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2009 3 Nov

How To Fix Your Xbox 360 When You Notice The Ring Of Death

As lots of people at the present know who own an Xbox 360, it is a defective piece of electronics. The main problem it the dreaded ring of death. The ring of death is where 3 blinking red lights emerge on the front of the Xbox and it will no longer work. Microsoft have extended the manufactures assurance on all Xbox 360?s to cover the issue, on the other hand many people have had a awful experience with the service provided by Microsoft. Therefore there are various solutions available to fix the 3 red lights issue. One of the most frequent techniques to solve the issue is the towel procedure.

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The Xbox 360 towel fix principally is to try and solve the problem that causes the 3 red lights to appear. When 3 red lights come up this indicates a video difficulty, and problem with the graphics card. Basically due to poor manufacturing techniques the solder used to assemble the graphics card is of poor quality, and contacts tend to fail and loose signal transmition. This is when the 3 red lights emerge on the front of the Xbox. So how does the towel fix work, and is it a everlasting solution to fix your Xbox 360.

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First you take out any disks from the Xbox, disconnect the hard drive and pull out all cables not including the power cable. You then have got to find a large towel, with good insulating properties. Turn the Xbox on then wrap up the towel around the Xbox several times. You must then leave the Xbox for between 30-45 minutes, while the internal components will get very hot. After the 30-45 minutes then unwrap the towel and plug all the cables back into the Xbox and join the hard drive. You must then turn the Xbox off and then back on again, it ought to then boot up as normal. The way the towel fix works is by heating up the connection points on the graphics card and restore the connection. The trouble is many people find this to be only a temporary fix, and soon the 3 red lights will return. Many try the towel tricky again, however they find that it works for less and less time each time you try it, until finally it stops working at all.

The extra issue with the towel fix is that there are gossip that it does cause harm to other components with the Xbox. Over heating issues are already common with the 360, and the towel fix makes these issues worse. So the towel tricky is not an worthwhile way to fix you Xbox, as it could create other issues and nullify your Microsoft warranty.

To learn about more ways to resolve the ring of death, please click the link below.

Ring of death Xbox 360 fix