Anyone now stuff about Xbox 360s?

[crunkenstein]

Hey babes, thanks for coming to the thread.

My 360 has been acting up a touch, getting 2 red lights (which is supposed to mean overheating, but it doesn't feel hot at all).

Well, last time this happened was about half a year ago, and since Microsoft insisted I had tampered with my Xbox, i took it upon myself to fix it. So I just opened the old girl up, blew all the dust out, and for some divine reason it just worked again.

Well, recently it's been 2 red lighting after about 10 minutes of play, so I thought I'd use my super awesome taker apart-er skills and blow that dust to kingdom come again.

Except this time it didn't work after I put it all back together again. So I decided to take it apart a second time, even more so than before! (unscrewed more junk from other junk).

Well, now that I've put it together all over again, whenever I start it up, it makes an extremely loud WHIRR-ing noise, and 2-red-lights within seconds.

It also scratched my SvR2008 disk... OH THE HUMANITY.

Anyways, any brilliant people out there now anything that might help me out? I know microsoft will be no help at all. Perhaps an external cooling system could magically cure the poor old thing?

Sorry for the long boring read.

HELP PLZ?!

[Cylon]

You really should send it to someone with professional experience honestly. I'd take it to the your local video game store and see if anyone there knows how to help you. If you hadn't opened it, Microsoft would've fixed it if you complained enough. Google something called "360 towel trick" it may help you out.

[crunkenstein]

Well, the very very first time I got the 2 red lights, I sent it in, and about a month and a half later got it back with a message that said it "had been returned un-fixed do to tampering" and I was refunded. Strange thing is I never tampered with it before that, and it worked all of a sudden! But then when it happened again, I thought I'd be on some kind of "tamperer's list" or something, so I did my own thing.

And the towel trick appears to be for the 3 red lights, not my twosies.