My 360 crashed on me last night. I was playing Super Meat Boy and it suddenly froze (the screen got all blocky and pixelated and it made a loud screeching). I turned it off and then back on, and now it freezes on the dashboard before I can even load a game.

Am I just right effed or is there some kind of fix for this? It isn't a red ring situation, so I assume it was a GPU temp problem (from what I read online).  Any bombadiers run into this specific situation?  I am thinking of just tossing it and getting a Slim but with school around the corner extra cash is hard to come by. 
 
ps I was told by an associate of mine of a weird trick to fix it if it is a GPU overheat situation that involved shoving toothpicks in the fan to get it to reset, but I am hesitant to attempt such daring feats of do.

If your only recourse is to bin it anyway, then you might as well try that last thing.
 
I would buy a Slim, if I were you. They're amazingly quiet and the Wi-Fi is reliable and fast as hell.

You can also do the towel trick and force it do RROD. 

Get a Slim from what i've heard they're the bees knees.

Why not do the obvious and take it back to the store and return/exchange a faulty product?  This is why you keep your receipts kids.    
 
INb4 tons of MS blame and warranty bs. 

Toothpicks in the fan?  Whoa.  That's an even scarier version of the hot towel method.  Homegrown fixes evolve in weird directions...

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ps I was told by an associate of mine of a weird trick to fix it if it is a GPU overheat situation that involved shoving toothpicks in the fan to get it to reset

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Why does he talk in quote. This disturbs Hockeymask27.

Get the slim.  Sell it for parts, try to trade it in, or return to Microsoft if that's still possible, but whatever you do, get the slim to replace it.  You'll be much happier.