Like many game-players before you, I presume that you are reading this article because your dear Xbox 360 has developed the 3 red light blunder.
As you most likely know by this point, your Xbox will not work again until a fix is applied. The good news is that you do have some options open to you before resorting to throwing it in the bin and purchasing a new one.
of course, if your console is still under assure you could send it back to Microsoft and they will correct it but this can take a couple of weeks to finish. Another choice is to fix it yourself and, as we shall see this makes lots of sense. However, you have another option, the so-called Xbox 360 Towel Trick, that's being shown round the Internet. This trick involves wrapping your Xbox in a heavy duty towel and allowing it to severely overheat. The issue is the fix is non-permanent at best, and at worst could actually be fatal.
The Xbox 360 red light error is the results of overheating within the console's case. This causes damage to the solder tracks connecting the CPU and GPU, among other things. The sense behind the
Xbox 360 Towel Trick is that by making the console dangerously overheat that somehow you'll cause the solder to re-flow this fixing the bad connections and making the machine work again. If you are fortunate you could simply make it work.
However, the original problem, the explanation your Xbox 360 overheats in the 1st place will continue to be there and its only a matter of time before your console will fail again. The true danger is that you can quite simply set the console, the towel, and even yourself on fire. Deliberately causing electronic parts to overheat is a particularly deadly process and the hazards from fire as well as the smoke emitted when parts melt is significant.
A far better, and more reliable method is to get yourself a good DIY repair manual and follow its instructions. Using only some basic tools and the info you will get from the guide you can fix a damaged console within an hour. Safer, pretty much guaranteed to work and your towels may be employed for what they were intended - now why take a gamble.
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