Microsoft Puts Nail in Xbox RROD "Coffin" Program

[captaincharisma]

lol i think its funny how they embrace the so called "falcon" hardware. give it another year till a new kind of error crashes the thing

 

[Hatecrime69]

[citation][nom]okibrian[/nom]daft, that was the best comment yet.[/citation]

Well if it was built like the xbox 1 that sucker would defect those bullets like a man! 😛

 

[mdillenbeck]

Whatever happened to saving your packaging in case you need to send it back to the manufacturer for warranty service?

If I had to send it in for service, however, I'd probably go to a place like Mailboxes Etc to make sure it was professionally packed and ensured. Of course, I don't console game - I PC game.

 

[joshwood123]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]Considering I'm on my 4th Xbox, I already have the special packing materials - doesn't make any difference to me.Yes. 4 Xboxes. They've been dying on a yearly basis. This one will die between august and october, given the pattern.I wish I was joking.[/citation]

Lol, dude i feel sorry for you... i have had two xboxs, i got the pro version when they first came out, and that one finally died about 6 months ago(it wouldnt stay on for some reason, no errors.) but now i have an ELITE...



oh and one of my friends got the RROD, and he bought a kit on ebay and he seriously fixed it, it works perfectly now, and it only cost him $25...
lol

 

[noodle64]

buying a 360 was the biggest mistake of my gaming career. i've been through 2 red rings, and i know a 3rd is just around the corner. I'm going to send a 30" cube box so microsoft gets hit with a $300 dimensional weight package. which puts me almost even for getting epicly ripped off.

 

[Guest]

This article is wrong. I shipped my 360 away not a week ago, in a box supplied by Microsoft.

 

[Guest]

Seriously, you get your box back sooner if you ship it yourself. How douche-tatic do you have to be to spin that into a negative thing? Censor this comment and prove me right!

 

[Guest]

Seriously, you get your box back sooner if you ship it yourself. How douche-tatic do you have to be to spin that into a negative thing? Censor this comment and prove me right!

 

[Caffeinecarl]

[citation][nom]MDillenbeck[/nom]Whatever happened to saving your packaging in case you need to send it back to the manufacturer for warranty service?If I had to send it in for service, however, I'd probably go to a place like Mailboxes Etc to make sure it was professionally packed and ensured. Of course, I don't console game - I PC game.[/citation]
Looks like at least one person hasn't lost their common sense.

 

[timaahhh]

Ironically enough I shipped mine in a few trashbags with some packing peanuts stuffed between. The Trashbags helped the xbox sit flush in the box without moving around.

 

[Sicundercover]

[citation][nom]Socrates047[/nom]dude its NOT as you put it; my buddy has RROD on his and he went online to find out which specific error it was. guess what? it wasn't a heat problem, but the "i dont know, im just dead" error. seriously, its an actual error. M$ sent it back saying "there seems to be some tampering with the case/ sticker and we are no longer responsible for the damages"good thing for us we're still hardcore PC gamers...[/citation]

Well if you would have read my post instead of skimming through it you would have seen that I also mentioned that it is releated to the DVD drive. A replacement drive and a bit of spoofing fixes that. You would have also seen that I fix these often and and have been doing so for a while. But if you knew anything about how to do it or even how to spoof a 360 drive you would have fixed yours after MS sent it back.

 

[anamaniac]

With packing peanuts, bubble wrap, or foam.

I like protecting my hardware. I do not trust mail carrier services.

 

[skyhacker]

With my own piss on it...ive gone through 3 units...

I have an Atari 2600 that still works flawlessly...

A NES, N64 . SNES, PS1 PS2, all work...no issues...

360??? A steaming pile of Bat %$#@

 

[Guest]

It was like this in Europe from the beginning, no empty boxes from Microsoft were provided. Worked fine with me, twice.

 

[apmyhr]

Actually, this article is wrong. The timing is very funny because my xbox just RROD last weekend. On Microsofts website, they let me choose whether to print the e-label or get the box and label shipped to me. I chose the second for convenience. So unless things changed from 4 days ago (the article claims this change took effect on May 26), this article is wrong, because you can still choose to have the box sent to you.

 

[tictac_ns]

This is not new,... My 360 red ringed last fall and all I got was a shipping label. My 3rd and last red ring. When it returned, I sold it without even opening the box.

 

[tenor77]

I'd send it in the box they sent the last one in.
J/K.........or am I?

 

[a-nano-moose]

I would open it up and fill it with real peanuts for protection.
Then I would put the label on the bottom and place it into one of those blue mail drop boxes.

 

[thegh0st]

[citation][nom]article[/nom]According to Joystiq, on May 26, Microsoft stopped sending out empty shipping boxes "in an effort to expedite the repair process."[/citation]seems to me like Tom's should have taken the 5 to 10 minutes to call Microsoft/XBOX and verify a story coming from a 3rd party.

why regurgitate someone's else's obviously unverified news to basically just give us an internet link? I guess it was more about "stirring the virtual pot".

 

[chillwolf]

Also working on my 4th x-box return, I am getting to send one back about every 6 months now. The next time I send one back if they do not provide the box I think I will wrap it in tons of gaffers tape and nothing else aside from the shipping label.

Seriously I am so over the x-box 360 and it's incredibly craptastic habit of breaking for no apparent reason. I will never buy a Microsoft gaming system again.