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Senior Member
RROD Towel Trick
Has anyone had an experience or know of any experience with the towel trick. My friend Blaze tells me he did it and it worked for him. Are there any dangers, obviously there is a danger of it setting on fire due to the heat but does it get that hot? Thanks in advance to anyone who comments
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
It will overwork your cooling unit in your 360 and ruin it within days-weeks. Then you really are screwed
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Re: RROD Towel Trick
Overheating electronics is a terrible idea. I highly suggest forgetting about your "free" games and get a new or used, completly legal, xbox.
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Senior Community Manager
Re: RROD Towel Trick
The Xbox 360 3 red light error is the result of overheating within the console's case. This causes damage to the solder tracks connecting the CPU and GPU, among other things. The logic behind the Xbox 360 Towel Trick is that by making the console dangerously overheat that somehow you will cause the solder to re-flow, thus fixing the bad connections and making the machine work again.
However, the original problem, the reason your Xbox 360 overheats in the first place, will still be there and it is only a matter of time before your console will fail again. You can also easily set the console, the towel, or even yourself, on fire. Deliberately causing electronic components to overheat is a very dangerous process and the risks from fire as well as the fumes emitted when components melt is significant, and smelly.
Go to Lowes, Home Depot, where ever and buy the things listed in this kit. Including the Article Silver, you're looking at $10. You don't need thermal compound remover if you have rubbing alcohol. It will take 20 minutes to do, and you will more likely have a working system than if you wrap a damp towel around the thing and intentionally overheat it even more.
What is more likely is that you will be left with a console that can never be repaired without replacing the mainboard, in which case you may as well save yourself some time and just buy a used one now.
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
Okay awesome Shifty, thanks for that site. At the moment I have made an arrangement to buy a Xbox 360 Slim for now, I will probably get round to fixing my current Xbox but won't be buying one of those kits. My friend has given me a cheap alternative because spending £25 on a kit isn't worth it in my eyes at this moment in time.
The cheap way of doing this is to get 4 pennies, wrap 2 pairs of pennies in a few layers of insulation tape and then wedge them under the x clamps, this should then stop the x clamp from expanding too far or what ever causes the problem. I will be trying it when i feel needed to.
If that doesn't work then I think a little test of an old towel outside might be a fun experiment
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
If you're not going to listen to anyone, then why even ask?
*waits for thread about the Xbox being completely broken*
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
I asked people about the towel trick and if it is safe etc. I've got my answer that it is dangerous and not worth doing so I've said it is my last resort, what is the problem with that?
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
If you're having troubles with overheating just open up the Xbox and clean it out. Get all the dust and everything out of it. DO NOT DO THE TOWEL TRICK! it ruins the Xbox. If you aren't having trouble with overheating and the red ring is from something else you will have to get a new Xbox.
If you don't know how to open your Xbox just watch a YouTube video. You don't really need any special tools.
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Trials Developer
Re: RROD Towel Trick
As an electronics repairman in the old life I say leave the repairing to pros. And besides last gen consoles cost now about the same as a new game.
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Senior Member
Re: RROD Towel Trick
ok man, that's how it is^^
i've had that RROD with 6 Xboxes. 4 of them were "broken" but "fixable".
it def. works and it won't mess up your xbox after 3 times doing it, leest in my expirience^^
if you feel like your xbox wouldnt live longer that a couple month anway i'd recommend to do the "towel trick". i've done that with 4 xboxes, it worked every time and for at least 3 month. problem is:
if you do it, it might won't last for long. so if you have the RROD, you overheat it (takes up to 10 min.) and then let it cool down, what takes ca. 10 minutes (or do it like i did, put it in the fridge. saves 5 minues) you box will most likley work for 1-3 hours and then you have to continue the whole thing 
Do it man, RROD happens out of guarantee time anyway