So it looks like our 360 has died, oh no! Oddly, I haven't named it. I think perhaps I should start naming consoles, as then they can't die on me. At least according to recent comics at Order of the Stick, that could help. This isn't actually the dreaded three flash red lights death (I'll say it so others can't: "There are FOUR lights!"), but rather a general hardware failure (one flashing red light, lower right quadrant). Still haven't gotten through to customer service, but I think I know what caused this issue: It looks like the exact same error code as the three lights, and one of the common failure modes I've heard is that the GPU (heatsink?) can become unseated at high temperatures, which causes everything to go wonky. Since we actually saw it fail while playing Overlord and it was a really bad graphical corruption, this seems like the likely issue. Oh well, at least from what I've heard they add an extra heat sink when they repair this issue. Hopefully I can have them look at the sticky drive door as well.
Anyways... just thought I'd write about the poor console. I miss it already, now I can't play Overlord and Guitar Hero II for a while. :(
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Actually, when you name something, it's not necessarily that it can't die but rather that it becomes much harder to kill. At any rate, that's how one gets minibosses and bosses in movies and tv shows. (I once saw the Georgia Tech theatre troupe do an excellent job making fun of that in one of their home-made plays.)
On the bright side, it sounds like the XBOX customer service is much better than Charter's...
Their customer service was excellent, I called them up, explained the problem and they said it would need repair. And that they would send a postage paid box for it, just drop it in and send it out and it'd get repaired, still under warranty, that's it. Was a relief to have it that easy, especially when we thought we were going to have to search for the receipt and so on to prove it was under warranty.
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