Great. It’s summer, and I was looking forward to things slowing down and
maybe getting some Xbox 360 time in. I sit down yesterday for a little Lego Star
Wars II action with one of my sons and suddenly, I learn about the red circle of
death. A red circle lights up on my Xbox in all but the top right hand corner.
Some quick internet searching, and I discover this means the box is toast.
After 15 minutes on hold with Microsoft, then another 15 minutes of talking,
they confirm its dead. The plus? It’s under warranty, and they’ll come collect
it for free and fix or repair it. Nice. Very nice. Bonus points that I don’t
have to pay to ship it anywhere.
The minus? Expect it to take 20-25 days. And since the recording when I was
on hold made mention that "if you’ve been waiting longer than 25 days," I have a
sinking feeling it’s not coming back anytime soon.
Wonderful. Guess I’ll fall back on the Wii, but it seriously sucks to be
without the Xbox. I was really looking forward to finally getting to play it
more over this month. Dang.
What’s worse — now the
Xbox Elite has come out in the US with an HDMI output. I’d so have rather
have had that on the original box’s sucky component outputs. But we won’t get
the Elite until late August in the UK, if we’re lucky. So there’s no reason to
push for maybe credit toward a better system nor any ability to just go out and
buy the Elite and sell my old one. Nah, just stuck.
Darn, darn, darn!
Xbox Red Ring Of Death? Microsoft Now Giving Free Extended Warranties has a follow-up. I’m not alone!
