Remember, I told you about how overheating was the root cause for the red ring of death.  But the system sometimes falsely overheats, causing it to start flashing red lights at you and locking you out of being able to play it.

Now if you catch this problem before it gets too bad (by preventing it) you won’t have to ever deal with 3 flashing red lights.  But if you continue to let the system overheat or think it’s overheating, it gets really hard to get rid of the red rings afterward.

So follow these tips to prevent three red lights:

1. Don’t put your Xbox 360 on the carpet.  The carpet is like putting a blanket over your Xbox.
2. Never stuff your console in a tight space where it can’t breathe.  Before my Xbox started flashing lights, it was packed underneath a DVD player and an old PS2.  No wonder it got so hot that it tore up!
3. I learned about this one a little too late, but wish I would have known all along.  Buy a cooling unit.  These little things are like $20 and will really help keep your console from overheating in the first place.

If you do those 3 things, even if you are already occasionally getting three flashing red lights, you might just beat it and not ever have to deal with the red ring of death again.

Properly taking care of your console can extend the life and save you a ton of money.

But if you are already having trouble with three red lights on Xbox 360, then stay tuned for my next post.  I’m going to tell you about my exact method I used to fix my Xbox 360 in my dorm without shipping it to M-soft.

You’ll be surprised!

Well, with this post today I can help you out with that problem.  I worked at a game shop for about a year and I can’t tell you how many people came in trying to trade in Xbox 360 systems that had blinking red lights.

The first thing you got to do is understand what causes the red ring of death, before you can fix it.  It’s actually really simple, and before I learned how to fix my Xbox 360, I had no idea.  See, red lights on Xbox 360 come from too much heat.  When the system overheats it kind of shuts down so it doesn’t “damage” the hardware.

But the thing is, it’s not really damaging anything.  It’s almost like a false alarm.  But what sucks is, it locks the system up with the three red light error.

So, to sum this up, overheating is root cause for 3 red lights on Xbox 360.  There are some things you can do to help prevent it, and I’ll talk about those in the next post.

I’ll also tell you about the super secret method I learned about how to fix my Xbox 360 without shipping it off to Microsoft when it got the red light error.