The Red Ring of Death swoops down upon its victims because of "general hardware" failure or "core digital" failure. The dreaded Red Ring of Death sends signs that is coming. These signs are usually in the form of freeze ups. Frozen sound, having to shut the console off to get a response, and checkerboard video are just some of the signs sent to us by the Red Ring of Death. Take note, however, the Red Ring of Death does not always give notice.
In February of 2008 a warranty provider repaired 1040 Xbox 360s. Of these, 40% were no longer under warranty. How angry is the consumer? In October 2008 a class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft specifically because of the Red Ring of Death.
So, what to do, what to do. You have that dreaded Red Ring of Death leering at you, taunting you. Well, there is a temporary fix out there. Take two towels and wrap them around your Xbox. Leave it running for about 20 minutes. Shut it off, uncover it, and voila. This seems to overheat the processor and causes it to reset. The bad news is, it may only work for a couple of hours. Then you must repeat the process. This may work, but I would not recommend doing this very often. Intentionally overheating an electronic device isn't good.
I have done a quick review of the 3 following repair kits that promise to fix the Red Ring of Death permanently. I have tried the Xbox 360 Red Light Fix and it worked perfect. Instead of just promoting a single product I figured I would run this blog, so you can make the choice. Each of these programs seem to work fine, are easy to use, and are very inexpensive; especially when you consider the possibility of getting your Xbox up and running right away.
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| Simple Instructions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Includes Videos | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PDF Guide with pics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Includes Membership | Yes | No | No |
| Full Online Support | Yes | No | Yes |
| Money Back Guarantee | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free Bonuses | No | Yes | Yes |
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Now that we have you up and running again, it is time for some advertisements.
There is a very serious problem with this kind of fix.
ReplyDeleteWhen I did it, it worked fine for 3 weeks, then the lights appeared again. After reopening, studing the possibilitoes and with some research, I found out that depending on the year in which the Xbox was manufactured, this fix may or may not work "forever".
What this fix does is exactly what Microsoft does when you send it to them, clean the thermal paste that protect the GPU and the CPU and place a new set of a more reliable thermal paste over them. Turns out that the 3 Red Lights are most likely a result of that same thermal paste wearing off the GPU and the CPU.
After using a little mechanical logic I came to the conclusion that depending on the manufacturing date of your Xbox - mainly before 2007 - they were using a board, GPUs and CPU, that were of so poor quality that they overheat at least 30% more than the boards used by other brands at the time. And those 30% are more than enough to make the thermal paste wear off.
So my advice is if your Xbox was manufactured before 2007, you may have to reconsider using the "Xbox 360 Red Light Fix", because there is a bigger probability that you are going to have to redo it over and over again, just because Microsoft ran over a lot of basic safety and proper working functions of the Xbox at the final steps of the designing of the Xbox.
Thank you for your comment, but don't forget, you stated that this is the same fix that Microsoft performs. I used the 3 Red Light Fix and have had no problems (about 6 months now). I have not tried the other 2 products so I have no response either way.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr.Rho for your insightful comment on these products.Yes, I make a little money if someone clicks on these products, but I do not want anyone to buy something that does not work. This is a new site I am building and I do not want to get a bad rep.
Hope to see more posts from you.