I got mine back, yeah!!! charging the controllers right now... I think I got a different unit but it's not one of the HDMI ones. I believe my old one had a manufacture date of 11 2005? This one is 10 2006.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Greg Morphis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:258291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
