"3 Red Lights Of Death" Fragile 360s?

[chemoon13]

My friends done that so he wrapped it up in ablanket and left it switched on... The heat caused the solder to melt back into place and problem solved! Think i'd rather send it back tho...

[DRAGONXIII]

Ive never tried that, i just take it apart and put new clips on... but ive only had to replace them 1 time.... LOL I PUT METAL CLIPS IN SO IT DOES NOT MELT...

[mutevict1m]

Originally Posted by DRAGONXIII

Ive never tried that, i just take it apart and put new clips on... but ive only had to replace them 1 time.... LOL I PUT METAL CLIPS IN SO IT DOES NOT MELT...

thats smart

[dude]

Originally Posted by DRAGONXIII

The cause of that is because of overheating! and if the 360 over heats to much the clips that hold the 3 mother boards will melt and that is why there are 3 red lights not 4. so if you want to keep your 360 from getting the 3 rings keep your 360 in a area where it can get lots of air! and also get a fan on the back just in case!

that's not technically correct. the problem is overheating but it's not any thing to do with motherboard clips, it's the GPU ( graphics chip )
the overheat causes the solder to melt and the GPU prises away from the board. you can do a X-CLAMP repair where you physically bolt the chip back to the board then overheat it again to force the solder to melt and flow back into all the nooks and crannies. but it's no way 100 percent reliable

[Kiliha]

Originally Posted by Violet

If you didn't know the 3 red lights of death (technical term lol) is a hardware error. It can happen from a simple knock or out of the blue. Microsoft have gave every 360 a 3 year guarantee, which applies to new and previously sold.

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Yeh well I don't see Sony doing that. =P

My 360 has died twice in the past year. The second time being a couple of days ago.

Has yours died before?

Yes, mine died today, but not with the red ring of death, only one segment red rather than 3 and therefore is not covered.. so to get it repaired will cost me money and time.. so the other half is buying a new one tomorrow and is going to pay to get the older one fixed after the new year..

[Bex]

Should leave it on so it gets the three .

What does one mean? I can't remember . And it's stupid the same policy doesn't apply for 1 still broke.

[Kiliha]

Totally, still broke, but to get it fixed they'll charge about £70.. I wouldnt be too fussed if we just sent it off to get fixed instead of buying a new one, if it werent for the fact it's our dvd player too.. and in the flats I live in, the communal aerial is broken, so we have channels 1-4, nothing else, no movies and no xbox.. on the plus side, other half is going out to get a new one tomorrow.. as he's got like 6 days off and was planning on playing cod5..