Xbox 360 is a video game console designed by Microsoft with its own hardware components. Microsoft has developed the hardware for this gaming device if its own codes running on chips. This is first of its kind from the Microsoft Corporation designing hardware on its own. Though, Microsoft are well versed in developing gaming software, developing hardware is very new to them. Because of these reasons, it had created a lot of problems in their hardware design leading to different kinds of error within the console. The red lights error is one such kind of errors occurring within the Xbox due to hardware failure.
XBOX 360
Xbox 360 is a second version of Xbox consoles that was released in the year 2005. Xbox 360 came with an improved processing speed and a high storage space. It also had the feature of CD-ROM too to add up games to your Xbox device. The important devices are nothing but the CPU and GPU processors that are kept under heat sinks and are kept rigid to the motherboard by means of two X clamps below the motherboard.
HEAT SINK PROBLEM
The processor consists of heat sinks to collect the hot air from the surface due to long working. These heat sinks will try to cool the air with the help of an intercooler. The intercooler takes supply from the motherboards main supply. Microsoft has stated that one of the causes for the failure is due to the large power consumption by the intercooler as the intercooler takes the power from the motherboard main source and the current flows through all the components of the motherboard making all the components to get heated up. Because of low air circulation inside the console the heat sink cannot able to perform cooling very efficiently and the rise in temperature causes the components to fail. Now, the problem has occurred with the graphical processing unit heat sink and has caused the error E 74 to occur on the screen along with three red lights glowing near the power ring. The red light error is popularly known as the “Red Ring of Death” or RRoD. When this error occurs often in your console and if you are continuing to play with that, then at certain point of time your entire motherboard will get damaged.
SOLUTION
The Xbox 360 with Three Red Light can be repaired and can be brought back to normal. This can be done by two ways. You can give your console to Microsoft service centre where consoles which has valid warranty are repaired at free of cost. But the console which has an expired warranty cannot be repaired at free of cost. Apart from this the shipping charges has to be paid to transport the console to the service center. Many feel that this option is a bit costly for them and they have started looking for simple solutions. There is a simple solution for this problem. The console can be repaired on our own with a help of a repairing guide. These repairing guides are available in the internet. The advantage is that they will cost you less and you will have the benefit of completing the repairing work within a short span. You will not be having such kind of advantage when you go for the service where the repairing charges are costly and the time taken to repair is too long. These guides will help you to solve the problems of the console and certain guides will come along with demo videos to explain you more clearly. Once repairing is completed, you can start playing with our console on the very next hour.
