Unfortunately for us our XBox 360 has succumbed to the red ring of death phenomena. We found an interesting tutorial on Youtube which indicated that wrapping the XBox in towels for 20 minutes can some times fix the problem, and that actually worked! The first two times, since then the XBox has begun flashing the red ring again for the past two days no matter how long we leave it unplugged.

Our one year warranty, of course, expired a week before the first red ring affliction, but XBox will cover repairs for the red ring of death for an additional two years after the date of purchase even if the main warranty has expired. So once the box for shipping gets here our little XBox will be wending it’s way to XBox for repairs.

I hope my husband can survive the two-three weeks it’ll take to come back to us without it. We’ve lost the charger cords for both his MP3 players as well and he’s been listening to his music through the XBox USB slot. I can see he’ll be abducting the Wii back to his room upstairs given I’ve been trying to finish up Final Fantasy XII lately rather than playing Okami.