Wednesday, February 13, 2008

XBox 360 -- The Return

I finally got my 360 back last Thursday. It seems like these things are sent to Mexico for repair. After 2 weeks of doing nothing with my console, Microsoft decided that it would be better to exchange my console for a different one.

Since I was checking the status on my console several times a day, I noticed that one day the status changed to something like "No repair info". At first I started to freak out; then I thought they must have shipped it back...but where is the return info? Hmmm...3 LONG days later, the status changed to "Device shipped to customer" and the serial number looked different since mine, from what I could remember, had lots of 6s and 0s. Sure enough, I got a nice little letter from Microsoft declaring that my console had been swapped out so that I could get back to gaming.

When I got the console back, I fired it up only to notice the freaking CD drive was louder than a turbo diesel truck! I wasn't too happy about this "new" development. OK, let's test Halo...what the f@#k?! Why does it keep locking and restarting the game...I wasn't getting a good feeling in my gut. I decided to start the level again and viola, it worked! I was kinda excited as well as upset...I am playing at the legendary level and had to lose a lot of progress.

I guess, you win some and you lose some. As long as you are in the winning column more than the losing column, it should be alright

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