Have you encountered the dreaded RROD that every Xbox 360 users gets nightmares just thinking about it. If you ever came across a RROD, it typically means that your Xbox 360 is completely done for and needs to go to Microsoft for repairs. Microsoft have officially recognized this as designs flaws and not enough quality assurances tests done on their part so they decided to extend the warranty of the console to 3years. Some of you might even tried the infamous “towel fix” but this time lets do some real stuff that will last.

Still there is a debate on what actually causes the RRoD, but according to the folks at iHacked they believe its is just a soldering issue.

“Generally, the 3rrod error is caused by a solder problem, where points on the GPU/CPU have worked loose – or a temperature problem causing the same result. Following this guide, you should be able to fix these joints, quickly and easily! We have used this process to repair over 10 Xbox360s successfully.”

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Just take a look at the video and i’m sure if you bricked your 360 and screwed your warrenty opening it before the Microsoft tech staffs, I’m sure a new wave of hope will hit your head and that dusty 360 might have a chance. Apparently they tested this method on 10 different 360’s and fixed each of the ten different ones that had gotten the RRoD.

[ iHacked via hacked gadgets]