Soo.. Recently I've discovered that my Xbox 360 is "overheating". At least that's what Microsoft says is happening... I'll take it out of a drawer after not playing it for weeks, turn it on, get about two minutes into a game, and then 'two' red lights flash... So it's not the environment... My warranty is supposedly up, so I'd have to pay 100 bucks to send it in. No thanks. Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? P.S. - I will not wrap my Xbox in towels...
I wonder if MS keeps records on calls? If not; go online to the XBOX site, fill out the part on repairs, say you have the three red lights instead of two. They have extended the warranty for that. They will probably send you a box for it, send it off, get another back in a week or two. Worst case, they say they won't repair it because it has two and not three red lights...but to be honest, I doubt they'll even bother to check.
I had the same problem of overheating...I went to gamestop and bought one of those fans that you attach to the back of the xbox. Over the last 5 months, I have exactly 1 instance where the 2 red lights came back.
Background: My little brothers xbox's video card busted. As in, the sound was there, just the video would not show up. Tried new cables, HDMI hook up, all of that. Start reading online with some cousins about it and a guy suggests the towel trick. What the hell, it already doesnt work. So we take off the hard drive and just leave the power cord hooked in. After it being on for about 5 minutes with the towels, it shuts off. We let it cool for a few seconds, plug everything back in and viola, it worked. What the hell?!?! How did heat do that to a video card?? I want to say it works still, but it only worked that once.. This was about 2 weekends ago. Moral of the story... just pay the 100 bucks..
The fillings come loose over time, the towel turns the soddered joints back into liquid metal and they reconnect, it is a temporary fix at best. DD
I had the same problem with my xbox just send it in to microsoft as 3 rings. I don't think they check. At least with my xbox they didn't check.
There is a conspiracy. Supposedly when they updated the software they changed some codes that display with the lights meaning that what could have been the "ring of death" is now one red light or just two. This could help them from having to accept claims of the major "R.O.D." defect.
