360 Update

I am missing my 360 terribly. There's something wrong with it not being there. I think the community surrounding it is amazing, and nothing else has replaced it.

Hence I miss live, and I miss playing football with Hani :)

Anyhow. I bought a motherboard from the states that was treated so that the red light thing doesn't happen. Good price too. I forgot to ask what region it was though! I got the dreaded reply yesterday: it's American. So all my PAL games are useless. FUCK.

I was going to stick with it and just "obtain" the American versions of the games I play most, but that means one problem: I can't play PES6 with hani. Kind of defeats the purpose.

So, I've ordered YET ANOTHER motherboard. This one is PAL and brand new.

To try and minimise the stupid Red Light problem, I also bought some replacement fans for the crappy internal fans from Divineo. The Talismoon Whisper Fans are meant to be 58% better, and 7% quieter.

All this stuff is arriving Wednesday. I should be back on live then.

The American motherboard is going straight back on eBay.

Finally, if this new setup Red lights I will just ditch it all and buy a brand new 360 and leave it CLOSED. It's not worth openning them up and losing the warranty, especially now that it's 3 years.