XBOX 360 Red Ring Death

+5 on your efforts.

Hey, I know I ain't been on in a long time... like forever... but that's due to lots of personal issues. One thing that kinda sucked, but wasn't a major reason for my leaving here, is my 360 got the Red Ring of Death back in March or April. After, well I fixed it on Sept. 24, so from let's say mid April until that day, it was sitting in my room... o_o Yeah... Anyways, I fixed it by using the penny method (wrapping 2 pennies in electrical tape and replacing the "band-aid" things with them, followed by wrapping it with the towel for a minute) and so far so good! Although, it wasn't reading the discs, so I had to take it apart again and hit the motor in the disc drive with WD-40 so it would work... for another month at least, until I gotta do that again... Anywho, Just wondering if anyone else here has tried any methods like this to fix the Red Ring of Death and what not... I know SYG, I think it was, chucked his across the room, and he discovered that that method doesn't fix it...

I absolutely hate missing threads like this. 6-days since the last post, eh, not like I'm reviving the thread from the dead.

Just figured I'd mention that doing the method mentioned by Draco2003 is absolutely foolish. All it does is overheat the system to break the internal thermometer to trick it into thinking that it's not overheating. The problem with doing that is that you start doing serious damage to the internal hardware when you heat it up that much. The only way to really fix it is either send it to Microsoft (if you really don't know what the fuck you're doing) or pay $10 or so to get some thermal paste and follow this guide which is how I fixed mine. http://www.instructables.com/id/Fix-...ithout-towels/

Mine has been working for over a year since it happened. Only took me an hour or so to fix it. Never had to screw with it again.

Thermal paste is the shit. You can fix a good deal of overheating issues with electronics when used correctly.

I recommend Arctic Silver 5.