I turned on my 360 this morning to play a little Bioshock and instantly saw the Red Ring of Death.

Three lights, blinking.

I sat there, in my gaming chair, staring at it with my hand on my chin, as if I were pondering the meaning of life or wondering where that other sock actually goes.

The three lights kept blinking.

I ejected the Bioshock disc and turned the 360 off. I waited a few minutes and turned it back on, it came on and ran with no problems. I went into the system menu and did the "clear cache" trick, then reinserted the Bioshock disc. Everything seemed fine and I went into my save game. I played the game for maybe 10 minutes before the game made a weird whistling sound and the screen just froze. No red ring, but a locked up system. I turned it off again and left for the day.

I came home about an hour ago, turned on the system, and just finished playing Bioshock for about 40 minutes with no problems.

At this point in time, with Halo 'goddamn' Thr33 coming out in two days, you could say that I could smash small rocks in between my teeth.

I'm not very happy at the moment...I said that if my 360 turned red it would be the last Microsoft console I ever buy...I'm a man of my word. I have no doubt I can get it fixed (it's not even one year old).-

F@CK! The Halo 3 "diorama" commercial is on the television right N O W !

PERFECT TIMING!