Microsoft Lights Up GDC With Red Ring of Death

Microsoft kicked off GDC with red! Here, the BBC spotted this Xbox 360 demo kiosk that has been RRoD'd. No way to know if this console was made before things were "bad" or after things got "good." But think about it this way: All those other GDC Xbox 360s are working fine! So now all that there's left for you to do is go check your Xbox 360, make sure it still works and pray.

Source:
http://kotaku.com/357951/microsoft-lights-up-gdc-with-red-ring-of-deaththe roflcopter is laughing at microsoft

Wow....incredible....totally worth a thread of it's own...You know....I think maybe, just maybe, the Xbox being locked in that plastic case for hours upon end without any discernible airflow may have caused that ring of light...If a console has a problem with overheating, the last thing you want to do is lock it in a plastic case in the middle of a room full of sweaty geeks....Then again it could have been just a loose power cord...

"That's pretty embarrassing."QFT. Amen. Tru dat. Yeah. That's setting a bad example. :P

you know at concerts how people pull out their lighters and .....
what if you replaced that with 360's with Red Rings?

Haha, I've not heard of anything so amusing from Microsoft since Windows 98 bluescreened at Comdex ;D

Thanks for the update, It is truely embarassing for them :P

lmao well done M$..... well done.....well my 360's fine, if it ever does RRoD then ive got the 10yr extended warranty and the guy where I bought it from is scared of me so ill have no problem getting a swap :P

I guess this belongs in Microsoft discussion, so moved.

Now that's an embarrassment.

There was a RRoD'd 360 in Toys 'R' Us for months. The idiots there are too lazy to replace it. :P

This was the funnest thing I ever read... About a week ago! :PStill embarrassing thou.

The ___ ___ of Death is a symbol of microsoft, maybe they should have a BOSD with a RROD as their logo xD

awww, what an embarassment!i earned my day, fellas. :P

iamlegend · #2Wow....incredible....totally worth a thread of it's own...You know....I think maybe, just maybe, the Xbox being locked in that plastic case for hours upon end without any discernible airflow may have caused that ring of light...If a console has a problem with overheating, the last thing you want to do is lock it in a plastic case in the middle of a room full of sweaty geeks....Then again it could have been just a loose power cord...

exactly what i thoughti bought a rid ringer today off ebay, going to fix it up and flash it. nice cheap 360

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You probably outbid me so.... :(

i got two that day both for cheap and now they are both working lovely so one will be back on ebay and the other i'm going to mod the hell out of it