Sunday, June 21, 2009

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You are going to learn:

?How to fix the red rings of death in just 1 hour

?What voids your warranty

?The danger of using the towel trick

?What each of the red lights mean

?Some scary facts about the Xbox 360

?How you can profit from red rings of death

What will void my Xbox 360 warranty?

Any internal or software modifications will instantly void your warranty.

If you use the towel trick (see below) you will also void your warranty (and damage your system).

Also, if you use the intercooler by Nyko, you will void the warranty. The intercooler is actually quite harmful as it will severely drain power and scorch your system. DO NOT USE IT!

What is the towel trick? Does it fix red rings of death?

The towel trick is where you wrap your Xbox 360 up in a towel and over heat it by leaving it on. This seriously damaging to your console. It may work for a bit, but you will permanently ruin it. You have been warned. Besides, there are much safer ways to fix red light errors as you will find out below.

What do the red lights mean?

?1 red light means your console has had general hardware failure. If you don't know how to fix it yourself, it could cost you $140 to send it in. Not to mention a long 4-6 week wait. What's great is that 94% of Xbox 360s with general hardware failure DON'T NEED NEW PARTS! Meaning with a little tweaking you can hotel rates them up and going!

?2 red lights mean your system is overheating. To avoid damaging your console, turn it off right away.

?3 red lights also mean general hardware failure. These are the kuala lumpur sightseeing "red rings of death"

?4 red lights mean there is something wrong with your AV cable. It could just be that the connection is loose. If not, you may need to broadband firewall a new cable.

Did you know these horrible facts about the Xbox 360?

The system did not receive a tilt safety device. That means is scratches discs when you move it if its on! This is not covered by the warranty. DO NOT MOVE YOUR SYSTEM WHEN IT IS ON!

Microsoft internet radio player the LSI heat sink to make room for the DVD drive. Problem is, the heat sink keeps the motherboard cool and a small heat sink means a poorly heated mother board. As a result if you leave your system on, the motherboard overheats, starts to vibrate, and loosens the connection of the processor. This then causes the red rings of death.

Microsoft said the failure rate (i.e. red light errors) was only 5%. Retailers were however reporting failure rates as high as 30%! While Microsoft never changed this figure, they did say the first 11.6 million consoles sold had a 'flaw' that could cause them to fail. I mobile high speed internet its pretty obvious this 'flaw' was the shrunken LSI heat sink.

The fall 2006 update caused some Xbox 360s to boot only the screen of death.

All the bad stuff aside, how can I profit from red rings of death?

If you learn to fix red light error Xbox 360s (see below) you can buy them cheap on eBay. You can find some consoles selling for $60 because people don't know how to fix it so they just want to sell it. You can buy internet entrepreneur fix it, then resell it for $200. You could also just keep it for yourself.

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Anthony is an avid gamer and bought his Xbox 360 the day it launched. Sadly his Xbox 360 was full of telekom streamyx that needed fixing.