So Friday I finally convinced myself to buy an Xbox 360, considering there were I few games I'd really like to play and now I've got a pretty decent 52" Sharp 1080p LCD HDTV. I went one of the 24 hour wal-mart's here in town since it was about 10:30 at night when I got there, and first off there was only the Halo 3 edition and the Arcade edition, neither of which I wanted. I asked one of the sales clerks if they had the regular pro edition anywhere, so I got told someone would check the back.

And so I waited.

I waited a bit longer.

And then I walked around.

And then I came back.

All in all, I waited for that 360 for an hour before they brought it out. On the up side, it was a brand new bundle and came with Forza Motorsport 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance and had an HDMI port, I also bought a copy of Halo 3.

I quickly spead home to hook it up and play it, only to (you guessed it) have the red ring of death. To be specific, it was only a quarter of the circle that was lit up, and it showed error E68. After a quick search online, I found out this problem stems from a bad hard drive, so I removed the hard drive and the 360 booted up just fine. After playing with the connector a bit, I put the hard drive back on and tried to start up the 360 again, no luck. I then was pretty upset, and decited to just register it on xbox.com and get warenty support.

After filling out all of the warenty info, the site went down.

I was pissed.

I tried it again, same problem. And again, no change. At this point I was so upset I took the hard drive I had laying in my lap and threw it at the wall.

The drive works fine now.