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.

Microsoft's Impossible Scratch!

If you follow my blog, over at 360voice.com, you've probablly noticed I've played an excessive number of days of Call Of Duty 4. Recently my 360 decided that it didn't like the Call Of Duty 4 DVD being in the drive, and started making awful grinding sounds and then the game started loading slowly, then some maps would not load. When I took out the disc, it had circular scratchs going round and round. You know, the kind that Microsoft said it was impossible to create when the console first launched.

Check them out:



So I took the box to Game Crazy and swapped out out for a brand new box. I also had them polish my Call Of Duty 4 disc so it will play better. So far the new combination worked completely last night. Much better. And I got the box with the newer processor and heatsink, so maybe my third XBOX 360 will be the last one I need.

RROD Solution

Got the RROD? Don't want to mess with the repair? Then microwave the sucker.



I saw this over at Jake's, which is always a good read.