Xbox 360 3 Red Lights Error - Fix It Yourself

Xbox 360 repair is all over the net at the moment with Microsoft saying they will repair Xbox 360's for free if they suffer from the infamous Xbox 360 3Red Lights Error. They made a good decision when they extended the warranty on the Xbox 360 to 3 years.

It’s cool they back those of you lucky enough to still be under warranty but it’s annoying as hell when you have to send it back time and time again, and have to wait 4 to 6 weeks to get back into gaming. It’s just a pain having to wait so long.

You should never wrap any high power piece of electronics in towels. All the hot towel trick does is heat the Xbox 360 up to the point where the loose solder joints establish a connection temporally. This method to fix the Xbox 360 3Red Lights Error can cause stress on the solder joints under the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) causing some of the little resistors to break of. When this happens your Xbox 360 may or may not come on, but it may then only then display a sound with no picture.