Ok, here's a teaser. If your Xbox 360 has stopped working and you don't get a video display, then how can you tell what the failure is? Well, those clever guys (and girls) at Microsoft have thought about this very 'chicken and egg' problem and come up with a suitably clever solution.
The Xbox 360 is a marvel of modern design but it does suffer from a few well documented problems. The sleek case is not really built to cope with the large amounts of heat produced when the console is running and the Xbox 360 has no active cooling system. These two factors can only amount to one thing - the Xbox 360 is prone to overheating and all of the problems that brings. One nice bit of design that Microsoft did build into the Xbox 360 however, was the famous 'ring of light'. If your Xbox 360 has never failed, then you will only ever have seen the ring of light display green, and you probably just thought that it was a fancy power light. But did you know that this clever piece of design also turns red when the console has a problem and the secret of the failure is encoded into the sequence red lights that it displays.
Most of us have probably heard about the Xbox 360 3 red lights error. This is the most common error and is caused by overheating. There are many good guides available from the internet that tell you how to fix the Xbox 360 3 red lights error so i wont cover that here. What's less well known is that the ring of light can also help us pinpoint the actual fault and so help us to apply the correct fix, or know when to get it repaired professionally.
To get the error code you first have to switch your Xbox 360 on - that makes sense - and wait for the Xbox 360 3 red lights to show. You then press and hold the Sync up button, its a small white button on the front of the case, and press the eject button on the DVD drive. The segments on the ring of light will now start to flash the error code, one digit at a time as you press the eject button. Press it four times to get the entire code. Since there are 4 segments, you can tell the number as follows
• All four lights flashing - 0
• One light flashing - 1
• Two Lights flashing - 2
• Three lights flashing - 3
Ok, now that you have the code, say 1003, which indicates a faulty hard drive, you can take the appropriate action.
So there you have it, although the xbox 360 3 red flashing lights indicate a fault, they also contain the information you need to set about fixing the problem.
Now that you know the error code, you have to know what it means. I have found a great website http://www.xbox360ringofdeath.info that explains all of them in detail and offers some ways to fix your broken Xbox 360
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