Infinity Ward is in California, where non-compete clauses are automatically void. I believe (though I'm not an expert by any means) that they can get back to work immediately should an offer present itself.
I could have knocked the cable loose in my attempts to elevate the console and power supply to make sure it wasn't an overheat problem, or when I removed the hard drive. As it only happened once, but the freezing persists, I'm inclined to think the lights were a coincidence and the freezing is the actual symptom.
I had the four red lights briefly in the midst of the troubleshooting, but detaching and reattaching the hard drive fixed that.
It just freezes solid, on the dashboard, playing any game, sometimes before the logo even fully shows. The lights stay on green (one in the upper left quadrant) as if everything is working fine but nothing responds. Support helped to clear the hard drive cache (so I know the super secret way to do that now) but it didn't help.
Hence, no error code and no acknowledgment of fault from Microsoft.
Part of the problem is that Microsoft is only acknowledging fault in the case of specific error messages. Other consoles, including mine and a 17 page thread in the Xbox forums worth of people, were bricked with no error message by the "fixed" version of the update. And I don't mod anything. The best they would offer me was a 25% discount on the charges, bringing it down to $105 or so, and that was only because I was within three months of going out of warranty -- it had nothing to do with acknowledging fault.
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Infinity Ward is in California, where non-compete clauses are automatically void. I believe (though I'm not an expert by any means) that they can get back to work immediately should an offer present itself.
I could have knocked the cable loose in my attempts to elevate the console and power supply to make sure it wasn't an overheat problem, or when I removed the hard drive. As it only happened once, but the freezing persists, I'm inclined to think the lights were a coincidence and the freezing is the actual symptom.
I had the four red lights briefly in the midst of the troubleshooting, but detaching and reattaching the hard drive fixed that. It just freezes solid, on the dashboard, playing any game, sometimes before the logo even fully shows. The lights stay on green (one in the upper left quadrant) as if everything is working fine but nothing responds. Support helped to clear the hard drive cache (so I know the super secret way to do that now) but it didn't help. Hence, no error code and no acknowledgment of fault from Microsoft.
Part of the problem is that Microsoft is only acknowledging fault in the case of specific error messages. Other consoles, including mine and a 17 page thread in the Xbox forums worth of people, were bricked with no error message by the "fixed" version of the update. And I don't mod anything. The best they would offer me was a 25% discount on the charges, bringing it down to $105 or so, and that was only because I was within three months of going out of warranty -- it had nothing to do with acknowledging fault.