and wave him around like a flail.