ShadowReality

Wow! On Tuesday I arranged for UPS to come and collect my Xbox 360, it was shipping of to Frankfurt in Germany for it’s repair, I believe it’s something to do with repair center queues. So this morning I check the Xbox.com support area to check up on my status and it was marked as arrived, so happy with that I continued my day.

Then this evening, mostly out of boredom or longing for Call of Duty 4 I checked the support site once more only to find they had updated the status again….

For the 2nd time, my Xbox 360 has broken…

Having been through the repair process once already last year (I even blogged about it) I know what to expect this time, and didn’t freak out as much at all. I was enjoying some great Call of Duty 4 with some friends when all of a sudden the textures had a wierd matrix effect on them, it looked pretty cool. Then upon rebooting I got an E 74 error which I hear is often referred to as “The black screen of death”, how original.

So it’s queued up for it’s repair already and since theres not many big games out for the Xbox360 at the moment I think I’m quite lucky and should have it back soon enough. I think i might even blog about my Xbox’s second adventure to the magical repair shop.

As I mentioned in an earlier post my Xbox 360 has recently stopped working 15 days outside it’s warrenty. Unfortunatly the repair of my washing machine in my house had taken presedance over getting my Xbox 360 repaired (only just) but now I have finally reached the point where I am about to ship off my 360 to that big repair centre in the sky, I am told it’s where all 360s eventually end up.. well I’m starting to think maybe that is true.

But thats not the point of this post. I’ve decided to keep track of my 360s little trip to microsoft on my site, not only to a guide to others as to how well (or bad) the UK support centre is, but also for my own records, and if they truley mess up I suppose I can always direct them to my site.

So tommorow (when I get a chance) I’ll stick up the story so far..

As Promised the repair status page will be updated as it unfolds.
http://www.shadowreality.co.uk/xbox-360-uk-repair-status/.

So 14 days outside my 360 warrenty my Xbox has died from the Unplayable Disc error that seems to occur more and more in boxes with the Hitachi drive, pretty much sods law as I was going to extend my warrenty what with the much speculated high failure rate in 360s. I didn’t think it would happen to me, my 360 was so well looked after, but I guess it doesnt matter, it’s just poor manufacturing components. Anyway i could open it myself and fix it, as there is a fix for this (read entire post for details) but instead im just gonna send it back fo repair and hopefully have it back in about 2 weeks or so. Anyway I’ll update the blog as I progress with this.

So in the mean time, I’m catching up with some DS gaming as the new Zelda Phantom HourGlass just came out here, hopefully that will satisfy my needs until M$ sorts out my 360. So far i’m loving it , but I am worrying about 1 part of the game where you seem to be doing the same dungeon over and over again (going deeper each time, but still annoying doing the beggining part over and over)

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