Xbox 360 Faulty or just me?

[Louise]

Brought a 360 2 years ago and had a lot of problems - I swore blind I wouldnt go back to another 360.
Well, I have so I can play online ect and plus it has more games i like.
Anyway, got it 2 - 3 weeks ago from Game.
Played Saints Row 2 and everything seemed fine.
Now I get a noise from the disk drive (even tho its completely flat) This has happened twice, now Ive notice it wont save my game - I loose a few % - or if Ido up my home and save - return and its back to normal.
Today my Fable 2 disk is marked with a scratched ring - I dont remember moving the 360 whilst in play - why would I, But I cant play Fable at all now - it wont read.
(Forgot to add Fable froze 5 times in a few hours and was a brand new disk)
Do I take this back to Game and ask for a swap? I cant and doubt Id be able to do anything about Fable because it was a Ebay job -
Or do I get in contact with Microsoft?
Really am a bit peeved off.

[ncrn]

I'd try in game but they tend to try get you to contact microsoft, if you aren't worried about an immediate result I'll call them.
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[lllN30lll]

I'd definitely take it back to game TBH. Hard drive sounds like it's packing in, I could fix the dvd drive if it was my xbox 360 as a lot of them developed the large ring fault and is fixed by placing a few rubbers in the dvd drive.

deffo take it back, get another, send it me, flash it, play copies, done
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[Robby]

Take it back to game, and ask them for a new copy of the game it scratched too.

Incidentally, I bought a used 360 off ebay for a reasonable price, but it was all quite tired. Got the RROD a couple of months later, called up microsoft, sent it off.
Brand new 360 console in the post 4 days later. I was impressed by the customer service, seeing as it got me a new 360 for second hand money.

[Louise]

I shall pop into Game and speak to them its only down the road.
I just worrie slightly due to having alot of problems when we first got one.
Fabole I got from Ebay, altho Ill think of something else.
Cheers

[cyberglass]

Thats a common problem with the early models my first 360 ran rings round saints row 1 and dead rising and also cracked the centers due to a faulty drive

Game replaced it with a new one and replaced the discs to

Sold it and got a ps3 no more worrying about the ring of death and it has the bennefit of free online play and blueray player and no giant power brick + looks great with my black lcd tv + near enough everything that comes out for the 360 will come out for the ps3:up: Never thought id praise the ps3
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[Louise]

We have a PS3 at the other house and very happy with it - But cant justify why I need another so got the 360 -
It seems fine at the moment - will have to buy Fable 2 again tho.

[Louise]

Well bringing this back up - I brought another fable 2 game and that still started to freeze.
Keeps freezing regular now - So phoned Game up and told me to take it back for a swap over.
Just gotta find the paper work

Just a bit warey of them now - 2nd one to go tits up on me

[Graprilia]

From my experience with GAME they offer very poor service on returns and try to get of issuing a refund even with a reciept.

So good luck.
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[Louise]

I just got the Arcade one so just a small memory card.
I rang them and they seem to be fine.
However - I put the receipt in a very safe place, so safe I cant find it.
Rang them back up and because it was on my ex's reward card I can just take a bank statement in.

[MonkeyKnuckle]

[Kwaks]

As has been said its best to load into the HD, if you only have the small one buy the bigger one asap, works out cheaper than having to replace disks if you do get laser burn.


My COD WAW disk got wrecked because the box got knocked over during play, I hadnt downloaded into the memory. £45 quid later, new disc, downloaded and my mate got it free as I downloaded into his HD and gave him the gubbed disk to allow it to load.

I know I should have just rented a copy to download it, but I was impatient lol
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[Louise]

Would this HD be any good?
8gig should be more then enough for me - I only have a few games and with no job i wont be buying much for a while.
Can transfer movies from PC to 360 I guess.

FleeBay

[Kwaks]

No, doesnt let you save games
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[Mr.Everready]

I'm sure MS were doing a promotion a while back when the console update was coming through.
Cheap hard drives for those that had arcade machines.
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[Louise]

Ok - Cheers
Around £30 for a 20 gig - will wait till im paid

[Kwaks]

Heard about some places doing the 120gig for around £60-£80


https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220335106615&cguid=37cc796f11f0a0aad2d45be4ff420fc2
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[chrisjacks]

the freezing is one of the symptoms of RRoD, if its an older xbox it may be suffering youll know its going to be RRoD as the crashes/freezing will come sooner and sooner from start up.

though if you get RRoD you have a 3 year warrenty on that specific fault.

[Louise]

swapped with no problems today he was pretty good about it. Just checked to see if the seel had been broken
Just an update. Manage to play Fable 2 for 3 hours without one freeze so its looking good

[Rottweiler]

mines just broke got it 2 years ago but microsoft have extended the warrenty to 3 years so its getting fixed
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