xbox 360 red ring of death?

You Should Get A New One Because That Is Hardware Failing

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Also the Xbox Elite will have the same components that are still Made In China. I bought a Xbox 360 Premium in Oct 2006 and now it gave me a 3 red ring light. Im planning to return it and get my money back. Im not confident and playing xbox console anymore.

UK-based games consoles repair company Micromart has been fixing video game systems for over a decade. On its website it advertises that it will repair PlayStation 2, original Xbox, PSP and replace screens for other handheld systems.

Micromart, which used to repair the Xbox 360, has posted a notice on its website that it “has now withdrawn from offering a repair service for the dreaded 3 Red Lights fault.”

The company states that, “This problem is endemic on the Xbox 360 console and the volume has made this repair non-viable.” Micromart will also no longer fix Xbox 360 consoles that display screen freezing problems. The company, however, will continue to support all other repairs to the consoles.

“We were seeing about 30 a week before we pulled the plug on the service,” said Micromart’s Jeff Croft to GamesIndustry. “We saw it over a period of several months and it was just getting worse. It began towards the end of last year. Once the twelve month warranty finished then we started to see more and more machines being sent in to be looked at.”

“The work we had done to the console lead us to believe that basically it was a fault with the motherboard and not something that could be resolved easily. And it wasn't going to go away,” continued Croft.

“We're not taking that thing on board; we won't repair them. We originally did some work with it but it's labour intensive and it isn't really a feasible repair for us to undertake. We would probably end up charging GBP 100 [$202] for a repair and we still wouldn't be happy with the end result,” he added.

Do not buy the Elite. Buy the PS3 instead.

The issue you are experiencing is due to a hardware design flaw. There is an X Clamp that holds the heat sinks for the CPU and GPU attached to the board from the bottom. As the system heats up, and expands, the contacts begin to lose connection, and red lights of death.

http://rbjtech.bulldoghome.com/pages/rbjtech_bulld...

That is a link to fix the issue permanently. It will void your warranty, but it is much better than mailing in your system and getting a refurbished unit back...

I have fixed over a dozen 360's with this method and none have come back with the same issue again.

Hope that helps/

The 3 red lights mean a hardware failure. That basically means that it may work for a bit but it's broken and sooner or later, it will be unusable.

Microsoft has implemented a 3 year warranty from purchase date, so don't risk it, just send it to them. Then if it does go wrong again, you are safe in the knowledge that you haven't voided the warranty by someone else opening it up.

I would send it back , as the problem may not have properly fixed, and may happen again

as all xbox 360 have extended 3 years warrenty

better to be safe than sorry!

Send it back...they will cover the costs of shipping and handleing and will also cover the cost to replace or repair the 360...they have extended the warrenty to 3 years!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-070705x...

I agree with the person that said it was just overheating. If you have a lot of time left on the warranty wait and see if it does it again.

Send it back because they'll send you a new 360 for free.

call the xbox customer service at 1-800-4myxbox and they will solve your problem for you.

i have one dont send it back beacause that means that it needs to cool down u might have been playing it to long