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libellule on 05 July 2007

Yes it seems to only concern the 3RLE ...

Time to Work !

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Legend11 on 05 July 2007
goodridd said:
Legend11 said:
goodridd said:
Good news for us. It only covers "three red light errors" though. I'm guessing they have confidence in the upcoming systems that are sporting the new hardware.

The warranty covers everything not just the "three flashing red lights", they just mentioned they had to extend the warranty mainly because of that.


Even better if true but this is a quote from the page that OP Linked.

"As of today, all Xbox 360 consoles are covered by an enhanced warranty program to address specifically the general hardware failures indicated by the three flashing red lights on the console. This applies to new and previously-sold consoles. While we will still have a general one year console warranty (two years in some countries), we are announcing  today a three-year warranty that covers any console that displays a three flashing red lights error message. If a customer has an issue indicated by the three flashing red lights, Microsoft will repair the console free of charge—including shipping—for three years from the console’s purchase date."

To me that sounds like 3 years for the red lights only.

 EDIT - I didn't quote the entire quote. FIXED.


Umm I changed what I said earlier (before you posted your reply).  I reread the link and several others and realized my mistake.



HappySqurriel on 05 July 2007

I just bought a refurbished console (it hasn't arrived yet) and I wonder if this applies to it aswell ...

I don't expect it does but it would be a nice bonus for me ...



Legend11 on 05 July 2007

I think it covers yours since they mentioned "As of today, all 360 consoles are covered".



rocketpig on 05 July 2007

I think this means those pictures of the additional heat sink are a reality and MS wants to start retrofitting consoles to cure the RRoD.

They would never do this if they didn't have a workaround for the problem. It would end up being a never-ending cycle of returning 360s that would eat the division alive.




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Legend11 on 05 July 2007

I hope they do end up putting this problem behind them, the 360 is an amazing system otherwise.



goodridd on 05 July 2007
Legend11 said:
goodridd said:
Legend11 said:
goodridd said:
Good news for us. It only covers "three red light errors" though. I'm guessing they have confidence in the upcoming systems that are sporting the new hardware.

The warranty covers everything not just the "three flashing red lights", they just mentioned they had to extend the warranty mainly because of that.


Even better if true but this is a quote from the page that OP Linked.

"As of today, all Xbox 360 consoles are covered by an enhanced warranty program to address specifically the general hardware failures indicated by the three flashing red lights on the console. This applies to new and previously-sold consoles. While we will still have a general one year console warranty (two years in some countries), we are announcing  today a three-year warranty that covers any console that displays a three flashing red lights error message. If a customer has an issue indicated by the three flashing red lights, Microsoft will repair the console free of charge—including shipping—for three years from the console’s purchase date."

To me that sounds like 3 years for the red lights only.

 EDIT - I didn't quote the entire quote. FIXED.


Umm I changed what I said earlier (before you posted your reply).  I reread the link and several others and realized my mistake.


You must have changed your post after I refreshed my page.



Woof on 05 July 2007
friedtofu said:
Good to see a big company owning up to its problems. Go Microsoft!

 thats owing up to problems, where do they say they have a major problem and are accepting fault for hiding it for over a year ?

 "things break"



rocketpig on 05 July 2007
Woof said:
friedtofu said:
Good to see a big company owning up to its problems. Go Microsoft!

 thats owing up to problems, where do they say they have a major problem and are accepting fault for hiding it for over a year ?

 "things break"


They're fixing the problem and refunding peoples' money. That's all you can ask for. Now go troll someplace else, Blue.




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Parokki on 05 July 2007

Hopefully the entire industry will take note of this, and realise for next round that it's cheaper to do a solid hardware in the first place, rather than cut a few corners and end up replacing a huge portion of units sold.