I Just Fixed A Ring-of-Death 360...

By killing it again with a towel.



Yeah, I know what it sounds like, but I swear to god I' ve got two working 360' s in my bedroom right now, one' s my modded one, and the other one I' m letting sit on, seeing if it dies again. This all started last week when I got a broken 360 to tinker with, I took it home, and looked up some of the circumstances that the 360' s died under. All were incredibly hot at the time, which I already knew, as it was a problem with the solder, but I was trying to see if anybody had gotten theirs working again.

I was on a backwater personal Pro-Boards page siphoning through the blog crap this guy had on the page, and about half way down he mentioned ressurecting a dead 360 using nothing but a towel. It involved wrapping the 360 in a towel, and letting it overheat, again. So apparently if you got it to heat up enough, the solder reconnects the GPU & CPU to the motherboard (which is what causes 99% of the RROD issues) and you' ve got a fixed 360. Sometimes permanently, sometimes temporarily.

I figured since I didn' t have the proper bit to open up my 360 beyond the case I' d give this a shot. I wrapped it in a towel, turned it on, and left to go do some yardwork. I got back later that evening, and it was still on. I killed the power, let it sit for 45 minutes, powered it up and got green lights! I' ll post proof in a bit, but I figured this was interesting enough to warrant a discussion. Hopefully one of you has an out-of-warranty 360 that this could help with.

Crazy yeah?

Your nuts.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Or am I? The one on the left (I painted it this morning) was the one I was playing the Beta on yesterday.

I see you also have a PS4.

lol, that' s awesome. But you probably shouldn' t keep your 360' s next to that PS4. The extra heat emitting from it is probably bad.

I' ve read about people using this technique, too. It sounded like a joke to me at first, but I' ve heard it from several different sources.

I got a call from the friend who I gave it to, & he hasn' t had any trouble with it thusfar. Here' s hoping it lasts.

The PS4 isn' t hot at all by the way, it uses liquid cooling in the form of stale coffee to keep it room temperature.