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Walmart won't give you a return or refund, but you can go through Microsoft to get a repair or replacement.
Well my wife and i bought an xbox360 for ourselves last december, as our xmas gift to each other. (yes she likes to play too).
By January the thing was pretty much unplayable, locking up nearly every time you turned it on. I took it back to walmart and exchanged it.
So my new one has been fine, untill this week. I turn it on, and sometimes it comes on, other times i just get a blinking red ring around the power button and nothing. When it does come on, it usually doesnt stay on for longer than about 3 minutes, then makes a beep noise, and locks up completely.
I have since read xbox's are notorious for this, im just wondering what my options are, or if anyone else had the same happen. Can i take it back after almost 6 to 7 months of owning it? Is there a return policy through microsoft?
has this happened to you?? God i wish i could just get my damn money back, sucks so much spending so much money on something that is basically garbage now.
Walmart won't give you a return or refund, but you can go through Microsoft to get a repair or replacement.
Yeah happens. Call Microsoft and they'll set you up with a repair, you send it to them, they send you another unit back, takes less than a week.
If you are really fed up with it sell it when you get the other unit back.
Personally I love my 360 and I think Microsoft did about as well as they could have with the repair process.
yeah their initial less than one year warranty was a stroke of genius.
If you meant you bought it in January 20007, you should be still under warranty. Call Microsoft so they can repair it.
XBOX 360 is the system has the best games IMO and is my preferred choice outta the 3 consoles (at least for now). But the console design is a piece of , no denying this.
There was a thread here once about some towel trick to "fix" the 360.
I want one, but from the stuff I read about them I think I'm going to get a Wii (I have kids though and that console is more kid friendly).
They took care of that so who cares... But yeah you are right...
The 360 is in the reliability section, I know a lot of people who have had to send theirs in. The break rate in the UK I read a few days ago is %50
Lesson Learned: Dont buy systems on the first run. Always wait.
Bought mine last year October-ish. Works like a charm.
Send it into Microsoft, they'll put a heatsink in and ship it back to you and if not theyll just send you a new one. My biggest problem with the 360 is I beat up on everyone in NBA 2k7 and cant find any compe ion lately
I bought mine almost a year and a half after they were released and I still had the same problem.
Yea mine was bought in December 06 / January 07 timeframe. Well the first was bought in november 06, then returned due to lock ups....the second was sometime late dec early jan. Even worse is my old regular xbox had the same damn problems the entire time i owned it, i just lived with it, as it only seem'd to give me problems with EA games. I should have learned my lesson.
Ill see about the return thing. Sucks i was just finishing my first season on 2k7, going into the playoffs...ughh...
Never had a single problem with mine so far, know that doesn't help but it's been a great system for me.
My husband bought one in April '07 and it started having trouble in June. He was running Madden '07 at the time but none of his other discs would work after that. He sent it in to MS and they fixed it. When we got it back the Madden disc still wouldn't work. I guess because it got destroyed when the XBox360 went bad. The other games worked fine though. We had to go out and buy a new Madden'07. At least it was half price since it's so close to the new release date of '08.
Got mine in January and haven't had a problem with it yet.
Got it for Christmas last year and haven't had a problem with it.
only problem I've had is with the game DiRT... every once in a while it wont load a track and says to clean the disk.... no other problems.
I read recently that the failure rate for the Xbox 360's is over 30%!
Mine on a rare occasion will say "The disk is dirty or scratched"
but other than that, I've had mine since 3 days after the debut, and its worked like a charm.
I'm on my 3rd box. The launch 360 I got broke in January 06'. I sent it to MS and got a new one. That box broke in December 06'. The one I have now I've had since January 07'.
i love my xbox 360 and its never ever let me down. all together ive easily spent over 1200-1500 dollars on my 360 and I CANT Wait till this december when the add the dvr function to the 360
My problem is simple
Not enough games!
This is not nearly as bad as an identical problem that I have with Ps3.
Shouldn't matter if it's an XBOX from launch date to an XBOX Elite...the design of the clamp holding the heatsink of the GPU/CPU is flawed. It bends over time with heat causing many consoles to suffer from insufficient heatsink-CPU/GPU contact. That's where the majority of the red lights come from.
My problem with it is that I don't own one.
why buy bills crap?
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