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Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

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10/17/06 at 9:33pm
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Lets make this thread simple,
post when you bought your 360, if it has been problem free since your purchase date, or if it has been repaired or replaced. Again, even if you have had no problems...since most only post if they have had problems. ANd always feel free to add an update if you run into any problems down the road.

I'll start off (though maybe its too soon for me) purchased mine last week. Problem free so far...but purchased Best Buy's extended 2 year warranty after reading horror stories on several forums.
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10/18/06 at 5:59am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased new August 15. Red ring o' death 1 week later.

1st replacement unit 3 weeks later. Disc drive picks and chooses when it wants to load games, sometimes never. Returned 1 week later.

2nd replacement unit 3 weeks later. Play any game for 5 to 10 minutes screen becomes garbled up with cross-stitch pattern. The system must be reset and the same thing happens 5 minutes later.

10/18: Microsoft has asked me to borrow cables from a friend to see if this fixes the problem which I am trying tonight. They have also informed me that they changed their policy and that I will have to pay for shipping if their POS system has to be replaced again.
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10/18/06 at 7:08am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

I got mine in late March early April. Sometimes when I play Oblivion it gets choppy or worse but I heard these are problems from the game makers and not my system. Other then that I have had no problems at all but I choose to stay on the safe side after some of the problems with the original X-Box and got the extended warrenty through Microsoft. I have a friend who got his 360 at the same time as me and he has had no problems either.
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10/18/06 at 8:08am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased 12-19-05
Slowly died end of July into August
Replacement has been working fine so far but recently the drive has acted a little funny and it does not always want to recognize the controllers. I'm thinking that slow death number two may be on its' way.

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10/18/06 at 8:13am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased and received on the day of release. No problems at all.
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10/18/06 at 11:46am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased mine in February of this year, the system was manufactured in December of '05. Began freezing up the last few weeks, and finally got the 3 red lights of death a week or ago. It's on it's way to MS. Actually, they should have it by now. (I hope.)
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10/18/06 at 5:28pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

I purchased mine on launch day and still have no problems at all.
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10/18/06 at 7:34pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

purchased on launch day. no problems.
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10/19/06 at 4:58pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

I hope I don't jinx it...purchased 2 months after release, no problems yet....
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10/19/06 at 11:41pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

mine was the second shipment from launch (pre-ordered). no problems at all ever


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10/20/06 at 7:51am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased December 23, 2005


Problem free.
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10/20/06 at 12:27pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased at some point between april-may. No problems... Well, my cat did chew my headphones.. But I can't return her. Can I?
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10/20/06 at 3:12pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

More important and useful than the purchase date is the build date which can be found on the back of the machine.

Mine has a build date of March 2006. I bought it in May, I think. No problems.
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10/20/06 at 3:50pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Bought mine the Sunday morning Best Buy had them online for 5 minutes on a Sunday(think on Dec.16th), so I guess you could actually consider it a release unit.

No real problems, still running

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10/20/06 at 4:31pm
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Purchased my 360 at launch and had to send it back a few weeks ago. Started locking up and then got the 3 lights. Took about 3 weeks to get it back.
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10/21/06 at 8:34pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Bought mine in December at the Best Buy "relaunch".

Sent the first one back within two months. Sent the second one back shortly thereafter; sent the third one back probably a month or so after I got it. So yes, I'm on my fourth. I didn't get any extended warranty; MS paid for all repairs and shipping costs.

I don't remember which problems were with which (truthfully, I had most of the problems with most of the machines), but here's what I encountered, some more frequently than others, but none of them just once or twice:

system lock-ups

the "place this disc in an XBox 360 machine to play" message (how this message even gets displayed when the machine is a 360 is beyond me)

failure to boot game after the system intro sequence

blacks getting very noisy (I mean visually; nothing audible...it would usually be red static within the onscreen black. And yes, everything was connected properly.)

I did once get the flashing red lights, but only once I think.

It won't read my hybrid SACD/CD audio disc (I suspect this is intentional, though).

I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Anyway, I've had some lock-ups with the current machine, but not too many (although I have only been playing it very, very little). I assume that that's just how it's gonna be. Boo to MS. Did they do ANYTHING with the units that were shipped back for repair, or just send them straight to other customers? I only ask because I had the same problems with each of my replacement systems.

On a side note, I went through five DSs before I got one without a dead pixel. Oh, and I usually have to blow on my NES carts and inside the deck for the games to play. Virtual console? How would I blow on the carts and in the deck?
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10/23/06 at 6:01am
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Did they do ANYTHING with the units that were shipped back for repair, or just send them straight to other customers? I only ask because I had the same problems with each of my replacement systems.

I was actually wondering the same thing. Both the replacement units I've received had different problems which I'm assuming the previous owner had sent it to them to fix. I'm guessing if the system powers on it's ready to be shipped to another customer whether it works like it should or not.

PS. I purchased a new unit 2 months ago and I'm still waiting to get a unit I can actually use. I'm waiting for my third return box now.
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10/23/06 at 10:09am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Bought mine the last week of December 2005; no issues so far with the console itself, but one of my wireless controllers is starting to act up a bit--every once in a while, when used a bit "vigorously" the left analog stick will act up and function like the left trigger or shoulder button.
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10/24/06 at 12:33pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Bought mine the 2nd week of Jan. No problems so far.
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10/24/06 at 3:13pm
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Purchased Dec 2005. 3 red rings this month (Oct 2006), returned to MS for repair, got back after 2 weeks, working fine as of 10/24/06.

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10/28/06 at 6:32am
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Bought a premium 360 the first of this month and it worked fine till i tryed saints row on it, It first froze during the game so i rebooted it and got the red lights, Unpluged and pluged back in after a few minutes and it worked fine till i played that game again. I exchanged the game at the video store thinking it was a defective disc but it just kept freezing and then my screen started to go black after doing just simple things. There are quite a few people that have only had problems with saints row and my theory is that the games imviroment is so huge that it hits the xbox 360's hardware hard therefor showing up on systems with some sort of defective hardware. I exchanged the system and now i have no problems when playing that game and have not had one freeze.

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10/28/06 at 6:20pm
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Purchased: 1/1/2006 @ Wally World

Still going strong, but very light useage...
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10/29/06 at 3:28pm
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I read a little side-bar in a recent Electronic Gaming World magazine that said MS would repair/replace any 360's in need of repair if they were manufatured prior to Jan. 06. They also noted that they will reimburse anyone who had theirs repaired already. Said to call the main Xbox number (800) 4MY-XBOX...I think.

For the record, I got mine in April/May but I never checked the time it was built. It has not had any problems, though it does lock up in the same place in Red Dead Revolver but since that is a backwards compatible game and I think others had the same problem. All else, with moderate use, is going fine.
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10/29/06 at 7:11pm
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Purchased launch day, no problems aside from rare lockup during a game or two.
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10/30/06 at 8:52am
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Got mine at Costco, the bundle pack, in April. I also purchased the MS service contract just in case.

No problems so far.
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10/30/06 at 9:56am
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Purchased: May 2006
Manufactured: ? (will find out)
Seems to freeze and lock up on "Saints Row" alot.

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11/1/06 at 6:31am
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Purchased mine yesterday. As of this morning, all is well.
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11/1/06 at 6:51am
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased: right after the Spring 360 update. (June I think?).

No issues yet.
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11/2/06 at 1:32pm
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Re: Post when you bought your XBox360 and if it is has broken down or not

Purchased and received on the day of release. No problems at all.
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11/2/06 at 5:53pm
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Got mine in March, manufactured 1/22/06.

In late September (after I got Saints Row, hmmmm...) it started freezing up. Soon it would freeze when just playing music using the dashboard. It went down for good (red lights of death) September 30th and I called MS that day.

I got the coffin in the mail and got the unit back 18 days after the initial call into MS. I had to pay because my 360 was manufactured after 1/1/06. 140 clams. They repaired my original unit and sent it back. They never told me what the problem was. No problems so far with it now, although sometimes the disc drive sounds like it's grinding and it never did that before.

Interesting about Saints Row. I was thinking that it might have had to do with my ripping so many of my CDs to use as a soundtrack in anticipation of that game. But maybe it was the game.

Only thing I can say is GET THE WARRANTY!!!! I learned my lesson!

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