What do you do to your xbox 360 to not get the red ring of death?

Answer 1

There are many ways of fixing your Xbox 360 of the COD (Circle of Death) or Ring of Death. If your Xbox is new to getting the Ring of Death than this scenario will work for a month or so, but take note: The best way to get it fixed is if your warranty/recite is still in order you can email Microsoft, they will send you a box to put your 360 in it and you send it to them they fix it and send it back. Like I was saying anyways if you don't want to wait and its new than here's what you'll do. It's simple-Get a towel, such as a beach towel and wrap the xbox in it, leave cords connected so it can turn on and cover up the gaps as much as possible. Then turn on your xbox and leave it on for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes has passed unwrap and turn it off, when you turn it back on the xbox should work until you turn it off, you may be lucky and have it work twice in a row but most of the time you have to continuously do this everytime you turn it off and on, so use your time wisely.

Still a decent way is to trade it in (Not recommended) or send it in to Microsoft (recommended) If the month, year or whatever warranty is up you might have to pay a small fee, get a new one, send it in to a local repairer *not Microsoft* send it in to a local Microsoft company or search your xbox from the inside out (Sometimes what causes the ROD is very noticable inside of your 360 console, such as too much dust covering it I recommend getting a inter cooler thing that attatches where the power cord goes to avoid that, or it may be that something is out of place.

The ROD is caused by one other thing so check this first, if your AV cord is unplugged from the console you will receive the ROD symbol as a warning that your AC cords are not connected either to you TV or Xbox 360 console.

Best wishes to you ill and/or screwed up 360, may it have a speedy recovery