It has its very own wikipedia page.
To save you some time, the basic gist is this:
To save money, Microsoft decided to manufacture their own graphics chips rather than contract the job to a graphic chip company.
The Microsoft chips, turns out, sucked. They overheated and fried the motherboard. The indicator is, you got it, the three flashing red lights, RRoD.
Consumers were pissed. So, Microsoft, to their credit, decided to comp the repair costs, refurb console, gratis. They also decided to start contracting out for graphics chips.
I've been pretty lucky, so far. The consoles were failing at something like 17% (acceptable levels are normally near 1-2%) and I've had my system for a while.
Well, today, after work, as I was sitting down to play a few rounds of Call of Duty 4
RRoD
And boy, did that suck.
I called the repair hotline, they walked me through some troubleshooting steps, took my information, and will be shipping me a prepaid box in a few days.
So, I guess I'll have some time to catch up on my reading. Or Red Sox watching. Or I could just play more Super Mario Galaxy.
-t
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