Has the 3 red light Ring of Death Brought Your Gaming Time to a grinding Halt?
3 times in 2 years the Xbox 360 has given me the 3 flashing red light wink of doom. Once was a little over 2 months after the Console was purchased.
That was fine this time because the Guarantee was still there, and I was handed a new one by the Game shop.
But when the Guarantee time expires, It can be quite costly.
Microsoft Charge over $100 for the repair. and you will be without your beloved Xbox 360 for 2 weeks or so.
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 what causes the Hardware failure on the Xbox 360?
The root cause for the ring of death is the design of the heat sinks, mainly 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.
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 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.
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.
So being a lover of computer games and having an Electronic Engineering degree, I decided to take action and review the top 6 selling guides out there and I narrowed them down to a Top 3.
Visit the link below to reveal the top three available on the Web.
3 times in 2 years the Xbox 360 has given me the 3 flashing red light wink of doom. Once was a little over 2 months after the Console was purchased.
That was fine this time because the Guarantee was still there, and I was handed a new one by the Game shop.
But when the Guarantee time expires, It can be quite costly.
Microsoft Charge over $100 for the repair. and you will be without your beloved Xbox 360 for 2 weeks or so.
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 what causes the Hardware failure on the Xbox 360?
The root cause for the ring of death is the design of the heat sinks, mainly 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.
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 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.
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.
So being a lover of computer games and having an Electronic Engineering degree, I decided to take action and review the top 6 selling guides out there and I narrowed them down to a Top 3.
Visit the link below to reveal the top three available on the Web.
About the Author:
John Devine is an Electronic Engineer and an Avid Xbox 360 gamer. Full Information of his Top 3 are found here: Solve the 3 Red Lights Here
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