Three Red Lights on Xbox 360

Ok, the Xbox 360 is awesome.  Why else would you buy it, right?  But what happens when you get the all too common three red lights on Xbox 360?  What do you do?

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.