What does 3 flashing red lights on an Xbox 360 mean? I know its a hardware failure, but what is the cause?
October 19th, 2008 | by xboxrepair |
jamiesm2481 asked:
My Xbox recently did this and I had to send it back for repair. Although Microsoft is eating all the costs, they didnt say what actually caused the problem. The top right light on the Ring of Light is the only one not on. All of the others flash red.
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My Xbox recently did this and I had to send it back for repair. Although Microsoft is eating all the costs, they didnt say what actually caused the problem. The top right light on the Ring of Light is the only one not on. All of the others flash red.
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12 Responses to “What does 3 flashing red lights on an Xbox 360 mean? I know its a hardware failure, but what is the cause?”
By Gaming_sage on Oct 20, 2008 | Reply
over heating???
thats my guess
By tebziltch on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
Overheating, turn it off for about half an hour and then it will work fine. Its happened to mine before also, nothing drastic though.
By S.D. B on Oct 23, 2008 | Reply
It could be several things. It could be video card failure, overheating… Microsoft has not confirmed what it is exactly, but the best explanation we’ve received is HARDWARE FAILURE. Yeah, pretty generic. Anyway, sorry to hear about your xbox. We’re on our third replacement unit because of the three flashing red lights- and we really take good care of ours.
By yzarc_jr on Oct 24, 2008 | Reply
Overheating. Sometimes it works afterwards sometimes it doesn’t. Microsoft should take care of it. This is why I bought a PS3 instead.
By davidsnoodles on Oct 24, 2008 | Reply
I think this is a question a lot of Xbox 360 owners are wondering. When Microsoft announced that they were extending the warranty on all Xbox 360 consoles, they said they were unsatisfied with the quality of their product, and therefore that was why they were extending the warranty. They never mentioned what was causing the consoles to malfunction. A lot of gaming review websites say it has to do with overheating and the destruction of some internal components that cause the aptly named “ring of death” to show. Microsoft never released an official statement saying what was causing the hardware failures.
By superdork on Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
No one really knows because MS has been keeping quiet about what’s causing it.
Most people think it’s overheating that’s causing the hardware to fail. MS is going to replace the 90 nm chip with the 65 nm chip, which runs cooler, so that should reduce a lot of overheating, which in turn should reduce the number of hardware failures.
By nix p on Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
hi, the red lights mean that your xbox has over heated its a fault with xbox you need to ring them and they will come and pick it up and repair it, if they cant repair they replace it
this happens alot and you will find that your games will freeze, the only thing to do is ring them
hope this helps nix
By rpoker on Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
it called the light from hell
when it dos that it burning up the hard drive
it just one of 20 of the bugs 360 haves
when the ps3 came out they just thru it togeter]
there will still be a lot of bug you will have to take it back and get a new one
because my ant had one when it done that it almost burned down her house
i would be takeing it back asap
that all i got
By igotthatwork on Oct 30, 2008 | Reply
sounds like it over heated
By village_idiot7777 on Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
hold down the connect controller button and press the eject button. the lights will flash. write dow the ones that flash and do this 3 more times. thats a hidden error code. look it up online to discover the problem. the console still mat not know the error, though
By Marcella G on Nov 3, 2008 | Reply
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By halo2master24 on Nov 5, 2008 | Reply
the ring of death send it in to microsoft to get a new one….keep the harddrive though if you have a lot of saved game data and what not….