Over the weekend my boys went to have their XBox 360 fixed. They’ve been having trouble with the XBox for quite sometime now. They also have the original XBox, the older model. Over 2 years or so ago we had the old model XBox modified by somebody here in Davao that knows how to do it. The kids were really happy. They must have had almost a hundred games put into it. It worked fine for maybe a year, and then one day it just quit working. We just didn’t do anything then since they have the XBox 360 and a PS2, also each of them has PSP. So no big deal.
Well, my oldest son played some DVDs that my niece bought and it just made the XBox 360 quit working. So we thought being that its a pirated cd maybe thats the cause of the damage. We brought it to the guy that modified the other xbox and he said they won’t do repair for xXBox 360 here in Davao. They usually sent the unit to their Manila service center. I asked how long does he think they will have the 360? He said he is not sure of that. So, I brought the 360 home and just waiting and see to know somebody here locally that can fix it. Bob and I were even thinking of sending the 360 to our agent in Manila and just let her bring the unit to the service center there. We just didn’t get around to it.
Well, after the school started this year a game place not to far from Ateneo and NCCC mall opened. It’s a place that you can play XBox 360 with a flat screen TV. My son has been talking about it. I guess they have the rock band game thing, where you can play the guitar and the drum on the xbox 360. It’s like your doing a concert. My kids loved it. Since they know how to ride jeepneys now, sometimes they hook up with their classmates and meet there. They’ve been bragging and talking to us about it. One evening while the kids were talking, Bob asked them if the game place can fix our XBox 360 or if the game place people knew somebody that could fix it. My son Aaron got excited about it, so he went the following weekend to the game place and asked the guy that works there, they made friends already. He told my kids that they have a tech guy inside that can fixed it. My son of course called us and told us the good news. The tech guy said he wants to see the unit first and see whats the problem before he will give a price of how much he will charge. That day my kids brought the unit and showed to the tech guy. He told them that its just overheated and he can fix it. He said that he can fix the unit in just 2 hours. Of course my kids stayed there and played while waiting for the guy to finish working. By the way, he charged Php 1,500 to fix the unit. We forgot Aaron plugged the cord to a 220 volts and it fried the transformer. The guy fixed it and he charged Php 400.00. So all in all we didn’t really spend that much.
When the Wii first came out my mother-in-law was thinking of buying one for the kids. Bob and I convinced her to not buy one because the games were so expensive here. Not worth having one. We have to buy games for the XBox 360 and the Wii, wow that costs a fortune then. Our kids already have a lot of stuff to play with anyway. Our kids really liked the XBox 360 stuff. So no need for the others.
I’m glad that we already have places here in Davao that can fixed stuff, that we don’t have to send everything to Manila and wait forever.
Cheers!
Ohhhh glad about the speedy fix! Now the kids can have fun again!
I like a strong willed woman(saw your other posts) very attractive quality!!
I think I’m now branded as the torch welding psychopath, ROTFL!
I dont think you have to worry about that CheryllAnn- as I said you were just misunderstood ! lol [ but if you come to visit my house i will want to search your purse for matches first !! haha]
Cheryll Ann
Your no a serial arsonist are you hahaha. Have a great day
Dog loving torch wielding psychopath that is! Lets be fully correct ha ha!
Like the dog loving torch welding psychopath description better, LOL!
What do you mean search my purse for matches that’s so obvious best way is to buy hydrogen peroxide and pour it around when it dries and sunlight hits it its supposed to start a fire….
Now Ian, where do you live? hahahha ROTFL!
Just kidding!
Hi Cheryll – Thank you so much. Yes they really had so much fun with it. Hard for them tojust be away from it. 🙂
Hmmm… You had some followers already. 😉 …Hey good or bad are good publicity as long as they spell your name right. I heard that saying before. Go for it girl.
Good to see you again here. I’ve been busy with the house hunting. Hope to move to a new place soon. I will text you.
Take care!
Hope you find a fabulous new place!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
Feyma, Tell your kids NBA2k 11 is out with Michael Jordan, a must have. Also, Final Fantasy 13!! Tell Bob to get the Kids Playstation 3 for the kids for Christmas!! Godblees there!!
Hi Anthony Lane – I’m pretty sure its on the list that they gave us to get for them for Christmas. Ha ha ha… They gave us the list already. 😉
The kids really like the XBOX 360. They want the new XBOX 360.
Thank you for stopping here.
Take care!
Hi Feyma,
Glad to hear you got your X-box repaired locally.
I have to admit all this X-box,Wii stuff goes right over my head,maybe i’m getting old,Lol.
regards,Chas.
chasdv
I’m with you brother. I’m lost when it comes to those games. Take care
Hey Chas – Yes, I’m really happy that the new game place can fixed XBOX 360.
Don’t worry even me and Bob don’t know how to play those XBOX, PSP or PS2. Ha ha ha… I’m pretty sure theirs plenty of us that don’t know how. 🙂
Happy to see you again Chas.
Take care!
Just as well you didn’t get the Wii, Feyma, a lot of people in The U.S., and elsewhere, have ended up in hospital emergency units, after injuring themselves while playing the Wii games!
When Jeanne & I moved from Taiwan to Davao, she brought a very unique ghetto-blaster with us. We had to have it repaired several times, because people kept plugging it into the wall, rather than the transformer. Fortunately, there are many great electricians in Davao!
Hi Mike – Wow, really? Thats new to me.
I will check that out. Thank you for letting me know. Have you seen that game thing here in the toy store in the Philippines? That might be a good gift to think about for Christmas.
Maybe you paint the end of the cord bright red and put a tape with writing 110v, to avoid plugging it to the 220v. We had that incident before with my really nice and expensive rice cooker that I bought from the States. My niece forgot that its 110 and plug it directly without transformer.
Nice to see you here. Keep browsing and sharing your thoughts here.
Take care!
well WII is a great way to loose weight, supposedly….
I did try the boxing OMG tired me out!
Hi Cheryll,
I will just stick with my walking and 2 bicycles for my excercise Lol.
(One is outdoor cycle(summer) and the other is indoor exercise cycle (winter)).
regards,Chas.
The Wii is an amazing gaming console….extremely popular. People get hurt because they overdo it!! Especially the 40 and older crowd that think they are still in their teens!! LOL.
The XBox and XBox 360 are great gaming systems. I have a friend that moved to the filipines and the Xbox 360 was about the most important thing to him!!!
Happy to hear that you got the system fixed and the kids (maybe also you and Bob) can play again.
Hi Todd – Can’t agree you more. Ha ha ha… They want to be cool… 🙂
Happy for your friend.
The kids had a blast that we had the XBOX fixed but Bob and I just stay away with it. We are not smart when it come to the XBOX games… Ha ha ha…lol
Take care!
LOL Feyma, love your articles, but I would be bit more careful announcing for whole world to see that you had your Xbox modified (sole purpose is to be able to play pirated game disks) and watching pirated DVDs…
Hi Marcel – Thanks….
Don’t worry the one that was modified quit working already. Its in the storage for good I think. Our XBOX 360 its not modified and it will never be.
Thank you for stopping by.
Take care!
Hi Feyma,
My boy has those game systems as well and thoroughly enjoys them. I must admit I enabled the parental controls to limit his time there which he did not like. I find the 360 games to be too expensive so PS2 and regular Xbox still get more ‘bang for the buck’ at my house. My boy has 2 PSPs one which is an older model modded to play various emulators. It literally can play hundreds of games. If you check my wall pictures on Facebook you’ll see a post about our retro-gaming consoles. There is a quite a bit of capability in those PSPs and if Sony were smart they would open the machine to the masses to modify as desired via an online App store like Apple’s. They can even run Windows 95/98 and Linux. Truly amazing little devices whose capabilities have been unlocked by the people using them despite Sony’s best efforts to neuter them. Sorry for going a bit astray. To Marcel’s point the only games you are allowed to play under emulation legally are ones you already own. Hope your kids have fun but with parental guidance. Ingat,
Mark G.
Hi Mark G. – I’m glad you son also had fun with the games. You bet we have game limit in my household. No playing during school days.
I will check out your Facebook and see. Right now I’m not too worried about other game thing. My kids are enjoying of the 360. Will see after Christmas. I’m sure they want some other stuff.
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your thoughts. Highly appreciated.
Take care!
wow Feyma, thats who I work for now, Microsoft and I support the Xbox program working here in my home !!
and by the way Feyma the new Kinect comes out nov 4 so good move not to buy a wii the kinect will be a lot better then wii ! it really is a shame that although the tier 2 represetives for xobox are in Manila, Microsoft does not have xbox live available to the Philippines, but they are adding countries all the time 🙂
Nice to find one who could repair here 😀 One major XBox problem is the red circle of death. I think on YouTube they show how to fix it. My 2 best friends back home LOVED video games, and had many things like XBox and Wii. They love the rock music games like Guitar Hero.
Me, I just had Sega Genesis, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, and the Nintendo Gamecube. Besides the random dinosaur Sega (which was before my time, yet I had one), I loved all the Nintendo stuff. Never was attracted to Sony or Microsoft (except computer games).
Hey , Feyma , i think there is a lot more excitement this day ,
on your birthday !.
Congratulations for you and your family .
Anton
Hi mam…we have wii at home…i think it needs repair…we directly plugged it in 220v…after almost 1 hr of using it, it automatically shut down…and we tried to fix it…the console went dead, di na po xa tlga mg.on…my alam po b kau na pwd mkarepair dto sa davao? Thwnk you.