[jaaz]

Originally Posted by Ninjaneer

Well my condolences lol. My 360 Elite died late Jan. Got the red ring [of death]. It came on normally after a restart but would continuously crash. So I send it in, they send a brand new replacement ~2 weeks later (couldn't fix mine apparently).

I was out of town so my bro plugs it in and can't get the wireless controllers to connect... the next day he turns it on to try again and the lights no longer work on the 360 but it comes on, and now the power cable light is Orange. All this on a new replacement. So we call support and they send us out another box and a free game from some limited selection (we chose Project Gotham 3) and this time they tell us they believe our power cable shorted the 360 and asked us to pack that along with the new box they'll send us.

So now I've been without the 360 for close to 2 months! And fitting the whole power cable box in that shipping box along with the 360 wasn't easy.

When you get it back, put it on ebay and use the money to buy a PS3.

[Ninjaneer]

Originally Posted by jaaz

When you get it back, put it on ebay and use the money to buy a PS3.

Well the reason I went with a 360 hasn't changed: the games and the great XBOX Live system they have in place. PS3 doesn't really have anything of interest to me so far... but who knows, with Blu-Ray winning the format war it might be a good choice down the road although I believe Sony and MS are in talks to release a Blu-Ray player for the 360.

[LilFingers]

That sucks, i'm on my 2nd now knocking on wood that its the last.

[ScheerSpeed]

happened to me. had mine back in 3 weeks

[BeeEmDubU]

Originally Posted by MTV

PS3 > Shitbox 360

+1

I'm still on my first Ps3

[Los Angeles]

Xbox360 ftl. Very crappy.

[Ninjaneer]

Hate to strengthen all the PS3 lovers' claims but unfortunately my 2nd replacement came in and guess what?! It died within 10 minutes

I selected my language, my country, it asked to update, failed to connect to the internet (although the cable was plugged in fine). I cycled power, the 360 logo came up, then it switched to the Customer Service System Error screen and was flashing RED

I honestly dunno wth customer service can do for me at this point. I'm gonna get stuck in an endless cycle of shipping replacements back and forth; certainly can't get my money back unless I sell it on eBay as suggested but I can't really sell something I dunno works or not heh.

This is ridiculous Been about 2 months for this ordeal.

[Ninjaneer]

UPDATE

LOL well this is a little embarrassing but it's good news. My 360's failure was only 1 red light, and not the 3 lights for the red ring of death. Error code was E68, so I googled it and it's related to the hard-drive being messed up or improperly connected.

Sure enough, I popped it out and turned the 360 on, it works fine. Powered off, then I re-seated the HD back in till I heard a bunch of satisfactory clicks, powered the 360 up and VOILA, good as new