We FINALLY got Bioshock for the xbox360 and before we could even play it, as SOON as we turned on the machine, it went into a red ring of death! No matter how many times we retry, it goes into the red ring of death and dies!

UPDATE: The kicker here is that this xbox 360 is already a replacement sent to us by microsoft after getting a red ring last July or so. Our fixt xbox 360 died when we got the game Deadrising. We sent it in then and got a replacement.

We haven't had a problem since, and then when we went to play BioShock and got the red ring, Mike said "oh yeah, it did that last night and this morning for a short bit", but this time, it was unplayable.

Mike had read online that microsoft recommends unplugging the 3rd party USB Intercooler if you have one, as that is supposed to cause problems, although we can't see how that would be. So, we do have the Intercooler, and Mike DID unplug it, and it's been fine all night! I am surprised by that. I can't see how removing that would make a difference. All I can think of is that the USB-powered Intercooler is drawing power from the xbox and that is somehow interfering.

He is torture-testing the xbox 360 w/ Bioshock and Deadrising tonight because if it's gonna red-ring on us again, we went to send it in to microsoft before the current warranty runs out (the one the microsoft extended for 3 years after everyone was having the same problem). If we have to send it it, we kinda want to get that process started so that it can be over with sooner.