The Xbox 360's Other Red Ring

[Scott]

The Xbox 360's Other Red Ring

Sure Microsoft has been flooded with a slew of Xbox 360s returned after blinking the dreaded Red Ring of Death, but we hear that not all of them were due to overheating.

When the console seizes up and dies, three of the "circle of light's" quadrants blink red, but when the video cable pops out four of the quadrants blink. Apparently, a large number of consoles returned to Microsoft with the dreaded Red Ring of Death were perfectly fine and just the victim of a bit of red ring hysteria.

There have been so many returns, in fact, that we've been told Microsoft plans on disabling the four ring error code on future builds of the console. No word on whether they will remove the three-ring coding as well.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/show...454#post250454

http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/the-x...ing-288611.php

Lol it's amazing (or maybe not) at how many people don't even read their instruction manuals. Even gamers can be stupid.

[lonewolfxix]

Who reads manuals? Wow.. I wonder if there's any on ebay with that problem... ones with "the 3 rings of death" sell for £80 with like 2 controllers and 3 games so if one comes up with 4 rings hell, cheap, perfect condition console