My Xbox 360 Keeps Freezing Up - How Can I Fix It?

Just as you would when you wanted to get your own Xbox 360, I was walking through K-mart to get a survey of Xbox 360's pricing, and then out of the blues I decided to buy it on the spot!

Brought it home and got my Xbox 360 set up and running within half an hour, imagine a hungry monkey trying to get his share of food! Well, everything was great with my Call of Duty 4 in progress and then all out of sudden... yes, you guessed it - My Xbox 360 keeps freezing up, even if I restarted the console!

"Luckily I just saved my game, Phew~" I thought to myself. But when I just came back to realization, I saw the dreaded rumours that's been discussed among my friends - the 3 red lights errors!

I was devastated. Initially I thought it was K-mart that was selling me the defected Xbox 360 but after a 15 minutes search through the internet, I came to realize that more than 50% of Xbox 360 users are experiencing this exact same problem as I did.

Microsoft is sure good in hiding secrets when they go out selling their stuff.. Find out here on how to completely repair your console if your Xbox 360 keeps freezing up!

Since that incident, I stayed up whole night reading everything I can from the internet forums, and the conclusion that I've gathered is probably what you already have known too..

...Overheating.

Yes, the Xbox 360 is well-known to the famous 3 red light errors, it runs so fast on the inside that the internal hardware gets heated up in matter of seconds.

Once the components reaches the heat of about 120 degrees, the motherboard begins to vibrate and the GPU becomes loose because the soldering that holds it in place melts away, due to high temperature. When this happens, you get the dreaded 3 Red Lights of death.

Well, after doing more research I have found certain ways to temporarily stop my Xbox 360 from freezing up, you may try them as they are quite simple without opening up your Xbox 360:

• The first thing you need to do if you see your Xbox 360 keeps freezing up, is to switch off the system for some time in order to allow it to cool down. After that you can restart the system.


• Take your Xbox 360 off your book rack, TV set cabinet or whatever place that has little space for the air ventilation whether you are playing it or not. This might just be the solution for your problem as you're now helping the cooling mechanism of Xbox 360.


• If the Xbox 360 still freezes up as frequent, then you might want to try setting up your Xbox 360 near a window where there is a natural environment where air flows much faster.

"My Xbox 360 keeps freezing up, even when I tried all that you've mentioned!"

Alright mate, if this is the case for you, you might want to take the steps further now.

For this, you are now down with 2 choices, either you send your Xbox 360 back to Microsoft for a $140 fees plus 6 weeks of no gaming, or you can fix the Xbox 360 red light problem yourself. However, the components of Xbox 360 are not as simple as you might thought it is, a simple error could damage the whole system.

Learning from a Step-by-step Xbox360 repair guide is definitely the best solution to the question. There are certain guides out there that shows you how to dismantle your Xbox 360 and repairing it, but most of them don't include clear videos on the actual process.