...te trip! Don't break your system---completely, avoid the "towel fix".

What do the red light errors mean?

1 light means you have had general hardware failure. If you to send it in to get it repaired, without a warranty this costs $140. Not to mention it can take up to a month for you to get your system back. Keep reading to learn how you can fix it yourself at home.
2 lights mean your console is over heating---TURN IT OFF NOW TO AVOID SERIOUSLY DAMAGING YOUR SYSTEM!
3 lights also mean general hardware failure.
4 lights simply mean there is a problem with the AV cable. Check the connection and replace if necessary.

Shocking facts about your Xbox 360 and why so many people need to fix red ring of death errors!

Microsoft admitted that the first 11.6 million Xbox 360s sold had "a design flaw that could cause the device to fail"---this flaw was the LSI heat sink. They made is small in order to accommodate the DVD drive. The heat sink keeps the system cool, but becau...more

Xbox 360 Represents a Giant Step in Video Game Technology

...e processors each with a clock speed of 3.2 Gigahertz. It also has an ATI graphics processor that runs at 500 Megahertz that can process four times as many pixels a second than the original Xbox. (There isn't even a comparison between this and the Intellivision!) The Xbox 360 has 512 Megabytes of RAM which is shared among all of the processors.

The Xbox 360 is also designed to work with High Definition. As part of the standard for the Xbox 360 all video games have to support either 720p or 1080i resolutions and the wide screen 16:9 aspect ratio. Supposedly a High Definition Television set isn't completely necessary to play the Xbox 360. If that's true, one has to wonder what happens to the extra screen width ...more

A Look at the Xbox 360

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Shader Performance:
48 billion shader operations per second

Memory:
512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth:
22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance:
1 TFLOP

Storage:
Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O:
Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
3 usb 2.0 ports
2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online:
Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
Built in ethernet Port
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
Video Camera Ready

Digital Media Support:
Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD Game Support: All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
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