I got my 360 back!
It took a lot less time than I expected, so I’m pretty excited about that. Not counting the inconvenience of having to sign for it (and adding 3 days to delivery time, since it arrived Friday), it was roughly 12 days.
I was pleasantly surprised that inside the box, in addition to the 360, there was a new, white faceplate, a 1-month-free card for XBL and an instruction sheet reminding me that I’d need to re-pair my controllers to the 360 (as in bluetooth pairing, only w/ 100% less bluetooth). I find it strange that they sent another face plate — the original packing instructions for sending the console away explicitly tell you to remove your face plate and hard drive before sending the console in, so you’d think that they know you have a working one already. *shrug* Now I have two white, OEM-style ones, and the blue one that was on it before. I may just leave it white — it looks more uniform that way with the HD-DVD player and the Wii sitting next to one another.
After putting the hard drive back on, I fired up the 360 and found that it was set to 480p, which surprised me and made me think I’d have to re-enter my gamer tag info & such. After I picked 1080i and exited the setup routine, I was pleasantly greeted w/ a dialog box to choose the gamertag I wanted to use (some of my friends logged into their gamertags on my hdd while playing Gears of War). Once I chose mine, everything was as I’d left it!
Great job, guys!
Having received my 360, you’d think I’d be a monster Guitar Hero junkie, right?
Ordinarily, yes; but I was on a mission… a mission from God.
I had a kitchen sink to un-clog, and a snake that wanted to do some chewin! I’ll save the drain story for tomorrow. It’s disgusting, frightening and deserving of a post of it’s own.