Xbox 360 Power Brick Only Covered by 90 Day Warranty?!
By James Walker • March 26, 2008
As a longtime owner of an Xbox 360, I’ve seen mine crap out a few times. Three times because of the RRoD, and once because the disc tray snapped off (don’t ask). However, I had never experienced my Xbox 360 power brick crapping out. So you could imagine my surprise when I saw on NeoGAF how one unfortunate Xbox 360 owner (AlxRymnd914) came to learn that the Xbox 360 power brick (which, to my knowledge you cannot buy separately) only has a 90 day warranty.
So I get home from work one night and head over to my 360 to play some halo. I go turn it on and the green light flashes really quick and nothing happens. I figured out that whenever I did this, the orange light on the power brick turned to red instantly. The xbox wasn’t overheated or anything before that and it was in the open laying on the floor. It was also plugged directly into the wall outlet.
I brought my xbox on September 25, 2007 with Halo 3 and I have the new 20gb with HDMI. I called up microsoft a little while ago and the guy said that there is only a three month warranty on the powerbrick. So he says i have to pay $80 bucks to get a new one.
I find this really lame… My console has worked fine under the same setup for 6 months and it randomly does this so I have to pay more $$$? Did anyone else have a similar problem like this and find a way around the $80?
That is simply unacceptable. If it were an accessory, like a WiFi receiver (which, really, should have been built-in by now) or the HD-DVD drive (suckers), that’s one thing. But the power brick is not an accessory — you NEED IT TO RUN THE DAMN CONSOLE. It’s a required piece of hardware designed solely to supply the proper amount of electricity (or “harnessed lightning” to you older folks) to the machine. So why, Microsoft, why on Earth is the power brick not covered by a one-year warranty?
Source: BingeGamerLabels: HDMI, Microsoft, xbox 360 |
