I recently suffered from the GirlGamers curse and had my Xbox 360 light up bright red for me (in a ring formation.....RROD
).
I was a proud owner of a flashed 360. I was a little scared to return it to M$ because it was flashed but, I had nothing to lose so sent it off and hoped it would all be fine.
To cut a long story short, Microsoft repaired my 360 and sent it back to me. It didnt cost me a penny and they even sent a 1 month Gold Live membership free for 'inconvenience caused' by the breakdown of my 360.
Then I looked at the 'job sheet', what had they done to my baby? I immediately noted that a new motherboard had been fitted. Great, that solves the RROD. Then I noted that I had a new DVD drive (
). Yup, a new DVD drive.......I pretty much knew it there and then but, checked around a little and I now have an unflashable 360
. Microsoft have taken their chance and fitted a (currently) unhackable drive into my 360.
I don't know whether to be happy or sad really. Im impressed with M$ for the service they gave, Im impressed with them for taking their chance and sneaking in a new DVD drive like that - hats off to them for fighting piracy with a dirty cutlass
. I can't flash my 360 though and that is bugging me. I dont want to flash it right now but, if I did, I couldnt.
Just thought Id share what happened to me and warn you that if you have a flashed 360 and send it in to M$ on the off chance that they'll fix a problem......dont expect the same 360 to come back, you basically get your plastic casing back and a whole different beast inside.