So my little brother's xbox is messed up.

Not sure why, it was working fine yesterday. But now when you turn it on the fan will get pretty loud and after a few seconds a red light will start flashing around the power button and the tv turns black.

Can't turn it off by holding the power button so he has to unplug it because it will just stay like that.

Anyone have this problem or know how to fix it?

any help would be much appreciated...

Ok the lights that are flashing are the two on the left side.

I looked it up and it says that is happening because the xbox is overheating...

I don't see how because no one has played it in over a day I think. I'm going to see if I can get some dust out of it but if not I guess I'll have to take it somewhere it the fan is broken.

It overheats because the really smart people at microsoft put a plastic panel over the cpu fan that melts onto the cpu eventually.
I'm pretty sure you have to send it off to microsoft. They should do it for free, but all they do is replace the CPU and put a new stupidly placed plastic panel over it. "for protection"

Like your gonna kick your xbox. like i did when i got the red ring

Yeah you might have to send it, it should be free. (Same thing happened to one of my buddies and they had to send it off) Try taking out the hard-drive and leaving it un-plugged, it might work.

Just sell your dumbbox (this is what me and my buddy call xboxes haha) and buy a ps2 theyre sooooo much better

Ok that makes sense, I'll send it in then and see if they'll fix it.

I was just gonna take it to a game shop where they fuck with shit like that but I'd rather just send it in and not have to worry about it.

2 weeks, btw.

yeah and Harry you might have to call microsoft first and they send you a box, or you can do it over the internet. I haven't done it so im not totally sure how it works, jmickle?

ah, I'm not exactly sure. I don't have an xbox myself, but my bro and my mate have both had this problem ,so i know a lot about it, but I don't know how they sent it off.

I'm guessing they did it ont the internet then sent it off.

Yeah I just called and was wondering about them sending me a box to put it in because the guy was acting like he's gonna send me an email with the stuff I need to put on the front and I have to get my own box...

Guess I'll wait for the email, see what it says, then go from there.

I'm not really worried about how long it takes because its not my xbox and I should be gone in the next two weeks regardless (hopefully) I just wanted to make sure it got fixed.

fucking assholes were blaming it on me...

I'm probably gonna buy a ps3 when I get back though and just switch it out with my bro's 360 so I can get total GAMage.

When my 360 died (not RRoD, the video output died somehow), I managed to take it back to my local GAME and get it replaced in about 5 minutes with a completely new 360... Wouldn't it be possible for you to do the same, Coxswain?

If you mean the retailer I bought it from then no. He got it last Christmas and the receipt is long gone.