Quote: djwhetzel said: "Man I feel your pain. And 2 weeks before Halo 3. One thing you might want to try before you send it back to MS. My girlfriends mom bought a refurbished 360 on eBay and right out of the box it had the red ring of death. She really wanted to take it home and play it so I started looking around online and ran across this video of this guy that claims to have the fix for the red ring of death so I check it out. All the guy did was lay the 360 flat (horizontal) on the floor and gave it a pretty hard hit from the top. I thought, what the hell, I don't have anything to loose, so I tried it. It didn't work at first, but after 2 or 3 good wacks it started working. I ended up e-mailing the guy she bought it off of and told them that it didn't work and he sent her another one, but she played that first one up until she got the new one and didn't have anymore problems.

So I would at least give that a try and see if it works for you before you send it back for the 2nd time. Let me know if it works for you or not. It might at least hold you over until you get your Halo 3 fix. After that I would still send it back though."