xboxes transplants?
I just frankensteined two semi-dead xboxes into one apparently healthy xbox. I think this counts as Xbox 5.
Let's see, not that you care, but the history of my ill-fated xboxes...
1) Launch day gift xbox from working in games at MS at launch. Launch box dies so I send it in for repair. (Lots of negative media about dying xboxes; MS extends warranty, only for certain failures.) I don't remember how this one died, but I remember it died while I was offline for a long period of time; nuked quite a bit of gamerscore from my profile, etc.
2) Buy Xbox Elite at MS store while waiting for #3 from repairs. (At a good price, why not, and when the other got back, we enjoyed a period of being able to play things like Doom networked together via office and pillow room.) This box's DVD drive stopped opening/closing, mere days after warranty expired (the 1-year is all that would have covered this). Tried to repair that but no luck, nor would it work properly if I bypassed the open/close mechanism.
3) This was the replacement for the launch-day Xbox I sent in. It finally died today with E79. Warranty for this is probably ~1 year expired.
?) The initial basement flooding destroyed at least a power supply (freeking huge brick was resting on floor instead of using entertainment center space, of course) but I don't recall if I had to replace the attached xbox too. I think I scored one for ~$40 on ebay.
4) Bought a loud but working xbox from Darien (with intent to use it for parts).
5) Finding myself suddenly lacking any reasonably working xbox, I've mix'n'matched a couple warrantee-less xboxes into roughly #5.
Let's see, not that you care, but the history of my ill-fated xboxes...
1) Launch day gift xbox from working in games at MS at launch. Launch box dies so I send it in for repair. (Lots of negative media about dying xboxes; MS extends warranty, only for certain failures.) I don't remember how this one died, but I remember it died while I was offline for a long period of time; nuked quite a bit of gamerscore from my profile, etc.
2) Buy Xbox Elite at MS store while waiting for #3 from repairs. (At a good price, why not, and when the other got back, we enjoyed a period of being able to play things like Doom networked together via office and pillow room.) This box's DVD drive stopped opening/closing, mere days after warranty expired (the 1-year is all that would have covered this). Tried to repair that but no luck, nor would it work properly if I bypassed the open/close mechanism.
3) This was the replacement for the launch-day Xbox I sent in. It finally died today with E79. Warranty for this is probably ~1 year expired.
?) The initial basement flooding destroyed at least a power supply (freeking huge brick was resting on floor instead of using entertainment center space, of course) but I don't recall if I had to replace the attached xbox too. I think I scored one for ~$40 on ebay.
4) Bought a loud but working xbox from Darien (with intent to use it for parts).
5) Finding myself suddenly lacking any reasonably working xbox, I've mix'n'matched a couple warrantee-less xboxes into roughly #5.