How can I prevent the red lights in my xbox 360?

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#1 oscar_mateo
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I bought my 360 in november of 2008 and i want to know how to prevent the red lights cause i want my 360 to live many years.
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#2 atm0073
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Keep the console and its power brick in well vented areas and don't use your console for extended periods of time. Also, if you have a large enough hard drive, I'd suggest installing the games you play the most onto it, as that can preserve the condition of your console's drive as well as the console itself (will use less heat as a result).
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#3 steelhokie123
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Keep the console and its power brick in well vented areas and don't use your console for extended periods of time. Also, if you have a large enough hard drive, I'd suggest installing the games you play the most onto it, as that can preserve the condition of your console's drive as well as the console itself (will use less heat as a result).atm0073

In other words, don't play all day. But that doesn't always work really cause the 360 hardware just sucks. If you buy your 360 from best buy, you can get an in-store warranty for it. If it breaks you can just take it t the store and they'll give you a brand-new one right there and then. It's pretty cool.

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#5 Stealthgunn
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[QUOTE="mikekolesar1"]

MINE LASTED 1 YEAR, ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER.

HAPPY B-DAY XBOX.

the average xbox lives 7 months, if you didn't know that.

Not true. My second lived 360 lasted from mid October 2006 to mid October 2008.
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#6 lahdeedah
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MINE LASTED 1 YEAR, ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER.

HAPPY B-DAY XBOX.

the average xbox lives 7 months, if you didn't know that.

mikekolesar1
Well, you can install the games to your hard drive so the disc doesn't spin, and I'm pretty sure you can buy a fan to put on it.
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#7 lahdeedah
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[QUOTE="Stealthgunn"][QUOTE="mikekolesar1"]

MINE LASTED 1 YEAR, ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER.

HAPPY B-DAY XBOX.

the average xbox lives 7 months, if you didn't know that.

Not true. My second lived 360 lasted from mid October 2006 to mid October 2008.

December 07-08, and still fine..never had any problems. I don't play it 24/7 either, so I think I'm good for awhile.
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#8 oscar_mateo
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What type of fan? How much do the fan costs?
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[QUOTE="mikekolesar1"]

MINE LASTED 1 YEAR, ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER.

HAPPY B-DAY XBOX.

the average xbox lives 7 months, if you didn't know that.

lahdeedah
Well, you can install the games to your hard drive so the disc doesn't spin, and I'm pretty sure you can buy a fan to put on it.

I heard this makes it worst....
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#10 mattmightsay360
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i heard that some of the fans can cause fires, is used for long period of times. bcoz the motors in the fans heat up? fans are on ebay, but i dont know how much, and if ur better of buying a expensive one? maybe the cheap ones heat up? i dunoo.
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#11 znator
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No matter what people tell you, you can't really prevent the Red Ring of Death, some people I know personally have done all their power to prevent it and it still happens, but I will say if you keep your console well dusted and ventilated and that should reduce your chances of getting one, but like I said sometimes it happens anyways, and with that you still have a 3 year warrenty to use if it does.

Another thing is never, ever, ever buy one of those fans, those make it alot worst, I wouldn't worry about Red Ringing though because no matter how well you take care of it you may actually make the matter worst, so like I said before Dust it, and keep it well ventilated and your chances of it happening should be reduced, but if it does happend you still have that 3 year warrenty for 3 rings, and still 11 month for any other probs since you got it last month.

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#12 schism45
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well what happened to my first xbox was that i was silly enough to be playing an xbox game on it. the game froze and the red rings popped up. - morale of the story, dont play xbox games on the 360 (download them of marketplace to the hard drive).

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#13 Serial_Killa
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Never turn it on.
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#14 XprimeX
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How do you install games onto the HDD? I just got my 360 with fallout 3 and i want to install it.. but it doesnt really have any load times- what will it do? And must I have NXE to do this?
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#15 xValinor
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I suggest you don't keep it upright ( Scratches the disc -.-) Keep it elevated away from anything that'd heat it, don't put anything ontop of it unless if it's turned off, don't play around with the on and off settings by clicking them rapidly... ( Lesson learned there...)
That's about it :)
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#16 caddy
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Please use the Broken 360 stickied thread. Thanks.