14th February, 2007, 07:19 PM
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| The Xbox 360 "Ring of Death" (video) We've all heard of Microsoft's blue screen of death, now it seems there is an infamous red ring of death! Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-gQq62Hyc Xbox 360s failing just outside of the warranty causes annoyance!
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14th February, 2007, 08:54 PM
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| Take the money and then take some more...That is how you become the richest man in the world...
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15th February, 2007, 02:30 AM
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| I've had 4 lights on the ring of death before, but that was the hard drive playing up, i removed it and the box worked again put it back in a few days later and all was well again. (yes i tried putting it back in imediatly after i got the box back working to no joy)
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15th February, 2007, 04:01 AM
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| It makes you wonder if some of these issues are just simple fixes, and people are being charged £80 for a 5 minute repair job.
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15th February, 2007, 11:47 AM
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| £80 is quite cheap though, i used to work for a company (on work experience placement so they paid me nothing) that charged £800 for a hardware 'upgrade' which consisted of unsoldering a write protect resisitor hooking it upto a pc, flashing it with new software which changed the name it displayed on boot up, and then soldered in a new resistor. Was about 5 maybe 10mins work.
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16th February, 2007, 04:31 AM
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| They charge for their "knowledge" more than the work involved. I was told that many times when I complained about how Geek Squad, when I worked there, rips people a new one when they take their computers in for work.
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