its somewhat entertaining, if not a little nerve racking to say the least for me.

so, Friday, big pay day for me (payday from work, and my tax refund came in that same day). took care of some bills and went off to Best Buy to get the Elite. when I get there, big shocker: none in stock. I was a little annoyed, so my roommate calls the local GameStop in our area to see if they had any in stock. thankfully they did, and they knew us well enough to not cheat us. so, we got there, I bought the system, as well as the accessories for it (wifi adaptor, battery kit) and the game Fable 2. roommate had already gotten Halo 3 and the keypad for it, ready to go. so, we get home, I hook up the system with the HDMI cable, and the minute I turn it on: RROD. go f***ing figure right? right out of the box. roommate ends up calling tech support, which was funny right there (if anyone wants a explanation as to why I say this, please message me), and they were ready to ask for registration of the system and preparations to send it in. we took it back to GameStop and the guys there (they were Playstation fans, so we were in good company xD), and they tested it out there just to check. they got it to work. we were all wondering what the hell happened since I recorded the RROD on my phone and showed it to them. they theorized that it was possibly due to a bad connection. so they "blessed it" (lmfao) and we took it back home, hooked it up again, and it worked. after setting up the wifi on it and importing my gamertag on it, I was up online and ready to upgrade to gold membership. after doing that, played with a couple of friends online on Fable 2 (one of my friends was playing Call of Duty 5 while I was working on Fable 2) and that was fun using the headset with it.

but yes...that is my funny and interesting time with the 360. I know its going to RROD eventually, but I was freaking out about it being right then and there out of the box. thankfully, it wasn't the case and I didn't have to do anything drastic to resolve it. so...wish me luck with this thing! xD

Namaarie,
Integra