So, today is the first time I've ever had a real problem with my 360. Yesterday I had my Xbox freeze to a checkerboard pattern as I was shutting it off, and I just shrugged it off and turned off the Xbox manually since I was in the process of doing that anyway. Today, I turned on my Xbox and played about half an hour worth of BioShock, and then the same checkerboard freezing occured. Not thinking anything of it, I restarted my console. The checkerboard pattern appeared right at startup, and I had to restart about 4 times more before I even got to the dashboard. I called the Xbox support line and followed the steps they gave me, even going a step further and reformatting my entire Hard Drive (they ask you to preform a basic fix, I did the fix, reformatted, and then did the fix again). So far, the checkerboard has not reappeared.
Concerned about this error, I Google'd it (the source of all knowledge). I found numerous accounts of people experiencing this problem, and most of them concluded that their Xbox had a visit from the RRoD within two weeks after first experiencing this problem.
What do you guys think, is my Xbox doomed to die a death just short of a year old?
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