Choices You Have to Make When Repairing the Red Ring of Death
The Red Ring of Death Choices If you have contracted the Red Ring of Death on your Xbox 360, first of all I would like to say that I'm sorry that you have to go through this.
Before I knew the techniques that I'm about to tell you, I have wasted countless Xbox's in hopes of finally curing the Red Ring of Death.
I'm here today to help you not go through what I did, so that you will be more educated than I was, so that you don't make the same mistakes that I did.
Is It The Real Thing? The first thing that you want to do is make sure that your Xbox really does have the Red Ring of Death.
Check all of your cables that hook up your Xbox and make sure that they are snug and not hanging off your Xbox by a thread.
After checking, make sure that you have a steady power supply.
Unplug your power brick and make sure that everything is fitting into their respective places and that you don't have anything reversed.
Once that is done, plug your power brick back into the outlet and see if it works.
If it fixes your red ring of death, than stop reading this dang article and go play some halo! If, unfortunately, it still doesn't work try plugging all of your cables into another socket in your house.
Sometimes when the power goes out in your house or when something goes wrong in the electrical department, it can temporarily give your Xbox the red ring of death.
If you have tried all of these steps, and restarted your Xbox and it still gives you the lights, it's time for some repair.
Why Red Ring of Death, Why! When you have finally decided that it is indeed the red ring of death, you have a choice to make.
You can either send it in to Microsoft or you can take the chance and repair it yourself or at your local repair store if you have one near you.
There are pros and cons to each of these choices which I will explain in detail below.
Please consider both choices and pick the one that is most suitable to you and your situation.
Choice #1: The first choice is to send it to Microsoft.
This is a very smart choice under certain circumstances.
If your Xbox still has a warranty, than this should be the choice that you make, no questions asked.
Microsoft will repair your Xbox for free and send it back to you.
Now at first this seems like a great idea, but going the easy way does have some consequences.
If you send your Xbox in to Microsoft for repair, and you have a warranty, it can take six to eight weeks just to get your Xbox back! I have experienced that and let me tell you, it's not fun at all.
Although it is free, waiting for that length of time sucks! So if you're willing to wait that long just to make sure that you get your repair for free, then so be it.
If you don't have a warranty, than please, for the love of it all, don't send it to Microsoft! They will charge you a heavy sum of shipping and handling and a hefty charge of over one hundred dollars just to fix it.
There is a better way for people to fix the red ring of death without warranties, which I will expand upon below.
Choice #2: The second choice is to just forget about all of the corporate and business trouble, and just repair it yourself.
Believe it or not, this is a very easy thing to do! When you actually look into it, you will be very surprised at the easiness and the quickness of the repairs that Microsoft charges over one hundred dollars for.
Repairs done by the average person with no technical or electronic experience can and will take only about an hour, and are very cheap compared to the price that Microsoft advertises.
These repairs can be done with mostly household tools, and a very meager amount of money.
If you are one of those people who does not have a warranty, or you are someone who doesn't like waiting eight weeks for Microsoft's repair, this is the smart choice to go with.
If you are interested in the self repair process, I have placed a link in the resource box to a website that will teach you all you need to know about self repair, and will have you beating the red ring of death in no time!
Before I knew the techniques that I'm about to tell you, I have wasted countless Xbox's in hopes of finally curing the Red Ring of Death.
I'm here today to help you not go through what I did, so that you will be more educated than I was, so that you don't make the same mistakes that I did.
Is It The Real Thing? The first thing that you want to do is make sure that your Xbox really does have the Red Ring of Death.
Check all of your cables that hook up your Xbox and make sure that they are snug and not hanging off your Xbox by a thread.
After checking, make sure that you have a steady power supply.
Unplug your power brick and make sure that everything is fitting into their respective places and that you don't have anything reversed.
Once that is done, plug your power brick back into the outlet and see if it works.
If it fixes your red ring of death, than stop reading this dang article and go play some halo! If, unfortunately, it still doesn't work try plugging all of your cables into another socket in your house.
Sometimes when the power goes out in your house or when something goes wrong in the electrical department, it can temporarily give your Xbox the red ring of death.
If you have tried all of these steps, and restarted your Xbox and it still gives you the lights, it's time for some repair.
Why Red Ring of Death, Why! When you have finally decided that it is indeed the red ring of death, you have a choice to make.
You can either send it in to Microsoft or you can take the chance and repair it yourself or at your local repair store if you have one near you.
There are pros and cons to each of these choices which I will explain in detail below.
Please consider both choices and pick the one that is most suitable to you and your situation.
Choice #1: The first choice is to send it to Microsoft.
This is a very smart choice under certain circumstances.
If your Xbox still has a warranty, than this should be the choice that you make, no questions asked.
Microsoft will repair your Xbox for free and send it back to you.
Now at first this seems like a great idea, but going the easy way does have some consequences.
If you send your Xbox in to Microsoft for repair, and you have a warranty, it can take six to eight weeks just to get your Xbox back! I have experienced that and let me tell you, it's not fun at all.
Although it is free, waiting for that length of time sucks! So if you're willing to wait that long just to make sure that you get your repair for free, then so be it.
If you don't have a warranty, than please, for the love of it all, don't send it to Microsoft! They will charge you a heavy sum of shipping and handling and a hefty charge of over one hundred dollars just to fix it.
There is a better way for people to fix the red ring of death without warranties, which I will expand upon below.
Choice #2: The second choice is to just forget about all of the corporate and business trouble, and just repair it yourself.
Believe it or not, this is a very easy thing to do! When you actually look into it, you will be very surprised at the easiness and the quickness of the repairs that Microsoft charges over one hundred dollars for.
Repairs done by the average person with no technical or electronic experience can and will take only about an hour, and are very cheap compared to the price that Microsoft advertises.
These repairs can be done with mostly household tools, and a very meager amount of money.
If you are one of those people who does not have a warranty, or you are someone who doesn't like waiting eight weeks for Microsoft's repair, this is the smart choice to go with.
If you are interested in the self repair process, I have placed a link in the resource box to a website that will teach you all you need to know about self repair, and will have you beating the red ring of death in no time!
