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Nohbody8
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So I guess the awesome factor of Mass Effect 2 was outside the system specs of my 360 'cause it red ringed on me. The warranty on my Elite conveniently, or inconveniently depending on your perspective, expired a few months before this incident. As a result, I'm not all that eager to blindly hand Microsoft $100 to fix a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place. What are my options? Seeing as how the warranty is already expired, I'm not afraid to get in there to fix it myself if that's possible. Given proper instructions and tools, I'm pretty sure I could fix it myself. I just don't know where to get legit instructions that I don't have to worry were put up there by some d-bag who wanted to trick people into bricking their consoles. Any other advice or suggestions would be appreciated as well. Thanks.
EDIT: Completely forgot to throw this in. I've only seen the actual RRoD once. The first time something even appeared wrong, my picture just simply cut out with no RRoD. Then, while I was trying to turn it back on and get back into ME2, the picture had some funky pixelation and it froze. This was when I saw the RRoD. Now, all it seems to do is freeze and put some weird pixels on the screen with no RRoD. Is one instance of RRoD enough to confirm that it's a definite overheating problem?
EDIT: Completely forgot to throw this in. I've only seen the actual RRoD once. The first time something even appeared wrong, my picture just simply cut out with no RRoD. Then, while I was trying to turn it back on and get back into ME2, the picture had some funky pixelation and it froze. This was when I saw the RRoD. Now, all it seems to do is freeze and put some weird pixels on the screen with no RRoD. Is one instance of RRoD enough to confirm that it's a definite overheating problem?
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That's what I thought but the website was telling me that the warranty had expired. Thanks for the suggestion.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/BretonBrawler
I don't live in the US, and don't own an Xbox, and I don't know the US laws, but I'm sure the above is illegal, nor am I telling you that you should do it. Just saying I've seen people write they've done it, and seems to be one of the options since we're on the topic.
The goal is to get a fix that is permanent. The self-fixes generally don't last long.
It is illegal, and on a side note I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually work, since retailers scan serial numbers as part of the sales process, so the one on the system and the one on the box won't match. I'm pretty sure that most big retailers started doing that for the PS2 DRE fiasco, and then the rest started once they started getting shitloads of exchanges for the defective first run 360s.
Even setting aside the fact that this is fraud and illegal, most stores scan not only the UPC on the box, but also the serial number on the physical console (through the window in the box), which obviously wouldn't match if you tried to return it.