Xbox 360 Slim - Loud

This is a relatively long post, beware. I have had a halo reach xbox 360 slim console since its release in september, and it has always been "whisper quite" as expected up in tell this past week. On start up and through out use the fan starts to spin very fast making a loud noise, producing heat right at start up even after days without use. The fan makes a loud noise for a period of 30 seconds or so than slows down to whisper quite, than picks back up again in roughly another 30 seconds or so. The xbox is located in an entertainment center, but is very well ventilated on all sides and I have also tried placing it on top of the entertainment center with literally nothing around it to no avail. All of my games are burned to the hard drive so the disc drive is never in use. I have cleaned all dust or debree in the fan, disc drive, ventilations, and power brick.

I inquired at gamestop about this issue and they said that I was the fourth person to come in with this complaint, and he mentioned that we all happen to be using the kinect with our xbox's. With the slim, kinect ready xboxs the kinect draws power from the xbox by being able to avoid using the additional power supply given for older models, so this got me thinking that this could be contributing to the xbox heating up much more quickly and consistently, so I just decided to use the power adapter for my kinect to see if this helps, so here are my questions:

When a kinect ready xbox that doesnt require the power adapter uses one, does it draw power from the power adapter or will it bypass it and draw from the xbox anyway?

Has anyone had issues with their xbox slim being loud, paticulary from the fan, or have overheating issues?

Any ideas/solutions/help?

Thank you

This happend to my slim, it lasted for about 3 weeks and went away and hasnt done it for months... i called around and know one new what it was doing. It went away after awhile so i wouldnt worry.

EDIT: Mine did it without kinect being hooked up so thats not the problem.

I'm guessing it's a fault present in most or all slims. If it's not dirty inside, You can't really do much about it.

Thank you for the responses. I dont really want to send it off for repairs quite yet so I guess ill see if it works it self out like it did for you flower, ill respond once there is a resolution. Feel free to post with any other suggestions.

Its prob just taking the hot air from inside and filtering it out thats why Its hot and loud for a few seconds.

I have the 4gb model and its loud for a minute or two then quites down and stays that way but the power brick you can hear the fan going. Its normal. The SLIM MODELS Have a VERY LOW CHANCE Of RED DOTTING. Your pretty much ok for now, I wouldnt worry too much about it.

Thanks, im not really worried about red ringing or system failure though. I just want to be able to hear dialogue in a game without turning up the volume on the television rediculously high to overpower the random loud fan noise.

I don't have halo version of the xbox but the regular xbox slim; I do notice that the fan makes a loud whirring noise but for me its only when i play certain games. For instance whenever i play Halo 3 the noise is pretty obnoxious and it also happens when i play mass effect.

Get your Portable ID!

mine has done it, it ususally stops quite fast and becomes quiet again... so i wouldn't worry.

and i reckon it would draw power from the brick if you connect it :)

oh yeah and ppl: quite and quiet means two different things.. a silent thing is not quite.. seriously.. i'm danish, teaching you (i guess american?) english?