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I've noticed for a couple months now that my CD tray on my xbox 360 has been sticking and thought about sending it in to be repaired but I didn't buy the 2 year warranty. I'll try to open the cd tray and it refuses to open. I can hear the motor trying to push the tray out for a split second and then it quits. When my xbox is doing this, I usually just say screw it and walk away for a day or so and come back and it opens fine....

Well.. Christmas day I come home and expect to play my xbox 360 (I had just gotten Tony Hawks Project 8). I turn on the xbox and it loads to the main screen, but then it locked up and the screen went pixelated. The light on the xbox flashed red with 3 of the 4 lights being lit up.

I tried everything to get it to boot up, checked the cord (it was on the right setting), checked EVERYTHING. I finally gave up after 10 or so attempts and called Microsoft.. 

There was actually one instance in which the 360 did start and get into Tony Hawks loading screen. Then it locked up... 

Okay. Now for the good news, bad news

The good news is that Microsoft will replace ANY XBOX 360 CONSOLE withing the first year, instead of the 90 days they originally promised.

The BAD news is that the xbox 360 has so many problems that they have to give a free 1 year warranty, knowing most of them will have an issue within the first year.

Even worse, I won't have my xbox 360 for over a month, and I really, really want to play Project 8.

If your xbox is having trouble, call 1-800-4MYXBOX...

I should mention that there was a warning as to a possible problem for me. A friend and I had the xbox lock up like this twice while playing Halo 2, a month or so before the xbox finally died completly.