| Does Your Xbox 360 show the Red Ring of Death? |
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| Games - Computer Games |
| Written by Howie Ja |
| Thursday, 29 January 2009 08:56 |
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Has the 3 red light Ring of Death Stopped you from playing your Favourite Xbox 360 games?
Has the 3 red light Ring of Death Stopped you from playing your Favourite Xbox 360 games? 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. But it was somewhat of a relief because the very nice people at the Game store Replaced the console without the need to send it back. Due to the fact that it was covered by the warranty. However, out of warranty its a right headache. 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. Worse still is that I have heard a few reports that when the Xbox 360 consoles came back from Microsoft, the notorious 3 red lights of doom came back shortly afterwards. 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 Optical disk drive is above the GPU, and because of this, the heat made by the GPU is far greater than the heat sink can take in order to maintain an optimal temperature throughout the console. Microsoft, in the Elite changed the design slightly so that the liquid cooling extends to the GPU Which keeps the temperature Uniform between the GPU and the CPU and therefore decreases overall temperature that the system operates at. So the effect of the heat generated is the warping of the motherboard, which cracks the lead free solder joints, causing the red ring of death. 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. I was looking for Valuable information. But if you want that, there has to be a Value on it. (i.e. you gotta pay for it), but if it saves your beloved Xbox, its going to save you a lot of money. I found 10+ Xbox 360 guides on the web all claiming to get the fix done in 30 minutes, some say 1 hour and others say 2 hours. Some guides were very good and offered good explanations, but some were shortened versions of the real good guides. So being a lover of computer games and having an Electronic Engineering degree, I decided to take action and review the top 6 selling guides out there and I narrowed them down to a Top 3. For my top 3, click the link below. About the Author: John Devine is an Electronic Engineer and an Avid Xbox 360 gamer. Full Details of his Top 3 are found here: Solve the 3 Red Lights Here |