Has anyone experianced the red ring of death??(Xbox original) or is that just a myth?
yes its real.The Xbox 360 video game console can be subject to a number of technical problems which render it unusable. Those problems are identified as “general hardware failures,” and are indicated through a red ring of light around the power button. Since its release in 2005, many articles have appeared in the media portraying the Xbox 360’s poor reliability and relatively high failure rates. The three glowing rings have been nicknamed in these articles as the “Red Ring of Death” (or “RROD”). Several video game blogs, newspapers and magazines Wired, Kotaku, Joystiq, The Inquirer, GamePro, G4, and several others reported on an interview by a Seattle PI Reader Blog “Digital Joystick” with a confidential source inside Microsoft by the name “xboxfounder”. It reported that this source was a team leader and key architect in the creation of the Xbox and Xbox 360 and a founding member of the xbox team and has since left the company but maintained close ties to the remaining Xbox team. The i
