I'm currently on my 2nd unit - first one died from the red-ring-o-death - and now experiencing sporadic connectivity issues to Live and my internal media server, seemingly unrelated to my connection or my network hardware. If I can't resolve them in the next week or so, I'm sending this one in for repair.

It should be noted that, as much as I love this system, if this unit dies outside of its warranty period (I have another 8 months or so left - unless I can still extend it to 2 years...?), I will most likely NOT be buying a replacement.

Edit: Second unit is being sent in for repair.

One dead here. 2nd one is going strong so far.

My 360 has failed once. Microsoft still hasn't fixed the serial number/Marketplace issue. My roommate has had 2 xbox 360s, both which failed within 3 weeks of being new. Koshnika (remember him?) had a 360 which bricked. Another buddy's 360 has not failed.

I'm on my third. The first lasted 10 months, the second less than 1 month. #3 has held up for 2 months so far. Once my Best Buy warranty coverage runs out, I probably won't get a replacement.

Still on my first one here. Yeah, not a tale of woe, but I figured it might not hurt to hear that there are some 360s out there that haven't croaked.

'One red ring to rue them all' is much better title for a thread. Yes.

Apart from that, collecting woes is a good idea.

My first died about 3 weeks into its life. So young, so vital...

As for the questions:
It lay flat.
Out in the open.
No cooling device.
No pets.
No towel trick.
No compressed air.

The second one has been going for about six months now.

They seem to have stumbled onto the perfect simulator for owning an MG or Alpha Romeo sports car from my youth. You loved driving it, but it usually left you stranded at some point.

Good times . . . good times.

Launch 360 died at about the 9 month mark. My replacement has been doing well until recently when it froze twice in one night loading Centipede (?) and in the menus of NHL07. No ring of death but frozen.

Launch Xbox 360 died, most likely due to Chromhounds. I got my unit back from Microsoft, it's the same launch unit and I have not had any issues thus far. What ever was fixed... seems like it's working.

4 months old, started to freeze, take extremely long time to load during Oblivion, got bizarre squares on screen, like Desram, then the burning ring of fire.

Answers to questions:

Lying flat.
On a shelf, open front and back, 6 inches of space on each side, and 5 inches above.
No third party cooler, but my basement is below standard room temp.
Pets? Yes, but, like Chiggie I kept it very clean.
Did you try the "towel trick"? No.
Did you ever spray compressed air into the air vents? No.

Still rocking the one I bought in Spring of 2006.

First Xbox. Dead. Bought Nov '06, made April 06.

Sitting in a TV stand. Enclosed. 3-4" on each side, about 8" inches above it to next shelf.

Power adaptor used to sit on a carpet. When the crashing started I put it ontop of a tin for takeaway food.

One cat.

Yay! I'm not the only one!

Edit: I run both my Xboxes in the vertical position with at least half a foot of clearance on all sides. How about the rest of you who haven't had your box die?

My still-ticking Spring '06 (no idea on build date) 360 is sitting in an entertainment center on top of my (refurbished - ha) Xbox 1. It has a couple inches of clearance on each side and overhead. Obviously, it's horizontal. Power brick is on the wood floor.