Fixing the Xbox 360 Red Lights of Death

These situations are not rare : Xbox 360 owners having nightmares about 3 red lights, Xbox 360 owners being afraid while playing time-intensive games as the screen could black out and 3 red lights might flash round the console's power switch, Xbox 360 owners living in sustained anxiousness of being ripped from an intense game on Xbox Live due to the awful 3 red lights which will bring down their systems.

Yes, out of all of the glitches, Problems and faults related to the console, none is more dreaded than the Xbox 360 red lights of death, famously shortened as RLOD. The Xbox 360 red lights of death are 3 red LEDs that blink round the power switch of the machine, often predated by system crashes while in the middle of a game and failure to boot up when the unit is restarted.

The Xbox 360 red lights of death demonstrate what Microsoft will only describe as'general hardware failure.' Many think that this is merely an euphemism for'We do not know where we screwed things up in making the 360.' The prevalence of this RLOD problem is reasonably worrying. Microsoft pegs it as 16% of systems released before August of 2008. 3rd party guesses run as much as 65%, however. The Xbox 360 red lights of death have now become a marketing nightmare for Microsoft. Industry experts believe that Microsoft could have notched up 300 percent more sales if folks were not scared of this possible fault that, for all intents and purposes, renders the machine worthless.

Microsoft has taken steps to relieve the problem :

- Microsoft has lengthened the guarantee of Xbox 360 units to 3 years, a unprecedented length of time for a video games console. If a unit is struck by the RLOD and it remains under guaranty, the owner can phonephone in his problem and he will be requested to ship back the defective unit. After some time, Microsoft will send a working Xbox 360 for the client to enjoy.

- Microsoft has consistently upgraded its chipset and motherboard designs used. Today, the Jasper chipset is being used on current Xbox 360 consoles, and thus far, reported instances of the Xbox 360 red lights of death are currently at zero.