It's like raiiiinnnnn on your wedding day, or 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife, or... oh nevermind.

Written by Dan Zuccarelli

Monday, 18 September 2006 03:52

Dammit.

Last night I got a nice little taste of horrible, horrible irony. This past Friday my brand new HDTV was finally delivered, and all was right with the world. I bought the cables, ran the lines, and had everything set-up for HD gaming goodness.

Fast forward 48 hours, I'm getting home from work Sunday night and decide to unwind with a little bit of Saints Row. Apparently, my 360 had other plans. I really wasn't a fan of these plans, since it involved flashing the red ring o' death and breaking down beyond repair. I'm not saying for sure Saints Row killed it, but I've had zero problems until that game.

I call support and try out the automated steps. It actually seems to work! I decide to try a more stable game. Loading up Oblivion only locks up the machine once again (though the frozen image looked damn nice in HD). 1-800-My-Xbox again, this time I talk to a human being. After walking through the steps with him again he says, "And that brings us to the end of troubleshooting." I swear I could head the sound effect they play on "The Price is Right" when you lose. Long story short they're sending me an empty box and I'm sending them $139.00...

Keep an eye out for my review of the XBOX repair center, coming in about 14 business days.

So what did I learn from all this? That progressive scan games on the PS2 look surprisingly good on a 56" HDTV. As for 360 games, I'll have to tell you in about 2 weeks.

Comments (12) Add Comment

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written by Harpua Scorpio, September 18, 2006

Balls.

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written by jimmycanuck, September 18, 2006

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Please don't let it happen to me!! I should be getting my HDTV on Friday, and knowing my luck, anything negative I could say here would only result in worse things happening to me.

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written by danzuke (NetPhantom), September 18, 2006

All I can say is this... I had the power supply well ventilated but underneath my entertainemt center. And the Xbox was on a shelf with no sides and no back. Maybe it wasn't ventilated enough when I was outputting a 1080i signal. Maybe the system was all the sudden running hotter than it was before, and that pushed it over the edge.

Whatever the case, when I get it back I'll be placing the power supply out in the open and putting the XBOX on it's own shelf.

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written by Greshkov, September 19, 2006

at leas the support guy didn't call you a mother fucker.

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written by Fronz, September 20, 2006

I feel your pain :/ I'm currently doing the rounds to ship mine across America to get it fixed for $130. Def gonna get that 2 year warranty now smilies/sad.gif

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written by danzuke (NetPhantom), September 21, 2006

Same problem as me Fronz?

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written by VicViper, September 23, 2006

Mine died back in January, but mine was extremely ventilated, both the power supply and the system. Oh well, like the kid from Angels in the Outfield says, "It could happen!"

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written by VicViper, September 23, 2006

Oh yeah but you didn't get called a M Fer like I did, Greshkov knows.....

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written by jp, October 02, 2006

atleast now they fix 4 free!!!!!!11

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written by TheBBPS.com (Bits, Bytes, Pixe, October 13, 2008

[...] Last month my 360 got owned by Saints Row, flashing the “Red Ring o Death”. After talking to customer support, I had to send the console in for repair, and pay $139.00 to get it done. Dammit, nothing like sitting down to play a game after work on a Sunday night and end up being out $140. [...]