Dealing With The Xbox 360 Red Ring Of Death
Xbox 360 owners all know and fear the xbox 360 red ring of death. Its appearance spells almost certain doom for a well-loved system and a forced hiatus from gaming. The 360 is a great console, but the red ring of death is common enough to be a tremendous hassle.
When this error occurs, the 360 has become as useful as a brick thanks to what is termed a general hardware failure. It's called the red ring of death because 3 red led lights display around the console's power button, forming three quarters of a circle.
There's been a lot of investigation and speculation as to what causes the general hardware failures. Extra heat from poorly designed graphics cards and heatsinks is generally pointed to as the culprit, combined with a weak solder that cracks under the extra heat.
Sometimes the 3 lights will display out of the blue one day as the 360 turns on. Other times, the systems have been known to cease processing video and sound correctly in the middle of a gaming session. The next time the owner goes to turn the XBOX on, a red ring of death displays.
The towel-trick is a commonly mentioned method of getting rid of a red ring, but it can also cause lasting damage to the rest of the hardware, even if it works. There are a great deal of other guides out on the internet on how to fix these gamesystems, but almost all of them would void the system's company warrantee.
To get the xbox 360 red ring of death to go away, the console unfortunately needs to go away as well. Contact Microsoft about a red ring issue and they will arrange to have the system shipped to them and have a working model (whether the original or a new one) shipped back. The hard drive stays with the owner during this process.
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