[quote name='Nate1986']i'm new to the site (thanks Attack of the Show) i do not have a 360 at the moment but intend to have one by Christmas, i do have a few questions concerning the Red Ring of Death:
for those that have experienced the Red Ring, did you guys have the system properly ventilated and have you had the system since launch or a few months afterwards
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Mine was manufactured in 3 / 2006. It sat on metal furniture risers with rubber feet all by itself. This gave it an additional half an inch of clearance underneath. It sat horizontally. Five inches of clearance on the left and right, and a clear open bay in front and back. No glass door, no blockage to the rear, etc. The shelf it was on, I simply must add was in a completely separate entertainment center from every other home theater device that I own. The shelves below and beside it just hold my far too large video game library.
The power supply sat on top of a decorative metal milk jug. Yes. A milk jug. The Wife is... really fond of that damn thing. It was plugged into the wall directly, sharing an outlet with a phone.
I went away to Ireland for some time. The last time I played a game on it was over a month and a half ago as a result. I returned home, picked up my Goozex copy of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance II, turned on the unit and... RROD. This was just a couple of days ago.
It now intermittently gives me the RROD, and crashes minutes into any game I put into it.