It appears the Xbox 360 red lights error has plagued the Xbox360 console since the day of its release. More than 30% of all consoles have been or will be influenced by this problem at some point. The main cause for this difficulty is unwarranted heat which causes the soldering to become loose and leads to major hardware damage. This mistake may point to that there's a fault in the cooling system that might be corrected by adding another inter cooler and removing the X clamps. In case this does not work, you have two options :

* Send the console to the Microsoft service center : if your guaranty hasn't expired, then Microsoft can fix it for nothing. But if the guaranty period is over, then it'll cost you $140 plus shipping. Another downside is that you may have to wait many weeks, before you can have your Xbox back. * Fix the problem yourself : to be able to repair it, you need to grasp what is causing it. There are often two important reasons : the case may lack acceptable ventilation or there is a designer failing with the GPU and motherboard, which would possibly not be positioned properly. The very first thing you must do is to turn off the system and allow it to cool down. Then you need to disconnect the wires and open the Xbox360. You can restart it after two minutes.

In case this doesn't work, then things might be more heavy.

At that point I should warn you against using perilous and unorthodox strategies,eg the "towel wrap technique".

Wrapping your Xbox with a bath towel is a bad idea, because it will cause overheating.

The most secure way you can use, is to download a trustworthy fix manual, which should give you easy-to-follow step by step instructions and will help you fix the 3 red lights blunder in less then sixty minutes only using straightforward tools like a screwdriver.