Yo D-toiders, I am Aertyr (Air - Tier) and if you cannot pronounce it correctly just call me Nick. I'm a competitive gamer that used to be apart of a sponsored team [Rapture Gaming] for DotA (A Warcraft III mod) but I won't kid myself and tell you that I'm l337. I've been gaming since I was 2 on Sega and on the computer since 3. I am a pure blood geek in all ways shapes and forms, from Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering to every bloody RPG I can get my hands on. Cya round, I'll try not to suck.
Contact:
AIM: Elementalofpeace
Gmail\Gtalk: Elementalofpeace(at)gmail.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2lhkrx
Currently playing:
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars
Mass Effect
Persona 3
Dota: Allstars
My Current Computer Stats(Desktop):
Western Digital 500GB 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 Intel Motherboard
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz(OC'd to 3.77ghz)
Creative Sound Blaster SE 7.1 Audio Card
Rosewill 550W Power Supply
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2Dual Channel RAM
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Case
3DMark06: 12786
System's I've owned:
GB
GBC
GBP
GBA
NES
SNES
Sega
N64
PsX
Ps2
PC
X360
MS should totally provide 3 years warranty for their own faulty hardware and you should totally say it RROD'd or RROD it yourself if you still have to send it in.
Some ppl have been successful at fixing the problem by using a heatgun on the HANA (?) upscaler chip, but most of them haven't.. Guess it's a pretty big hardware failure error.
I had a similar issue, in that my 360 was incapacitated, but not red-ringing. Microsoft requires a red ring in order to fix for free, that is, under the warranty. Any other system-killing problem requires $100 from us.
What I had to do, no joke, was turn the thing on and off, over and over and over, until it did, in fact, red ring. After that exercise in stupidity, they did fix it for free. Dumb, but there you have it.
Also, I'm sorry to hear about your 360. This shit is ridiculous,