Have you got a Hardware Problem on Your Xbox 360?
Has the Xbox 360 Impeded You playing Your Top games because of the 3 red light Ring of Death?
Well, let me tell you that I have been there a few of times before. Once was only a mere 2 months after I bought the console.
Which was ok because the game store just gave me a straight off replacement because it was still under warranty.
But when the Guarantee time expires, It can be quite costly.
There is a cost of over $100 to send your console back to Microsoft, plus a cost of two weeks valuable, Game downtime.
From what I have heard, that when the repair was carried out, the Xbox 360 showed its 3 flashing red light's again after only a couple of weeks.
So how does this Annoying Ring of Death Happen?
The root cause for the ring of death is the design of the heat sinks, mainly the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).
The GPU Heat sink is underneath the DVD drive of the console, and because of this the heat sink is too small for the heat output of the GPU core. Its only 10mm (3/8) High. On the other hand, the CPU is about 50mm (2) High and is liquid cooled.
Microsoft, in the Elite changed the design slightly so that the liquid cooling extends to the GPU Which keeps the temperature Uniform between the GPU and the CPU and therefore decreases overall temperature that the system operates at.
So the effect of the heat generated is the warping of the motherboard, which cracks the lead free solder joints, causing the red ring of death.
After searching online for solutions for this problem, the only free solution was the Towel trick. You might have heard of it. The towel trick has worked for some people, but the Ring of Death Rears its ugly head again shortly afterwards.
As always with the Internet, if you want good reliable information you have to pay for it.
The guides available were countless, I didn't think there would be so many. Having the fix done to your console takes Half an hour - say some guides. And some say two hours.
Some guides were very good and offered good explanations, but some were shortened versions of the real good guides.
When I got to do the fix for the first time, it took about two hours. And thats with a degree in electronics! So is a half an hour fix feasible for someone thats not technically minded? So I created a page that gives a proper honest opinion on what guide to use. Narrowed down to a choice of Three.
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