I got my friends xbox last night and plugged it in today and i keep getting the 2 red lights of overheating, but the 360 was disconnected all night... what can i do?
this would help if the 360 was overheating, but the fact that it's been sitting there the whole time disconnected defeats the purpose, I wish people read the whole thing before talking...
That's pretty strange. There might be some kind of mechanism that's fucked up in the 360 that's telling it that its too hot. Otherwise, someone else might have been playing it at night for a long time before you started the console up.
How long have you been playing the 360 before the red lights popped up? Is it working now?
" That's pretty strange. There might be some kind of mechanism that's fucked up in the 360 that's telling it that its too hot. Otherwise, someone else might have been playing it at night for a long time before you started the console up. How long have you been playing the 360 before the red lights popped up? Is it working now? "
I haven't played it at all just plugged it in and got that... let me test it now.. nothing... I told him to bring me his power supply to see if it's that..... well see.
This happened to me when I moved, I went through all the troubleshooting stuff and none helped. It ended up working after I just let it sit for a while fully plugged in.
Is the room where the 360 is in at the moment, very hot and has no ventilation? If you station the 360 at a higher level in the room, it'll become more hotter since hot air travels upwards. Room temperature just -might- be enough to trigger the two red rings, but I'm probably wrong. Try to see if you can place it on the floor where its cooler.
Otherwise, I have absolutely no idea why that would cause the problem. I can't think of why it would be the power brick, either.
" Is the room where the 360 is in at the moment, very hot and has no ventilation? If you station the 360 at a higher level in the room, it'll become more hotter since hot air travels upwards. Room temperature just -might- be enough to trigger the two red rings, but I'm probably wrong. Try to see if you can place it on the floor where its cooler. Otherwise, I have absolutely no idea why that would cause the problem. I can't think of why it would be the power brick, either. "
its fine... the power brick might help because old xboxs were 205w and new ones a 175 and i got a 175... so maybe it's not getting enough power
Grab a thermometer and make sure that it's actually cold and not that you think its cold. Hopefully your not running that thing at 85 degrees plus. If it's still broken then its red-ringed, it just won't tell you that (Like that bullshit E74 problem) so force it to red-ring and have those assholes at Microsoft fix it.
Your 360 is cold!?!? Thats not right... Sounds like something is wrong with it.
But seriously if your having problems with it just call Microsoft, I think this would be covered with that 3 year red ring of death warranty. If its never broken before it was only bound to break sooner or later.
" Your 360 is cold!?!? Thats not right... Sounds like something is wrong with it. But seriously if your having problems with it just call Microsoft, I think this would be covered with that 3 year red ring of death warranty. If its never broken before it was only bound to break sooner or later. "
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