If you personally own a Xbox just like me, you probably have heard of RRoD, the so called “Red Ring of Death“. Also commonly refered to as “3 Flashing Red Lights“, a RRoD is a typical sign for a general hardware failure on your Xbox.

Such a hardware failure may be caused by many different reasons like cracks in the solder joints, defect coolers or problems with the graphics chip or AC input. Whichever way you look at it, it’ll definitely stop you from using your Xbox until you send it back to a Microsoft repair center for repair.

Typical signs before a complete failure of your Xbox occurs are strange graphical problems, noisy or frozen sound and sometimes messages showing unreadable discs although they should read fine. Most, but not all of these signs often time lead to a RRoD, which simply means time for a repair. According to the Microsoft support you should do that immediately!

More than 10% of all sold Xbox 360 consoles already have been repaired due to those hardware problems. For some reasons something has terribly gone bad while Microsoft released their Xbox system several years ago, over 10% of defect consoles is way too much in my opinion. Although a repair should fall under your console’s warranty, you’d still have to wait up to 15 days before you could use your beloved Xbox again. If your warranty has already expired…well, you’d even have to pay for it on top of that!

You see, the Red Ring of Death is a common in the Xbox world. Many people left stuck with a non-functioning Xbox 360 and had to send it back to Microsoft to let them fix those problems. That usually costs time, if not even money.

Fortunately, and because I was faced to a serious RRoD problem too, I searched for and found a Do-it-yourself Xbox Repair Guide that told me exactly how to fix my Xbox console on my own. It’s way too much to tell about here in that article, but in short it is a huge collection of quality video tutorials showing you step-by-step instructions on how to fix your Xbox. Sure the guide costs some bucks, but at least for me it had definitely paid off (hey, it’s only around $25).

I was probably totally cursed with bad luck since I faced 3 of such bad “general hardware failures” as they call it, 3 times that I couldn’t use my Xbox. The first time I sent it back for repair, there wasn’t any problem although it took them nearly 2 weeks to ship my Xbox back. The next weeks were just fine until the Red Ring of Death hit again. As already said, I bought the repair guide and successfully fixed my Xbox 2 times afterwards (yes, the problem occured again after some months).

The guide is really worth the money spent, it shows how to repair your Xbox by your own without having any deep knowledge about the underlying hardware. It’s simply to follow and easy to do. You can order it here, on that site you’ll although find way more detailed informations on that subject!

Ok, now my Xbox 360 is running fine again and I hope it will do for the next years to come!