Ok, maybe you guys have heard of this before but I haven't and I'm really surprised as hell that it actually works.
Let me preface this by saying that my wife bought me an XBox 360 for my birthday on the day that they came out. Since that day it's been in our bedroom and we also use it for a DVD player and with the kids using it, it probably hasn't gone a single day without being used since we got it and I've never had a problem with it until a few days ago. I'm not gonna complain.
Anyway, a few days ago it just stopped working. Wouldn't boot up and the LEDs around the power button turned red instead of the normal green. I tried several different things and nothing worked. I've had to do surgery on several playstations and an older XBox so that's what I was about to do, but I wanted to google instructions to take off the cover so I didn't break anything in the process.
During my search I found a curious little video about how to fix this exact problem. The fix consists of wrapping the 360 up in a couple of towels to block any airflow and turning it on for 10-15 minutes and let it overheat. Then to turn it off, unwrap the towels and turn it back on and it's fixed.
I didn't really believe it but I tried it anyway and no shit, it's playing The Empire Strikes Back right now when it wouldn't boot up 30 minutes ago. Funny thing is, I don't have a clue as to why this would make it work, doesn't make sense but I'm not going to dwell on it and look a gift horse in the mouth.
And that's all for todays XBox fixing lesson.