Poor Xbox
Yesterday I sent my Xbox off to Texas for repair. Almost 2 weeks ago lightning struck somewhere very close to the apartment, I was able to save the game I was playing and turn the system off but when I went back to it a few hours later after the storm had passed I got one red light and an error code. I searched MS site for the meaning of the code but I could not find it anywhere. I happened to stumble upon it on a Xbox users forum were the same thing happened to someone else. Lightning struck and the got error code E 76 and could find it on line. They called costumer service and was told it was a dead ethernet card. So I went online and filled out the repair request forms and waited for my empty box to arrive. For some reason the UPS driver didn’t think it was safe to leave an empty box at the back door of the apartment so I had to wait an extra day because on day to they left it. I got it all packed up and headed down to the local UPS store and set it on the counter and as the guy working there was walking up says to me, “Another Xbox?” How many are being sent out at my not very big towns UPS store that the guy would recognize the box the MS sends to people to mail there Xbox’s back in.
So now I’m out an Xbox for 2-3 weeks and the sad part is Madden 09 is out shortly and I will have to wait a few weeks to get it. The only good thing about all of this is it isn’t costing me a single penny.