For the past weeks my Xbox 360's been blowing out steaming hot air, while sounding like a revving chopper. It's not whether it'll die or not, it's now a case of when. And quite frankly, it almost wantd to bite the dust today.

After playing Mass Effect for about two hours, I got annoyed by the unusually loud thing. So I turned it off, to let it cool down. After I ate something and wanting to turn it on again, it gave me the three red lights. All I said was "...There you have the proof. Just as I'm getting ****ing giddy for GTAIV, this thing kills the fun.".

I'm pretty damn aware of the fact that the main reason for the software failure is the motherboard melting into a U-shape cause of the heat the white plastic cube produces.

So, what do you think I did?

I picked up the box of the Xbox 360, I ripped the warranty agreement apart. I got myself a screwdriver. I pocked it into the side, above the HDD. And cracked the top-plate off.

...Tough, eventually I did find out that you could "click" it off. And "click" it back on, so the warranty wouldn't be screwed.

But hell, the thing works again. I'll bet if it were human it would scream "OXYGEN! I CAN BREEEAAATTTHHHEEEE!". For a moment I thought I got screwed hard by Microsoft, three days before Heaven breaches open upon Earth. I don't think I actually solved the issue, but I think preventing the motherboard from turning into a U-form again, must've helped someway.

Otherwise, this would've been the eight time I send in an Xbox Console over a two year period.