I've joined the huge group of frustrated XBox 360 users that suffer because of the overly common Red Ring Of Death. My wife didn't miss the oportunity to say: "See! I told you, you shouldn't play for so many hours in a row, now you screwed our console and I was just starting Grand Theft Auto IV".
Having a lot of knowledge about computers and electronics I thought to myself: "I'll prove you (my wife) I can fix it in no time" and, of course, hit Google looking for some guidelines.
I was amazed to have found so many different kinds of fix for the problem, but I got to tell you, I found one that amazed me the most. It's called the "Towel Trick". Man! the method asks you to wrap your XBox in a towel and powering it up !!! C'mon, who could think of something like that.
Anyway, I found This Guide and after reading it, even the towel method made perfect sense (in a way). The guide is actually an infinitely more professional way of fixing the problem without the risk of setting your whole house on fire, not to mention burning your XBox.
I played for about 3 hours right after fixing the console following the guide and it didn't fail again. I've played a lot ever since and have had no problems at all, so I would say it's fixed. I'm so glad I didn't have to wait for weeks to get it fixed by Microsoft or pay I don't know how much in technical support from a computer shop.
And of course I enjoyed the face of my wife when she saw the thing working again... :D
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