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« Reply #30 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 21:45:39 » |
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Thanks for that. When you put it like that it seems worth spending £30 rather than buying a new one for the best part of £200.
Where can you get it repaired for £30? The red ring appeared on ours last week. It's got to be at least 8 years old though, so don't know if it's worth it. |
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« Reply #31 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:06:51 » |
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Where can you get it repaired for £30? The red ring appeared on ours last week. It's got to be at least 8 years old though, so don't know if it's worth it.
I had it done here: http://www.yourgeekfriend.co.uk/game-console-repair-360-ps3-psp-gloucester-cheap/xbox-360-repair-gloucester-cheltenham/Gave me an extra 14 months - Worked like a charm (And it was heavy usage by my 3 kids). Spoke to the guy today. He's going to check it and see if it can be repaired again. Can't recommend the chap enough. |
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« Reply #32 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:12:22 » |
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Cheers. Did you take it in or send via courier? |
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« Reply #33 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:16:52 » |
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Cheers. Did you take it in or send via courier?
Took it in today. He works from a shed attached to the side of his house. Only a small operator, but very good, helpful and responsive. |
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« Reply #34 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:28:16 » |
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Took it in today. He works from a shed attached to the side of his house. Only a small operator, but very good, helpful and responsive.
Hmm, I would need to factor in travel expenses to and from Swindon as well, which would push up the repair bill by a fair bit. Will have a think. Thanks again. |
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« Reply #35 on: Monday, January 14, 2013, 22:54:37 » |
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Can always try Valutech. They're pretty decent and a lot more local.
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« Reply #36 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 17:17:03 » |
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Turns out they can't fix the XBox, so I'll have to buy a new one.
It had a 250Gb hard drive on the side of it. Have looked on line and can see how to salvage it for the new Xbox 360 Slim. My question now is whether I should get a 4GHz (and tadd the 250GB) or a 250GB (and still add the 250Gb)? Not sure how much of the original 250Gb was being used.
Thoughts?
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« Reply #37 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 17:34:46 » |
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I didn't think you could add a hard drive to the new 360s as they have built in ones. You have to get a data transfer cable in order to get it across. I'd say with this in mind you'll need a 250gb.
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 19:54:23 » |
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You can't add the HDDs that fit the old models, but you can take the old hard drive out of its casing and add the old one. Look here:
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 19:55:58 » |
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Hi everyone,Im a new poster.If anyone is interested i have a xbox 360 (250gb)black new version for sale.
I bought it in November with Halo 4 completed it and have not played the console since.so it is basically brand new.
It comes with everything that came out the box.I still have the box
Im open to sensible offers please, Thanks
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 19:58:54 » |
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Hi everyone,Im a new poster.If anyone is interested i have a xbox 360 (250gb)black new version for sale.
I bought it in November with Halo 4 completed it and have not played the console since.so it is basically brand new.
It comes with everything that came out the box.I still have the box
Im open to sensible offers please, Thanks
how much, i got a 4 gig from asda for £99.00, put my hard drive in from my old one, also have an external drive onit, sooooooooo how much |
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« Reply #41 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 14:57:23 » |
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Had my xbox 4 years now and never had a problem. That's the equivalent of living till 100 isn't it?
Guess who just had the red ring of death. Yep, me.  |
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« Reply #42 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 15:00:53 » |
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Turned it on for a fourth time and it's working again. Thought the red ring was like cancer for an xbox?
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« Reply #43 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 15:38:40 » |
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i had it a few times with my 360, usually it was just a problem with the plug, adapter or power connection to the back of the console.
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« Reply #44 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 15:40:17 » |
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Turned it on for a fourth time and it's working again. Thought the red ring was like cancer for an xbox?
It can mean various things. There's a series of steps you can do to determine the problem. I'll try and find them. http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/Xbox-360-error-codes.htmThere's that, that's not quite what I remember doing. It involved pressing a series of buttons and it'd make the ring flash in certain ways and from there you could determine what the code was and then what that code meant. |
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