The Xbox 360 3 red lights problem is alive and well, especially for xbox 360 owners who purchased their units a couple years ago. It was these early units that had the design flaw that was causing the 3 red problem to occur in about 30% of all Xbox is sold. That’s a huge number of defective units for any product. If it happened to a company that didn’t have the deep pockets like Microsoft has, it’s quite likely it would have bankrupted the company. However, after a lot of stop and go, Microsoft finally came around and admitted to the 3 red lights problem and changed their warranty to a full three years for that particular problem. The three red lights problem became so prevalent that a small industry sprouted up around repairing this problem in the form of several do-it-yourself xbox 360 repair guides.
The reason that these repair guides became popular was because Microsoft originally was charging $140 for the repair. This was before they had extended the warranty to three years. In addition to the do-it-yourself repair guides, there are also some repair services available to Xbox owners. You can send your xbox 360 out for repairs if you’re not comfortable opening up the unit and doing the repair yourself. These services will charge about $50 and you’ll be without your Xbox for about 7 to 10 days. The do-it-yourself repair route is popular because you can get the problem fixed in about an hour to an hour and a half and the guides themselves cost anywhere between $20 and $30 and usually include videos of the repair being done.