How to Fix Your Xbox 360 With Your Own Hands

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Posted on21 May 2010. Tags: How to Fix Your Xbox 360

You have your junk food and drinks set and all that is going on is some serious Xbox tournament action with your chums. Just when you get to the preliminaries, something turns all the smiles to frowns. The 3 lights next to the power button start flashing red instead of the norm green. That is what has been dubbed, ‘the ring of death’ and it means something is terribly amiss within the Xbox console. Unless you can figure out how to fix your Xbox 360, you might as well throw the console in the trash.

Once an Xbox owner sees the ring of death, he should know that there is something totally messed up with their console. No matter how much money one spent on it, the ring of death renders the Xbox a completely useless gadget.

Before you can even begin to fathom what it takes to fix your Xbox 360 ring of death, you have to understand the basics within the Xbox. All those hours spent playing the high quality games like Call of Duty require massive amounts of power. Let’s disassemble the console and have a peek at the cogs and wheels that give you these hours or even days on end of fabulous game play.

Just due to the fact that an Xbox comes from Microsoft, you can be sure that it is also constructed like a pc. It comes complete with a motherboard to be able to produce all that game play without glitches. That is actually one of the reasons why this console is not cheap. The hardware that goes into building one is not a joke.

When something goes wrong therefore, you can be assured it is not going to be cheap to fix it. Unfortunately too, almost none of us have the luxury of just throwing it away and buying a new one.

There is always the option of sending it for repair. The downside to this is that if you are addicted to your Xbox like I am, the wait to get your Xbox back is too long. You can tear out your hair waiting for it to get back in your hands where it belongs. Leaving aside the time consumed, the shipping fees is going to be another hefty issue. If you have never opened it (if you open it, there goes your warranty) the repairs will not be charged to you.

You will also have to cough up another petty penny to make sure that it is insured. You do not want to buy a stranger an Xbox for Xmas, you have to get it back safe and sound. The repairers also can take as much time as they want before they get around to fixing your Xbox 360. You may end up waiting a month or two before you get back ‘your precious’.

The good news is, you do not have to throw away your Xbox or send it away for 2 months for repair. It is something that you can handle on your own. With a few tips from our videos you will be able to get rid of the ring of death in just a few minutes and fix your xbox 360.