Xbox 360 Problems

Most Xbox 360 owners would have heard of the dreaded "Red Ring Of Death", a glowing light which appears on the front of the console. According to some sources, one third of all Xbox 360 consoles suffer from general hardware failures which cause the red warning light to displayed.


However, what many 360 owners are not aware of is the fact that different types of red flashing lights actually mean different things, some more serious than others. Today I am going to tell you exactly what each specific red light configuration means for you and your Xbox, what the causes of each are and what can be done to fix the problems.

Before we can begin you need to inspect the front of your Xbox 360 console and get accustomed with the light display circle. Look carefully and you'll notice that its broken up into four sections, all of which glow green when the console is functioning correctly. For the purposes of this article section one is the top right hand corner section of the circle, section two is the bottom right hand corner, section three is the bottom left hand corner and section four is the top left hand corner.

If section two of the light circle is the only one glowing red then the console has simply overheated. One of the main Xbox 360 Problems is that it is notorious for overheating due to a somewhat inefficient heat removal system. Using the 360 for extended periods of time can cause the console to overheat and the only solution is to power the console down for an hour or so until it has cooled down. To help prevent overheating from occurring in the first place it is advisable to move the console to an area where it receives plenty of air flow and is raised off the ground.

If all four sections of the light circle are glowing red then the problem is even easier to fix. All that has occurred is that the AV cable has become disconnected from the back of the console. Completely remove the Xbox 360 AV cable and plug it back in until a clicking noise is heard. Restart the console and all should be working as normal. However, if the console still displays the four red lights then you should ring the Xbox 360 technical helpline (1-800-4MY-XBOX for American gamers, 425-635-7180 for international gamers) between 6am to 10pm Pacific time.

The real problems start when either section three, or all sections but number one of the light ring are glowing red. This means that your Xbox 360 console has experienced a general hardware failure and is basically unusable.

Have no fear though, your Xbox 360 problems can be solved!


One of the most common causes of general hardware failure in the Xbox 360 is the malfunction of the Nyoko intercooler. Another common cause is the fracturing of the lead-free solder used during the construction of the console.

No amount of rebooting or cursing will fix the problem, and there are only three options to get yourself gaming again.


The first is to purchase a new 360 console. However, this will be an expensive option and there is no guarantee that the new console you purchase will suffer the same problem as the old one.


If you do choose to buy a new Xbox 360 then it would be wise to get an additional warranty to cover you in case you once again suffer the "Red Ring Of Death".

Another option would be to send your faulty Xbox 360 back to Microsoft for repair. To do this you need to call the technical helpline (1-800-4MY-XBOX for American gamers, 425-635-7180 for international gamers) and explain exactly what the problem with your console is. A box will then be shipped to the address that you gave to the technical specialist that contains the instructions for shipping. Pack the console only (remove the hard-drive and all cables, controllers and discs from the drive) into the box unless otherwise stated in the instructions. Ship the box to the address provided and get yourself ready for the wait. It will take a LONG TIME to receive the refurbished console, and far longer if you live overseas.


Some gamers have been unfortunate enough to have shipped their console for repair, only to have the replacement break down on them as well.


However, if you're the sort of person who wants to get back to gaming as soon and for as little money as possible then the best option would be to attempt a home repair job. Now you're probably thinking that it can't be possible to fix you Xbox 360 problems from home. I'm not gonna lie, it's not as easy as it should be, but there are a number of excellent guides to DIY 360 repair that can be purchased online for a reasonable price.


Of course there is some risk involved - opening your console will automatically void the warranty so the cautious Xbox 360 gamer would be wise to send their console back to Microsoft. For those who wish to get over your Xbox 360 Problems and back to gaming quickly and cheaply home repair is a truly viable option and in most cases requires no special technical skills.

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Xbox Troubleshooting

Yes, sad to say, someone could of easily said that the XBOX 360 was rushed to darn quickly, in time for the christmas season and the following years Consumer Electronics Show, held annually in Los Vegas. Me being an Apple computer user, I was never the hugest fan when it came to Microsoft products. I did eventually end up buying one, because years before I made the switch from PC to Apple, I had fell in love with Project Gotham 3.

Ok, so $400 and $50 for the game, I ended up thinking I got a fair deal with my XBOX 360. I was having a ball with the insane graphics, and just winning cars left and right. I have to admit, I am a huge F1 race fan at heart, so I seriously thought I was going to wear the heck out of the thing. A few months of hardcore gameplay between work, and watching hockey and footballl, I eventually won the Ferrari F430.

So, the day after I won the Ferrari F430, I wanted to take the prancing horse out to the Nurburgring and lay some serious Pirelli P-Zeros and while entering the Nordschliefe area while departing the current GP track, my game just stopped! I was puzzled and couldn't figure it out for the life of me what was wrong. The power connections and video/sound connections were solid, so that was not the problem.

I had examined the console, and happened to find on the power button, a ring of red lights blinking. Since I had taken automotive school in high school, I have noticed that the blinking red lights could of been some trouble code. Instead of calling Microsoft, since I am not a huge fan of them at all, heh, I decided to pursue the problem using the world wide web. Looking on various websites, forums, endless google search strings, I had found out the problem was a general hardware failure.

I had a few options thought that I could examine.
Send the box to Microsoft to get it repaired. This would take copious amounts of time, and some cash outlay for shipping and overall repairs to the console.
Just simply throw out the unit, and spend another $400 to get back to having fun driving my Ferrari's.
Further explore a suitable possibility to repair the Console myself, regardless of voiding the warranty.

The solution I found, and believe it or not worked, was the Three Red Light Fix Guide. This was a series of videos, along with a companion PDF guide demonstrating how to repair your XBOX 360 in the neighborhood of an hour's time. If you are either mechanically inclined or not, I found the xbox 360 repair video easy to follow through with their simple, easy to understand terminology and step-by-step instruction.

If you do not want to send the box back to Microsoft, and maybe save money in the process while learning more about your XBOX 360, check out the Three Red Light Repair Guide Here.

Xbox 360 Repairs

If you're looking for information on how to repair your Xbox 360 yourself, you've come to the right place.

Forum rumours are ripe on the internet that there has been a spike in Xbox 360 returns, both valid and not so much.

This has lead to an increase in the return time for repaired Xbox 360s. I've heard that the turnaround time for Xbox 360 repairs has skyrocketed to as long as eight weeks.

Before the manufacturers were offering the extended 3 year warranty they were charging $140 for Xbox 360 Repairs.

They put out a story that to do Xbox 360 Repairs was something difficult, their way of controlling the masses I guess. Their reasoning was something along these lines...

If we convince people that Xbox 360 Repairs are beyond their own DIY ability then they'll all have to pay us to fix their consoles.

The truth of the matter though, is that the Xbox 360 Repairs you need can be done in the comfort of your own home.

A couple of class action suits later and they brought out an extended 3 year warranty on all new Xbox 360s.

Unfortunately, the extended warranty doesn't extend to everybody.

If you bought your Xbox 360 second hand, they won't fix it for you. They won't fix your xbox 360 if you have opened the xbox up. There are a lot of ways to void your warranty, choose your poison.

If your warranty isn't valid anymore, your best bet is to actually take your Xbox 360 Repairs into your own hands.

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It has high res videos for every step so you can see everything in action. A lot of people have done their own Xbox 360 Repairs and saved themselves a lot of grief.

If you want a quick temporary fix, check out my post on the towel trick, but I'd really recommend doing it the right way for a permanent fix.

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Red Ring of Death RRoD

The RRoD or Red Ring of Death as it is commonly known has proven to be an issue for at least one in three xbox 360 owners.

It's becoming more and more noticeable these days as games that really start to push the Xbox 360's hardware to it's limits have come out.

The two games that seem to bring on the dreaded Red Ring of Death the most are Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. It is so common for these games to cause the RRoD that there is even a class action suit being taken out against the manufacturers for supplying hardware that is not appropriate for playing the games they say it should.

The Red Rings of Death according to the manufacturers was an error prevalent in the first release consoles. Customers who bought the later released premium packs with larger hard drives and High Definition connections have not had to put up with the Red Ring of Death as much.

Microsoft has extended the usual one year warranty to three years, and the RRoD blunder has forced them to set aside $1,000,000,000. Yes that's right, a BILLION dollars just to fix and replace all the faulty xbox 360s out there.

That has to make the Red Ring of Death the most expensive ring on the planet.

Taking advantage of the extended warranty has it's inconveniences though. You must have proof of purchase, be the original purchaser, have purchased your xbox 360 from a licenced dealer, not voided the warranty already by modifying your xbox or opening it.

So hard luck to anybody that heard about the overheating problems who installed additional cooling devices to their xbox. The manufacturer will not fix your Xbox.

Hard luck to anybody that opened up their brand new xbox 360 to personalize it by changing the case, your Xbox will not be fixed for free.

Hard luck to anybody who puchased an Xbox 360 secondhand or otherwise from Ebay or off a friend who overspent his allowance and couldn't afford bus money to get to school. The dead xbox is your problem, not the manufacturers.

Fixing your xbox through the manufacturer can take weeks, and that's a lot of precious gaming time down the tube.

The manufacturer has tried to convince everyone that the Red Ring of Death could be caused by any number of reasons, because initially before the extended warranty was issued you as a customer had to fork out $140+ to fix it..

This has backfired on them and cost them years of revenue.

The truth of the matter though, is that the Red Ring of Death can be fixed in under an hour, and you can do it yourself with just a few household tools that you probably already have.

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I wrote this blog because my Xbox 360 suffered from the Red Ring of Death and I was able to fix it using the information in this Ebook

It has video tutorials, and the information site has free preview videos so you can see the sort of quality information you get.

Yes it DOES cost money, but the repair guide will save you a lot of hassle. It'll also save you money if you, like me, voided your warranty.

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Fix Xbox 360 Three Red Lights Error - Videos Added

I've added a couple of videos to my previous posts. One shows how to do the towel trick, because sometimes it's easier to watch than it is to read. The other is a video of what the Three Flashing Red Lights Error actually looks like.


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The Towel Trick - how to fix your Xbox 360 three red light problem.

Some of your might have heard of the towel trick when it comes to troubleshooting your Xbox 360.

It's pretty simple to do the towel trick

Basically...

1. You just wrap your Xbox 360 with a cotton towel
2. Turn on your problematic Xbox 360 for ten minutes or so (without actually playing a game or anything) and then take towel off
3. Wait 10-20 minutes for it to cool back down (if you switch it on at this point without waiting for it to cool down you'll get the ordinary overheating lights warning)
4. Turn it back on and hope and pray that the three red lights of doom are gone!
   
   
   
   

Sometimes you get an extra 20 minutes of playing time, and sometimes you get a few extra hours.

It's believed that the reason this towel trick works is because on occasion one of the solder joints inside your xbox that connects one of the chips to the board becomes cracked.

When you overheat your Xbox 360 with the three red lights on, the solder sometimes melts and forms a proper connection again.

I must stress that this is a very TEMPORARY fix.

The dangerous part of this fix is that overheating any electronic device is never a good thing. The Xbox 360 has fans on it to COOL IT DOWN. When you purposely heat it up you run the risk of seriously damaging your Xbox. So try this at your own risk.

Don't say I didn't warn you, but hey, it was already broken right?

At this point you're probably thinking that an ordinary soldering iron would do the trick, but the way the solder is laid out is a ball/grid array, so a standard soldering iron won't work.

For a more permanent and money back guaranteed way to fix your Xbox 360 from the three red lights error Buy this ebook and save yourself a lot of hassle.

I used it myself on mine and it worked a treat. The instructions are easy to understand and it has videos and everything. It took me about 47 minutes to get mine back up and running, and I'm a complete noob at DIY.

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Three Red Lights Error

If your looking to a solution to that annoying three red lights error for your XBox 360, you're in the right place.




You might have already looked up a few of the free quick fixes that are out there like the towel fix, which admittedly works for a little bit of time but then 10 hours later you find your XBox 360's three red lights flashing in your face again.

You might even have considered sending your XBox away to be repaired, which if it's still under warranty really isn't too bad. If you have the time to spare (because it can take ages) then this is the preferable option so as no to void your warranty.

The big downside to being one of the first people in your neighbourhood to own an XBox 360 is that you end up having to find out all the problems, errors, and issues that they were too lazy to test in the factory.

I was pretty peeved when it happened to my XBox 360. I'm not much one for tv, but I have a giant plasma screen sitting in my lounge for high-def gaming. I was in the middle of project gotham racing 4 when the three red lights of death struck.



Who knew that three blinking red lights could cause so much heartache and disappointment.

Mine wasn't under warranty and the quote from the repair shop to repair the 3 red light problem error was almost as much as buying a new one.

So I got online and looked around for a solution.

There were a few quick fixes, and they worked for a little while, as in less than 24 hours. Then I found an ebook that totally solved my problems. It's the BEST repair guide out there.




There are a few of them out there that give you good information on how to fix the three red lights but this one has videos and everything.

Long story short I was able to repair my XBox 360 all by myself with just some regular household items, and I even fixed my buddy's one too. Maybe I should start charging people for my services, lol.

Seriously though, click on the links and buy the ebook.

You'll be doing yourself a favour, and you absolutely get what you pay for, and it has a money back guarantee.

In life, too often we go with the 'free' information, but after trying the free fixes on the net I wish I had just sucked it up and bought the ebook to start with. If you're not afraid of a screw driver, you'll be able to fix it yourself.

Even if it doesn't work for you, no harm done because your Xbox was already broken.

Give it a try and feel good about yourself for fixing those damn three red lights.