imdaly
- Part 12
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It only took me 4 months (to the day, in fact, I think), but I just got off the phone from FINALLY getting around to calling in my broken XBOX 360.
See, I was swinging around the city of NYC in "Spider-Man 3" saving the city and such in mid-May, when suddenly my screen went completely green...
My heart stopped.
My eyes jolted to my XBOX 360 power button.
Red lights?
...
...
No.
Hmm. Maybe the game just glitched up. I pressed the jump button, and I heard Spidey jump. I pressed a bunch of buttons and from what it sounded like, the game was still running and responding to my button-presses...I just didn't have any picture.
So after a few minutes of waiting and hoping that the picture would jump back on, I reset my system.
I got the opening XBOX 360 logo, and when the time came for the dashboard to show up...nothing.
Pitch black. No video.
I pressed up, down, left, right, etc, and could still hear the beeps and boops that happen when you navigate around the dashboard.
But no picture...
...and still no red lights.
Those red lights never did happen. I kept hoping that my system might magically fix itself after a while.
After a while...I decided that it's probably not going to fix itself. So I held off on calling my system in for repairs, because I had a strange hunch that if I held off a little while longer, I could maybe get my system fixed for cheaper somehow.
Soon, the announcement came out that the systems now had a 3-year warranty! That's great, cause my system is a launch system!
Well...it only covers the RRoD issues...which strangely my system seemed to be the ONLY system I've heard of breaking and not getting any red lights.
So I thought "well, if it's not going to give itself the red lights on its own, I'll MAKE it get the red lights! Then I can get it fixed for free!"
So I wrapped my XBOX 360 completely and tightly in saran wrap. After all, people are always saying that "you can't play the system for more than 3 hours without the system overheating and getting the RRoD on these pieces of crap!" So I thought if I completely block out ANY air flow AT ALL to the system, that's GOT to overheat it and give it the RRoD, right? Right??
Wrong.
After a couple minutes of running while wrapped in saran wrap, the system would overheat, shut down, and give me 2 red lights. 2! Not 3, which was the goal!
For the past month any time I was in my living room, I'd have my XBOX 360 running, wrapped in saran wrap, hoping that sooner or later it would finally break.
Never had so much luck.
Here I am on the internet always hearing about how the RRoD is happening on virtually EVERYONE'S systems no matter how hard they try NOT to get it...and here I am TRYING to get it...and I can't!!!
So it's been weighing on me for a while now. I've passed up the release of "Bioshock". I've passed up the release of "Blue Dragon". My system won't be ready in time to get "Eternal Sonata" right when it's released. And gosh darn it, I MISS "GUITAR HERO"!!!
So I finally gave up, got off my ass, and called up XBOX support tonight.
After about 45 minutes on the phone with this person, and after a $99 service fee, I'm all set up to get my XBOX 360 fixed.
Finally.
And it only took me 4 months to call it in.
See, I was swinging around the city of NYC in "Spider-Man 3" saving the city and such in mid-May, when suddenly my screen went completely green...
My heart stopped.
My eyes jolted to my XBOX 360 power button.
Red lights?
...
...
No.
Hmm. Maybe the game just glitched up. I pressed the jump button, and I heard Spidey jump. I pressed a bunch of buttons and from what it sounded like, the game was still running and responding to my button-presses...I just didn't have any picture.
So after a few minutes of waiting and hoping that the picture would jump back on, I reset my system.
I got the opening XBOX 360 logo, and when the time came for the dashboard to show up...nothing.
Pitch black. No video.
I pressed up, down, left, right, etc, and could still hear the beeps and boops that happen when you navigate around the dashboard.
But no picture...
...and still no red lights.
Those red lights never did happen. I kept hoping that my system might magically fix itself after a while.
After a while...I decided that it's probably not going to fix itself. So I held off on calling my system in for repairs, because I had a strange hunch that if I held off a little while longer, I could maybe get my system fixed for cheaper somehow.
Soon, the announcement came out that the systems now had a 3-year warranty! That's great, cause my system is a launch system!
Well...it only covers the RRoD issues...which strangely my system seemed to be the ONLY system I've heard of breaking and not getting any red lights.
So I thought "well, if it's not going to give itself the red lights on its own, I'll MAKE it get the red lights! Then I can get it fixed for free!"
So I wrapped my XBOX 360 completely and tightly in saran wrap. After all, people are always saying that "you can't play the system for more than 3 hours without the system overheating and getting the RRoD on these pieces of crap!" So I thought if I completely block out ANY air flow AT ALL to the system, that's GOT to overheat it and give it the RRoD, right? Right??
Wrong.
After a couple minutes of running while wrapped in saran wrap, the system would overheat, shut down, and give me 2 red lights. 2! Not 3, which was the goal!
For the past month any time I was in my living room, I'd have my XBOX 360 running, wrapped in saran wrap, hoping that sooner or later it would finally break.
Never had so much luck.
Here I am on the internet always hearing about how the RRoD is happening on virtually EVERYONE'S systems no matter how hard they try NOT to get it...and here I am TRYING to get it...and I can't!!!
So it's been weighing on me for a while now. I've passed up the release of "Bioshock". I've passed up the release of "Blue Dragon". My system won't be ready in time to get "Eternal Sonata" right when it's released. And gosh darn it, I MISS "GUITAR HERO"!!!
So I finally gave up, got off my ass, and called up XBOX support tonight.
After about 45 minutes on the phone with this person, and after a $99 service fee, I'm all set up to get my XBOX 360 fixed.
Finally.
And it only took me 4 months to call it in.
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