is it now time for me to switch to a PS3?
Only a couple days after I decide to level down once again and completely overhaul my 360 collection, my 360 gives me the 3 red lights. This is the third time this has happened to me, which will make this replacement the 6th 360 to have come into my possesion. (One of my first 360s was returned because it scratched and ground up my discs, and my 5th 360 is still currently working).
While I had issues with my first few 360s since they were so close to launch, this 4th 360 was a Zephyr that had a pretty long life cycle compared to the others (over a year!). In fact, without the red ring of death really spoken of much in the media these days, I had forgotten all about it so it was a nasty surprise. Luckily, I bought a Falcon Arcade unit as a backup for just such an occassion. But with my current setup now, the Falcon is sitting downstairs as a media streamer so it’s annoying that I have to carry it back and forth if I want to play games on it. And don’t get me started on how the .avi codecs are account specific for each 360. Grr.
What’s equally annoying is that a couple weeks ago, Microsoft decided to stop sending people coffin cases for their 360s. I’m guessing they got so many of them in that it was costing them too much money so they are now having people use their own packing boxes. I had to run around my house looking for stuff to put together…a box big enough to hold the 360 and stuff to pad it.
The 360 service center will probably be laughing at my packing job – it contains packing peanuts, air bags, and crumpled up newspapers. Not the most professional but I didn’t have enough peanuts or airbags to do the whole box since it was so big. Maybe if you guys actually sent me a coffin I wouldn’t have to resort to this!
For the time being, I guess I’ll spend more time with the Wii and PC…
just cause you got the red ring doesn’t mean shit, before you send it in for repairs, LET IT COOL OFF. I got the red ring once and let it cool off for about 2 hours and it’s worked fine ever since. this was several months ago.
sorry man, that sucks.
i’m definitely familiar with red rings as i’ve gotten a couple before this one already. but like you recommended, i let it cool off overnight and tried it again the next day. game booted up fine, but after a few minutes, back to rrod.
my brother had a rrod from a power surge, but after we rebooted it the system was fine so there are cases where a rrod isn’t permanent. unfortunately, looks like mine is…