I logged my RROD repair on the web site - 70 quid? I thought it was cheaper than that? It show that my warranty ran out on Dec 07, but thats the standard 1 year, no?
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I logged my RROD repair on the web site - 70 quid? I thought it was cheaper than that? It show that my warranty ran out on Dec 07, but thats the standard 1 year, no?
Yeah, you are covered for upto 3yrs with the RROD. I suggest you actually ring Microsoft support about it and book the repair in via one of their agents.
Number is :
0800 587 1102
As Ferral said, give them a ring. The Xbox is under 3 years old so they should repair free of charge.
Failing that, I repaired mine with a kit from ebay (that never cost that much) took a bit of time, patience and some swearing. It's just a case of replacing the thermal paste on the GPU and CPU, assuming it's caused by the normal problems. I would only recommend this as a last resort though.
well I bought a kit, and some thermal paste + cleaning alcohol, and...it worked! The 'kit' comes with typos and wrong amount of washers and all that (!) but it saved me a few quid!
I found that I bought my xbox was bought at the end of 2005, and so was out of warranty.
yeah, I phoned them, and they knew.
I think they ask if the machine it's self is older the 3 years. My original xbox had a manufacture date of Nov 2005, when it died in Feb this year I phoned them up and they asked for proof of when it was bought, that of course was in Jan 2006 :( So I missed out on a free repair by a month. Bought a new machine instead.
Hell sometimes they even repair 360s that have had the seal broken already. It's a bit hit and miss.
How long do they normally take? mine has just rrod'd and apart from finding a big enough box to post it in I've just got COD5 & not had chance to play yet! :(