If you are reading this page, it is probably because you are facing the Xbox 360 3 red rights on your console and you do not know how to go about repairing it. There is the obvious method of sending it over to Microsoft to get it repaired, but it will cost you quite an amount if you do not have warranty and to wait for your machine is a daunting deal.
Therefore the best method for you to fix the Xbox 360 3 red lights is to do it on your own. The first thing that you need to do is to understand the cause for the problem and find an appropriate solution. You might have come across a common advice which is to wrap a towel around your console. This might seem to help initially, but you are digging your own grave, in fact the console's grave, if you are doing this.
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The reason why you are seeing those Xbox 360 3 red lights flashing is because of the temperature rise that can be seen inside the console. This causes the soldering of the GPU and the CPU to come lose causing the entire system to freeze. Hardware failures with respect to the memory unit that is the HDD can also create this problem.
You can cure the Xbox 360 red lights issue of you remove the memory units and the hard drive and then run the initial setup. Then you synchronize the controller and then start of with the game. This can resolve the issue at times. But if problem is with over heating, you need to start of by repairing the heat sink and re soldering the entire chip.
It is always better to make use of the services of an instruction manual when you are at it because this will give you a better way of handling the problem and will also help you with any trouble that you face.