Didnt  use my xbox for weeks, had it 4 years.

Today after buying Mass Effect 2 (only 15 euro!), went home to for the first time play possible GOTY.

Turn on my 360, first in game movie and BAM!!! RROD!!!

RIP

Now have to get new 360 to play ME2...

How many of you had dead 360?

How did it happen?

Did you get new one?

Try to borrow a heat gun from sowhere and fix it yourself. It's pretty easy actually.

Do we really need another RROD thread?  There have been 182040400304040304939439499493983654321  of  them.....  Suprisingly there have only been just over 40 million of them sold so how does this work again?

I just beat the game today :P

I would try to get the 360 fixed by Microsoft for free.  My 360 crapped out 6 months out of warranty and I basically said they don't want to screw someone who bought a launch console and has bought 90% of his games new.  They fixed it for free, so give it a shot.  Mine died playing Bayonetta but luckily I had a friends 360 so kept playing till it got repaired.

I have had 2 RROD and both were covered under warranty. I had an original 20 gig pro console that RROD on me in September of 2007. How do I remember so well you ask? Because I was chosen to play the COD: Modern Warfare beta and downloaded it, played one map and BAM the red lights. A week later Halo 3 released and I didn't have my console back from MS but I still went at midnight to buy it :)  Second time it red ringed was a year later or so. I sent that in (still under warranty) and later on ended up giving it to my friend and bought the new 360s which I LOVE.

The RROD was a huge problem and along with most likely everyone else who has had it I got pretty pissed when I saw those red light. But at least MS owned up to it and extended warranties to 3 years on the consoles so I didn't really have to spend a penny fixing the problem.

Not interesting I know.

One red ring of death - in warranty, microsoft fixed it for free, and the upc service was free as well.

One motherboard & disctray problem - in warranty, microsoft fixed it for free, and the upc service was still free, so i suppose i was mad at the time, but looking back, microsoft handled it as profesionally as they could, and i can't complain, it got me back in school for a week.

I have a xbox 360s now *gave my "old" xbox away, didn't trade it in, didn't feel the need, it still works, so i hope this new console will stay as it is, defect free, and running smoothly.