Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble with my Xbox 360. The console just hangs after a couple of minutes of gameplay.
Talking to Microsoft support, they told me my console isn't eligable for a repair under warranty anymore. To get the console repaired under warranty I'd "need" the Red Ring of Death.
Can anybody here tell me how to get the dreaded RRoD?

Wrap some towels around it and keep it on for a day or two maybe?

Maybe you can overheat it by wrapping it in a bunch of cotton towels.

"Wrap some towels around it and keep it on for a day or two maybe?"

Close the vents with towels and leave it on. You'll get it in no time.

wrap it with a WET Towel, and turn it on and go on a vacation.


.............or just wrap it in a sweater/jacket/blanket and leave it on for like 3 hours

"TheDarkSlayer said:

"Wrap some towels around it and keep it on for a day or two maybe?"

Bad idea. If you keep it on for too long, it will literally catch fire. Wrap it in the towels for no longer than a half an hour, and then go from there."

Your going to hurt you Xbox, how could you.

I wish I could do that to get an HDMI box...

Thanks for your replies. I'll try the towel trick later on and will report back.

So I wrapped the console in towels and turned it on. After about fourty minutes it showed two blinking red lights and turned itself off.
Unfortunately after turning the console back on it didn't give me the RRoD.
The console still freezes of course.

You might have to keep trying it, the RROD is caused when the console gets too hot, so try leaving it on longer.

"You might have to keep trying it, the RROD is caused when the console gets too hot, so try leaving it on longer."

open it up and change the green leds to red ones.

the technicians wont be able to figure out how to get it to work and theyll give you a new one.

This thread made me lol. Getting RROD on purpose FT... W?

Hmm, this doesn't seem to work. The 360 shuts itself down after approximately fourty minutes, showing two blinking red ligths (overheating, I guess).

Strangely enough, I would like to know the same. Keep us updated if you succeed on forcing the RRoD.

"Hmm, this doesn't seem to work. The 360 shuts itself down after approximately fourty minutes, showing two blinking red ligths (overheating, I guess)."

Yes, I can turn it back on straight away. Left it on for two "rounds" of this so far to no avail.

Put a box over it and play away!

Well I mentioned earlier, the console freezes after a couple of minutes. No play!

Put it in the bath?? (dont know if that would help but it certainly cant be healthy for it)

Btw  - best topic name - EVER

Maybe if I could find a flamethrower...

"Maybe you can overheat it by wrapping it in a bunch of cotton towels."

Put it in the oven and broil it for an hour.

No, really, it totally works.

"Put it in the oven and broil it for an hour.

No, really, it totally works."

I hope it gets a Red Ring for you... (Sounds so strange saying that, lol). I find it hard to believe that the 360s weren't recalled, because there have been more than RROD issues, there's been graphics card issues, etc. I don't believe it's only 30% failing, it seems like it's a much larger amount has been failing.

just call ms and tell them that it gave you the 3 red flashing lights.

i had a friend that did that and he had a dvd-drive problem and they gave him a new one
worth a try

Try ripping the power cord out while its still on.
I got a temporary RROD from a powercut once.

"just call ms and tell them that it gave you the 3 red flashing lights.

i had a friend that did that and he had a dvd-drive problem and they gave him a new one
worth a try"

"mada81 said:

"just call ms and tell them that it gave you the 3 red flashing lights.

i had a friend that did that and he had a dvd-drive problem and they gave him a new one
worth a try"

Talking to MS support they told me if I claim the problem to be the RRoD and it isn't they'll just send the console back without fixing it (as mentioned above, no warranty left)
Not sure if this is always true though.
Maybe I can tell them I had it once and now it just freezes again. Or is the RRoD always permanent?"

Okay, on the MS Xbox RMA form it says that they will check if the console has the RRoD upon arrival. If it doesn't and I claimed otherwise, they'll just send it back without repairing it.
Think I'll cough up the 87 Euros for the repair.