My 360 is officially dead.

super_furry

I'm playing PES 2008 when a loud bang comes from the console and the disc drive starts grinding. Now it won't read any discs and makes this awful grinding noise when anything is put in it. It's more than a year old, so will Microsoft repair it or does that only extend to RROD failures. Also, if I buy the arcade pack, can I just transfer my hardrive to it and have everything from my Live account to my Arcade games work on the new console?

WellyJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5NULtyTH4A

This is what happened,

Easy to fix, have fixed three of these Xboxes.

Bit of superglue and you are laughing.

If you fancy a trip to Lucan I will fix it for you.

Also, DONT try any more discs without fixing it as it only makes it worse.

And yeh, the extended warranty only applies to RROD boxes. But you could always wrap it in a towel and leave a demo running for a couple of hours to force RROD.

keen

Happened to me about a month ago, mine was only a month old when it happened so it's off getting fixed at the mo.

Flaccus

You could still push for a warranty repair from MS...didn't Ireland recently adopt the EU directive where since 2002, all consumer goods must have a minimum of 2 years warranty.

Article 5 of the EU Product Warranty Directive (1999):
Time limits

1. The seller shall be held liable under Article 3 where the lack of conformity becomes apparent within two years as from delivery of the goods. If, under national legislation, the rights laid down in Article 3(2) are subject to a limitation period, that period shall not expire within a period of two years from the time of delivery.

http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31999L0044&model=guichett

I think in Ireland you can claim right up to 6 years (as covered by sale of goods act). However I believe it's for the buyer to prove the goods were faulty at the time of purchase.

A-Trak

WellyJ wrote: »

And yeh, the extended warranty only applies to RROD boxes. But you could always wrap it in a towel and leave a demo running for a couple of hours to force RROD.

Right, this might be morally wrong but...

My xbox is giving me all sorts of guff, it won't read games, it recons they're dvds and keeps telling me to put them into a Xbox 360.
It takes about 15 to 20 times of opening/closing the tray to boot a game.

Also the dashboard keeps freezing and sometimes looks scrambled
The extended warranty doesn't apply to these faults, only RRoD and mines out of warranty.

So I'm basically waiting on it to die, would performing some euthinasia on it be wrong? and does the above work or will it burn doen my house!

eggplantman

i got three red lights the other day.called customer service and they fixin it for free,nice folk

the_god_swan

A-Trak wrote: »

So I'm basically waiting on it to die, would performing some euthinasia on it be wrong? and does the above work or will it burn doen my house!

What they dont really know wont hurt them!
Set it up in a spacious area in your kitcken for safely precautions

WellyJ

A-Trak wrote: »

Right, this might be morally wrong but...

My xbox is giving me all sorts of guff, it won't read games, it recons they're dvds and keeps telling me to put them into a Xbox 360.
It takes about 15 to 20 times of opening/closing the tray to boot a game.

Also the dashboard keeps freezing and sometimes looks scrambled
The extended warranty doesn't apply to these faults, only RRoD and mines out of warranty.

So I'm basically waiting on it to die, would performing some euthinasia on it be wrong? and does the above work or will it burn doen my house!

Sounds like a dodgy laser,

Replacements aren't expensive, 20 quid or so.

A-Trak

WellyJ wrote: »

But you could always wrap it in a towel and leave a demo running for a couple of hours to force RROD.

Now the sodding thing won't load a disk at all. Spent over an hour this evening open drawer, close drawer - repeat. And it still won't recognise a disk.
Enraged I decided to kill my xbox with towels to get a RRoD.
Did some research on t'interweb on how to do this and was all set (basically do as WellyJ stated above.

Was stood in the kitchen about half an hour ago with the xbox wrapped in towels and had just plugged it in when the girlfriend came home from work.

Her: Ahm, what are you doing?
Me: Well I'm overheating my Xbox so MS will repair it free, genius eh?
Her: Thats probably fraud, you're probably going to burn the wooden floor for a toy. By the way your also a f**king idiot.
Me: (*Hmm she makes a good point*) Shut it woman.

After reflecting on this, called MS again, amazingly helpful girl on the phone agreed to take it in and get repaired free of charge. They're actually sending a courier to my place of work tomorrow and he'll have the labels, all I have to do is have it boxed up.

Moral of my story, the bloody wommin was right and MS are pretty damn decent on this occasion.