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It can be devastating, as a gamer, when your beloved Xbox 360 starts to display the 3 red lights on the front, so you may be tempted to search on the internet for a free way to fix the problem.

Most of the time you will be told by these ‘experts’ to try the XBox 360 towel trick.Before I go on to describe what the trick involves, and why its very dangerous, lets examine what causes the Xbox 360 red ring of death in the first place.

Overheating is the main cause of the XBox 360 3 red lights error.The early XBox 360 models were all made with power and good looks in mind, unfortunately, Microsoft didnt really think about the heat being generated by all of these components packed into a tight space.There are 2 cooling fans at the rear but they arent up to the job and the case is very narrrow, and doesnt allow enough heat to escape. Add to this, the fact that the 2 main chips - the graphics chip and the main processor are both connected via a common heatsink and you have a recipe for disaster.This means that anyone who uses their console a lot (who doesnt) or keeps it in a warm room or confined space runs the risk of it overheating and failing.

The towel trick then is an attempt to fix this overheating problem.The xbox 360 towel trick basically involves you wrapping a towel around your console and letting it heat up again.Although it seems hard to believe there is some good theory behind the madness of wrapping your XBox 360 up in a towel. Basically, you are trying to heat it up to a point where the motherboard ‘fixes itself’ by allowing the solder on the bus to re-flow fixing the previous damage.

I hope that you have realised by now that causing such gross overheating, even if there is a small chance that it will somehow fix the damage, is very dangerous indeed.It takes very little time for this trick to end in disaster with your xbox 360, and possibly your house on fire. The only sure way to fix the 3 red light error is to get a good guide from the internet and perform the fix yourself.There are many good guides available to download, all for about the cost of a game, and they need no special tools to do the fix, which takes abot an hour.Best thing sbout it is the fix is permanent and above all safe.

The Xbox 360 towel trick should not be tried unless you really do have a death wish.

If your XBox 360 is suffering from the 3 red light error then dont risk the Xbox 360 towel trick - do the repair properly with a guide like the ones that I have reviewed at 3redlightfix.xbox360heaven.com/

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