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If
you are the proud owner of an Xbox 360, you would have heard of the Xbox three red lights problem by now. You may even have experienced this issue
first hand. If not, then count yourself lucky, for the time
being.
Sooner
or later, your console may start to exhibit glitches in the graphics
and the screen begin to freeze. The games won’t play as well and pretty
soon, your console will stall and shut down. At that point, you’d find
it necessary to indulge in 360 repair procedures.
Xbox 360 3
Red Lights
You
may have noticed that the most virulent matter affecting Xbox is the 3
red light problem. The screen goes black, the console stalls and red
lights start to flash, like harbingers of doom. You can’t seem to get
the machine to work as before no matter how much you shake your console.
And
to compound matters, your console feels unusually hot to the touch.
There’s your clue to the problem and also your solution for Xbox 360
repair. The hardware of your console was manufactured with inherent
design flaws.
There aren’t sufficient cooling mechanisms inside the
console to deal with the excessive heat that’s generated when you’re
gaming for several hours at a stretch. When you play Halo 3 without
letting your console rest, the heat build up inside your Xbox is very
rapid.
Lack of heat sinks or cooling fans coupled with poor
ventilation cause the motherboard temperature to shoot sky high. The
solder joints that connect the CPU and GPU to the motherboard suffer a
meltdown and crack. This loosens the links and signals are lost. Your
console then crashes from overheating and 3 red lights appear to mark
this
fateful event. And now it’s time to repair the Xbox 360.
What can you
do?
Well,
for one, you can contact the manufacturer, Microsoft, and have them do
the 360 repair for you. Provided your system is still under the Xbox 360 warranty, the
Xbox 360 repair will be free of charge. You’ll just have to pay for the
shipping charges. (Update: Microsoft now covers the shipping charges to most places.)
There’s a catch, though. You’ll have to wait
up to nearly two months to get your console back. And you’ll be
surprised to know that in all likelihood, your console may not even be
the one you sent in. It will probably be a refurbished one.
Nevertheless, you’ll get a console to continue your gaming.
However,
if your warranty has expired, then you have to pay at least $140 for
the repair costs. And you still
have to wait several weeks before your rectified console is returned to
you.
The worst part is, the repairs don’t always permanently solve your
problem. The red lights issue may crop up again before long. As an
alternative to packing off your console to Microsoft, you can do the
360 repair yourself.
Why repair
yourself?
By
doing the Xbox 360 repair on your own, you save both the shipping costs
and the repair charges, if your warranty has expired. Performing a DIY
360 repair is much cheaper. Additionally, you don’t have to go to all
the trouble of arranging for your console to be shipped to Microsoft
for fixing. You don’t have to wait for weeks on end before
returning to your gaming sessions. What’s more, when the red light
trouble starts up again, you can fix it at home.
How to fix
your console yourself?
The
best way to do 360 repair is to look for online guides that give you
step-by-step, detailed instructions to aid you in fixing your console
yourself. It’s easy to do when the guide has clear directions that you
can follow closely, especially when accompanied by a high definition
video.
The guide that we recommend is the Xbox 360
Red Light Fix
Pro Gamer Edition. It’s by far the best video guide available
and the
most cost efficient with excellent video quality.
Using this guide you should be able to quickly perform your Xbox 360
repair and get back to gaming as soon as possible.
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