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#2209718 - 05/12/07 04:18 PM Not to be outdone by Mr Techno  
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I'm level pegging with you Techno. My 360 died, again, this afternoon, with a E74 and 4th red ring. Hardware GPU scaler failure, apparently. So I went out and got another. This is now number 3, lol \:\)

Although I did have a small Hengist victory. I took the hard drive off, this time, and I didn't tell them. I repackaged the old unit back up in the box that it came in, and they didn't bother to open it and check. So I now have 2 hard drives... There's one in the eye for the faceless corporate institutions, and a victory for the small consumer (However, granted, I don't know what to do with a spare 360 hard drive. Perhaps I'll use it for backups, lol).




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#2209724 - 05/12/07 04:24 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: Hengist]  
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Yea but they have your number so if they check it they will just ring you up and tell you that they need the harddrive back so they can send it in. Then you can give them your old one.

#2209726 - 05/12/07 04:26 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: Master]  
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Yea but they have your number so if they check it they will just ring you up and tell you that they need the harddrive back so they can send it in. Then you can give them your old one.

I'm afraid that I have no idea what they are talking about? What is this 'harddrive' thing that they speak of? Oh that thing, well it was there when I returned it. Surely they must have checked before taking it off me? Somebody from the store must have stolen it. It's an inside job, guvnor'. \:\)

(Little tip, take it back when there's 15 minutes before the store closes. Nobody is diligent and they all just want to go home).

P.S. I also kept the Ethernet cable, as I couldn't be arsed unplugging it.




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#2209737 - 05/12/07 04:35 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: Hengist]  
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Victory x 2 lol

#2209764 - 05/12/07 05:34 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: Master]  
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LOL sweet - i would transfer all you stuff to the new hard drive as the guy in currys told me 9 times out of 10 thats what the problem is, whats the birthdate on your machine?


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#2209843 - 05/12/07 08:12 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: x T3KNO x]  
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Actually, now that guilt has set in, if they do contact me, then I'll return the other hard drive. How do I find out the date of manufacture, Techno?




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#2209874 - 05/12/07 09:17 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: Hengist]  
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It's on the back by the serial number.

#2209939 - 05/12/07 11:04 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: PositiveG]  
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on the back of the xbox should be a few barcodes on a sticker. the D.O.B is just above it.

My latest one was built, and released into this realm on the 18/12/06.

PS: I think +G is technically in the lead overall - with a bout 6 new boxes

But on this side of the pond you and me are neck and neck, and its one race i don't really wanna win, or even take part in for that fact \:\)


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#2211146 - 05/14/07 04:38 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: x T3KNO x]  
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Yes, I've gone through 5 I think.

Mar/06 XboxA1 -> died in Aug/06-> replaced Sept with XboxA2 (it's still going strong).
Aug/06 XboxB1 -> died in Sep/06-> replaced with Xboxb2 -> died in Nov. -> replaced with XboxB3

So that makes 5.

Now playing an older game this weekend, The Outfit, I can see why these older consoles are dieing, that old game access/reads the DVD constantly, it never once spun down or stopped making noises!

Man I wish they'd have cached more data to the HD (damn you core systems).

#2211151 - 05/14/07 04:43 PM Re: Not to be outdone by Mr Techno [Re: PositiveG]  
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Mine says Nov, 06. Is that good?

Hey +G, you may have hit on the reason as to why 360 DVD's are more expensive than PC DVD's. It must be more expensive to burn all those compressed files onto the disk, lol \:\)




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