X360 - RROD options

[mat1227]

Afternoon all - my 360 is out of warranty and has packed up with a red ring of lights around the power button. I understand this is terminal, have had a read on the search function and uncovered lots of info - but in simple terms what are my options? Thought it might be useful to have it in one place, as it seems to be a common thing:

- Fix myself, looks very involved
- Send to MS for repair, costs c.£70 and has very short warranty
- Find someone local to London who can fix it
- Towel trick and wait for it to RROD again. Is it then unsalvageable?
- Buy a new one

Can anyone share any info? Particularly interested to hear if there are independent places in London that can fix reasonably (point 3).

Much obliged

[mrmr96]

Take it into Game and tell them you bought it there but don't have the receipt. They will quite often swap it then and there for a new one and send the old one off to microsoft. Be prepared for them to reject if your serial number is too old, but I don't think they always check this.

[Nat_H]

Or Sainsburys are selling the 120gb Elite for £159.

You could could probably sell the new hard drive on ebay, and have a nice new warranty, and the Jasper chipset.

[Steve Evil]

When you say it's out of warranty, is that the 12 month warranty or the 3 year RROD warranty?

I tried doing one of the ebay repairs myself, it lasted OK for another couple of months, then went again. So I bought an elite, I just chalked it up as one of those things you have to put up with as a 360 owner. Wouldn't have happened in the past and I'm damn sure my megadrive will still work if I plug that in, but as things get more and more techy it seems like it's going to become increasingly common.

[lawrence567]

Theres loads of people who fix them.
My mate does them for £30 but i am in Devon.

[matt173407]

have you rung micorsoft, mine was the same and out of warranty but they fixed it for free anyway

[mat1227]

Thanks all

Will try MS as a first port of call, then Game I guess if that fails

Cheers

[Daston]

If you just need a console and no HDD, controllers etc you can pick up Jasper model elites off ebay for £80 new.