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Originally Posted by underscore
what you have is the precursor to the RRoD. more or less, you will get the RRoD eventually. check the build date on the back, there's a three year extended manufacturer warranty against the RRoD and E74 from that build date (possibly from the purchase date but I've always had to run off of the build date). Since you got it in 07 you still have some time to work with (I hope).
To get it fixed you go through the MS support site, you have to go through a bunch of their stuff where you make an account and reg the console to you, go through some more crap and then confirm it's still dead. You should be able to get the shipping label easily, either they mail it to you or they send you one you can print off.
As far as the actual full on RRoD, well I don't know how much they really check. The first one I sent in I got an email saying they recieved it around 10, then 45 minutes later an email saying it couldnt be repaired and they were sending me a new one (they will never actually repair your console, you'll get a different one back). So just telling them it's dead may be enough, otherwise just keep using it as much as you can til it does RRoD. If you want to try to force a RRoD there are ways to help it along, but I won't post those publicly as technically doing that is illegal (even though it's a well known fact 360's are poorly designed and fail like mad).
If you have any questions about the warranty process feel free to shoot me a PM, I've sent 5 of these pieces of shit into MS so I know the deal quite well by now.
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i didn't force it to RROD but today i went and got a new cable to try it out hoping it to be a simple solution. When i hook everything up the RROD appears
restart it a few times 4/5 it would RROD 1/5 would display the symptom i posted above. so I went to the MS 360 service site, fill out everything and got a email confirmation. I didn't see the option to have them sent me a prelabel shipping box anywhere? How can i request this? I'm not wasting a good box to ship this in....
I just look int he back of the console and the manufacture date is 2006/07
doesn't the warranty start the day you buy the console not the day it left the factory? anyways can MS refuse my warranty in this case? I have original receipt that state i brought it back in 2007/07 should i photocopy that and sent it in along with the console so there won't be any delay or so MS won't jew me?