Hey GS,
So here's my story. Back in November or December last year, my X360 finally got the dreaded RRoD. I kept forgetting to call M$ and I finally remembered a couple days ago. I called them up to ask about the warrenty and surprise surprise, they think I bought the 360 in January '07 and I am therefore out of the 3 year RRoD warranty. I either live with no 360 or pay $100 to get it fixed. What angers me is that I bought this 360 in June '07 as it was a present for my birthday, but I have no proof of purchase so they won't let me get it fixed.
With nothing to lose, I figured I would try the towel trick since it doesn't void the warranty, in case I happened to find a proof of purchase. I wrapped up my 360 and let it bake for 25 minutes. After I took it out, I let it cool and started playing. At first, it froze up every second game I played from CoD6. I was fine with that, but I decided to try and fix it. One hard drive maintenance later and the problem was solved. I played for a couple of hours with no freezes, and as soon as I turned it off and came back later that day, the problems started again.
Now, I'm not sure exactly what to do. The 360 won't even play a single round now before freezing. Another hard drive maintenance did absolutely nothing for the problem, although removing the hard drive allowed me to at least boot in to the game, even though I couldn't actually play a round on LIVE.
To fix this problem, what should I do? Could it be a heat problem that an intercooler could solve, or a hard drive problem that a new HDD would fix? Or is my 360 totally gone and I should just save up and grab a new one later on. What do you guys think?
PS. I have a first-gen Xbox 360 Pro. It's got a 20gb hard drive and no HDMI output. MFR date is 03-03-2006.
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