It's the AIR that's bad for the system, that's what's causing them to break. Didn't you read the manuel: "CAUTION: keep away from air".

utter b******s, M$. i know a few people who have had the RROD, and none of them used surge protection

ok M$ so how do i get red ring then if mine was plugged directly into the wall??? and has never ever been near a surge protector???, whats wrong with it is the fact your build and testing quality was rushed to be the fiorst console on the block, thats all well and good but now its costing you over a billion dollars to sort this, but remmeber it cant be surge protectors because there isnt a problem!!!

i had my console since december 2006 and it broke in may of 2007, and i got a new console with a nice new heatsink inside, o yeah and 1 month xox live gold card, with any luck it will be fine now, but we will see after all i have 3 years on the sucker now if it breaks again.

Alrighty then MicroSoft... Provide all those that have a 360 with a private electricity line and see if that keeps all in working order.

I've a pre-owned console and all is working alright so day. The only thing that is bothering me is the Pro Evo 6 disc I have... It's just stopped reading. Its not even badly scratched (no I take care of my disc's and it worked fine before) so I don't know whats up. Everytime I get to the team management screen the disc stops spinning and obviously I get thrown out (not literally).

But appart from that, just racing around on the Test Drive Unlimited demo... two random crashes/freezing periods. Other than that, no probs with the 360. Infact, I think I might get the Elite when it's out here just because it'll have updated internal components, hdmi output and the larger hard drive.