There is nothing worse than getting a new Xbox 360 game and then getting home from work in a hurry to play it and turning on your Xbox 360 and seeing the 3 red lights flashing on your power button.
Probably the first thing you did was boot up the PC and go looking for information on this problem and you were probably a bit taken aback by the amount of people having the same error.
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Well if you have found your way to this article then you have found the holy grail.
I will tell you some measures that you can go to to get rid of the 3 red lights on your Xbox and get back to your games today!
The Xbox 360 3 Red Lights means that you have a general hardware failure and it can be caused by a few things but mainly heat. As the board heats up it starts to bend and then you will be left with the red lights when the soldering snaps off.
So how do you get the 3 red lights back to green?
Well all you need to do is find a way to get the motherboard to stop bending and then it should work for you and there is a couple of ways to do this:
You could get a third party company to do it for you and if you do a search around you will see plenty of Xbox 360 Repair services out there that will do this for you. They tend to have quite good delivery and pick up times as they are all competing together with each other.
The only thing about this method to fix the 3 red lights is the fact that as they do not work for Microsoft you have no real way of knowing if they will fix your Xbox 360 permanently or if it will break again.
There is also other methods that you can use to fix the Xbox 360 3 Red Lights like the towel trick however if you are thinking of doing it this way I would say to be careful as the towel trick will heat up the soldering on your motherboard making it supple for a bit but will not last for ever and then you will be left with the same problem again.
So is there any permanent fix for the Xbox 3 Red Lights?
Yes, the 2 I would suggest is either sending it back to Microsoft and just waiting for the fix or you can fix the problem yourself using an Xbox 360 Repair guide. There are a few about on the web and if you want to do it this way you must make sure that you get a good guide that contains videos and a full guarantee!
It really depends how long you are going to want to wait and whether or not you are outside your warranty!
I hope this article has given you some options when you are looking to fix the 3 red lights on your Xbox and you get it fixed soon!