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Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 9 2008, 03:15 AM

Hey everyone, i was just setting up my Xbox Live today and i registered my gamer tag at http://www.xbox.com and then i Retrieved it inside the Xbox and at the end of the Sign Up page, when you need to enter City, State, etc., an error message appears and say "Sign Up is currently Unavailable, please try again later", something like that. I tried doing it many times and the same message comes up, can someone help me?

Thanks

Posted by: RobM Jan 9 2008, 03:24 AM

It's probably because the email you used is not a real and funtioning one. I recently did the same thing and then had to go to hotmail and creadte a brand new email address just to sign up for Xbox live (now I think I have an email address on every major site there is, lol). Kind of a weird way to sign up to play games and it's very confusing but that was what my problem ended up being.

Posted by: Tjchep Jan 9 2008, 03:36 AM

Try to do it at like 3-6 pm. It happend to me, but I just did it the next day at 4 and It worked..

tj

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 9 2008, 03:59 AM

well, i used the email i always use, the one i use for msn, the one i use for everything so its strange that it wont work...



ok, ill try that.

Posted by: Joey Jan 9 2008, 04:26 AM

Yeah thats been happening a lot to me lately too i cant recover my gamertag try doin what tj said

Posted by: RobM Jan 9 2008, 05:58 AM

I did read an article on yahoo (they have a lot of pretty good articles) about how the Xbox Live part of M$ is having problems related to so many people going out and buying an Xbox during the Christmas season. This increased the traffic so much on their network that they were having trouble providing bandwidth etc for everyone who wanted to signup and play. According to this article it was supposed to have been fixed by now, but I'm guessing it's not entirely fixed and they will have a bit more tweaking to do for a few weeks yet until they get all of the bugs sorted out with their growth. Amazing what 1 million+ more people will do to a network not designed to carry that kind of load, lol.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 9 2008, 06:34 AM

that must be it then, thanks! i was getting frustrated now.. first, fixing the xbox... now this... lol, it seemsl that ill have to wait.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 12 2008, 04:10 AM

Damn im still having this problem, anyone here got more ideas?

Posted by: MickeM Jan 12 2008, 01:51 PM

Microsoft might be able to help you

Posted by: Moon Boots Jan 12 2008, 02:13 PM

Assuming this is a bandwidth issue I would definatly recommend waiting until a time where most of our American friends will be asleep or at work. Other than that all I can say is be patient and keep trying, Microsoft are probably still ironing out the network.

I feel for you

Posted by: botoxfox Jan 12 2008, 02:15 PM

Don't waste your time on silly games, practice guitar instead.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 12 2008, 09:16 PM

yeah i guess ill have to do that.



Yes very true. I dont, im setting it up for my brother, i rarely play games and watch TV anymore, and you know why. But it sometimes good to relax from that, from time to time of course.

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 13 2008, 12:29 AM

I always play games at night, cause i cant play guitar cause i tend to wake people up

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 13 2008, 03:41 AM

Yeah same, you got Xbox 360? whats your gamertag? i finally got it working!

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 13 2008, 05:22 PM

Same as here,

The Uncreator

Im on Call Of Duty 4 every so often.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jan 13 2008, 05:43 PM

Ok, ill add you!