the original xbox 360 model come with a fatal error that within a year of use, it will most likely DIE. and this wasn’t one xbox or a few, it was EVERY SINGLE ONE PRODUCED.
shit was so bad that microsoft had to extended the warranty on these things by another year or two. it was only solved when they introduced the xbox 360 slim.
The literal solution was to wrap the motherfucking thing in a towel, like I fuck you not
What did the towel do?
The towel overheated the console to the point where the system is like, “I need to work harder to not break” and it pseudo resets the Red Ring of Death to where you can play with it a little while longer. Which is all you really needed at that time while waiting for Microsoft to send you a new one. I’m sure others can explain it better than I can, but that’s the gist of it
there are little pieces of metal that connect the circuit board components together. they are “soldered” together. 360s had shitty soldering. overheating literally remelted/reflowed the solder so that the connections would work again. you got equivalent results from removing the circuit board and putting it in a reflow oven
You know it’s funny I’ve had my xbox 360 for more than 4 years and it hasn’t crashed, even though it’s fallen over and been carried around multiple times.
The comment about it not being fixed until the slim came out is hyperbole. The problem was well and truly fixed by then, this was only a big issue with the early units, later manufacturing runs solved it.
