Xbox360 RROD and The Towel Trick

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#1 liquidsnake1987
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i bought my brother a 360, and i play it when ever a good exclusive comes out for it. My brother isnt an online gamer, so i made an account for him a week ago. I started downloading demos from the xbox marketplace, and yesterday it RROD'd. I never had problems with my 360 until i started using the online portion. Could that be the cause of RROD?

Anyways, i didnt want to send it to be fixed, so i looked up videos on youtube, to see if i could fix. I tried this first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcV4wfd5CR0

it didnt work.

Then i came across the towel trick, and i swear my 360 is working now. Now i can play left 4 dead!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avWs4-wD15w

Has anybody else done this?

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#2 iam2green
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yes, it will fix it temportyly u should call microsoft for a box. it will only last for a week or so and it will red ring again.
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#3 Legendaryscmt
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It's still going to crap out you know.
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#4 Ze_Common_Cold
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If that really worked, wouldn't you think lemmings use that as an advantage against the rrod? Send it in quick, before it craps on you too hard and you end up messing up the warranty by doing the towel trick too many times.
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#5 Salt_The_Fries
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That was really irresponsible. Only X-clamp fix does any more permament good, and towel "trick" does more damage than he does good in the long run.
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#6 liquidsnake1987
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i bought it from a friend though, will xbox company still fix it?
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#7 Dante2710
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why is this on SW? 360 board is that way