Xbox 360 Warranty Reminder - For those early adopters

[Abandoned]

Originally Posted by fotze

Leaving the console in the box for that long will mean it will likely break, it needs to be opened early...

Signed,

Your kid(s)

Ha ha im the kid(Teen,15).

[CarlW]

Originally Posted by Abandoned

I'm aware of a Xbox 360, recently purchased.

Unfortunately the Xbox 360 cant not be opened in till the 25th of the month (hint hint).

After reading this thread i got a little worried, so here is my question.

Since it was recently purchased is it just a likely to suffer from the Red Ring of Death as the consoles purchased when the system came out?.

Thanks in advance.

Usually the problems occur with the first few batches off the line. As long as it was produced fairly recently you shouldn't have any problems (not accounting for the occasional flukey sucktacular system that QC missed). Which is why many people don't like to buy new systems right when they come out as they have the highest ratio of bad stuff happening to them.

[photon]

Originally Posted by edn88

So, I experienced the Red Ring of Death today.

I am currently on hold with Microsoft support (going on 34 minutes now) after having talked to a person who could barely speak english...

I suspect I will be going through hell to get this actually repaired and returned...

I have no warranty (never buy them - this is the first piece of electronics that has ever failed for me), but I had read somewhere that machines manufactured before 2006 would be repaired for free due to manufacturing problems - has any one experience this one way or the other?

Hopefully they can help you.. They did extend the warranty for those that were manufactured and purchased before Jan 1 2006..

For example in my case I purchased on launch day, and when I called in about it they said my warranty expired December 4 2006.

Their extended warranties are pretty reasonable actually so I extended mine for a year.. of course it broke the next day.

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Abandoned

I'm aware of a Xbox 360, recently purchased.

Unfortunately the Xbox 360 cant not be opened in till the 25th of the month (hint hint).

After reading this thread i got a little worried, so here is my question.

Since it was recently purchased is it just a likely to suffer from the Red Ring of Death as the consoles purchased when the system came out?.

Thanks in advance.

I've had mine since about August and it's been fine. But I also have the Microsoft warrenty just in case.

[edn88]

Can't speak on that, but the good new/bad news of my story goes like this

after an hour and a half, I seem to have the problem fixed (had to remove the hard drive in addition to the cables).

My warranty was good until Dec 21 and I had the option of buying an extended warranty. Typically I shun all extended warrenties, but in this case, do to the likelihood of further failer, I paid $52 plus tax and got 2 more years.

[Bill Bumface]

I bought mine a couple months after they came out. I had some freezing problems and did some investigating. My serial number was out of the range for the ones that qualified for the extended warranty, so I'd assume some changes were made by the time mine was manufactured. I had mine in a closed cabinet with my cable box. At the time both my cable box and xbox were freezing. I ripped the back of the cabinet of, and voila, I can run my xbox and my cable box even with the solid wood doors on the front closed, no problems. No more freezing. Something to consider for those having problems...

[photon]

Originally Posted by edn88

after an hour and a half, I seem to have the problem fixed (had to remove the hard drive in addition to the cables).

My warranty was good until Dec 21 and I had the option of buying an extended warranty. Typically I shun all extended warrenties, but in this case, do to the likelihood of further failer, I paid $52 plus tax and got 2 more years.

I had the same thing, I removed my cables and HDD and put it back and all was good.. for a couple of days. Then it died again never to come back.

In this case I think the warranty $$ is well spent if you expect to keep the console for that long.

[CarlW]

Geez, is it just me or does it seem like the quality of the hardware has gone downhill?

So many NES', SNES, Genesis still work (heck my Sega Master System still works) but the new stuff seem to break easier/faster.