Jay Lucky

For anyone that doesn’t know about the Red Lights of Doom, it’s what happens when your Xbox 360 is completely FUCKED. Basically, it’s how your 360 tells you it’s burning inside because someone ( we won’t name names here, but I’m going to guess that it was an employee at either Flextronics, Wistron, or Celestica in the Pearl River Delta region in Southern China) was fucking sleeping on the job and didn’t put enough thermal paste somewhere, or didn’t fully solder some capicitors into the main board.

All I know is that mine died yesterday. It had been giving me the checkerboard problem for a couple weeks sporadically, which quite a few people have reported, but it was still playable if I rebooted it a few times. Yesterday it started completely locking up, either instantly on boot at the 360 logo, or shortly therafter… it didn’t matter what I was doing. There’s been several reports of this happening lately after the Spring update. I think the correlation between the update and the failures is bullshit, but you never know. At this point, I really wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to fuck something up like that. I checked my secondary code and found out it was 0102, which from what I’ve read is the General Hardware Failure code. Basically, that code means something is wrong but the 360 has no fucking idea what it is. In essence, my 360 was dead and done.

Thankfully I had the extended warranty from EBGames, which I HIGHLY reccomend getting if you’re going to buy a 360. I walked in and handed them my old unit and got a new one, no questions asked. I even got to keep my HDD, so I didn’t lose anything that I’d downloaded. Best 40 bucks I’ve ever spent! The sad part of this is that alot of people don’t have the extended warranty, so that means they’re screwed and have to now pay Microsoft $130 USD to fix it. How fucked is that?

Let’s hope this 2006-05-06 version holds up a little better than that old piece of shit 2005-10-25 version I had.