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The Best of Instructables Volume I
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The Best of Instructables Volume I

by The editors at MAKE magazine and Instructables.com
October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
13h 54m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from The Best of Instructables Volume I

Fix the Red Ring of Death! (without towels!)

Fix your Xbox 360’s RRoD by yourself, without towels or soldering irons! By Dr. Professor Jake “Biggs” Turner

Dead Xbox 360? If you no longer have a warranty on your Xbox, and you’ve gotten the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD, shown in Figure A), there’s still hope. The RRoD is displayed by the 360’s “Ring of Light” when there’s a general hardware failure. While this can be caused by any part (or lack thereof), the general cause is excessive heat, which stresses the solder joints on the CPU and GPU. Over time, these joints can become separated, causing the Red Ring to show up, usually when you have a new game to play and you’ve taken the day off…

What this fix involves is nothing but mere screws ...

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