There is a difference between getting hot and broke.

If its flashing both lights give it time to cool down, if its broken it wont start up.

Bad news about your 360.

Rather pathetic some of the posts here going off at the 360. This is a request for assistance, not someone asking for criticism of their electronic purchases.

1. If you have good consumer protection laws in your country/state you might be able to get MS to fix for free even if outside warranty.

2. If you don't have good consumer protection laws and you are outside 1 yr warranty then I'd keep playing until I got the real RROD to qualify for the 3yr warranty.

3. If you really want it fixed now and you are outside warranty and you don't have good consumer protection laws then I guess you will have to pay.

3. To manage your HDD space on your PS3 get a bigger HDD. They are pretty cheap and it's easy to swap them out. I'm assuming you don't have a 500gig HDD. If you do you can still get 1TB HDd and themn double your space. I imagine the backup for 500Gig of data is ridiculously slow. It took about 1/2 hour for me to back up 20 Gig for when I swapped my 80Gig for a 160Gig HDD.

the problem is that once it starts to have overheating problems the 360 is like a ticking time bomb. all the 360 needs now is one quick heat wave and to be turned on for no more then 5 minutes to get bricked.

Skeeuk, I'm assuming you have one of the earlier models which doesn't have a hdmi slot.

Well you will have your 360 fixed and returned to you within three weeks and have a free month of XBox Live.

@nofinngershaha

Or a simple intercooler...

its a falcon with hdmi.

ive tried to leave it running, all that happens is that it turns off after 15-30mins with 2 red lights. this fault is not covered in extended warranty and over the phone today the adviser said its £68 repair charge which comes with a new 1 year warranty.

i may aswell pay the £68

Thats a shame..

It's more than likely that one of the xclamp clips has detached from the heatsink underneath the motherboard so there isn't even pressure across the CPU or GPU to remove the heat from the system. I personally would book a repair saying it has intermittent RROD and if what I say has happened then they would not doubt that it had that issue.

@Machina - Thank you for clearing up the troll

OP updated.

best thing was there was no charge for me. its fixed now:)