My fifth RRoD?

September 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm Leave a comment

I’ve took the whole Media Center vision bait; hook, line, and sinker. We only consume media (live tv, DVR, movies, music, etc) via Extenders connected to my Media Center server. We were watching a movie with the kids last night in the master bedroom when all of a sudden the screen goes to a crazy mosaic pattern and a loud screech emitted from the speakers. Yikes! I immediately though RRoD… but it wasn’t there. I rebooted the xbox a couple times, and it would lock up randomly during the bootloader logo. Still no RRoD. That maybe it was HDMI cable, so i switched over to component. Power on… RRoD. Grrrr!!! I’ve lost track of how many of these i’ve had repaired and re-repaired. At least Microsoft is covering the cost. But in the 3+ week meantime while I wait for the repair, I have to go dig up another extender somewhere.

This definitely is NOT WAFtastic And she reminds me again that the Comcast box always just worked. Grrr… Does me no good to remind her that we can get to movies and photos and…