What a sad, sad, sad day! It’s a lazy rainy Sunday; I sit down to play some Halo 3 on Xbox Live. I party up for the first game of Slayer and then the screen freezes. I thought it was just another case of network lag. I was wrong. So very, very wrong.
After a few moments I tried to restart via the controller. No go. So I get up and do a hard reset on the console. Then- there it was… the red ring of death. Much like the Windows dreaded blue screen of death the red ring of death is the Xbox equivalent. It’s Dead! Dead as a doornail.
Off to Xbox support I go. I enter my serial number only to find my warrantee has expired. Wait a minute there is a red ring of death clause… Possible extended warrantee coverage for this exact issue. Wow, this must be a serious problem. Two to Four weeks for it to be repaired. Bummer.
Four weeks without whipping the snot out of little punks around the world. That is just cruel. Damn, I simply can’t live without my weekly Halo fix.
Damn you Microsoft; this is why I switched to Mac’s. Wouldn’t it be awesome if Apple made the Xbox.