It may be a pain in the ass when the 3 rings of death happen but it's not the end of the world!! While the only useful solution is a temporary one that needs to be done every week or so, it works nonetheless. probably not the safest solution but one i'd happily risk than waste another £300.

Of course i am talking about the toweling of a 360. Many of you know it as the only way to make the big paperweight become a console again.

The idea of wrapping your 360 fully in a towel - vents and all - switching it on, and leaving it to overheat (massively) for 30 mins to an hour seems ludicrous and you wont believe it till you try it but it brought mine and two mates 360's back to life (albeit temporarily till you needed to do it again).

At least while they all seem to turn out to be faulty eventually, microsoft has managed to build the machine in a way thats somewhat manageable once it is broken.

This is really gonna be the splinter in the foot for Microsoft, it such a shame that it seem so many 360 are faulty, its put a black mark on a otherwise faultless console. I just hope that in a year or so, all this has been dealt with & ironned out. I got my 360 on day 1 (well i actually got 2, a core & a prem) & they are still going strong not a hitch (he says touching wood & holding a copy of the darkness) but out of say 10 friends who have 360's 4 of those have had @ least 2 faulty consoles.

I just wished they would come clean and more importantly fix the design faults in the 360, The PS2 had its fair share of problems when released but 18months after release and countless reports of failures MS needs to fix it quick.

With Halo3, GTA4, Acecombat 6, mass effect, eternal sonata all set for autum/winter I really dont want my 360 to break, and if it does I doubt I will fork out for another one.

“I would say we don’t have a high defect rate.”

now he wouldve said "we don't have a high defect rate" if they didnt have a high defect rate. turning hard facts into a matter of opinion is common in PR. this way he hasnt directly lied about them havign a lot of returns or pissed of his superiors by saying their consoles are a bit bobbins in build quality

what on earth causes this popular problem? is it just bad case design/componant placement causing overheating and subsequently the RROD? or is the thing just riddled with software and hardware problems that have innumerable possible configurations of malfunctions that could cause the RROD?

dagnabbit!

lol.. .. A minority can be 49% ... althoug im sure its not that high.. it could be 20%.. which is 1 out of 5.. and if I take my friends who have 360s its 2 out of 6.. so it sound like to me theres a problem..