Oh Noes! (Part 2)

So, as chronicled over a year ago in Oh Noes! our 360 has done that dreaded thing again: three flashing red lights. Super crash. Must be repaired. At least the repair's free for this one.

This is a fairly good sign that the previous console which suffered this fate was replaced (rather than repaired), and by a console which still had the same defect. Ugh. Oh well, now to wait and hope it gets fixed quickly. I was just starting Mirror's Edge.

Oh noes!

So it looks like our 360 has died, oh no! Oddly, I haven't named it. I think perhaps I should start naming consoles, as then they can't die on me. At least according to recent comics at Order of the Stick, that could help. This isn't actually the dreaded three flash red lights death (I'll say it so others can't: "There are FOUR lights!"), but rather a general hardware failure (one flashing red light, lower right quadrant). Still haven't gotten through to customer service, but I think I know what caused this issue: It looks like the exact same error code as the three lights, and one of the common failure modes I've heard is that the GPU (heatsink?) can become unseated at high temperatures, which causes everything to go wonky. Since we actually saw it fail while playing Overlord and it was a really bad graphical corruption, this seems like the likely issue. Oh well, at least from what I've heard they add an extra heat sink when they repair this issue. Hopefully I can have them look at the sticky drive door as well.

Anyways... just thought I'd write about the poor console. I miss it already, now I can't play Overlord and Guitar Hero II for a while. :(