yup you read the subject right. I got the ring of doom  two nights ago.

OK,well I at least half of it.  2 red to the left.  it’s a heat thing.  Andy and I  were playing Bikini Samurai Squad and it just shut off, half a red ring, and the fan was going faster and louder then I ever heard it before.  So I let it cool over night and tried it this morning.  all looked well until……… “WIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”  DOOM!!!

Now normally this is not a huge issue. OK that’s a lie, but I digress. I called tech support (outsourced to a country where English is not the first language) and talked with a fairly nice, albeit dense, woman for most of my lunch break.  I politely gave her all of my personal info (3 times), type of console(once), serial number (twice), and explained the problem (4 times).  after that she asked if I had done any of the troubleshooting options on line. “of course I did you blithering idiot!! Do you think I’d call you if I hadn’t” is what I wanted to say.  actually I told her I did them all (3 times) and had to go so far as to read her the troubleshooting tips to her off of xBox.com (3 times).

Now one would think that after all this, and that the ring of doom is a warrantied issue that this would just be a case of I send it to them and all goes well.  Well sorry friends, it appears that a month and a half ago mine ran out.  figures.  In case you are wondering the fix is $119 plus shipping weather they can fix it or not.

On the happy side, here I sit now with my hard drive plugged into a new xBox arcade for $200 with no shipping and much less time without my beloved xBox

incidentally I just signed up for 360voice.com. check out mine as well as the other blogs. my link is below (sorry I only have 2 entries, just signed up)

http://360voice.gamerdna.com/blog.asp?tag=magnus713

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