XBOX 360 - 3 red flashing lights

**FlangMasterJ** · 9th May 2008, 23:13

Was playing COD 4 and it froze up on me.

Now around the power button there are three red flashing lights.

Anyone have this problem?

Do I need to send it away to be fixed?

**Nagash** · 9th May 2008, 23:17

Aww.. mate. I feel sorry for you.

Welcome to a very well known Xbox phenomenon known as the red rings of death. It basically means your Xbox's fucked.

Clicky

Pretty much your Xbox has either overheated (very likely with a game like COD4), has hardware issues (very likely it being an Xbox), or some other problem with your Xbox.. (there's a few).

You're gonna need to take it to the shop unfortuantely.

**TOTO** · 9th May 2008, 23:33

I never had a gaming console but it looks cool ....

**gijoe1313** · 9th May 2008, 23:37

The dreaded red rings of death...

There sits Gates in darkness, 1 ring for Token lines
And in those networks bind them
1 ring each for Xbox gamers, and those who have designed them...

1 ring to rule them all, and warranty expired!

**FlangMasterJ** · 9th May 2008, 23:53

Cheers guys.

Was looking forward to a weekend of COD thrashing.

**jimbo600** · 10th May 2008, 09:38

Yep the ring of death. I'm on my third Xbox 360. Bloody crap. Wish to hell I bought a PS3 instead.

**Sparky Bills** · 10th May 2008, 10:21

Originally Posted by jimbo600

Yep the ring of death. I'm on my third Xbox 360. Bloody crap. Wish to hell I bought a PS3 instead.

I got both at my flat

SO THERE!!!
Best of both worlds.
Although, I cant sit there and play it. As I A: SUCK AT IT, and B: Get bored sitting round all day.

Has its moments though.

**hazard02** · 10th May 2008, 10:50

The Red Circle of Doom. The Wedge of Woe. The Death Lights. Crawl in the USB port kid, they all float down here! Three flashes of red and I knew I was effed.

Condolences.

**Disco Dan** · 10th May 2008, 11:15

Originally Posted by FlangMasterJ

Was playing COD 4 and it froze up on me.

Now around the power button there are three red flashing lights.

Anyone have this problem?

Do I need to send it away to be fixed?

Taken from the link.

Some have confused General Hardware Failure with a similar looking error warning where all four lights flash, but the flashing of all four lights simply means that the AV cable is not properly inserted into the console

**FlangMasterJ** · 10th May 2008, 11:23

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Taken from the link.

Some have confused General Hardware Failure with a similar looking error warning where all four lights flash, but the flashing of all four lights simply means that the AV cable is not properly inserted into the console

Cheers Dan. We checked the cables.

It sounds like a common overheating problem with the earlier models.

A Wiki extract:

The article also revealed that representatives of the three largest Xbox 360 resellers in the world (EB Games, Gamestop and Best Buy) claimed that the failure rate of the Xbox 360 was between 30% and 33%, and that Micromart, the largest repair shop in Britain, stopped repairing Xbox 360s because they were unable to fully repair the defective systems. Because of the nature of the problem, Micromart could only make temporary repairs, which led to many of the "repaired" systems failing again after a few weeks. At that time Micromart was receiving 2500 defective consoles per day from Britain alone.

**inlinefour** · 10th May 2008, 11:25

Originally Posted by FlangMasterJ

Was playing COD 4 and it froze up on me.

Now around the power button there are three red flashing lights.

Anyone have this problem?

Do I need to send it away to be fixed?

I think it might be the hdd. Remove it and see if the game will play off the disc alone. Normally comes up with an error code tho.

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Taken from the link.

Some have confused General Hardware Failure with a similar looking error warning where all four lights flash, but the flashing of all four lights simply means that the AV cable is not properly inserted into the console

Sould have read this first...