It was only recently that I have started to get into gaming. However, just an hour ago I got the dreaded ‘Red Ring of Death’. The XBOX itself has not been fully reliable as when I first got it a year or two ago, I had the ‘Red Ring of Death’ as well and sent it to Microsoft to get it fixed. They fixed it to free and all was well until now.
As the XBOX 360’s warrenty is past, I did not want to send it away again and wanted to find a potential home remidy to fix the red ring of death. I search the internet and found now and now my XBOX is fully working again. Here is how I did it.
I may seem random but this method involves using towels. The towels are used to insulate so the XBOX ‘cooks’ itself (not literally). I do not know how but having the device heating itself fixed the problem.
How to do it is simple. You need to get a bunch of towels and start of by laying down a towl on the ground and placing the XBOX 360 on top of it. Then wrap the towel around the XBOX and place additional towels around it making sure all the vents on the XBOX and covered.
Then, turn on your XBOX through the towels and leave it to run for 10-15 minutes (I did 15). After that, turn it off again and take it out of the towels. Let the XBOX cool down for another 10-15 minutes and then turn it on and it will work perfectly.
Trust me this method did work dispite it sounding a bit strange. It may not work for everyone but it has had a high success rate along with it working for me. And plus, there’s no harm in trying.
Was this you Matti?
Yeah. Why?
I would not try to attempt this… I repair Xbox 360’s using the X-Clamp fix and it works way better. For example, I warned a friend not to do this, many times, but he went ahead and did it anyway. Well, when he came back to me in a month telling me he had 3 red rings and E74 error, I got my $40 out of my X-Clamp fix
I would highly recommend X-Clamp over this folks. But if you’re not good with the insides of electronics, don’t even try! O_O
The CPU will reset itsel after it gets to a certain tempreture just like your pc will restart if your fan isn’t on properly, it’s mainly CPU or gpu failure and basically, as matti said, you cook it. And it resets itself.
The reason this method works is because Microsoft built the PCBS in house and diddnt use the correct glue/Solder paste or not enough so when the PCB oveheats the surface mount components ‘float’ off the contact pads and cause the RROD. Overheating the XBOX causes the parts to realign in some cases.
Ive fixed a fair few of these and if you look at a faulty PCB you can see the components that have moved.
The X-Clamp as with the towel only work sometimes and in most cases for a short while but if you succeed ensure the Xbox is ventilated well as if it overheats the SMD will wander again.