ive seen my test kit go one ring and a E71 fault (reset it was fine for a day, reset it was fine for half a day, reset it was fine for an hour, then stripey brown screen yay)- sent back in four days though so tha was ok ive seen two dev kits three ring, ive seen my mates old (really ancient!) 360 die a three ring of death…
The general cause of the three ring thing is overheating, most often caused by the design of the heatsink brackets on the motherboard. edit: beaten to it. There is another better method of fixing it, but it would void the warranty. :shrug: so just send it back to MS since you are covered.
At around 4:15 pm this afternoon my xbox 360 died,I recieved the rings of death and wept for several minutes, I have not contacted Microsoft yet but i will on my monday. it sucks i was really getting into tf2 and after 14 hour days at work it realy sucks not having anything to do on my one day off
yup, it's a shitbox. red ring here as well and it cannot possibly be heat - it wasn't even really used the last time it had worked fine. regardless - turn it on and be greeted with a lightshow. seems, microsoft is sending you the box to ship it in these days, so now i'm waiting for that. all in all it doesn't build a lot…
You can take a towel and completely wrap it around the 360 (covering all the fans and possible exhaust ports) and turn it on for about 10 minutes. You should see the 2 red rings instead of the 3 after a while which means it has overheated. Do this a few times in a row then try to play a game (MAKE SURE YOU LET IT COOL DOWN…
360 has to be the most faulty piece of consumer hardware ever produced. great job microsoft. on top of that i can play all of their first party titles on my pc,as well as use the controller on my pc. whats the reason of getting a 360? halo3? i am sure i will see that on the pc soon enough. 6 people here at work all got the…