My XBox 360 Broke Part III (For Sure)

I might as well just devote 1pstart in its entirety to my Xbox 360 breaking, since it seems to happen enough to make it worthwhile. So as you can probably tell from the title, the thing finally errored out. It finally seized up a couple of times on the 360 logo and then eventually gave me an error code “E 79″ and one red light. I got on the phone right away to get this taken care of and after the useless “now turn it one without the hard drive” routine and it still errors out, the tech support person tells me it’s going to cost $99 dollars to fix.
Fuck that.

My problem is covered under warranty, so I’m supposed to pay a third of the price of a new Xbox 360 in order to get it fixed? No, that’s not happening. The biggest issue here is that this would be […]

Original post by Paul and software by Elliott Back