Here's my question: do you get the 1 year warranty on a refurbished unit you receive from Microsoft when you send in a RRoD system?
I originally purchased my 360 in February of 2006. System ran without a problem until the Spring 2007/Guitar Hero II update, which I downloaded in late-June 2007, and got the RRoD in July. I was having an internal debate on whether I should pay the fee to have my system replaced outside of the one-year warranty, until MS came out and extended the RRoD warranty to three years.
I filed a claim, sent in my RRoD system, and got back a refurb in August 2007. I could tell the system had been a refurb because of the additional noise generated by the system (compared to my previous unit - I think there is an additional fan on it.) Outside of the unit being louder and taking longer to boot up, I have not had any issues until this past month.
In the past month, while playing games (in particular, Assassin's Creed,) I will get a disc read error after about 1.5 hours of use. This is leading me to believe my refurb system will "clunk out" on me in a month or two if I continue to regularly play it. This is what leads me to my question: did the refurb come with a one year warranty/three year RRoD on it, effective when I received it in August 2007 (so the warranty is good through August 2008/2010), or does it fall under my expired one year warranty, and the three year RRoD warranty which ends in February 2009? Anyone who has experience/knowledge from dealing with MS, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
EDIT: Also, for anyone who has recently received a refurbished unit, have the systems come with or without an HDMI? My current system is HDMI-less, and I would love to be able to make the change.
I originally purchased my 360 in February of 2006. System ran without a problem until the Spring 2007/Guitar Hero II update, which I downloaded in late-June 2007, and got the RRoD in July. I was having an internal debate on whether I should pay the fee to have my system replaced outside of the one-year warranty, until MS came out and extended the RRoD warranty to three years.
I filed a claim, sent in my RRoD system, and got back a refurb in August 2007. I could tell the system had been a refurb because of the additional noise generated by the system (compared to my previous unit - I think there is an additional fan on it.) Outside of the unit being louder and taking longer to boot up, I have not had any issues until this past month.
In the past month, while playing games (in particular, Assassin's Creed,) I will get a disc read error after about 1.5 hours of use. This is leading me to believe my refurb system will "clunk out" on me in a month or two if I continue to regularly play it. This is what leads me to my question: did the refurb come with a one year warranty/three year RRoD on it, effective when I received it in August 2007 (so the warranty is good through August 2008/2010), or does it fall under my expired one year warranty, and the three year RRoD warranty which ends in February 2009? Anyone who has experience/knowledge from dealing with MS, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
EDIT: Also, for anyone who has recently received a refurbished unit, have the systems come with or without an HDMI? My current system is HDMI-less, and I would love to be able to make the change.
