awww
I've had my system for 28 days. No problems, but ever since I got the system, I have heard nothing but creeks and cracking when the system is idle (on the dashboard)
Fired up the 360 to view a match from the other day and it locked up on the theater section of halo 3. Shut it down...gave it a few mins, then restarted. got one ring light and then it gave me a E 79 error (hard drive :O) , so I disconnected the hard drive after shut down, gave it a few mins, then booted it without the harddrive.. guess what I got? RROD
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the hard drive DIED and the system DIED.
Talked to MS and they said I could take the drive to another system and if it boots on that system, I can format the drive before sending it back to MS or Microcenter (Where I bought it from).
Now here is the catch...
I bought my 360 refurbed from Microcenter last month with there 2 year exchange warrenty program. I got an ad, email AND recepit that states 2 years unlimited exchanges. Confirmed with the manager that if anything happens within 2 years just bring it back and I get another refurbed as many times as I can as long as defective. If they do NOT have another refurbed, then I get my 249.99 back in store credit.
Microsoft said you could do that, but you could also send it back to them and they will fix it. Yes I will be out of the system for 3-4 weeks but I will get a patched up system (new heat sink?). However there is ALSO the possibility that if they can't fixed the system (maybe something finally cracked)..that I might just get another refurbed. This is fine HOWEVER, it will change the serial numbers so that if I do take that new serial number back to Microcenter, they will notice the two numbers are different and might reject me.
Last time I checked they had NO more refurbs. I already bought 13 months of live, 6000 MP pts, 3 live games, 1 theme and no movies.
So what do you guys suggest? I am more worried about loosing the exchange promo and my hard drive data (my live account information) then getting my system fixed. The Microsoft guy said it's fairly easy to migrate one account to another drive/system.
and Tetris was coming out today... AWWW
I just don't want anyone else touching my account at that store if they get the hard drive to work.
Can I suspend my account until the new system comes in?
Also, should I towel trick it so I can get the system to boot to wipe the drive and hold out for the coffin?
btw- What happens to all my saved game data? Espically halo 3... just beat that bitch the other day and am worried that I have to go through the entire game again