Gaming RIP My 360 :( Towel trick?

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So the other night i tried playing my 360 but it wasnt putting a picture on the screen so i left it then last night i tried again and nothing, now this morning it was giving me 3 red lights
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I had it for a year and brought it 2nd hand so i cant moan cos i had a good year out of it but i dont know wether to try the towel trick? A mate of mine has done it and its worked so wanted to see if anyone else has tried it?
 

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just send it back to ms, i also send back a flashed 360 and got a brand new one.
it didnt even have the silver sticker behind the faceplate
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Towel Trick= Crap. Please don't do it.
It harms it. Why?:

Its a system failure, thats what the 3 rings mean. But when u wrap a towel around the 360, ur blocking all vents, thats bad right there. Air cant circulate, hell, not proven but it may rise high temperatures. And, if you got high temps, u can *not proven* melt the soldered wires. So try NOT to do the towel shit. You dont have any choice, either:
Call up MS
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Well you can always buy new internals.
 

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SavageWaffle said:
Towel Trick= Crap. Please don't do it.
It harms it. Why?:

Its a system failure, thats what the 3 rings mean. But when u wrap a towel around the 360, ur blocking all vents, thats bad right there. Air cant circulate, hell, not proven but it may rise high temperatures. And, if you got high temps, u can *not proven* melt the soldered wires. So try NOT to do the towel shit. You dont have any choice, either:
Call up MS
or
Well you can always buy new internals.

You do realise the the towel trick is designed to re-melt the solder that's actually broken in 2, right? That's WHY it's designed to cause intense heat. The towel trick isn't designed to have a towel wrapped around the 360 the entire time, just for 30 minutes or so while the solder melts.
 

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It doesn't melt the solder. Who ever thought of the trick is an idiot. Lead free solder tends to melt at 200C (few are lower than that) , wrapping the 360 in a towel won't get it any where near that , and even if it could get that hot , it would melt the damn case.
 

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But towel tricks DO work (temporarily).
I'm guessing if people have enough knowledge to mod a 360, they can fix RROD but for some reason the towel trick is quite widely used. I don't know why
 

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