I Fell in to a Burning Ring (of Lights)

Apologies to Johnny Cash...

Ahhh console gaming. I spent about 4 hours of quality time with my new XBox 360, playing through the beginning missions of Grand Theft Auto 4. All was well and I was quite happy indeed! The next day I go to turn on my Xbox to play a little more and that's when it happened. The dreaded "red flashing ring of light." It's basically a dummy light for the system like a check engine light is too a car. The word vague comes to mind.

I had heard about this problem with the Xbox 360's, of course, so it wasn't totally unknown to me. I also heard how the makers of the Xbox, Microsoft, had a HUGE recall. I thought I was safe. Obviously, I thought wrong. My friend I got the Xbox off of had no problems whatsoever with it, so I must be the luckiest guy in the world! Now I have to print up some labels, go to Fed Ex or UPS, mail my Xbox to Microsoft, and wait for them to mail it back to me. Guess I'll have to wait to return to Liberty City for a few weeks.

-Twiz