I got locked out of my Xbox live account for like 5-8 years with no way to recover it because my @live email was not my main email and their recovery prices and for endless you may have been sent.
I somehow ended up having a temporary email attached to it that came with a game server hosting site that I no longer had. When I found this out I resubbed to that service and hoped i could get the same email address and I did and was finally able to get back in.
By then though I had moved to the PS3 and have stuck with Sony since (for consoles). But getting my Xbox account back allowed me to redownload all of my rock band 3 dlc again.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 6 days ago
My ps3 got what I called “the yellow light of death”. They both had the same issue.
heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 6 days ago
If you’re interested, RIP Felix did a pretty good video on YouTube about the YLOD failures. TL:DW is most early models have defective GPUs, plus the ones that survived now have aging capacitors, but there’s tools now to find the exact cause from the system controller (SYSCON). A GPU swap is pretty involved though, so needs a skilled technician to pull it off. Still, if you have one of those early backwards compatible models, having it repaired isn’t that bad of an idea nowadays since those consoles are only getting rarer.