When the xbox dies do you have to send it to microsoft and how long do they take to get it back to you??

 

Yes, and it usually takes between 2-5 weeks (depending on how busy they are).

 

Just asked because when playing fifa and other games, a bar comes up saying " the disc maybe dirty, cannot read the disc" . Have you had this come up before? Didnt know if the xbox was on its way out, seeing as it doesn play forza either

 

I got that a few times and the machine was fine but the message turned up a lot more regularly then my machine crapped itself with the RROD arriving.

 

what is an RROD then?

 

Red Ring Of Death

Flashes red lights around the power button when something is broken.

Seen it far too many times

 

well i got the grand total of another day before the rrod reappeared...time to wave goodbye and send it off to ms...!

cod4 on the ds just isnt the same...!!!

 

Buy a 60GB PS3.

 

My mates Ps3 packed up after 3 days

 

How did that happen Richie ?.

 

he just put a blueray disc in and it froze up and it wouldn't play anything after.

 

never had this trouble with my original xbox...!!!

 

Nor me. Still got mine, and it's still working fine. The only console I've ever had trouble with is the 360. The best and worst console I've ever owned...

 

i cant play fifa now cos every time it loads the bar comes up sayin about the disc being dirty, even though its not.!!!

 

It's not scratching your discs is it?

 

u mean is the console scratching the discs ????

 

Yep, it's a known problem with some machines...

 

well how can i tell if its scratching the discs, will the console make a sound or someething? or can i only tell by looking at it???

 

Look at the disc

If it has scratches on it, then the likelyhood is, yes. If not, then no.

 

yes but jsut cos a disk has a scratch on it doesnt mean its the console thats doing it. anyway, yes the disc it does have scratches on it, but the other games i play dont, and they still work OK.

 

You haven't ever moved the xbox whilst it was running Fifa have you?

 

My launch day console packed up on the 9th Jan,called MS that night,UPS picked up on the Friday and it was delivered back to me on the 24th Jan so 2 weeks for me and I got my original console back.
I always had scratched discs but never bothered about it as I never had any problems with disc read errors but when I got the repaired console back they had changed both the disc drive and motherboard.

 

Nope, always stays in one place.

 

sell it on ebay and buy a new one!!

 

Hey, mine went this week

Following some totally shat support from Xbox customer support I spoke to a very nice chap from Microsoft Uk who in turn has given me a contact email address to get things resolved faster/easier than talking to their call centre in Cairo and struggling to understand a bloody word that has been said

If you want details PM me

Eric