[QUOTE="ray03314506"]I know it's working now but I also know how big business is. Their motto is "if it aint broke, then don't fix it". If I send it back in working order, I have a feeling that they'll power it on, see that it works, then throw it right back in the box and say there's nothing wrong with it and ship it back. jknight5422

They aren't gonna screw ya. Copy your serial number. If they send you the same one back you'll know & can complain.

The only other option is to continue playing it until it breaks again. I'm sure it will. Mine crashed a few times before it finally went out for good. Yours is probably getting cooked, but not quite done yet.

I know how to make it overheat. I should give it a good bake by pulling an 8-hour Bioshock marathon. That's given me the red rings pleanty of times!!!

Now before you disregard this message because it has RRoD in the title, please read.

This morning, after waking up and feeling the need to play some Ninja Gaiden 2, I powered up my 360 and ***gasps*** I finally received the RRoD. I've had my console since December '05 (couldn't find one at launch) and knew that the RRoD was inevitable. This also happened to me a few days ago while playing GTA 4 but after restarting the console it went away.

After this most recent event, I called xbox support and nothing that we tried was successful at reviving my dead 360. I proceeded to start the repair process and that took roughly 10 minutes. After I hung up, I made one final attempt to resuscitate my xbox and, low and behold, it worked. I dropped it on my desk from a good 5 inches and that must've been enough force to secure the GPU heatsink; this, I read, is a major factor in bricked 360 consoles.

My dilemma is whether or not I should cancel my repair. I know that all 360's will eventually die but I'm sort of glad my crapped out before the 3 year warranty is up but if I ship it back in working condition, will they reject my 360 as faulty and send my ticking time bomb back???

Please leave your opinion. I know many of you have experienced the same dilemma and I'm just looking for some comments. As of now, it's still running and i'm going to get some precious play time in with Ninja Gaiden 2.

I traded my

xbox 360 premium

Viva Pinata party animals

Bully

Gta4

Virtua Fighter

Burnout Paradise

Wireless adaptar

Play and Charge

For a preowned xbox 360 elite but now i wish i just kept my xbox 360 premium

Your views

lukekey

I'm sorry but that was a mistake. You traded in over $600 worth of stuff just to upgrade to a black console with a bigger HDD. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. The wireless adapter alone cost $100 . Let me guess??? This must've taken place in a Gamestop. I would've sold my console for $200 and saved up another $250 and kept all of those games.

Strictly on the Xbox 360, the hardest one that I'd managed to do by far was the two-in-one-laser thing in Halo 3. Seriously, the luck involved in getting that... ugh, I'd have a better chance hitting the lotto jackpot than doing that ever again! Hardest ones I know I won't be able to do are the orbs-based achievements in Crackdown and flag achievements for Assassin's Creed. these are just physically impossible without a strategy guide to help you along. Not on the 360, but now that the new OB games (TF2/Portal/Ep2) have achievements, I think the hardest one I've yet to achieve is "First do no harm" on the new Medic Pack of achievements. Put short, that one is "in a team of six or more players, perform no kills and lead in score at the end of a round." Your team would have to epically suck or you'd have to score a buttload of assists and captures to even come close to getting that. Hardest one I did do was the Sentry Gunner, which was deceptively harder to do than you would think, because it boiled down to: - finding the right map where I'd have to best chance of it - finding the best spot to plant a dispenser and fully upgraded sentry gun - staying alive and keeping the gun alive - getting lucky that nobody wises up and switches to a spy to kill the thing.codezer0

On crackdown I managed to find all of the agility orbs and i'm missing like 4 hidden orbs all without a guide. It's pretty easy. I just turn up the volume and explore around until I heard the orb noise. I still want to make it a point to go find the remaining hidden orbs i'm missing though.

Launch titles were:

• Amped 3 (2K Games)
• Call of Duty 2 (Activision)
• Condemned (Sega)
• Dead Or Alive 4 (Tecmo)
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)
• Final Fantasy XI (Microsoft)
• Full Auto (Sega)
• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (Ubisoft)
• Gun (Activision)
• Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft)
• Madden NFL 06 (EA)
• NBA 2K6 (2K Games)
• NHL 2K6 (2K Games)
• The Outfit (THQ)
• Perfect Dark LE (Microsoft)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft)
• Quake 4 (Activision)
• Ridge Racer 6 (Namco)
• Saints Row (THQ)
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Activision)
• Top Spin 2 (2K Games)

Yeah, I cut and pasted the list, I'm lazy. They came out the same day the 360 launched.

Andrew_Xavier

6 or 7 of those games weren't even released on launch day.