i just got my xbox360

[dangerous_dave]

The 2 year extended warranty. You'll need it.

As for games: Oblivion, Dead Rising, Overlord, Burnout Revenge, Hitman Blood Money, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Conan, Guitar Hero II and III, and COD 2 and 3.

Also if you can find one, get a Pelican FanStand for it.

And a Play-N-Charge kit - those controllers eat batteries like

Or if you have rechargeable batteries, use those, as long as they have a high mAH rating (2300+) and they'll last for quite a while; Mine do.

[Newc]

3 Years if you get the ring of death.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemsetup/xbox360/resources/warranty.htm

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/sy...antyupdate.htm

Unfortunately, that ONLY covers the RRoD. The 3 360s I have simply won't read discs. The first one died after 4 months and wouldn't read 360 games. Halo and Halo2 as well as other backwards compatible titles worked great, but I did not pay $400 for an Original Xbox in a white case that said Xbox360 on the side.

My second one lasted over a year, and now will not read anything - CDs, games, DVDs, you name it - not even a cleaning disc.

My 3rd is only a few months old (October 07) and has stopped reading any disc I put in it.

Never a Red Ring of Death.

All 3 were bought brand new.

My first one did eventually resurrect itself, but is still crashing with "clean the disc" errors. It started doing that before it died.

I know I bought the extended warranty for the 2nd, but can't find the receipt.

The 3rd one also has the extended warranty, and it will be replaced once the after-Christmas stocks are replenished - there's no way I'm trading in a Premium for a Core.

[Spivonious]

That sounds like a problem with the dvd drive. Is it possible to buy another drive and replace it yourself? Anybody know what connector is used? I'd probably guess SATA.

[slayer32390]

That sounds like a problem with the dvd drive. Is it possible to buy another drive and replace it yourself? Anybody know what connector is used? I'd probably guess SATA.

I thought they sold HD dvd drives for the 360's? Couldnt youn just replace the stock drive with that?

[dangerous_dave]

Unfortunately, that ONLY covers the RRoD. The 3 360s I have simply won't read discs. The first one died after 4 months and wouldn't read 360 games. Halo and Halo2 as well as other backwards compatible titles worked great, but I did not pay $400 for an Original Xbox in a white case that said Xbox360 on the side.

My second one lasted over a year, and now will not read anything - CDs, games, DVDs, you name it - not even a cleaning disc.

My 3rd is only a few months old (October 07) and has stopped reading any disc I put in it.

Never a Red Ring of Death.

All 3 were bought brand new.

My first one did eventually resurrect itself, but is still crashing with "clean the disc" errors. It started doing that before it died.

I know I bought the extended warranty for the 2nd, but can't find the receipt.

The 3rd one also has the extended warranty, and it will be replaced once the after-Christmas stocks are replenished - there's no way I'm trading in a Premium for a Core.

What the hell do you put your consoles through???


:ROTF:

[Spivonious]

I thought they sold HD dvd drives for the 360's? Couldnt youn just replace the stock drive with that?

They do, but they're external drives just for movies.

[Newc]

What the hell do you put your consoles through???


:ROTF:

Nothing they shouldn't be able to handle - MS doesn't recommend shutting your PC down unless it's necessary, and with a proper cooling unit, the 360 can (should be able to) handle staying on 24/7.

My first one died during Oblivion - "dirty disc" errors, then finally nothing. It still does that, but so far, only with Oblivion, and only after several (8-12) hours.

My second one, as I said, lasted over a year, and I got 3 Dead Rising Infinite Mode Survival Records with it. Since there's no Save in Infinite Mode, the machine has to stay on, and it stayed on for weeks at a time.

3rd one is only a few months old (one of the newer ones with the HDMI output) and was my Dead Rising machine: It stayed on constantly.


Unfortunately, you can't just swap out the drive because of some "national security" nonsense.