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3 Red Lights Fix Review
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The 360 has a serious design flaw, the heatsinks on the main circuit board can cause the console to overheat, especially if it is used when in confined spaces. This in turn loosens up the solder holding the components on the circuit board, resulting in what is known as a dry joint. This dry joint prevents a connection between the electronic components, and causes a fault. The XBox 360 detects the fault and displays the dreaded three red lights on the front panel.
Unfortunately, Microsoft will insist you ship the console back to them for repair, and that can be expensive if the warranty has run out, not to mention the time it will take to repair it, it could be weeks before you get your Xbox back.
3 Red Lights Fix
Frustrated by this situation, a number of XBox 360 owners have come up with their own simple and effective repairs for the console.
One of these solutions is presented in the 3 Red Lights Fix Guide. The guide provides you with fourteen simple to follow steps on how to repair the XBox 360, membership to the 3 Red Light Fix website and three video guides.
1. 3 Red Light Fix Repair Guide.
2. XClamp Repair Guide.
3. The Disassembly Video.
4. The XClamp Repair Video.
5. Another XClamp Repair Video.
I strongly suggest that before starting the repairs on your XBox 360 you read through all the Red Light Fix guides and watch all the videos.
The XClamp Repair Guide actually offers more detail than the main guide. It's more of a manual than a checklist, and it offers diagrams, additional tips, and more explanatory text.
The Disassembly Video shows exactly that, the process of disassembly. There's no spoken instruction on this video, it's purely a demonstration of how to get into your XBox 360.
The first XClamp Repair video demonstrates the process of removing the heatsinks from the motherboard, cleaning, and then reattaching them. The second XClamp video shows a similar demonstration of how the removal and reattachment of the heatsink can be done in around four minutes. Once again these are both unspoken.
Both XClamp videos have a scrolling text along the bottom which describes what is happening and I found it very simple to follow visually and I understood exactly what I needed to do.
Overall, I found the 3 Red Light Fix Guide to be an understandable set of documents and videos. As a Mom that hasn't even played on an Xbox I managed to have my kids console up and running again the same evening.
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