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Having an Xbox, I’m sure you heard your friends talk about the RROD, or red ring of death and ways of fixing it, like the Towel Trick. The “trick” behind the Towel Trick is that you wrap a towel around your Xbox so it gets hot enough to somehow get rid of the red ring of death. The thing is, the towel trick may work for you, but it will only work short-term and will damage your Xbox in the long term. But don’t take my word for it, let me explain to you why.

This is why you get the red 3 flashing lights: it has to do with the solder underneath the chips. Microsoft was trying to be green and mainly cut costs by using a cheaper soldering material. If you remember in chemistry class, when metal is heated up, it expands. This is what happens with the soldering joints when the Xbox is on for long periods of time, the soldering joints expand. It’s all fine and dandy if the soldering joints expands, it’s supposed to do that. The real problem is when it cools down. What happens is that air bubbles start to form inside the soldering joints and it known as cold solder joints. So with the Xbox constantly heating up and cooling down like it’s supposed to do, these weak point begin to crack.

The Xbox RROD Towel trick causes more problems down the line and will cause more cracks to form and more air bubbles.

The only reason why this trick works is that it gets hot enough to melt the solder, but also it damages your Xbox when you are done playing. The cracks that form are hairline cracks and it is just enough so that energy cannot be passed from the board to the chips.

The 360 Fix Kit got my Xbox fixed for good.

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