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Well, it was all just a matter of time, I suppose. One of our LAN 360s finally red-ringed for the umpteenth time, and after being in the shop three times already, I'm giving up on it.
We were a few waves into a night of ODST Firefight, and suddenly a huge fireball blew up from our 3rd LAN setup and incinerated Walter and three bystanders. Firefighters worked fourteen hours to contain the emerging Balrog but were also consumed in the end and now the flame elemental is destroying Pittsburg.
Actually it just locked up, but with 360s notoriously kicking over your grandmother and stealing your ice cream when you start to trust them again, I thought I'd imagine it a bit more dramatic.
So now I have to decide if it's worth looking to pick up another box, since Friday Night Firefights and other weekend LAN gaming are a house staple, or be fiscally responsible and just ask friends to bring their own extra time bombs.
Since I often buy more than one LAN-able copy of games for multiplayer, I'll probably just stick it out for now and stay with two machines. Any other suggestions?
By the way, if you live in the northeastern part of the U.S., there's a knock at your door and you smell something that is not entirely unlike smoky plastic, stay on the couch and glare knowingly at your own 360.
*also, for all of the Sony Fanboys that'll type '360 sux by a PS3', I'll have you know I had to buy another one of those already because of a faulty Blu-Ray drive that was out of warranty. This current HD generation has not impressed me in terms of reliability.
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Thats one of the biggest reasons I love cart based systems so much. Very reliable.
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Funny you should say that. My top-loader NES started doing crazy graphic errors and screen problems outta nowhere, after eight or so years of service. After checking the cords and games, I had to replace the old girl a few months back. Thankfully the famiclones have knocked the original's price down so I bought a replacement for $60, $15 cheaper than the first one I bought.
I also bought a sealed Aladdin deck last year, along with all of the carts CIB. After breaking the seal I went through half a dozen NES toasters trying to get the darn thing to work, and it just won't. Naturally, the seller wouldn't return, said she'd sold plenty of the things and they all worked fine.
And don't get me started on Intellivision/Colecovision. I've got five Intellivisions with various issues, and I can't seem to build a good one out of them. And I have three Colecovisions, none of which come up on screen.
Among other cart-based system replacements: Atari 5200, Atari XE Computers (400, 800XL, 1200), Game Gear power issues, Lynx hardware issues, and a Game.com that won't turn on.
I swear I'm not jinxed, I have two college degrees in this stuff and I used to run the video game repair shop out of a mom-and-pop game store. I think that I just have so much stuff, that the average breakdown percentage starts to work against me. Statistics, I guess. :p
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I feel your pain. I am on my 4th 360 (thank G-d MS replaced them all for free). It starts getting pretty pathetic after a while.
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I've replaced five total, I think. Only 2 were within warranty. I LOVE 360 software and Live, unfortunately I have to put up with absurdly problematic hardware.
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I'm guessing most/all of the issues have been with older released 360s?
Also hilarious article 
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I think I've owned a 360 for every year they've been released so far. I replace, on average, one a year. And I wonder why I don't own a house yet. 
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Have you tried fixing the 360's yourself? My Dad picked an RROD xbox at the flea market for $10, and after maybe $10 max in parts, it works great. Granted, I don't have any games or controllers to fully test the thing out, but we left it running for 2-3 hours without any problems.
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It's one of the models with a severely overheating first series motherboard. Basically all the solder around the graphics chip heats up and then just runs off the board, overloading the thermal paste and the chip pops loose. Theoretically I could just clean it up and resolder it, but I'd need a replacement heat sink again and the thing would just do it again anyway, probably in the middle of another epic three-hour Halo Wars 3 VS 3 Skirmish or when I'm watching a surgery-at-home dvd to perform a life saving operation on my wife's spleen.
Not gonna fight with this one anymore. 
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I guess I've been lucky in having only had to replace one...
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I had read something online about the heatsink issue causing the system to overheat which caused some piece of plastic to get hot and fall off.
I can't remember what it was but it was some white plastic clip that you can buy bags of on eBay.
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Sounds like the plastic heat sink clips, which are often damaged by old 360s, but replacing those would just be part of the work needed on this one. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Geez, the graphics chip one is a friggin' nightmare to fix. I was lucky, when my 360 caught RROD (three-rings), I was able to fix it for about $12 (counting the thermal paste). Not hard at all, but not all 360 faults are equal.
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