My Xbox 360 froze up while I was playing Grand Theft Auto IV, so I had to reset it. Now it won't play any Xbox 360 games (it tries to play them as DVDs), or Xbox games (just keeps saying "Reading..." and makes a grinding noise). The weird thing is that it will still play DVDs.

Anyways, I called Microsoft, and they said I'll have to send it in, and since it's out of warranty, I'll have to pay $100 for it. I was reading some posts about other people who sent theirs in, and they say it takes about a month before a new console arrives.

This couldn't have happened at a worse time, either. Two days after I get Grand Theft Auto IV - the biggest game of the entire generation, and a game I've been waiting for for over two years.

Update:

My mom was talking to my uncle about this, and he said that his friend sent in his Xbox 360 and ended up getting scammed. They said it would cost him $100 to send it in since it was out of warranty (same thing they told me), but what they didn't tell him is that that was only to send it in to get looked at. After they looked at it they called him and told him how much it would cost for the repair.

So, my mom said it would probably be better to just buy a new console. The Arcade version is only $280, and comes with the new chipset (cooler, quieter, and no RROD problems), plus another controller, so that's what I'm going to get. As for my old 360, my dad's going to take a look at it, and if he can fix it I'm going to sell it.