Within three hours. Dead.

[quote name='jalu6']Got mine back from MS today. They just sent me a brand new one, manufacture date 12/12. Been playing PDZ and CoD2 and it works much better than the first one. Not counting weekends/holidays got it back in 5 days which is pretty good customer service.


Hope you get yours back soon Mooky, or even better you are too busy playing to post here. :)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, got a new one as well that works great. Here's to Dead or Alive 4! :beer: :beer:
 
[quote name='SteveMcQ']For those that had to do repairs, you only had to send in the console, not the HDD right?[/QUOTE]

I sent in both, and got back a wiped new drive. So keep your drive.
 
[quote name='neocisco']360's freezing up, PS2's w/DRE's and Nintendo with...wait a minute, I've never heard of any Nintendo systems having substantial problems.:)[/QUOTE]

You never had an NES then did you? The flashing blue screens, blowing on the cartridges...
 
Here is my story,

I got a 360 on Launch took it home and was fucking witht the menu system and interface for hours. I did some private chats and put some music on the hard drive and was just having a blast.

At about 3:30am I decide it is time to play some CAll of Duty2, well guess what happened the game froze up onme with in fifteen minutes, so I decided to go to sleep.

The Next day same thing Freeze, Freeze, Freeze. CAll of Duty 2 and PGR3 froze up multiple times and I was really getting frustrated. I tried out PDZ with the same result so I called MS we went over the tech questions and we tried to give it another go. Next day same results freezing, so I call back and they send it in and well check it out.

The Box arrived a day later and I ship it out next day air. I got my brand new replacement within 5 days and have not had a problem since.

I had a DRE PS2 that would not read blue discs, sent it in and Sony replaced the drive for me for free.

My Launch gamecube still works today with out error and my Xbox (not launch) has given me Dirty Disc errors but I just take the disc out pop it back in and it works fine.

What I don't understand is if you knew about these problems and you were going to have an issue if your console had a problem, why did you take the chance and purchase a launch unit?
 
Looks like those people with theories about the power brick causing these bad 360 systems might be right. In fact, wasn't there an article about this? If so, I'd like the link to read it.

My new 360 died Sunday around midnight. Monday morning, I call and they ship out an overnight box. "This time, we'll need your console, hard drive, AND the power brick," they said. They sent a larger box this time, with room for the power brick.

They didn't ask for the power brick last time; I made sure to ask whether they wanted it or not, too.

Hopefully, this will be the last 360 exchange I will have to do with MS. At least their customer service has been great with this, though. Within a week of it dying, I have a new 360.
 
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Originally Posted by Saucy Jack
And who can forget pushing down on the cartridge on the very edge of the NES's opening, right before it met the black part that would spring downwards (kinda hard to explain)... so that the cartridge would fit tightly and work 95% of the time?

Good times... :lol:


[quote name='MadFlava']Did anyone get credit for developing these NES techniques? I bet there are 1000's of people out there that claim that they figure out the trick about blowing air into the cartridge receptors. I don't even remember how I heard about that. You think it would have been kind of hard to spread that technique around the world without the internet and just by using word of mouth.[/QUOTE]

I've met tons of people who have "blown" on their cartridges. It has made such a lasting impression on me that when DVD's or CD's don't work, I dust them off then blow into the DVD/CD player still.

What shocks me is that I had never known anyone who jammed the edge of their game against the machine and slammed it in to make it "fit tight" (I know, hard to explain) besides me and my brother. I was right about to post about it when I read Saucy Jack's post...amazing.

That technique, I still need to use today, and I still don't quite understand why...
 
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