There are a few reasons, but most likely caused by poor ventilation which leads to high heats. Tripping of the power supply because of over-heating or poor power supplied to the PSU. Sometimes just poor luck, just like with any system. I opened mine up last night, and wow was there a lot of filth built in. That thing attracts quite a bit of dust.
As to why I opened my system up, well, it's on my sig, but I know what it wrong with it and can fix it easily.
the updates don't brick systems, chances are that there was something wrong with it before hand and the update just broke the last straw.
I think the actual problem is that the original heatsinks to the GPU weren't good enough so the connections between it and the motherboard wound get screwed up and there you go.
Overheating that actually melts connections on the GPU. All 360's now come with extra heat sinks, radiators if you will, that cool them a little better. Eventually they will start making the 360's with the thinner and cooler running CPU chip. Although the problem is on the GPU and not CPU, the overall cooler running system should help...
the two main reasons for the RROD is not keeping the 360 well ventilated and gaming on it too much and will simply burn it out (like if you have it on 16 hour straight for 5 weeks)
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