Had my 360 for like 3 years and still going strong, touching wood!

Happened to me too. For three lights they extend the warrenty to 3 years.

The one I was working on had 2 lights and the warrenty was only for 1 years.

The console was 2 months past warrenty and they wanted $100 to fix it. I tried to get them to waive the fee for 15 minutes and finally hungup the phone.:disgust

had my xbox 360 elite for almost a year now, no issues so far

ya, I build my own computers, but I have never tried to fix my xbox myself. I've had 2 get the RROD so far and I just sent the fucker in since I knew I would just get a working one back. Plus, I didn't want to take the chance fucking shit up more. haha

Strangely enough I just got an email sating that a working xbox has just been shipped to me. Yes, my 2nd 360 that had the rrod was recent. Sent it in a little over a week ago. When I get the "new" one back I will know 100% if they sent me a pre 2008 one or not. If they sent me a pre 2008 one they are morons because it will RROD again and I will just have to send it bac and they will have to, once again, send me a "new" on. lol

Does anybody know how to fix 2 red lights?

I'm not paying $100 to get that stupid thing fixed. I don't even play the fucker

Thanks Yngwie - finally got it together and submitted. Free for three years, you are right :thumbsup

Request Confirmation
Thank you, your repair request is complete!

Service Request #: 109xxxx6058

Standard Shipment

Microsoft will now ship you a box to use when sending in your Xbox console. The special shipping box has a pre-printed shipping label affixed to it. All you need to do is carefully pack your console in the box and take it to the nearest UPS Service Center.

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you can get saved games but yes your xbox is deadh now.

You can try this if you want:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7F6iK...eature=related

After I dunno how many Xbox 360s in my household, we got smart and bought the warranty service that BestBuy offers.

My son's 10 day old Elite went RoD. Called the local BestBuy and they had a new one waiting at customer service for us. Brought in just the console itself.. no HD, cables, etc. They pulled the new console out of the box and swapped.

What's good.. the warranty stays... if it does it again with the new box... same swap.

Well, the instructions I was given was to remove HDD from console before sending it in. So I should not lose my save games, I presume...

That fucking cooling fan uses the same power as the console, which also means the console isnt getting all the juice that its expecting or required. those fans are pieces of shit

Pop off the hard drive and the face plate, they send you a box, ship it and a few weeks later, you have a rebuilt one

Not going to read through the whole thread to see if someone has suggested this already, but if they haven't check out Craigslist. Two of my buddies got red ringed for the second time (Microsoft only warranties the first) and they found a local guy who repaired them for $50. Hope you get it fixed! I have been lucky thus far and not received the red rings of death.

My xbox is close to dieing, it has the 3 red lights but if i take out the mains and plug it back in it works but i doubt it has long left. Since i bought a PS3 i have not touched my xbox anyway. PS3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 360.

360 for the win simply because of Halo ;)
But seriously this local guy fixed it in under 6 hours for $50. Better than waiting weeks for Microsoft to warranty it.

Annoying because we're so helpful and informative and great at our jobs that you're annoyed you can't find more great employees like us? That's why we're annoying, right?

THATS RIGHT! :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thum bsup:party-smi

I got mine back within 13 days from the time I requested a box until I got it back. This was about 6 weeks ago. The also gave me a 1 year warranty on everything and 30 days XBOX Live Gold. I saved the box in case I have to send it in again I won't have to wait 3-4 days for the box.

So I got my XBOX back today - thanks for the advice guys! :-))

buying a warrenty service isn't smart. wasted money. The RROD or 3 red lights is covered under a 3 year warranty. the amount of oney you'd spend on the warenty over 3 years you could buy you a brand new XBOX.

Your harddrive is fine just send in the console