Jasper is in the house!

Monday was my birthday, and I got a new XBOX 360 Pro. Not just any Pro, I hunted with my wife for a new Jasper Motherboard Pro unit. It took several days, we went to every Best Buy, Game Stop, Game Crazy and Circuit City in the area. When we got to the last Best Buy on Monday, I was resigned to getting an Arcade and the 60GB HDD kit. They had 10 Pros, and the 10th was a Jasper MB. Woot!

What makes a Jasper a Jasper? Check out Benjamin Heckendorn's information on this great new XBOX 360 Jasper Motherboard.

For those of you in the know:

Team: FDOU
Lot: 0845X
MFR Date: 11-6-2008

Now, I'm in the middle of having the house repaired from Hurricane Ike, so I can't even use the thing yet. Hopefully things will be done around here next week and I can play with this beast.



I'm ordering the Data Transfer Cable from Microsoft today too.

Here is the back of the unit where you can see the 12V rail is at 12.1A.



At one of the Game Stops we stopped at, they had the Microsoft Arcade game disc from the current Arcade bundle for $4.99, so we went back and got that too. Can't beat 5 games for $5.

I got the Boot!

Went home on Tuesday, tried to start up the old 360 after the kiddos went to bed, but no luck for me, I'd been banned for 24 hours! WTF?

Seems they didn't like my Motto - "My Rectom Hertz" - which I had been using for at least a year and a half. Now my Motto is - "Code Of Conduct" - figure I'll leave it the way Microsoft set it for a while.

Oh, thanks to playing past Midnight the night before with Lady Death 13 on Gears Of War, my 360 Voice Streak stayed alive, I'm still #6 in the world. HAHA XBOX Live, how you like them apples?

Red Ring Of Death

It finally happened. My XBOX 360, purchased 12-29-2005, died Friday night.

I got in from a night of drinking, and wanted to play a little Rainbow Six Vegas, but the sucker kept locking up on me. So I unplugged all the cables, let it rest a while, plugged it back in, and it worked.

For ten minutes. Then it locked up again.

Then it would only display the 3 section Red Ring Of Death.



So I dug up my receipt, it was purchased at Game Crazy, with their extended 3 year warranty. I usually don't buy the warranty, but they wouldn't sell it to me without the warranty, and 360s were in such short supply then I really had no choice.

So at midnight I'm sitting there with my receipt, dead 360 and not much hope, figured I would be down for 7-14 days, my streak on 360 Voice would go away, and life would suck for the time being.

So I went to bed. Got up and called the local Game Crazy at 10 AM when they open. Explained my situation to Brian, who answered the phone. He said, bring the console on down, and we will swap it out for you. Huh? I asked if I should bring the HDD or anything else, and he said no, just the console and they would give me a new one in it's place.

So, a bit skeptical, I hopped in the shower and headed to Game Crazy. Brian looked at my receipt and my system, went to the back got a BRAND NEW XBOX 360 from stock and swapped it out for me.



This rocks, I can't say enough about a company that has good service, and this company has Great Service.

Microsoft, Best Buy, Circuit City, Game Stop, EB Games - you guys should all take notes on how this worked for me today - this is how a warranty exchange should happen on a product like this that is still in production.

Everyone else, I would highly recommend that you consider Game Crazy for your next console purchase and buy their warranty, they really stand behind what they sell.

Won the Old Spice challenge!

Ok, it tooke me most of the night, went to work on three and a half hours of sleep. But I won the challenge! I won the prizes! See the pictures below!