just when I thought I was safe with my 360 for having it for 3 years the red ring finally nabs the great BlAcK hAwK but being the nice people they are xbox (the company) have given me free shipping a free repair a free month of xbox live and I couldnt be happier. BUT being the geek I am it is bad to wait the 2-3 weeks I have to wait

LOL yea the red ring of death plaged me since day one. The system has one majore flaw in it, the video chipset has no heatsink, when it over heats it melts the sader, soon it'll stop working all together. Maybe you should go somewhere where they fix xbox's, lucky for me there was.

Don't hold me to this, but I think the latest model 360s have heatsinks included on their video chipsets. The massive amounts of repairs and free stuff they were giving out spurned them to keep it from happening so often.

we'll see i recently got a new xbox 360 after my previous one ....err sailed through the air and had a nasty landing not even a red ring of death not even a buzz it was dead in the water
my previous one never had a red ring of death and i hope this one wont either

btw its not xbox company its just microsofts xbox division

Achievement Unlocked:
Red Ring of Death

let us rejoice

its odd i never had the ring of death yet after 2 years man im so lucky!

Carth Onasi

silence ! you'll jinx it !

the many milestones for a xbox gamer to become great

1:Addicted to mountain dew

2: has played oblivion

3: owns halo 3

4: Acheives the red ring of death

I had the red ring of death from day one, and I think it is getting worse. Eventually I can get it to turn on and then it works fine, no problems whatsoever. Do any of you guys think that maybe I should just send it in to Microsoft now?

I just got the red ring on my elite a few days ago. Luckily I had my old white xbox around so I'm in the clear untill my elite comes back. Which reminds me I haven't sent the eilite in yet...looks like I have a phone call to make tomarrow.

i am a xbox 360 owner
i dont have or want gta 4
i never played mercanaries
i spurn halo 3 nor have i ever wanted to play it
and i dispise half life and the orange box
makes me wonder if i am an atypical xbox user

katt, have you ever played the Samurai Warriors series?

Rather than a free month, that looks more like they are just not charging you for the month that they have your xbox.

I have seen my Xbox 360 with the Ring of Death about 6 times in 1 year. Fortunately it was only caused by power cuts while they build a new road.

LOL! I've seen it 3 times one of them didn't even get to six months old! and the fourth time i got my machine back i sold it! (a new one this time cos the motherboard was fried!) yup a free replacement! used some of the money to get a PS3 and have never looked back since! It is supposed to be fixed with the newer ones but i for one will never buy one ever again!