I meant sent you a reburb one while you're waiting on yours being fixed ;) I'd love to get one with an HDMI port. I need to free up one of my component inputs on my TV. I take good care of my Xbox, on the weekends when I vacuum I always run the hose over all the vents to make sure there's no dust build up. But you're right on Thursday's the 360 usually gets used almost all day but so? I mean that's what it's for right? To play games on? I see what you're saying but if MS tried to use that excuse, I'd get irate! "Please only play your 360s for 2 hours at a time, then give them at least an hour to cool off".. Hell no. I just picked up Lost Odessy and it's a fun game, especially if you love the old school turn based RPGs. It's got beautiful graphics and a pretty good story line also. Anyways, one of my friends comes over on Thursdays and plays the hell out it. I knew the RRoD was coming, as almost everytime he'd turn it off it'd go to the 3 rings (when it started to recognize the controllers to charge them). But I'd turn it back on then immediately off and that fixed it. Next time he'd play it for an extended period, same thing.. I was playing it on the weekend (Turok - it's okay at $30, but don't pay any more for it) anyways, I'd play it for 2-4 hours at a time and not see the RRoD when I turned it off.. So I thought it was just him. Until last Friday when I was playing Prey again.. I went to turn it off after maybe 2 hours of play time and I saw the 3 rings.. I thought, great.. and I turned it off and back on (thinking it'd fix itself) but not this time.. still 3 rings. I let it set for a little bit and tried again.. still 3 rings. That's when I called and posted. Anyways I'm thinking about buying one of those fans for the back.. Heard anything regarding them?
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:31 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: [XBox] Damn it! Every time I get into a game! > > > > I feel ya bro.. Mine died yesterday. I havent gone through the > > heartache you have but anytime you have to send away something for 2-3 > > weeks that you paid good money for sucks. They should start sending > > refurb ones to keep us busy. > > Well - you might very well get a refurb. It's really up to them whether to > send you a new one or fix the old one. > > I was actually kind of lucky this time since I was replacing a "core" system > and they don't actually make them any longer - so I got an "Arcade" system > in exchange. No biggie, but now I have an HDMI port and a memory card that > I didn't have before... I'll look at the silver lining. ;^) > > > > Anyways.. My friend just suffered his second Ring of Death also, about > > 2 weeks ago.. > > So of 2 people, we've expierenced the RRoD 2 times.. that's 200%. > > It's anecdotal but I only know three people around here with them and one of > them has had two failures, another one failure and the last one (a 12 year > old kid) none. > > It really does seem, to me, like the problems are centered on thermal > failure: all the failures that I know about occurred after multi-hour > sessions (while playing a great game). I think since that 12 year old isn't > allowed to play more than an hour a day he's pretty safe. > > But every time something new comes out I dread it. I save constantly and > every little twitch and fan noise hits my nerves. Gaming shouldn't be > nerve-wracking in that way! I can't really argue that the PS3 has better > games, but I defiantly feel more comfortable/confident playing it. > > > > I hope they replace the whole CPU.. I hear that the newer ones run > > cooler? Something like that.. > > There's a "falcon" chipset out that uses a smaller die size and so lots less > power (and so lots less heat) but I'm not sure how to tell if you've got one > or not. I'm sure there's some way to decode the serial-number to tell, but > I've not tried yet. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257724 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
