Originally posted by chriswhit:

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I bought my first xbox360 on release day (Nov 22 2005). I still have that one running good but it has never been on line at all and has had no problems. Its been run almost every day but I made an inter cooler that just plugs into the wall myself because I thought it ran hot.
I bought my son a used one so I wouldn't have to wait to play when I wanted to. I did the same thing to keep his cool. what I noticed after I got him his sixth used console was that each system red ringed almost Immediately after an update and was more than 3yrs old. They always red ringed the same day of an update. I know this could be just luck but all 6 of them and 2 were in the same day after the same update which had the konnect dashboard.
It made me wonder though is it possible that xbox live monitors and sends an update that will kill older consoles to force you to buy a new one. They would have to use the same technique used to ban modded consoles and how would we ever know without working for them. I do know a lot of consoles red ringed before the 3 years was up to but with any product there are good and bad ones that are identical. I'm just wanting to know how many of you guys that had the red ring of death had it happen ether after an update or the next time you used your console?
I almost want to log my first one on line to see if it will red ring but its the only one we have that works right now and out of fear I could be onto something till I get a new one I don't dare. I probably just have bad luck but want to here from others and how long after an update did yours red ring. Thanks for reading my post

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