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Having an Xbox, I’m sure you heard your friends talk about the RROD, or red ring of death and ways of fixing it, like the Towel Trick. The Towel Trick is a way where you wrap your Xbox up with a towel so that it gets really hot and it supposedly fixed your red ring of death. The thing is, the towel trick may work for you, but it will only work short-term and will damage your Xbox in the long term. Don’t just take this as a grain of salt. Let me explain to you why it will damage it long-term.

Here is why you get the RROD with your Xbox 360. The soldering joints under the chips are using cheaper material that causes more failures. Microsoft was trying to be green and mainly cut costs by using a cheaper soldering material. When the Xbox 360 heats up, the soldering joints expand because it is made of some sort of metal. The soldering joint is made to expand with heat, but the underlying problem has to do with the metals contracting when it cools. When it cools, it forms these air bubbles that cause weak spots called cold solder joints. So with the Xbox constantly heating up and cooling down like it’s supposed to do, these weak point begin to crack.

This is why the Xbox 360 towel trick will just make things worse.

The only reason why this trick works is that it gets hot enough to melt the solder, but also it damages your Xbox when you are done playing. The cracks that form are hairline cracks and it is just enough so that energy cannot be passed from the board to the chips.

The right way to fix your Xbox is by using the Xbox 360FixKit.

Keep your Xbox running smoothly and read more about the Xbox 3 Flashing Red lights. You can find me anytime on Xbox Live.

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