HomeWell it’s been coming, and I’ve finally joined up with many of my fellow 360 gamers and have suffered the dreaded (or is that “expected”) Red Rings of Death (RRoD) problem. I finally feel like part of the 360 gaming family (and ironically, this is not a sarcastic remark). Having had to sit on the sidelines while watching every other person detail their RRoD experience has left me feeling a bit left behind, to be honest.
As someone who blogs, having something like this is happen is like manna from heaven. I will finally have something to write about for the next week or two, or longer. It’s just a shame that it took so long for it to happen, since this is hardly breaking news anymore.
I had a feeling that my 360 was going to die soon, since I’ve been playing Dead Rising quite a lot lately, as well as watched a few HD DVD movies, during an especially hot summer we’ve been having. I started getting freezing problems about two days ago, although restarting solved the problem. Today, I started Dead Rising as normal and just as I was about to do a flying kick on a zombie, it froze again. I restarted, and instead of getting into the Dashboard as usual, a beep was heard coming from somewhere deep within the chasis of the console, something I’ve never heard before. But still no red lights. Subsequent attempts to turn it on again gave me the same beep treatment. I started to worry, that perhaps, this is not the RRoD problem that I’ve read so much about. Maybe it was something else entirely. And then on about the 5th time I restarted, those three red lights started flashing and, I must say, I felt more relieve than anything else. It would have sucked if my 360 broke and it wasn’t the RRoD problem – now that would have be real bad luck.
So I’ve logged on to the Xbox 360 support website, submitted my details and I now wait for my repair request to be processed. So there is nothing for me to do but wait, and once something happens, you’ll read about it part 2 of this article …
