Oh no, I think my 360 is dying

[michaels]

I'm not getting the ring of death or red lights, but it's freezing up and making wierd artifacts on screen..NO!

 

[mordantmonkey]

What's MS's warranty like on those things?

 

[Hyperlite]

sounds like heat...

 

[RichUK]

Ohh noes !!!!!!

 

[tbike06]

Originally posted by: RichUK
Ohh noes !!!!!!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Oh noes teh overheat!

 

[michaels]

I wonder if wal-mart would exchange it....

 

[thecrecarc]

just in time for the... WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

 

[michaels]

Hell no

 

[Platypus]

Make sure you get the extended warranty.. and prepare to wait almost a month for a replacement from Microsoft.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

I hope sony loses market share.

sorry, thats my automatic response along with 90% of ATOT whenever a console thread comes up.

 

[MrWizzard]

Sounds like a heat problem, too much dust get sucked in maybe. I always use this with my 360s, keeps em cool.

LINK TO COOLER

It's a little loud but I can live with it, and the reviews show it lowers the internal temps a lot.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Make sure you get the extended warranty.. and prepare to wait almost a month for a replacement from Microsoft.

Last night on the 'phone MS told me it would be 10-12 business days total: 4-5 BD to get a shipping label / box to me, 2 BD for repair, 4-5 more BD to send it back. I wouldn't quite call that "almost a month" but let's see if they're true to their word!

 

[EngenZerO]

mine did that for about two weeks... then boom red ring of death...

luckily i had the best buy protection plan... saved me 400 bucks.

 

[michaels]

So if it is toast, the HD should still be good right?

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Seems like it's starting to happen to some of the first way 360s. Whenever I get around to plunking down the $$$ for one, I'm gonna make sure to get a PRP from Bestbuy. From what I understand, if it breaks within the 3 years, they give you a voutcher for what you paid for whatever you got the PRP on, you then use that voucher however you want in BB. Doesn't sound like a terrible deal to me on something like a 360.

 

[davidsi]

isnt the warrnaty just 3 months? thats some weak sauce

 

[JohnAn2112]

Yep, 90 day warranty from MS. After that, it's $140 for the repair on a 360 console.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Click

That's the second one on AT in 2 days?

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: davidsi
isnt the warrnaty just 3 months? thats some weak sauce

thats pretty standard on consoles. i think they don't make much money selling them.

 

[Modular]

You would think that a company like Microsoft would have done some quality control on something as expensive and mainstream as the 360 ...

: )

My friend bought one the first day they came out. About 10 minutes after playing it I felt how hot it was and predicted that it wouldn't last very long. I think he got a few months out of it before using the warranty.

Sony and Nintendo FTW on this one. Or...even better: buy parts and build a cmoputer. Consoles are teh ghey.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Seems like it's starting to happen to some of the first way 360s. Whenever I get around to plunking down the $$$ for one, I'm gonna make sure to get a PRP from Bestbuy. From what I understand, if it breaks within the 3 years, they give you a voutcher for what you paid for whatever you got the PRP on, you then use that voucher however you want in BB. Doesn't sound like a terrible deal to me on something like a 360.

Oh you could just buy it from costco.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
Yep, 90 day warranty from MS. After that, it's $140 for the repair on a 360 console.

Its starting to smell like there's a reason the warranty is so crap.

 

[davidsi]

Originally posted by: sniperruff

Originally posted by: davidsi
isnt the warrnaty just 3 months? thats some weak sauce

thats pretty standard on consoles. i think they don't make much money selling them.

are playstations only 90 days? i know all the nintendo systmes ahve 1 year warranties

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: davidsi

Originally posted by: sniperruff

Originally posted by: davidsi
isnt the warrnaty just 3 months? thats some weak sauce

thats pretty standard on consoles. i think they don't make much money selling them.

are playstations only 90 days? i know all the nintendo systmes ahve 1 year warranties

just checked. 90 days on PS2.