Has the Red Ring of Death (RROD) finally made its way to your console, or perhaps the console of someone you know? If so and you need a way to repair an Xbox 360 from the RROD, this article will describe and give you some recommendations so that you can do it in the easiest and safest way possible. The repair described in this guide is the same repair that has helped thousands of people for over 2 years. Before we begin, I first want to clarify that this method is a self-correcting method, which means that it is a repair that you can do yourself. The reason I recommend this is because:
1. It is the only known method to permanently fix an Xbox 360 red light issue.
2. It can be done in an hour.
3. You have obtained more successful results than those offered by the manufacturer.
Now I would just like to clarify that many people have chosen to send their systems to the manufacturer for repair. Many people, when recovering their systems, got the RROD again. It is for this reason that the repair described in this guide was discovered and passed on to those who have not had satisfactory results with the manufacturer. And since this repair has been able to permanently fix the red lights on an Xbox 360, unlike the manufacturer, I am now passing it on to those who need it.
How to fix an Xbox 360
The first order of business is to make sure you have all the necessary tools for this specific repair. Most of the tools you will need are not difficult to obtain, many are common household items, and you may need to go out and buy one or two. But I’d like to point out that these tools are profitable, so it’s no big deal. The tools you will need are as follows:
Required hardware
– 8 machine screws 5x10mm (5mm)
– 16 nylon washers n. 10 (5mm)
– 16 galvanized steel flat washers (5mm)
Tools needed
– 1 Torx T8 and T-10 screwdriver
– 1 flat sturdy object, preferably a knife
– Paper clip
– Flat head screwdriver
– Compatible cleaning kit and Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound
– Fold
When you have all this equipment, you are ready to do the repair. Now there are essentially only two modifications that need to be made, and both involve the motherboard. If this sounds overwhelming, don’t worry; The way I learned how to do this repair was by following the Xbox 360 repair guide that was written by James Dean. This is the repair guide who first introduced this repair in the first place, and he is responsible for how successful people are. I highly recommend that you use this repair guide to guide you through the entire repair as I cannot give you the precise details that you will need in this short article.
Moving on, to perform these repairs, you will first need to disassemble your console. This is completely covered in the repair guide so I won’t go any further. Next, you will need to take your motherboard and remove the pre-existing thermal compound paste found on the motherboard’s GPU and CPU. This thermal compound is unreliable and does not protect the GPU and CPU well enough to prevent RROD. To fix the red lights on an Xbox 360, you will need to reapply the new thermal compound paste to both the GPU and CPU for a more reliable protection solution.
The next step in the repair process involves a minor modification of the motherboard heat sinks. The repair process will show you all of this in detail, but to give you an idea, you’ll first need to remove the X-clamps that hold the heat sinks in place. Next, apply the washers and screws that are part of our list of required hardware, to the heat sinks when you replace them so that the heat sinks are better positioned and less susceptible to problems when the system starts to heat up . The problem here is that the X-Clamps did not fully provide the motherboard with the necessary support it needed when the system got hot. This, in turn, caused the motherboard to buckle when the system got hot, and after so long it eventually caused serious problems like the RROD. Once you’ve fixed the overheating issue, a substantial benefit of this specific repair method is that it also resolves other errors that the Xbox 360 receives by default. Errors such as 2 and 4 red light errors, game crashes, crashes graphics and the E74 error will never affect your system again.
Once these two simple modifications have been made to your system, all you will have to do after that is reassemble your console. As you can see, this method is really straightforward, it’s a legitimate repair, and like I said, it takes about an hour. All of these are substantial benefits; The fact that you can get your system repaired today, compared to the weeks of waiting for the manufacturer to return your system to you, is great! So if you need a way to repair an Xbox 360 from the RROD, I would recommend this method to anyone experiencing this problem. As I said, this method has been the most successful so far and has had excellent results. Also be sure to refer to the Xbox 360 Repair Guide written by James Dean to properly perform this repair on your system.