I have xbox 360 E . if you have this problem RROD . turn off the console. Remove the HDD. clean it with air blow.HDD Socket / Console HDD Socket. put it back. and start console. if your console not remove the issue. use 2nd step. 1 . Remove all cables from console. include HDD. Put the console for 10 to 12 Hrs. The Xbox 360 video game console is subject to a number of technical problems and failures that can render it unusable. However, many of the issues can be identified by a series of glowing red lights flashing on the face of the console; the three flashing red lights nicknamed the " Red Ring of Death " or the " RRoD " [1] [2] being the most You can't get red lights on the Slim, the console will just shut down instead. Never happened to me though. Had it on my Xbox 360 S shortly after I bought it to replace my Xbox 360 (Zephyr model). Red ring/dot of death missinformation. I see a lot of posts where people in the comments are just missinformed about the red ring/dot of death and I'm going to try my best to explain this. Every 360 model can red ring or dot no model is immune only ones that are more reliable than others, it's not slims it's all determined by the motherboard Xbox 360 Red Ring in 2020. My xbox360 will not turn on due to getting the red ring of death I thought this issue was resolved already, especially since my 360 had to be sent in to repair this back in the day for the same reason. I'm very sad to hear that Xbox does not support the 360 anymore. It's quite disappointing to find out that the The Red Ring of Death is a general hardware failure. It does not mean that your console is suffering from the same issue that affected Xbox 360's back when this was a big issue. All computer/console electronics will fail at some point, it is not a matter of 'if' it will happen but 'when'. For the longest time, this mystery has wrought the minds of players - and it's interesting that the reason for the Red Ring is so menial, and on paper, fixable. By account of Leo Del Castillo, a hardware engineer for Xbox since 1999, the Red Ring of Death was a result of poor connectors inside the components. When they broke, so did the console. 08/08/12 - 15:00 in Xbox #1 Do the Xbox360 slims ever get red ring of death? my friend is claiming his got RROD but others have told me he dropped it. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been any recorded RROD on the slims but i could do with some peice of mind on this. Country. Nov 3, 2021. #6. might not be worth fixing. a reflow or reball requires a bga station (though a heat gun may be able to do it as well, but a proper one requires one of these). the stations usually cost several hundred dollars to a grand, so you'd most likely have to send it to someone. for the price it costs to do either, it may be Xbox 360 slim red ring of death - Microsoft Community. Skip to main content. 2 people found this reply helpful. Sorry this didn't help. Great! Thanks for your feedback. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. zkrDDuR.