my console wa out of warranty acordding to microsoft but since i just got it back in july and started acting up in september they are fixing it for free 4th time in on a hdmi console launch was once red ring of death which i sold to get this newer model at the time smaller chip set less heat damm was i wrong

I should have mentioned in my first post (tried, but was too late to edit) that I now only buy Xbox360 exclusives for the 360. Anything that is available for the PS3 I buy it on that instead. I don't like having to bang on my console to get a disc to read - not only because it's a pain in the neck but because I'm afraid my discs will get damaged. I wonder how much money they are losing from people who have to buy their games for another console because of problems like this. It's too bad - because if I weren't having the problem I'd be buying them for the 360 instead because of the gamerpoints and community...

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I'm playing ASSASSINS CREED 2 and DJ HERO for the PS3 (my 360 has trouble reading discs)
Winners make their own luck.

I just bought CoD5 WaW earlier this autumn. I had also bought 2100 Microsoft Points so I could buy the zombie maps and spend the rest of the day slaying zombies. When I got home I cashed in the Microsoft Points and closed the tray with CoD5 WaW in it. Then it started to run and suddenly: "Unreadable Disc. Try cleaning it with a soft sheet and restart your console." After a couple of days it started to work again. I was suprised, but happily suprised. CoD4 worked, even tho CoD5 WaW didn't work. Weird.

Well, I'm a member of this club again. "Luckily" this time my console is less than a year old so it should be repaired for free. Still what a pain since L4D2 and CoD:MW2 just came out.

Ms needs to knock off the BS and give a 3 year warranty for everything. Ohh and they need to stop shipping out refurbished replacements or at the very lease send out refurbs that don't break in a few months.

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This is SPAAARKSTEALTH (insert kick down well here)

 Sparkstealth wrote:

Ms needs to knock off the BS and give a 3 year warranty for everything. Ohh and they need to stop shipping out refurbished replacements or at the very lease send out refurbs that don't break in a few months.

Have they been sending refurbs for the optical drive problem? or just refurb drives? Last one I replaced the drive myself, it was cheaper to do it myself, but it was also a refurb and didn't last long. Then for my E67 error they sent me back the same console. It wouldn't make sense if I send them a one year old console and I get a refurb just because I needed a new optical drive.

I'm part of this club too, can swapping the drive myself and copying the firmware over get me banned?

 Prazmodious wrote:

I'm part of this club too, can swapping the drive myself and copying the firmware over get me banned?

What I did last time was buy the same drive model and swap the circuit board, that way you are not messing with the firmware.

then thats what i'll do. I'm sure it will last just as long if not longer then having ms do the repair