Has the 3 red light Ring of Death Brought Your Gaming Time to a grinding Halt?

Well, let me tell you that I have been there a few of times before. Once was only a mere 2 months after I bought the console.

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.

You can pay over $110 to Microsoft for a repair and you will have to wait 2-3 weeks for your console to come back.

I have also heard a couple of reports, that the Red Ring of Death appeared shortly after The repaired Xbox 360 console, came back from Microsoft.

So how does this Annoying Ring of Death Happen?

The core cause of the console’s Hardware failure lies in the Heat sink design, Primarily in 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!

In the Xbox 360 Elite, Microsoft altered the design of the cooling system so that the Liquid cooling Extend’s beyond the CPU to the GPU. This makes the console dissipate the Heat better and therefore does not overheat to the same extent.

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.

I stumbled upon countless guides out there. Some claiming to fix the Xbox 360 in 30 minutes and some up to 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.

To do the fix the 1st time myself did take the guts of 2 hours, and I have an electronic engineering degree! So how is someone who is not technically savvy, fix it in 30 minutes? So what I did was, create my very own web page to review the best guides, and give you my top 3.

Click the Link below for my Top 3 repair guides.