Its from the time you bought (I believe), that is how most product replacements work. The warranty applies only to the CPU pulling off the board issue from overheat, not any other issues.
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The Xbox 360 can be subject to a number of technical problems. Since the console's release in 2005, the product earned note in the press questioning its reliability and failure rate of the consoles.[124][125][126]
To aid customers with defective consoles, Microsoft has extended the Xbox 360's manufacturer's warranty to three years for hardware failure problems that generate a "General Hardware Failure" error report. A "General Hardware Failure" is recognized by three quadrants of the ring around the power button flashing red. This error is often known as the "Red Ring of Death".[127] The warranty extension is not granted for any other types of failures that do not generate this specific error code.
Since these problems surfaced, Microsoft has attempted to modify the console to improve its reliability. Modifications include a reduction in the number, size, and placement of components, the addition of dabs of epoxy on the corners and edges of the CPU and GPU as glue to prevent movement relative to the board during heat expansion,[128] and a second GPU heatsink to dissipate more heat.[129] It is unclear whether these modifications have only been added to new consoles or if they have also been added to consoles repaired by Microsoft and authorized repair centers.[129] As of 2008, these modifications have yet to fully cure the Xbox 360's reliability issues.[130]rranty is ONLY for the cpu flexing off the board from overheat problem
They extended it because of this, they had 2 options
Option 1) What they are doing now.... well they have to replace every one that is sent back, but people are fickle, half the people that get an xbox360 do not use it "a lot" meaning 50% of the people are hard core and use it daily, and the other 50 are casual, like once a week, maybe they get a new game, play it for a month, then it sits for 2 months. If you play it daily it has an expected life of 12-24 months for a good box (even less for the 1st gen, about 6 months from the 90nm processor before the 65nm swap). I am not including dead boxes from other reasons, I am saying from the soldier problem on the board from warped boards from heat (aka the 3 light red ring of death). So about 1/4-1/2 of the hard core gamers either just tell their mom/dad to get another, the mom/dad are not informed that they can get it repaired or their spoiled kid cant wait the month it takes to send it off and get it back without having one to play, so they get a new one.
So Microsoft gets about 20% of the xboxes back for repair. Extended the warranty to 3 years, hope they dont get sued (class action law suit would cost them hundreds of millions), they are still not in the clear for lawsuits if they dont extend it again to like 5 or so years. November is going to be the 3 year mark, and we will have to see what they do.
Option 2) Admit there is a defect in 100% of the xboxes, that they all will die eventually. Then everyone out there, even if they have one sitting a closet somewhere will sent it back, costing a fuck ton of money.
Either way, I avoid it because its a bad issue that has yet to be fixed, and all they did so far was try to glue it down better with epoxy on all 4 corners of the cpu. Its crappy engineering and I will never spend any money on one until they fix it right. XBox has great games, but nothing that I really want, the box itself is very flawed (3 years and still not fixed).
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blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.
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