Does anyone know what might be causing this (pic included)

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#1 jmbrandt715
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So basically I can play my system for about 5 mintues before it freezes and the picture becomes pixelated.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/cage715/photo.jpg

Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated

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#2 Wiishy
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Maybe a problem with dirty lens? Or game disk?
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#3 jmace1
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My 360 started freezing on me constantly right before I got the Red light of Death. The pixelation thing though is new to me though.
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#4 Bane_v2
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The RROD is imminent. Prepare to call 1-800-4MY-XBOX for a replacement.
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#5 jmbrandt715
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Nah i tried a different game, and i also tried just leaving it on the dash board and eventually the same thing happened
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#6 jmbrandt715
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i figured that the RROD is coming so i went to the repair center online and found they wanted 96 dollars to fix my xbox.......This angers me
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#7 cosmicwave
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that is excatly what happened to my console before i got the RROD. so, i think you're console is on its last leg aswell.
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#8 Zach68486
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Red ring of death, man. Mine started doing that a month before I got the ring.
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#9 jmbrandt715
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Dang, ive already been through the RROD twice before and im contemplating just tossing it out and buying games for my ps3 which at the moment just collects dust. Kind of ironic isnt it?
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#10 Avenger1324
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Looks like the graphics card is dying
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#11 Wiishy
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Open up your Xbox 360 and clean it with compressed air.
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#12 deactivated-57af49c27f4e8
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yup that is a precursor to the rrod. just call ms now.
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#13 bigballedbaxter
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try cleaning it out. looks like the gpu is overheating but hasn't quite burned out yet. you don't keep it near the floor where a lot of dust can get inside of it do you? i see this a lot hen people bring in their computers to be fixed. they typically burn out their video card due to lack of ventilation, usually caused by piles of dust. if you do send it to microsoft, i'd wait for the full blown RROD. at least that's warrantied for 3 years.
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#14 jmbrandt715
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thanks for the input! keep it coming...
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#15 Don0van
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im guessin ur xbox is gonna break soon
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#16 Wiishy
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Trade in your Xbox 360 while it still works for another Xbox 360.
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#17 jmbrandt715
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hahah i have to good of a conscience to do that...
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#18 Ironman3087
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i had that same exact problem with my first 360. Fortunatly for me I had a 2 year extended warranty on my 360 from Best Buy. I took it into best buy and they gave me a new one. I asked if i could put the hard drive from the broken 360 to the new one they were giving me, and so I did. I took it home and in about 10 mins I had the same exact problem so I went back and just took the new hard drive. if i'm not mistaken, your hard drive is faulty.
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#19 jmbrandt715
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should i try playing without the harddrive?
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#20 jmbrandt715
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weird, for some reason when i play call of duty or nba 2k9 it does that weird freeze glitch, however when i play madden it seems to be fine. ill update...
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#21 jmbrandt715
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so a quick update... i played madden for about 20 minutes but it froze so i decided to take the hard drive out. Without the hard drive it lasted 2 minutes and did that glitch again.
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#22 Absolutezerr
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i had that same exact problem with my first 360. Fortunatly for me I had a 2 year extended warranty on my 360 from Best Buy. I took it into best buy and they gave me a new one. I asked if i could put the hard drive from the broken 360 to the new one they were giving me, and so I did. I took it home and in about 10 mins I had the same exact problem so I went back and just took the new hard drive. if i'm not mistaken, your hard drive is faulty. Ironman3087

That happened to me too. I upgraded to the 120GB drive and I could transfer over all my files and the new drive worked fine. But I don't know what the problem is, don't count on a new HD helping.

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#23 lillilnick
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Video Card is fried. Thats what mine did......
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