I read a lot on here where have bought multiple Xbox 360's. Why so, didm't MS honor their warranty on their machines? Also does this problem that many people on early on, still going on? =hugh
Uh, I have 3 Xboxes because I have one in my family room, and 2 in the game room each with their own monitor. One of those is my wife's, the other 2 were mine. When mine broke, MS honored the warranty. When my wife's red ringed - they honored the warranty. The warranty is not forever - the original Xbox 360 a 90 day warranty, and once the red ring became a problem they extended it to 3 years. The Slim and new Xbox 360 E model have a 1 year warranty. The original Xbox 360 was discontinued in 2010, so the last original 360's sold are going to be losing out their warranty soon. MS will still repair a console outside of warranty - but some people would rather just buy a new one.
1 year warranty, extended to 3 years for RROD and E74. Is the US standard warranty really only 90 days?
Right. To expand on that, 1) I also have many 360's. Some are special editions that look cool. Some are to mod and tinker with. Some are to keep stock. You can never have too many Xboxes. 2) I think Microsoft did stand by their warranty quite well. They even extended the warranty out to 3 years as XxHennersXx mentioned. The problem is, it would take a few weeks to maybe a month or more to send your console in and receive a replacement. Many people wanted it fixed NOW so they tried to fix it themselves... thus voiding the warranty. Microsoft will repair/replace a console out of warranty as well, but it may be a wiser choice to buy a new unit. 3) The early problem you mention is more commonly referred to as "Red Ring of Death". None of my consoles have ever RRoD'd. Most of the RRoD errors were due to the console constantly overheating. Several board revisions have helped with this. Many will say the original Xenon boards weren't able to stay cool but in my experience the faults were always due to the console having poor ventilation. People I knew who kept their Xbox 360 on the floor where carpet hampered airflow experienced RRoD while those who kept the console on a table or entertainment center did not. A slim 360 is far less likely to overheat than a phat 360 due to improved fan design/placement. Hope this helps!
In my case, my first 360, which I got in 2006 RROD'd while it was still under the warranty, and they fixed it and sent it back. I think that happened a year or two after they extended my warranty to 3 years. Then a year or two after that it RROD'd again, and that time it wasn't under warranty - so I was screwed. So in 2009 I got a new 360 to replace the useless one. The new one is a Jasper model, and it's lasted for the past 4 years with no problems. I rarely play it as of late, though. I've been meaning to sell the broken one for a long time, but I doubt it'd be worth much now - it's an early HDMI-less model.
The cause was lead free solder and insufficient cooling, cycling through hot and cold that stresses the solder (which was also never applied properly). NVidia had the same problem on an entire generation of video chips (affecting laptops the most). I can see why people think that it's over heating that causes it though.
Yup. It's the only reason I had multiple. The first Halo edition in green looked amazing, and so did the Resident Evil (Red) the Modern Warfare 2 ones. Eh, idk man, Microsoft had lawsuits like crazy for the 360, I don't think they wouldn't of stood by anything if it wasn't for those lawsuits. I had RRoD in warranty and I sent it in to Microsoft after calling and checking everything with there support team. It took them 15 months to send me a new console back. (Even after calling every 2 weeks after month 3) I wasn't looking for the quickest solution in the world solution, but a year + is ridiculous.
At the moment i have: White 20GB Console - JTAG Red "Resident Evil" edition - RGH Red "Resident Evil" edition - Normal Online play in Game Room Star Wars Edition - Normal Online play in Living Room i have a few more lying around too that i have used for testing various bits and pieces over the years had about 3-4 console RROD on me, they were either repaired by MS under warranty and then sold or they were repaired locally and then sold never had a problem sending them back to MS as long as they were within the 3 year warranty
It was at launch, as are most consumer products. Uh what the fuck? My 360 took 2 weeks, as did my wifes and my brothers...
Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous. Mine took maybe a month, I think. 15 months is just stupid. Maybe they fixed it really fast and then decided to play with it for a year before sending it back. As I said, Microsoft "fixed" my 360, only to have it fail again a couple years later.
Well it's a typo and I couldn't figured how to change it. So just work with it. However I wouldn't mind seeing DOA doing 69! Back on topic. That is something that I didn't think of. 'Special' units' for collectors. But I never thought about buying more then on for the family, but again i see the point that you are making, and saving from internal fights to break out with the children, on you's turn it is to play X-Box. Are these new Xbox reliable, are they still getting this red ring error? =hugh
My Wife and I both had ring rings in 2009, we both got our Xboxes in 2007. They haven't red ringed since. My brothers also red ringed the same year and no problems since. I also have a slim i bought in 2011 and it's been fine.
I've got quite a few 360s in various conditions from working to non-working for parts, two of which I use regularly: One is a Jasper 512MB Arcade with a hacked 320GB hard drive that I use for Xbox Live. The other is a Jasper 256MB Arcade that I JTAG modded. I did a number of mods to this to help keep it from crapping out (due to the at-the-time rarity of mod-able jasper systems) such as heatsinks on all the ram chips and HANA chip, putting a CPU heatsink to the GPU, etc. I also did quite a few cosmetic mods on this one, mostly just to see what kind of stuff I could do. It was my project system for quite a while. I learned a lot about modding while working on this thing. The only 360s I've ever had RROD problems with were launch (Xenon revision) systems. I've used a number of Falcon and Jasper boards, and they've never had any issues. I've never owned or used a slim.
I could be a outlier, but it took 15 months. Actually, I hope an outlier. It was a Halo Green Xbox 360, so that probably played a factor.
