I'm sorry, Dave.
Right, then. I’ve had my Xbox for some time, now. It doesn’t make too much noise, it doesn’t overheat, it hasn’t crashed once yet, it doesn’t produce churning noise from the DVD drive and I love it. I don’t even have the newest version with the newest chip and the new standard 60GB HDD. Mine’s a version from around the end of 2007. I never saw a real red ring of death. For a while, in the beginning, I even thought this to be an urban legend and not a fact.
Nevertheless, apparently there are still people out there who buy a new Xbox and only a few weeks or months later their unit RRoDs. The Red Ring of Death. The three red lights indicating that their Xbox has called it quits and is now sitting in a corner pouting and stomping its feet in functional defiance.
The first thing that would come to mind for most is to send it in to Microsoft. Some people may Google up alternative solutions. I don’t know if I was just blind up until today or whether the search results don’t make it clear enough but there’s a simple solution for the problem.
Pick the right repair guide and fix it yourself. That’s right - pick the right repair guide.
According to this guy, it can some times be rather difficult to find the right one - especially if you don’t tend to be a good DIYer.
So which one’s the best guide to fix your Xbox on your own and save it from android hell?
Apparently it’s a place called Xbox360RedLightFix.com.
Ingenius name. You’d think that would be the first result on Google when you type in the proper keywords. Unfortunately it’s not. So here we go; this is my bit of publicity contribution.
Thus it happened that at some point the Linux wave hit our offices and pretty much everyone with their own laptop at work wiped Windows from their machines and went for Linux - one after the other. The excitement was large at first and everyone marveled at the greatness that is sudo, the joy that is Gnome, the ease of installation, the excellent repositories of Ubuntu, the driver compatibility and the awesomeness of the community.
The problem, however, is that nobody cares. At least not the people that matter - Video game companies and mainstream production software companies. In our case, we’re gamers. We game on everything we can get our hands on and the easily accessible mainstream of the gaming industry is located around Windows and the various console systems. Gaming makes up for a huge, gargantuan percentage of the computer industry. Gamers want to spend effort on mastering and beating the game; not on mastering the OS on which their games have to run. Wine and Cedega may be great options, but they are hurdles. Nobody likes hurdles. Like with Sony’s first walkman, the key to success is ease of use, one-button-push, instant exposure to content. No hurdles.
How does my social involvement with other people define which console system best suits me? How does a PS3 only apply to people without friends? How do internet friends only apply to Xbox 360 users? No matter which way I try to twist the possible explanation, it all makes very little sense. Does it all correlate to the rather underdeveloped online community functions of PSN? Does it have to do with the “Friends List” on Xbox Live which, by the way, hardly influences with whom I can play on Xbox Live. Does it have to do with the Wii remote control? The chart makes no sense at all. But all this is just nitpicking at an already flawed idea. I may be reading way too deep into the sincerity of the flow chart. It’s just a joke, right? Perhaps it is.
Oh my goodness. Huge hype. 
Do you remember how you had you blow hard into a Nintendo game cartridge to clean the copper contacts and make the game work when you turned on the console? Well, the Nintendo wasn’t the first console to require this rather mundane troubleshooting style. The Atari had it first. My first video gaming console happened to be an Atari 2600. I fondly remember playing Donkey Kong, Missile Command, Space Invaders and the Pac Man series.
