My Xbox 360 is back from being repaired!

[Nebagram]

...And now it looks like the PSU is (if you'll excuse the pun) bricked. I can get an amber light on it but no matter what I try the actual 360 itself just won't turn on whatsoever. :( I've rung up the support line and (after calling the automated phone lady several choice nouns) was told to try it with a friend's PSU, which I'm doing tomorrow.

Anything like this ever happened to anyone else?

[CDiablo]

I hate to bring this up but they may have given you an older, refurbished model. Depending on the revision of your board you need a different voltage power supply. I certainly hope this is not the case, but this happened when I let my friend borrow my backup 360 and gave him the wrong PSU.

[PapaStu]

I hate to bring this up but they may have given you an older, refurbished model.

May? No, definately. MS Does not send back new systems to replace/repair ones sent in broken. You will either get your original unit back, replaced or you will get a refurb.

Nebragram, how old was your original system? Do you know what chipset you had in it? If you still have your return coffin look for a little white sticker that will have 3 barcodes on it with 3 long strings of numbers. On the bottom right of that sticker will be a name. When I got my 'new' system back 2 months ago, I saw that I ended up getting another refurb'd Xenon Pro model (as the sticker states), even though Xenon boards havn't been sold new in quite a while.

They normally replace your system with another of the same kind, this time you might not have gotten the right one.

[Nebagram]

My 360 (and, thusly the PSU) was a launch model. My coffin only has one sticker on it- the UPS one- with two barcodes so I think that's a transatlantic culture clash there- thanks for the info anyway though. :)

I did notice that the mf date on the back said 2007, though.

[G-Boobie]

My 360 (and, thusly the PSU) was a launch model. My coffin only has one sticker on it- the UPS one- with two barcodes so I think that's a transatlantic culture clash there- thanks for the info anyway though. :)

I did notice that the mf date on the back said 2007, though.

The last time my 360 died, they sent me a refurb without an HDMI input. I was pretty annoyed. On the other hand, they 2 day shipped a replacement to me after I sent out an email, so I can't be too upset.

Don't bother calling them, Nebagarm: email them from Xbox live a couple times first. That should get the ball rolling.

[rolligame]

Are they still sending out the 30 days of Xbox Live coupons with your replacement?

[Nebagram]

Are they still sending out the 30 days of Xbox Live coupons with your replacement?

Indeed they are.

[Nebagram]

It lives! I can't explain it, but after a bit of fiddling, power now goes through it once again. Now I just have to get all my settings back the way they once were...

[carlcarlson]

It lives! I can't explain it, but after a bit of fiddling, power now goes through it once again. Now I just have to get all my settings back the way they once were...

If you can figure out how to turn on auto-login please post it as it's been driving me crazy.

[shopkins]

If you can figure out how to turn on auto-login please post it as it's been driving me crazy.

Me too. Mine stop doing that when I got it back and I have no idea why.

[ProgrammingAce]

If you can figure out how to turn on auto-login please post it as it's been driving me crazy.

The "auto signon" is stored on a NAND on the motherboard.

In NXE, hit the guide button go to the last blade. Hit your account settings, there's an option in there somewhere for auto-signin. I'll update later with better instructions once i have a 360 in front of me.

[stonecutter]

I got a brand new replacement in August. The date on it was June 28th. I called support as I was concerned about the PSU, and they confirmed I had a warranty of 1 yr, indicating new, rather than the usual 90 days. It had no HDMI either though.

[ProgrammingAce]

Oh, and the old PSU's should work on the newer units, just not the other way around.

[Nebagram]

If you can figure out how to turn on auto-login please post it as it's been driving me crazy.

Guess what I'm struggling with most. :)

[CDiablo]

Guess what I'm struggling with most. :)

Start your xbox, press the xbox button, go to the settings tab, choose profile then choose auto sign in.

[carlcarlson]

Yep, thanks to the pointers here I finally found it. Sign in, then go guide, settings, profile, auto sign in. It's not super obvious but I don't know how I missed that in the 10+ minutes I probably spent looking. Thanks all.