{"id":21,"date":"2008-11-28T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T04:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-02-24T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T14:38:31","slug":"the-infamous-red-ring-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/the-infamous-red-ring-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Red Ring of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

About two and half weeks ago, my Xbox 360 gave me a Red Ring of Death<\/a>, indicative of a general hardware failure.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/p>\n

It’s about two years old now, and there weren’t really any warning signs.\u00a0 I went to turn it on, and….it didn’t.\u00a0 Most RRoDs are caused by overheating; I generally keep my 360 well-ventilated, and I definitely don’t leave it running for long periods of time when I’m not playing it.\u00a0 I’m going to chalk this one up to poor hardware design and workmanship.<\/p>\n

I immediately called 1-800-4MYXBOX.\u00a0 Boy were they unhelpful.\u00a0 The automated voice-activated menus were a pain to work through, and I had to repeat myself several times to get what I wanted.\u00a0 Why can’t we just have a plain old “Press 1” instead of say “Three flashing red lights”?\u00a0 It’s easier for everyone.<\/p>\n

After wasting my time with that, I instead went to xbox.com\/support<\/a> and had a much easier time.\u00a0 It took me less than five minutes to file a support ticket and print out a pre-paid shipping label (I also had the option of getting a box shipped to me, but that would have taken longer obviously).\u00a0 No human interaction required.<\/p>\n

The next morning I brought my 360 down to the UPS Store and had it shipped off to the repair center in Mesquite, Texas.\u00a0 It took about a week to get there, a couple days to get fixed, and another week to come home.<\/p>\n

Now it’s back to Mega Man 9<\/a><\/em>!\u00a0 I’ve completed all 12\/12 achievements (200 points) and 34\/38 challenges.\u00a0 All I have left are “Beat the game without getting hit”, “beat the game while picking up only 8 energy capsules”, “beat the game 30 times”, and “beat every boss with 1 hit point left”.<\/p>\n

The Green Ring of Life is back, but for how long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About two and half weeks ago, my Xbox 360 gave me a Red Ring of Death, indicative of a general hardware failure. It’s about two years old now, and there weren’t really any warning signs.\u00a0 I went to turn it on, and….it didn’t.\u00a0 Most RRoDs are caused by overheating; I generally keep my 360 well-ventilated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}