Captiosus
Shared on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 04:56As the title suggests, my 360 bricked on me today. Not only did it brick, but it did so in spectacular fashion.
Not content to just lock up and give me 3 RROD, it locked up, made a loud hissing noise, and then spewed forth some very thick, acrid nasty smoke out of the back. I've only seen that happen once before when I was working on a PC that had a bad power supply and a couple of the components went ka-blooey. I submitted a support ticket and the e-mail I got back was less than enthralling. "Due to the holiday season" ... yadda yadda yadda ... "we are experiencing a temporarily backlog of system repairs".. blah blah blah ... "please allow up to 2 weeks for the return packaging to arrive."
TWO WEEKS? For the freaking coffin?
Ah well, I had planned for this possibility. I've been slowly storing up credit at GameCrazy for the last 6 months and I had $207 in unused credit. So I went ahead and got one of the Arcade units. I'll still send back the broken 360, but time is no longer an issue. When I get it back, I'll keep it in storage in case something happens to the Arcade one. The new Arcade unit has a born date of 09/17/07 and has HDMI. I doubt it has the smaller GPU, but it probably does have the better heatpipe cooling mechanism.
As for the Gamefly thing, still no update to report as of yet.
I figure I probably won't hear anything until after Thanksgiving at the earliest.
Not content to just lock up and give me 3 RROD, it locked up, made a loud hissing noise, and then spewed forth some very thick, acrid nasty smoke out of the back. I've only seen that happen once before when I was working on a PC that had a bad power supply and a couple of the components went ka-blooey. I submitted a support ticket and the e-mail I got back was less than enthralling. "Due to the holiday season" ... yadda yadda yadda ... "we are experiencing a temporarily backlog of system repairs".. blah blah blah ... "please allow up to 2 weeks for the return packaging to arrive."
TWO WEEKS? For the freaking coffin?
Ah well, I had planned for this possibility. I've been slowly storing up credit at GameCrazy for the last 6 months and I had $207 in unused credit. So I went ahead and got one of the Arcade units. I'll still send back the broken 360, but time is no longer an issue. When I get it back, I'll keep it in storage in case something happens to the Arcade one. The new Arcade unit has a born date of 09/17/07 and has HDMI. I doubt it has the smaller GPU, but it probably does have the better heatpipe cooling mechanism.
As for the Gamefly thing, still no update to report as of yet.
I figure I probably won't hear anything until after Thanksgiving at the earliest.
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Submitted by ImaginaryEngr76 on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 07:32