Friday, March 25, 2011

How you can overcome the red ring of death

By Jessie Weddington


Back in 2005 when the first Xbox 360 was launched, there were a lot of people that were utterly excited by it and many of them bought one. Yet, after a short while of using it, there were many reports stating the fact that the console would just become inoperable. In time, this error became really famous amongst those that decided to buy a console from Microsoft. The error was named the red ring of death by the ones that have stumbled upon it and if you were the one to have the bad luck of getting it, you had to either send the console back to Microsoft, buy a new one or simply throw it out the window into the garbage can.

Technically, the error is known as the E-74 error. In regards to an estimation of the consoles that are having this problem, it has been gauged that nearly one third of them have become inoperable due to this problem.

So what causes this nasty error to pop up in the first place? You will find a lot of answers if you will delve into the online community forums, yet Microsoft stated that there is a problem with the cooling system of the Xbox 360 and it manages to overheat in certain conditions.

Are there any solutions that you can employ in order to fix your problem? We all know that when your expensive console will burn out, you will be very much angry about it. The solution that you have in this regard is to send it over to Microsoft so that they will have a look at it. And if your console is out of warranty, you will also need to spend over one hundred dollars if you want it to be fixed. Yet why you should pay this money when the product was built in a defective manner is still a mystery to me.

And of course, if there is something that a lot of people don't have, that virtue is patience. Avoiding the red ring of death can be very much easy and you will need to make sure that you will put your console in a place where it is not that warm, so it will not overheat and die on you.

Putting it next to a cold place or buying a fan for it will do the trick. This way, you will save yourself the 100 dollars fee and also the time you needed to wait for it to ship back to you.




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