hey, my 360 just started getting a lovely red checkerboard pattern followed by the red ring of death...just to try putting some numbers to it, who has/hasn't experienced the ring of death?
Feel bad about your xbox, you are gonna miss the release of a bunch of good games.
Odd suggestion...
When you get your xbox back, go on xbox live and just randomly poll people as you play games. When I did that I found it to be about 15%, which is still huge, but still far less that the 1/3 number that gets thrown around. Other people on xbox live have reported similar numbers. Tell us what you find out!
I am thinking lots. I just picked up my box sent from microsoft yesterday. It is plain white box without any markings indicating it is from Microsoft. When I picked it up the box, the lady at the UPS warehouse asked "do you have the blinking red lights?".
Thats weird enough, but when I dropped off my box at a UPS store closer to my house the guy there asked "are you just dropping off...oh wait, you are going to want a receipt for that. xbox right?" This is the plainest of boxes you can imagine, and the shipping label only lists an address in texas, no mention of Microsoft. The guy in a small ups store in chicago says he gets about one a day. Not sure what kind of numbers that translates too, but seems like a very high failure rate for any consumer electronic.
I am glad it doesn't cost me anything to fix, but being without it kind of sucks.
Wow, thats a horrible experience you described, can I have your gamer card id so I can ask you how things turned out when you get your xbox back from microsoft?
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hey, my 360 just started getting a lovely red checkerboard pattern followed by the red ring of death...just to try putting some numbers to it, who has/hasn't experienced the ring of death?
Feel bad about your xbox, you are gonna miss the release of a bunch of good games.
Odd suggestion...
When you get your xbox back, go on xbox live and just randomly poll people as you play games. When I did that I found it to be about 15%, which is still huge, but still far less that the 1/3 number that gets thrown around. Other people on xbox live have reported similar numbers. Tell us what you find out!
I am thinking lots. I just picked up my box sent from microsoft yesterday. It is plain white box without any markings indicating it is from Microsoft. When I picked it up the box, the lady at the UPS warehouse asked "do you have the blinking red lights?".
Thats weird enough, but when I dropped off my box at a UPS store closer to my house the guy there asked "are you just dropping off...oh wait, you are going to want a receipt for that. xbox right?" This is the plainest of boxes you can imagine, and the shipping label only lists an address in texas, no mention of Microsoft. The guy in a small ups store in chicago says he gets about one a day. Not sure what kind of numbers that translates too, but seems like a very high failure rate for any consumer electronic.
I am glad it doesn't cost me anything to fix, but being without it kind of sucks.
Justin,
Wow, thats a horrible experience you described, can I have your gamer card id so I can ask you how things turned out when you get your xbox back from microsoft?