I'm quite excited as last night my launch'ish console gave me the rings! Is now a good time to get them? As in will I get an updated one in return.

 

You'll most likely get the revised heatsink which helps, but not the Falcon CPU.

 

HDMI?

 

I'd be more pissed that you will have no box for Christmas. My 5th is running but freezing a few times.

 

Doesn't bother me one bit, I'm chuffed that I'll be getting a new one. What I am concerned about is not being able to get my disk out!! Rings are flashing and the eject does nothing, is there as way to manually eject it?

 

Got it Xbox 360: How to manually eject a disc from the disc tray

 

Yeah it has the standard cdrom paperclip eject hole, its covered by the faceplate tho

 

does this make me the last remaining launch day premium on scoobynet

 

Well I can only assume mine is still going, traded it for the elite.

 

Could be!! My hard drive is in my hand luggage along with a bunch of games, timing couldn't be better as I'm off for a week of doing bugger all with a mate in Spain who only called last night asking me to bring some games for his new 360. Hopefully mine will be picked up while I'm gone. And I'm going to try to blag an Elite upgrade, don't even mind paying them a few quid.

 

Mine is still OK bought last December, though not strictly a launch machine I dont think.

But I only do about 1 hour a week on it

 

RB5,
Nope.... my launch day 360 is still going strong!

Regards,
Shaun

 

No

 

Have you tried the towel trick?

Didn't believe it myself but I've watched my nephew save his machine from 3 rings by wrapping it in a towel, leaving it on for 20 mins and then rebooting without the towel. Works OK now although its only a temp fix.

 

How does hanging a towel in front of your old chap and swinging it back and forth so the towel flicks up with no hands have any effect on your xbox?! Technology these days eh!!

 

LOL

Seriously the failure relates to the heat generated when the 360 is on and certain parts of the mobo unsoldering. You then wrap the machine in a towel with all the exhausts covered to overheat the machine. This makes the solder liquify and reconnect the rails.

Is what I've heard anyway and he did it last night and it worked.

 

My console was delivered today, with the RROD.

 

new console or old console?


Mart

 

I've been considering doing a bad thing .... not that the other one

Could I in theory claim a RROD on my launch day unit even though it's perfect.In the hope I get a falcon chip unit in return ?

could claim an intermitent RROD and is ok from time to time ?

I only really want a slightly quieter model so I can use it in the livingroom a my media hub.

 

You won't get a falcon unit in return, all they will do is repair it with the revised heatsink. It does make it slightly quieter though.
I rang them originally and said mine had the intermittent RROD which it did and they wouldn't accept it back as a free repair. I had to wait a few days before it completely failed. I suppose you could always lie to them.

 

Also considering the same but for reasons of iffy DVD drive

How annoying is the White Screen stating "to play this disc put it in a XBOX 360 console"?

 

Thats what was happening with mine, i traded it for an Elite on monday.

 

My launch day machine is getting very irritable in it's old age.
Where I have it at the mo it'll work fine, move it to the lounge and it'll RROD.
Until it actually gives up completely it'll just have to stay upstairs (which makes the wife happy )
I've completely lost track of when the new warranty runs out? is it this November?

 

If it has to keep going back for repair, I think you could probably kick up enough of a fuss to get a new one.

Microsoft have set aside enough cash to repair every xbox before the chip change or replace every 5th xbox returned.

Least thats what I read. Mines been received and fettled right now.