haha, sorry to hear. It did happened to my future brother in law's xbox360 that i was staying at his house for a week to spend the time with my sister and him, however, one day, i played it for few hours, it got red ring death. Man, it got me freak out and shutted down for few hrs till my future bro in law boot it up, it back normal *whew*
strangely, my xbox360 havent get red ring death nor broken even tho i have them for almost 2 yrs and i played it alot too. I think HDD is the one that cause heatover cause i didnt use HDD on my xbox360, just use memory card and didnt have any problem, huh?