Hope you called them first and got things arranged, as today is May 13th.  Oh no, Friday the 13th!

I've been sitting on my 2nd replacement 360 for a good two years now...hopefully it stands the test of time.

This is your 3rd replacement, right ID?

Tempted to get a 360 again with the PSN outage lasting into its 4th week.

If it's not back up by the time I get back from my trip- Sony makes my boycott list.

It's interesting to see how often these consoles get messed up on people. The red ring of death stories I have seen seem waaaay to common for my taste. Did the Atari's and Coleco's have these many problems back then? I can't remember.

Hope you did what LightStar said and good luck.

Therefore I play PC 

Nah....all the Atari's and Coleco's did was burn an impression on your TV's picture tube after awhile. Worked fine but try watching TV with meteors and googly spaceships flitting around.

Nah..... ya can't beat the good 'ol playstation I have 1 and 2  and never had a problem  with them and I have had the ps1  for over ten plus years and  the ps2 I have had about 8 or 9 years and they are still going strong

yep hope you did

cause most things like this you have to get a number and ship it just as they say to but I am sure you know this... good luck 

wow my SP2 still works well most of the time..

I had to send in my Hard drive it was a 400GB WD and had to put this # on 3 sides of it and ship in back to them packed better then they packed it too begin with the HD could not move inside the box at all.. and I even keep all my Electronic Boxes so I had to put bubble wrap in it  but they sent me back a 500GB  WD and now I don't even use it .. 

Funny, when I was younger, I had both Atari and Coleco, and played it quite a lot, but never burned anything into my TV. I suppose if you left the game running without actually playing it for hours, it would burn into the screen.

SP2

oh wow on one of the GTA game want to say the vice City you had to use the Camera and it burned the camera image on my T.V. good thing I could not see it when the T.V. was on but it sure did show up perfect when it was off...  oh and I did not pulse the game on the camera...

This is my second Xbox, this replaced the first one with the exact same error that unfortunately wasn't in warranty.  It seems Microsoft extended this error to the 3 year warranty as well.  I just thought it was funny it happened on the night before the warranty expired.

It's already at UPS shipped out with a repair order.  It cost me nothing but a few bucks to have it packed up.

I remember seeing some burned in numbers and icons on the TV we had at home when I was little. My sister played a lot of pac-man back then on our atari 5200 and she was so good she would get to the last level which was a key and from them get infinite keyes as them ghost just couln't catch her. This in turn caused the long line of keyes to be burned onto the bottom of the TV sometimes (not permanent though) and her enormous high score. lol.

Maybe it was the TV model we each had perhaps some were more prone to be permanent or not burn at all than others.

I miss my PS2, I loved playing Vice City and San Andreas on it. Matter of fact i think those are the only console games I liked and was willing to buy a console for myself to play. Wouldn't mind having a PS2 with those games right now, been a while.

Play the lottery.  Immediately.

Heh... I'm on my 5th 360... ffs.  All is well since I've picked up the slim, though. 

We have 2 360's in the house.  An older one (my daughter's second-revision) which suffered the "red-ring-o-death" and a new one (mine).  When my daughter's 360 suffered the RROD I voided the warranty (there is no way I'm sending something away and waiting forever to get it or maybe a refurb back) and completely took it apart.  I removed the x-clamp holding the heatsinks down and cleaned the crappy "thermal-tape" off of the die's and gave the entire area a nice isopropyl bath.  I then used a non-curing thermal compound I use in all of my PC's called STG-1 from Zalman (applied a very thin layer with the supplied nail-polish-type-brush and then re-assembled the xbox.  Since I caught the problem in my daughter's 360 early enough before too much heat-flexing had taken place on the board etc. her 360 has worked flawlessly ever since.

Eventhough my 360 is (I think the 4th or even 5th revision) I immediately took it apart (brand new and yes voided the warranty) cleaned the useless thermal-tape, gave it the same isopropyl bath, applied Zalman STG-1, reassembled and it also has worked flawlessly eversince.

the Monk

Gutsiest move I've ever seen.