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If you do that you'll void the warranty so when something big happens like an RRoD, you'll need to foot the bill. Since you got back a refurb that's been fixed who knows how many times, i'd say it's a high risk candidate for system failure in the not so distant future. So may as well go through teh process. What i'd actually do is go buy a new one, get this old one repaird> When you get it back give it a 48 hour burn in test to see if it fails and sell it on ebay if it lives past the 48 hour test. To do the burn in test you should leave it on for 48 hours doing something graphically intense like go into a FPS and rubber band your controller so your guy just runs in circles for 48 hours. Or you could just fix it yourself. The risk is how likely you think it'll be that your system RRoD's in the future. If it's the latest falcon hardware which i'd be surprised if it is, then i'd say the risk is pretty low. But if it's an 05 or 06 born on date, forget it, that baby's pretty high risk.

That sucks. I checked the "disc drive problem" box when I sent in my unit because I had gotten some issues previously and they replaced the DVD drive when I RROD'ed. I would call them and see if they will cover it or not.