Red Ring of Death fix

If your Xbox 360 has the 3 red rings of death and you can't send it into Microsoft then you can follow this guide to get it back up and going. This info was made available from a brilliant, and incredibly hot engineer.

This will void your warranty if you have one still on your Xbox 360, but if it has expired this will save you at least 100 dollars. Sending back an unwarrented Xbox cost nearly as much as just buying a new one. I must point out, that if mess up - I am not responcible. It's all you from this point on.

You will need to buy:
1 Arctic Silver 5 (this is a thermal paste to use on the GPU and CPU) Cost: $10
16 Flat Metal Washers that are size #8 Cost: $2
16 Nylon Flat Washers that are size #10 (#8 could also work too) Cost: $2.50
8 Machine Screws size #10 and I used 24x1/2" length (some sites said #8, but they were too small for me) Cost: $1
Total cost without buying errors and not including gas to drive everywhere: $15.50

Now that you have everything you will need to take the Xbox apart. Again this will VOID your WARRANTY; so don't blame me if you do this.

Take off all the casing using a small screwdriver or some other object (I actually used some small scissors that are now worthless). Take off all the screws and take off the X holders (place a screwdriver under there and twist is the easiest way) and the fan. Now take out the mother board and take off the heat sinks. See all that thermal past gunk everywhere? That is not a good thing so now you have to remove all that with some alcohol or some goo-gone stuff. I had some alcohol 70% in the house so that did not cost a thing extra and used that with a q-tip to rub the processors to a nice mirror finish shine. (Clean the heat sinks as well, but you don't have to make it shiny)Now you can put on the thermal paste. Put a little dab on the processor and use a card or thick paper to spread it thinly over the processor. Don't use too much or it will have adverse effects. Now put the screw with a metal washer and a nylon washer into a hole for one of the heat sinks. The nylon washer always needs to be next to the mother board so it doesn’t short out. Now put on another nylon and metal washer on the other side of the mother board (yes you have to hold all 4 of them up and this part is kind of difficult) and you can screw in the heat sink you are working on and do the same for the other one as well. Tighten them up a good amount (not too tight). Now you can plug in the power button, the fan, the cables, disc drive, and the power cable. Now turn it on and it should start up. (I’ve heard you need the disc drive plugged in or it will cancel your Xbox live account) place one of the fans over the CPU heat sink to cool it, but not the GPU. You want to over heat the GPU, but the CPU will get much hotter and shut down if not cooled. Let it heat up for 10 to 15 minutes. Shut the Xbox down take out all the cables and put it back together. You now have a working Xbox 360!