Hooray! 3 RROD.

As the title suggests, my 360 bricked on me today. Not only did it brick, but it did so in spectacular fashion.

Not content to just lock up and give me 3 RROD, it locked up, made a loud hissing noise, and then spewed forth some very thick, acrid nasty smoke out of the back. I've only seen that happen once before when I was working on a PC that had a bad power supply and a couple of the components went ka-blooey. I submitted a support ticket and the e-mail I got back was less than enthralling. "Due to the holiday season" ... yadda yadda yadda ... "we are experiencing a temporarily backlog of system repairs".. blah blah blah ... "please allow up to 2 weeks for the return packaging to arrive."

TWO WEEKS? For the freaking coffin?

Ah well, I had planned for this possibility. I've been slowly storing up credit at GameCrazy for the last 6 months and I had $207 in unused credit. So I went ahead and got one of the Arcade units. I'll still send back the broken 360, but time is no longer an issue. When I get it back, I'll keep it in storage in case something happens to the Arcade one. The new Arcade unit has a born date of 09/17/07 and has HDMI. I doubt it has the smaller GPU, but it probably does have the better heatpipe cooling mechanism.

As for the Gamefly thing, still no update to report as of yet.
I figure I probably won't hear anything until after Thanksgiving at the earliest.

Posted by Captiosus on Wed Nov 21, 2007 @ 5:56 am EDT | 1 Comments