| Like many gamers before you, I assume that | | | | making the console dangerously overheat that |
| you are reading this article because your beloved | | | | somehow you'll cause the solder to re-flow this |
| Xbox 360 has developed the 3 red light blunder. | | | | fixing the bad connections and making the |
| As you almost certainly know by this time, your | | | | machine work again. If you're lucky you may |
| Xbox will not work again till a fix is applied. The | | | | simply make it work. |
| good news is that you do have some options | | | | However, the first problem, the explanation your |
| open to you before turning to throwing it in the | | | | Xbox 360 overheats in the 1st place will continue |
| bin and purchasing a new one.naturally, if your | | | | to be there and its only a matter of time before |
| console is still under guarantee you could send it | | | | your console will fail again. The real danger is that |
| back to Microsoft and they will repair it but this | | | | you can quite easily set the console, the towel, |
| can take two weeks to finish. Another possibility | | | | and even yourself aflame. Deliberately causing |
| is to fix it yourself and, as we shall see this | | | | electronic elements to overheat is a particularly |
| makes a large amount of sense. However, you | | | | threatening process and the hazards from fire as |
| have an alternative choice, the so-called Xbox 360 | | | | well as the smoke emitted when elements melt is |
| Towel Trick, that's being shown round the web. | | | | significant. |
| This trick involves wrapping your Xbox in a heavy | | | | A far better, and more reliable method is to get |
| duty towel and permitting it to severely overheat. | | | | yourself a good DIY guide and follow its |
| The issue is the fix is non-permanent at best, and | | | | instructions. Using only some basic tools and the |
| at worst could actually be fatal. | | | | data you'll get from the steer you can repair a |
| The Xbox 360 red light error is the results of | | | | broken console inside an hour. Safer, pretty much |
| overheating within the console's case. This is the | | | | certain to work and your towels can be employed |
| cause of damage to the solder tracks connecting | | | | for what they were intended - now why take a |
| the CPU and GPU, among other things. The sense | | | | risk. |
| behind the Xbox 360 Towel Trick is that by | | | | . |