Has my 360 kicked the bucket?

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I received my Xbox 360 back in Christmas '07. This is my first 360 and the thing was (apparently) still going strong. People have gone through 8 Xboxes in the time I've gone through one, so I'm glad this thing has held out. Starting two days ago, however, I think this system is finally coming to an end.

The system starts up fine. All that stuff is fine and dandy. I can get to the dashboard, scroll through all my stuff no problem. The problem starts whenever I try to play a game. Roughly 20 minutes during a game, the unfortunate happens. My system goes out with a click, no display, and I'm met with the dreaded red-rings. The ring problem isn't as simple as that, though.

Ever since I had the 360, the 3rd-player LED has been broken. Therefore, when the 360 decides to commit suicide, I'm not sure whether I'm getting 2 red rings, indication overheat, or 3 red-rings.

Either way, my 360 is pretty much kicking the bucket, I'm just not sure if there's a way to solve this myself.

Should I send the thing in? Is there a way to fix it? With 1 week left until Reach, I'd rather not to have to wait 2-3 weeks to get the thing back.
 
Set the 360 horizontal, put the fan back on it (When it was vertical, a fan on High blowing at it didn't do anything whatsoever), and all seems to be fine so far. Played a couple of matches of MNC, all seems to be good.

Either it's just a fluke, it'll break down on disc games, or it was just that it was vertical. I'm SEVERELY hoping it's the latter.
 
did you try installing your games?

at least by installing the games, there will be less strain on the DVD drive and on the system, so if the red rings were occuring as a result of the drive, you'd solve that problem.

if your HD isn't big enough, you could try upgrading it before Reach comes out, but I'm not sure if this is the problem.

worth a shot though.
 
[quote name='AquaKnight']did you try installing your games?

at least by installing the games, there will be less strain on the DVD drive and on the system, so if the red rings were occuring as a result of the drive, you'd solve that problem.

if your HD isn't big enough, you could try upgrading it before Reach comes out, but I'm not sure if this is the problem.

worth a shot though.[/QUOTE]

For whatever reason, ever since I've had my 360 it gradually scratched discs over time when it had to spin in the drive, so ever since it was an option, I've been installing every game that I play to the harddrive. I have a 120gig drive, so it's been fine.

It's alright, I sent the thing off, and a bud gave me his spare 360 so I can at least play some stuff until mine comes back (It has trouble reading discs, but at least I could play Monday Night Combat and all that jazz.)

I appreciate it, though.
 
happy to hear you'll be able to play some Reach :p

hope everything works out with your system when it comes back

good luck and have fun
 
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