DSapseid Posted February 12, 2008 Posted February 12, 2008 I turned my xbox 360 on last night only to see the dreaded 3 red lights! Its 14months old so i will need to send it back to Microsoft oh well looks like i will be with out it for a while:mad:
Joanne Posted February 12, 2008 Posted February 12, 2008 sent mine back... had it for 2 weeks and it did it again. They are sending us a free wireless controller as sorry. I went out and bought a ps3....
dhicks Posted February 12, 2008 Posted February 12, 2008 I turned my xbox 360 on last night only to see the dreaded 3 red lights! Only when you ring up Microsoft to complain, the soft but persuasive voice on the other end of the phone tries to convince you there's actually four lights... -- David Hicks
Joanne Posted February 12, 2008 Posted February 12, 2008 nah they were ok with me... probably because i am very insistant that it doesn't work!!
CyberNerd Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 lol@ "the red ring of death" ....you know you've been f***ed in the a*se by microsoft:D
Bromcom_John Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 There is a very funny video about this floating around.. http://www.digg.com/xbox/Xbox_360_Ring_of_Fire_parody Is just one example
phreak Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 Ha ha! Thats brilliant. The parody, not the fact that your Xbox's keep falling over.
tech_guy Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 lol@ "the red ring of death" ....you know you've been f***ed in the a*se by microsoft:D Shouldn't that be 'Microshaft' then?
FatBoy Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Great song... Mine died after about 10/11 months and I had to send it back. It took about a month to get back which I wasn't happy about but at least since I have had the box back it's been fine. Altho saying that the last week the fan started making a bit of noise when I first turn it on ...... Once its warms up tho it's fine I mite put a tea cosey on it when I first turn it on in future LOL
EduTech Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 lol, well at least microsoft extended the warrenty on the consoles so u do not have to pay for anything. Also take your consoles serial number, so when they send yours back you can see if they have actually changed your console. See you back online soon Regards James
CyberNerd Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 lol, well at least microsoft extended the warrenty on the consoles so u do not have to pay for anything. Don't let the MS marketing machine take you for a ride on this one, the product is inherently faulty and MS know this, thus not replacing it would be in breach of the your consumer rights. It would be up to the purchaser to prove the manufacturing fault, but given how common the problem is, it wouldn't be hard to prove.
tech_guy Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 I've been wanting an Xbox 360 for ages but this red ring of death malarky has put me off ever buying one. I know so many people who have had it happen to them. One friend is on his fourth console. Microsoft have simply swapped it each time without question. Shame because the Elite is a beautiful looking bit of kit.
CHR1S Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 (edited) Happend to my 6 month old 360 just before half term, MS CS were very helpful and it was replaced with a recon unit in 13 days door to door. New unit has a much quieter DVD and heat sensitive fans that actually work this time too lol! The driver who picked mine up said it was his 6th that week, my friends who died a week earlier was the 15th collected that week, so, a VERY common problem Edited February 19, 2008 by Edenalig
TheBrain Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 Had this happen to my 360 before Christmas. Credit to Microsoft 11 day turn around and some free MS Points to boot!
DSapseid Posted February 19, 2008 Author Posted February 19, 2008 Mine was picked up on Monday so will have to wait and see when it gets back, the address it was sent to though was only 20mins away!
Lithium Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 That address is the graveyard Moving along from my interesting dislike of 360 hardware (not the games, can't mess with a few of them... AC6, Frontlines, Forza etc (not Halo)) But, on the subject of RRoD's.... this should make you all feel better http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=33248
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