How I Fixed My 3 Red Lights of Doom... (EighT Cent Fix)

Remember for this trick you need to open your xbox 360 which means if ur still under warranty you wont be able to send it back to microsoft if it is unsuccesful. I found this guide on a fourm and its worked for many people including me.

Ok you will need

A roll of electrical tape
8 or 12 pennies depending on how much pressure you want to apply (I used 8)
Kit to open an xbox360 (T10 and T8) screwdriver to open hardrive. THeir are tutorials on Youtube for opening xbox if u need.

I was getting these freezing crashes, With a nice checkered pattern and crackling sound effect to go with it.

After a these crashes became more frequent eventually it would no longer boot up just red lights of death

So what to do is get your self some electrical tape and some pennies I used 8 pennies = 2 pennies for each replacement thermal pad for the ram

So cut the electrical tape long enough to wrap around the pennies. I wrapped 2 bits of tape around each twice

When you have your 4 replacement pads, Double up some tape i.e so its sticky both sides then attach them to your motherboard

If you cant quite get the pennes to stick on the chips try a hot glue gun and slightly dab it on the back of the pennes and stick it on.

When you have finished that re assemble your xbox360. Put back all of the screws including the gpu and cpu heatsink (x-clamp) screws and do them all up nice and tight

This trick has been tested on 40 xbox 360's 11 months ago and out of the 40 only 1 failed.

THis helped me hope it helps you to. =D

is that an eternal fix like the lawdawg method? your method is easy but is your console gonna get 3 light of death again?

if not then its cool

Remember for this trick you need to open your xbox 360 which means if ur still under warranty you wont be able to send it back to microsoft if it is unsuccesful. I found this guide on a fourm and its worked for many people including me.

Ok you will need

A roll of electrical tape
8 or 12 pennies depending on how much pressure you want to apply (I used 8)
Kit to open an xbox360 (T10 and T8) screwdriver to open hardrive. THeir are tutorials on Youtube for opening xbox if u need.

I was getting these freezing crashes, With a nice checkered pattern and crackling sound effect to go with it.

After a these crashes became more frequent eventually it would no longer boot up just red lights of death

So what to do is get your self some electrical tape and some pennies I used 8 pennies = 2 pennies for each replacement thermal pad for the ram

So cut the electrical tape long enough to wrap around the pennies. I wrapped 2 bits of tape around each twice

When you have your 4 replacement pads, Double up some tape i.e so its sticky both sides then attach them to your motherboard

If you cant quite get the pennes to stick on the chips try a hot glue gun and slightly dab it on the back of the pennes and stick it on.

When you have finished that re assemble your xbox360. Put back all of the screws including the gpu and cpu heatsink (x-clamp) screws and do them all up nice and tight

When you have fully re asembled your xbox360 try starting it up. If it doesnt work and you still have 3 red lights don't worry (yet). This is when you need to apply heat, their are differnt methods but I tried the towel trick for 18 mins.

And then hey presto its working again!

This trick has been tested on 40 xbox 360's 11 months ago and out of the 40 only 1 failed.

THis helped me hope it helps you to. =D

Akm4everz

Very nice - you are in essence making a VERY inexpensive heatsink by using copper. You could also use actual heatsink which would dissapate the heat more than this method but would cost you more in the neighborhood of $10. Still this is a really cool trick that seems in theory like it should work fine. Also I commend you for throwing out the voiding your warranty caveat - as this most definitely would void your warranty if it was still in effect.

:)

is that an eternal fix like the lawdawg method? your method is easy but is your con

sole gonna get 3 light of death again?

if not then its cool

zidan4000

Fourty xbox 360's with the Three red lights all were replaced with this method its been 11 months later and out of the Fourty xbox's only One still had the three red lights... so ya numbers dont lie lol:P

I'll have to try that one out. My 360 sometimes works and most of the time doesn't. Waiting for some free time and i'm going to try the x-clamp replacement. But this one sounds like a potentially good trick.

Anyone know where you could get small heatsyncs for the ram? They're soo tiny i'm not sure where you'd find one. But those suckers sure get hot. I have a feeling the heatsyncs won't fix mine though because i have mine setup with pc fans blowing directly onto the top and it doesn't work. They're much cooler but still red lights on boot. But hey it's worth a try lol.

Oh and for the person who did this. Did you have the thermal pads on the chips under the mobo on the ram?

I'll have to try that one out. My 360 sometimes works and most of the time doesn't. Waiting for some free time and i'm going to try the x-clamp replacement. But this one sounds like a potentially good trick.

Anyone know where you could get small heatsyncs for the ram? They're soo tiny i'm not sure where you'd find one. But those suckers sure get hot. I have a feeling the heatsyncs won't fix mine though because i have mine setup with pc fans blowing directly onto the top and it doesn't work. They're much cooler but still red lights on boot. But hey it's worth a try lol.

Oh and for the person who did this. Did you have the thermal pads on the chips under the mobo on the ram?

karmageddon2k4

Yes I did. You have to remove those and replace them with the pennies wrapped in electric tape. The copper in the pennies work alot better than those pads and should prevent mostly all xbox 360's from overheating and fix/prevent 3 red light issue.

can you post the forum where you learnt that thing

i don't know i wouldn't ry it it sounds to risky and it also sounds like a fruad i mean i goota have seen you do it first.freshdrew

What could possibly be the purpose of a fraud here? It's a consumer who's tech-savvy enough to fix his own problem. Cheers to the TC.

There isn't much harm in trying it if your brave enough to open the system. I'll give it a try this weekend as i've been too busy lately to try it out. If it works then cool. One thing i know for sure those ram chips get insanely hot. When i had mine working i decided to touch it to see how hot and man it's almost like it will burn your finger lol.

The riskier one is the x-clamp replacement. This one is soo simple to try.

What are the pennies doing?Big_Bad_Sad

Distributing the heat from the chip to the copper in the coin.

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]What are the pennies doing?TheCrazed420

Distributing the heat from the chip to the copper in the coin.

the X clamps are overstressing the mainboard. When the mainboard becomes hot enough, It starts bending and Xbox360 gives a failure. While M-B is bending , CPU and GPU units' solders are melting down and The pinsbecome semi-Free. So Xbox360 could give a CPU or GPU error. I hope microsoft solve this problem with 65nm revision of CPU and GPU equipped Xbox360s.

You are my hero.

If my second 360 mucks up out of warranty I'll definitely give this a try..

That's wayyyy too much work!!! I'll stick to my warranty with Best Buy, thank you very much. :PJohnWinger

Thats no work at all i had to self repair my old xbox and the dude sent me the wrong parts thats way to much work I was so mad.

lol, nice trick, home made heat sinks, nice. You would honestly think by now MS would put better heatsinks in ALL 360s by now. misterzeno225

they have new heat sinks in the newer modles supposedly. but tbh they need more silent fans. and maybe one more of them.

3 fans maybe instead of two, and some better heat sinks...maybe even some better thermal paste :roll:

:D:D:D:D:D

This worked for me, I'm so glad I found this thread.

Been working for the past 2hours, I just hope its not the 'towel trick' working since I used it to heat the xbox up.

I'll post an update in a couple days! Thnx OP.