Yep! The 3 lights finally happened to me. There are only a couple of choices on how to handle this problem. At first I thought of shipping the console to microsoft to have it fixed. THis means paying shipping and boxing and taking the box to the shipper. Then waiting! Not a very appealing choice for me.

I immediately went to a local pawn dealer and picked up another, “temporary” system. Popped off my hard drive and put in on the pawn shop machine and viola, we are playing again.

Now, I’m faced with getting our first machine fixed. We are excited about this because then we will have two (actually 3 with the original xbox we still have in service) systems to used in different parts of the house.

I have decided to order the instructions to fix the xbox ourselves. Basically, they say I can do it myself in about an hour. Here’ the link to the instructions I’m going to use.

Standby for the results!