3 RED lights of death and NYKO intercooling fan

ok so since december i have had no problems with my 360. I have given it a NYKO intercooler fan and kind of just forgot about it. I have recently heard that the fan is harmful to the 360 so i got worried. Soon after the three red lights of death appearedthis morning and i flipped out. So i shut it off quickly removed the fan (not an easy task) it started working again  but now im worried this may occur again. Any advice?

It doesnt even need any extra cooling unless its inside of a friggin case, as long as its properly ventilated it will be fine. Sheesh that thing is such a waste of money...

ok so since december i have had no problems with my 360. I have given it a NYKO intercooler fan and kind of just forgot about it. I have recently heard that the fan is harmful to the 360 so i got worried. Soon after the three red lights of death appearedthis morning and i flipped out. So i shut it off quickly removed the fan (not an easy task) it started working again  but now im worried this may occur again. Any advice?

mercenar3

There's no need for those intercoolers. Take them back and get a refund.

Well I have the intercooler, I bought it when I bought my 360. Everything worked fine for moneths. Then I was playing I got the 3 red rings. Then I took it off, Put it on agian, got the 3 red rings, Then I took it off a couple days. WOrked fine. Put it back on and Got the 3 red rings. So I took it off and bought a new fan device with indepent power supply, and no more red rings. Been a couple month since then to.Army_Veteran

ok thanks that's exactly what happened to me.

this happened to me so i took mine off my 360 and the guy at the store said something shorted or disconected in the intercooler and that i got the three red lights because it wasnt connecting right

ok so since december i have had no problems with my 360. I have given it a NYKO intercooler fan and kind of just forgot about it. I have recently heard that the fan is harmful to the 360 so i got worried. Soon after the three red lights of death appearedthis morning and i flipped out. So i shut it off quickly removed the fan (not an easy task) it started working again but now im worried this may occur again. Any advice?

mercenar3

I've got my 360 in a less-than-optimal cooling location, so installed the intercooler about six months ago. Never had any problems, and the 360 runs considerably cooler. I'm not sure I exactly buy the argument that it sucks away so much power as to cause hardware failure. According to the lables on the fans themselves inside the intercooler, they take up about 2.5 watts each. Am I supposed to believe that the 360 power supply is so inflexible that it can't handle a 7.5 watt surge? Keep in mind that the 360 itslef can require about 200 watts, hence the monster of a power brick.Cube1485_basic

Tha is what I thought, I went agianst people stating I liked the intercooler, and that they did not know how to operate electronics, that is why they where getting all these failures. But then mine started to act up. I assumed my 360 was not getting the adiquite amount of power because it worked fine with out it. The same thing happen to one of my buddies before it happen to me. While we was playing a game, he got the rings. Took his off and never had a problem as well. I will agree it is alot cooler with it on, and I wished it would have worked for me.