If you have encountered the Red Ring of Death error on your XBox 360 don't feel left out. Plenty of XBox 360 owners have had to endure that pit in the stomach after switching on their consoles and seeing those three red rings of doom.
The problem is, your game console has overheated around the two major chips, the CPU and the GPU. This has caused the solder connecting one or more of the pins to the circuit board to melt and flow away from the pins, severing the circuit. It's a pretty serious problem and can't be fixed by turning your XBox 360 off and on, or by waiting.
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Fortunately for you, there are a lot of people out there who have worked out how to repair this particular XBox 360 problem by themselves. Some of them have even gone to the effort of recording their methods and producing Do-It-Yourself repair guides for the XBox 360.
Currently, there are three methods that you can use to fix your console aside from sending it back to Microsoft for repair.
The Towel Method. This is pretty simple. You wrap your XBox in a towel, turn it on, and let it run for a while. You then turn it off and let it cool down for a few hours. Hopefully, the problem has been fixed.
The 3 Red Light Fix Method. You open up your XBox 360 and remove the motherboard. After removing the heatsink components and making some simple adjustments to them, you selectively heat the motherboard up with a heat gun or hair dryer. After replacing the components and reassembling the console, you plug it in and turn it on. This is a safer and more effective repair than the Towel Method.
The Professional Method. Like the 3 Red Light Fix Method, you open up your XBox 360 and remove the components. However, this method requires that you have a reasonable skill level and some training in repairing electronics. Using appropriate tools like a multimeter and soldering iron, you trace the problem and fix it directly. This is the most effective repair method.
Of these three methods, the Towel Method should not be attempted. It has the very real potential of causing catastrophic damage to your XBox. Overheating is bad for components. That's why there are heatsinks on the chips in the first place. They are there to prevent heat damage.
The Professional Method is the one most likely to guarantee results. By using it, you are tracking down the problem to its source. Where the Towel Method is like using a nuke to attack a single target, the Professional Method is like a sniper. Nice and precise.
Most of us, however, do not have the training and experience necessary to attempt the kind of repairs that the Professional Method uses. The 3 Red Light Fix method on the other hand can be performed by anyone who can use a screwdriver to pull apart their XBox. That doesn't mean that care is not required. This is a tricky process and the repairer will need to know what they are doing. For this it's quite necessary to use a repair guide, unless you already know exactly what you are doing.
If you don't know how to proceed, the best thing is to read through the repair guide several times. Then check out the videos and watch the demonstration carefully. Once you know what is going on, then it's time to DIY repair your XBox 360.
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