wow that sucks my 360 right now is makin a weird loud noise and when i put in a disk its makes some like grinding sound so im gonna turn mine in and see wats wrong, but that is my other 360... my other one that i have i got it on the day the 360's came out and i havent had a problem with that maybe u should get the elite in 26 days.... maybe they fixed those kind of problems on the elites but i dunno