Has the 3 red light Ring of Death Brought Your Gaming Time to a grinding Halt?

I will tell you that your not alone, as it has happened to me a good Three times in 2 very short years. The first console lasted only 2 months from the date i bought it.

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.

I have also heard a couple of reports, that the Red Ring of Death appeared shortly after The repaired Xbox 360 console, came back from Microsoft.

So how does this Annoying Ring of Death Happen?

The main reason the 3 red light occurs is because of the overall design of the console. Especially in the heat sinks and especially the one for the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).

The Optical disk drive is above the GPU, and because of this, the heat made by the GPU is far greater than the heat sink can take in order to maintain an optimal temperature throughout the console.

The Elite model of the Xbox 360 has a slightly altered heat sink design of its predecessor. In the Elite model, the liquid cooling is on both CPU and GPU chips. So the Heat is uniform throughout and thus eliminates ‘hot spots’.

So the bottom line is that constant exposure to high temperatures cause the motherboard to warp slightly which causes cracking of some of the solder joints on the board. That then triggers Hardware failure and the 3 red lights show up on your Xbox 360.

I searched far and wide for a ‘free’ solution (towel trick) but ended up creating irreparable damage to my 360 and I had to live with a permanent 3 red lights, or as i like to call it, the Devil’s Halo!

I was looking for Valuable information. But if you want that, there has to be a Value on it. (i.e. you gotta pay for it), but if it saves your beloved Xbox, its going to save you a lot of money.

I stumbled upon countless guides out there. Some claiming to fix the Xbox 360 in 30 minutes and some up to 2 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.

Click the Link below for my Top 3 repair guides.

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