Red Lights of Death...

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4 for a little bit before I go to dinner tonight and all of a sudden it freezes.. I'm thinkin' ok whatever. I turn it back on and BAM! 3 red lights! So now I will be without the beloved 360 for over a month.

Anyone else had this happen to them?

Not I..but I've heard it happen often enough to not want to waste my money on an xbox, lol.

if you didnt already ship it to microsoft, find someone on craigslist to fix it. I had mine fixed for $40 and back in one day. Microsoft sucks when it comes to fixing this.

I think I have been really lucky because I have an original release-day 360 that has never had a problem. My uncle had 3 replacements and 2 of my friends had 1 and 2 replacements.

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Originally Posted by 420 boa

if you didnt already ship it to microsoft, find someone on craigslist to fix it. I had mine fixed for $40 and back in one day. Microsoft sucks when it comes to fixing this.

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I second this, have them Flash it too, so you can play modded games and roms!

Is your 360 still under warranty with Microsoft??

My Elite broke 2-3 months ago and They sent me a repair box, and I shipped it back to them. I got a new one back 18 days later. I didn't get the RROD problem, my Drive messed up and couldn't play anything.

i traded my 360 once i found out that blu ray won the dvd battle so im going to get a ps3 with free online play

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Originally Posted by Monty

i traded my 360 once i found out that blu ray won the dvd battle so im going to get a ps3 with free online play

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Thats probably not the best move....The new 360 model with have a Blu Ray player guaranteed.

PS3's only is free...but 360's only is better :gj:

Actually Microsoft refuses to acknowledge they are in talks with Sony to market a 360 with a built in or with an external Bluray player.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/18/ru...be-out-by-may/

external bluerays here I come!!!!!!!!!!!

I would buy a PS3 but I don't wanna have it for a month or 6 and have to send it in.

I'm just hoping it didn't destroy my hard drive so it doesn't screw with all the games I've beaten... I really won't have that kind of time by the time I get it back... this is killer... it was also my DVD player on my Hi-Def Flatpanel and I can't seem to justify spending money to buy a dvd player now...

Same thing happened to my friend playing GTA 4. His box isn't under warrenty so he just gave me GTA4.

I also had RROD, but the system was maybe 3 months old. I took it back to were I bought it and said I bought it last week and lost my receipt. They gave me a new one :D

Maybe GTA IV is like a terminal illness for xbox... I have no idea... But I've got about 13 completed games on there so if it erased my hard drive too I will be livid.

I'm also gonna throw in there that the new GTA is awesome but...

GTA 4 is ok. They copied so many things from Saint's Row it is almost the same game. I didn't like it at first, but I am slowly warming up.

Didn't play Saints Row. I heard good things though. I'm definitely pumped for the next Gears of War though...

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Saint's Row 2 and GOW2 are all on my to get list.:gj:

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Originally Posted by V1L3 DiaL3cT

Maybe GTA IV is like a terminal illness for xbox... I have no idea... But I've got about 13 completed games on there so if it erased my hard drive too I will be livid.

I'm also gonna throw in there that the new GTA is awesome but...

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I've never heard of someone who got RROD and had their HDD messed up...so you may be in luck

I hear that!

Unfortunately I must have bad luck because my GH controllers have all crapped out as well...

You know when they plan on releasing the guitar hero guitars seperately for the 360?