Author Topic: Brother broke my xbox360 (Red Ring of Death)  (Read 3822 times)

I'm sitting here playing on Aes's city loverp whatevers going on, and my brother comes up and tells me the xbox is broke.
I go down and see it has the red ring of death, greeat. The only time it got that was when the powercord was out a wee bit, but once I plugged that in it worked fine. He told me the xbox turned off on him playing his gay Fable 3 game.
I saw that the power box was tucked between the wall and the cushen of the bunkbed, the xbox was laying down when it happened, and he turned it up thinking that would fix it.
When it is on the rings just blink red. I know there is some tricks to fixing this, so?
Please help me so he doesn't have to use his beer money buying me a new xbox.

You cants really fix it
too much to send it into microsoft
I would just buy a new 4gb one

if you have 3 solid lights
its dead
You can use the towel trick but that only makes it work for a few days
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=472553

depends on how many of the lights were red
mine had two, i just used a different hard drive lol (as weird as that sounds, it worked.)
if it's past 3 then you're screwed more than likely

Why are you blaming your brother for this? Did he intentionally destroy the xbox?

Dude defiantly take out the HD and put it back in
sometimes that works

Why are you blaming your brother for this? Did he intentionally destroy the xbox?
He was playing his game and somehow it broke. I doubt my xbox would just die on it, the boys really reliable, so my brother had to do something.
My friends say the towel trick, but if it only works for a few days then I might just sell it then. Gah.

 I'm going into to town to eat some subway, I'll check this later.

The towel trick can/will actually hurt your Xbox

Anyways,
it does happen at random
I had my original Xbox 360 and I played it for 30 minutes and I left for 3 hours and when I turned it back on it was dead.
:C
I just bought a new one


He had the power brick tucked between the wall and is loving mattress? How many lights were on? If it is four then it's not broken. my friend smacked the power brick once when I brought mine over to his house, adnd it showed four rings. I turned it back on and it works fine.
« Last Edit: November 27, 2011, 03:46:22 PM by HelplessNobb88 »

OH GOD.  I was playing Fable 2 when it broke on me, lol.

He had the power brick tucked between the wall and is loving mattress?

3 means General hardware Failure. What this means is that your Xbox is boned. He probably broke the power brick.
The power brick probably burned itself out.
Being tucked between a mattress probably heated it up allot.

The power brick probably burned itself out.
Being tucked between a mattress probably heated it up allot.
It wasn't in the open not cuddled like a cat in the matress. The powerbox wasn't really hot when I checked but it could be a problem that it didn't get fresh air.

how many lights actually turned on? If it was four then it's not broken.

how many lights actually turned on? If it was four then it's not broken.
All four rings were red, the power icon was green. When I opened the diskdrive it all flashes red.

im playing fable 2 right now...

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