No way!? Yes it appears that small percentage of Xbox 360s that were sold are having some sort of overheating problem. Several posts have been made on well established forums in regards to Xbox 360 overheating, and people are speculating that the cause of this overheating is due to 360″s hard-drive.
It randomly freezes and light on the powersupply turns orange. People have called and sent e-mails about this situation and apparently, Microsoft”s Xbox 360 tech support is well aware of this problem. OOPSY!

Here are some of the complaints made on forums:

TomStrong at GA-Forum wrote

“I play Kameo (interesting game) for about 30 minutes and the 360 crashes!!! Ugh…. Power adaptor goes from solid green to a flashing orange…. What next? Well, shoot off an email to MS, get one back not too long ago, find out that the flashing orange means that Xbox has overheated!

Zeebo at Xbox Scene wrote

“I just received my Xbox 360 today. It was freezing cold so I let it sit for about an hour. Plugged everything in got it up and started playing COD 2. I completed training and while it was loading it just went to a black screen. I waited for awhile and nothing happened so I turned it off, let it sit and turned it back on. I turned it back on to 3 red flashing lights. The top left and the two bottom.

“I found out that it”s the hard drive. They said they have received numerous calls already. I unplugged my hard drive and it worked fine. Put it back on my box and red lights again.”

Reaver at TeamXbox wrote

“It worked when I set all my settings up. But I put in PGR3, it freezes when I get to the menu, did it 3 times. I put in PDZ, it freezes in the menu.”

Yannira also at TeamXbox wrote

“All five of the games I bought freeze up after a few minutes, I am assuming because of the 360 heating up. It gets unusually hot, the game discs as well are red hot.

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