Christmas in January

[Mr. Hamrick]

Sorry to hear about those red rings. 

FYI: From January 28 (12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST) through January 31 (12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST), all Xbox LIVE members will be able to try Xbox LIVE Gold for FREE!

Hopefully this means they're losing members on that rate increase.

I do too somewhat.  I suspect though it's not the case.  They were doing the Free Weekend per month thing before the rate increase from time to time.

[BentonGrey]

Well, I'm leaning heavily towards trying to fix this myself.  Can anyone who has done the 3 red lights fix before tell me a bit about what is involved?

[BentonGrey]

He's dead Jim.

I tried fixing the system myself, but I'm still getting the three red lights, so no good.  I'm certain I did everything properly, so the problem is almost certainly that there was something more wrong than the standard overheating.  I'm pretty profoundly disappointed.  However, I'm also now determined that I'm gonna' get one, so I'm searching eBay.

[BWPS]

Red Dead Redemption is among the bestest games ever. That I can absolutely recommend to anyone, and I don't particularly like GTA or westerns.

This game hit me on a emotional level that no movie ever has.

I like shooting people and riding horses.

[BentonGrey]

Ohh...I guess I forgot to post about the other shoe dropping!  After coming so close to owning a 360, I decided that I couldn't stand it anymore, so I tracked down a likely prospect via Craigslist.  I ended up getting a 360, a 3rd party cooling fan, two headsets, a controller, cord, and a battery pack, all for $85.00.  The fellow had owned the system for 3 months and, like my friend, was upgrading to the new one that is set up for Kinect usage.  I think I made out alright!  Anyway, I still had a free trial of Live activated from my friend's copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, so I thoroughly enjoyed playing CoD Modern Warfare 2 (my friend's old copy) online the last few weeks.  Now that trial has run out, but I'm spoiled once again.  I picked up Transformers: War for Cybertron today, and I'm going to get a 12 month subscription to Live as soon as I can find a decent price.  Anyone got any tips on that front?  Also, is anyone out there playing Modern Warfare 2 or War for Cybertron?

[Marmeille]

Be carefull with 3rd party cooling fan, only use it if it has its own power source and doesn't use power directly from the xbox 360, that would actually make things worse. Also if your 360 isn't too confined by other stuff and in a well aired room you don't need a 3rd party fan at all.

[BentonGrey]

Be carefull with 3rd party cooling fan, only use it if it has its own power source and doesn't use power directly from the xbox 360, that would actually make things worse. Also if your 360 isn't too confined by other stuff and in a well aired room you don't need a 3rd party fan at all.

Thanks for the advice Marmeille.  It does indeed have its own power source, which made me think it would be a good idea.  My 360 is in a pretty well ventilated area, but I figure "better safe than sorry."