| Does Your Xbox 360 show the Red Ring of Death? |
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| Thursday, 29 January 2009 07:54 | |||
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Has the Xbox 360 Impeded You playing Your Top games because of the 3 red light Ring of Death? 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. However, out of warranty its a right headache. 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. What is the Exact cause of the Dreaded Three Red light problem? 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 just below the CD drive of the Xbox 360, and as such the heat sink is too small for the heat generated, Its only 10mm (3/8) High, Whereas the CPU (Central Processing Unit), is about 50mm (2) High and comes with a Liquid cooler! 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 effect of the heat generated is the warping of the motherboard, which cracks the lead free solder joints, causing the red ring of death. 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 found 10+ Xbox 360 guides on the web all claiming to get the fix done in 30 minutes, some say 1 hour and others say 2 hours. While most of the guides good offer explanations and step by step instructions, there are some guides that give you summarized information of the top guides out there. 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. About the Author: John Devine has an Electronic Engineering Degree and is Passionate about Xbox 360 Gaming. Full Information of his Top Three are found here: Solve the 3 Red Lights Here Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites          
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