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Originally Posted by ShotRangE
YouTube - Playing Halo 3 with Red Ring of Death
I have the red ring of death so I looked up some tutorials on youtube. I tried smacking the xbox and the towel trick and now it works! Not how I expected it to work though..
Well the xbox was running well.. no freezing or anything. I had to turn it off eventually to go to sleep.. Whenever I turn it on its either like this or normal with green lights.
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DO NOT DO THE TOWEL TRICK!
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Don't even use it once, not to mention some people tend to do the towel trick on Xbox 360 more than once! Basically what it does is that the internal chips will be heated with a couple of towel wrapped while Xbox 360 is on for 15 minutes, it leads to extremely high temperatures so that broken solder points get resoldered again and warped components get reshaped.The point here is, this fix would probably last you a few days or sometimes less than 24 hours. Most manufacturers try their best avoiding heat damages to internal components and now you're fixing your console by heating it beyond acceptable level. This would eventually damage your Xbox 360 internal chips and if you do it more than once, be prepared to face all kinds of other heat failures as the chip get damaged even more.
So really, is it safe to do the towel trick on Xbox 360, just for a quick fix that lasts no more than a few days?
There's just so many times that this can be repeated before the heat damage is too extensive for the towel trick to work any more. This procedure is a fast downward spiral that completely fries your Xbox 360.
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Even if it provides temporary relief from the red ring of death, it'll do much more harm to your Xbox than good. Unless you really hate your Xbox and want to destroy it, stay away from the towel trick.
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It'll only wreck it in the long run.