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My 360 experience of the last week
Rhyno | 11:03 PM on 10.27.2008 7 comments


Last week, I bought Fable 2 on Wednesday, and was excited to play it. But when I got back from Best Buy, my 360 wouldn’t recognize it. It wasn’t the Red Ring, but it wouldn’t recognize that any disc was in the tray. It would just say “Open Tray”. I tried a bunch of different things, but it still wouldn't work.

I decided to take it to the Best Buy that I bought it from, and got the 2 year replacement plan from to try and exchange it. They told me I needed to have all of the accessories it came with (I figured this anyway, but most of them were still home, and I was 2 hours away where I go to college, and I figured I’d give it a shot).

So I went home this past weekend and found all of the stuff. I took it back today, and got it replaced. The cool part was that I got the games from the new bundle )the first one I got came with no games), plus 50 bucks due to the price drop since when I had bought the first one in January. So I was feeling pretty good.

Later today, I was playing LBP because it had just arrived from UPS, and my roommate wanted to borrow Fable 2. So I hit the eject button on my 360, and I am greeted with this:



It didn’t amount to much, though, because once I presses the power button to turn it off, and hit eject again, it worked fine. I am just hoping it wasn’t a sign of things to come. Although, I guess it wouldn’t be too much hassle to return this one, too.



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TheDreadHawk's Destructoid Blog
You're one of those smart people that actually listened to us when we said "get the protection plan". Those things are definitely needed for the 360.
Atlas's Destructoid Blog
it is a sign of things to come. It will red ring sporadically for days, even weeks, until it finally dies.
Rational Animal's Destructoid Blog
What Atlas said...It could be a few days, it could be much longer, but make no mistake, it's marching towards its death. Also, PRP FTW!!! I'm waiting for my gift card to come in the mail.
BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
ALL 360s RRoD! All 360's die...it isn't a matter of if but WHEN.
Rhyno's Destructoid Blog
@BSD:
I am actually hoping that if/when this new one red rings, it is sometime in the next 14 months so that it will still be under the warranty. If it is later on in that span, I will probably just get the refund money and use it for something else, instead of a new 360.
Atlas's Destructoid Blog
Haha, mine actually just RROD and i found myself back here less than a day later. Hows that for luck?
Rhyno's Destructoid Blog
@Atlas:
Hope you get your fixed soon. Did you have a replacement plan so you can just exchange it? Or do you need to send it to Microsoft?

Mine hasn't done it again, yet. I played Fable 2 for a while tonight, and nothing strange happened. *fingers crossed*


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