My gamer score hit 10,000 tonight! Just under two years to hit it. Not to shabby I think. Something tells me I won’t double this in just under two years though.

Well isn’t that just my luck, and the reason I prepare for such! The new replacement Xbox decided to stop reading disks yesterday, and today is exactly 30 days since I got it. I took the unit back to GameStop and they replaced it under the original 30 day warranty on the unit. They also gave me a new 30 day warranty on this unit, cancelled the one year warranty I purchased on the now dead unit, and reapplied it to this new unit so that I will have a a full year warranty on this unit. I hope this one will work better, and longer.

Bought a new (used) Xbox 360 tonight, one of the older models that still allows me to use my external, top mounting hard drive, and because it is used I sprang for the added one year warranty (the system comes with a default 30 day guarantee, but we all know how that works, right? Yeah, the system will die on day 31.). I was very happy to see that the system came right up and in to the dashboard without any issues and it appears that all my saves and such are in tack. The biggest pain was reconfiguring the Xbox to connect back to my network and then waiting for it to download the necessary system updates. At this point everything appears to be functioning normally and I am happy to have the system back!

I went to Game Stop tonight and got new hard drive and data transfer kit…that didn’t fix problem. Oddly enough the new (used) hard drive seems to make the problem worse as I now have 3 red lights instead of 1. Even more strange, I  put my original hard drive back in and the system booted all the way in to the dashboard without issue. As a precaution I began copying some of my game saves to the flash drive where I store all my gamer profile information, but after a few moves the console froze up again. Using the same link @XboxSupport provided me with yesterday seems to indicate that three red lights is a more serious problem that requires shipping the console back to Microsoft to fix. Looks like tomorrow I will be going back to Game Stop and returning the hard drive and data transfer cable and picking up a new (used) Xbox 360 console. It’s amazing how much this console gets used; video games, streaming Netflix, streaming movies and pictures from the network. We rely on this for a lot of our entertainment, so I definitely need to get another one.

Well it finally happened, after owning my Xbox for a little over a year, tonight I got the dreaded red ring. After contacting Xbox support via Twitter (@XboxSupport) and getting a rapid response! they sent me this link which walks you through diagnosing flashing lights on the console. After following the appropriate steps it looks like the 120GB hard drive may be the source of the problem. Honestly, I hope this is the problem because I can easily get a new hard drive tomorrow and a data transfer kit and copy everything to a new hard drive. I guess I will see tomorrow after work.

On November 15, 2001 Microsoft released the Xbox video game console in North America and though I wanted one at the time I did not have the money to purchase it. So I waited patiently until I did have the money, but no matter how I tried to save something always came up and I never got one. Then on November 25, 2005 they released the Xbox 360, which has better video, audio and storage capabilities than its predecessor. Once again I tried to save money to get this new console, and once again something always came up and I never purchased one. All that changed today! After so many years of waiting and trying and hoping, I finally purchased an Xbox 360 today.

I happened to be reading though my jobs internal classified ads yesterday and stumbled upon someone selling an Xbox 360 with a 120GB hard drive, one wireless controller, and Rock Band 2 with the drums, guitar and microphone; all for $125! I literally had no choice but to buy this bundle! Now let me put that into perspective for those of you that are wondering why I didn’t have a choice; the Rock Band 2 bundle on its own is selling for $127 at this time, and the Xbox 360 Elite bundle (which this is the equivalent of) is going for $299! I practically stole this console! On top of that when I met the guy to make the purchase he also threw in 4 other games, a second wireless controller, a headset, and a memory module in addition to the console and Rock Band 2 for no additional cost!

I can not even begin to explain how excited I am to get this setup and to start playing Xbox 360. I know a lot of people who also have a 360 and a few from work are already planning on bringing in some older games for me to play. This is going to be a blast!