If you’ve just turned on your Xbox 360, or you’re in the middle of your are your favorite XBox game and all of a sudden you see 3 flashing red lights on the front of the Xbox 360 console where there used to be 4 steady green lights, you’ve been hit with the dreaded xbox 360 Red Ring of Death, better known as the xbox 360 3 red lights problem.The Xbox 360 is actually a fairly powerful computer with a lot of electrical components packed into a relatively small space. All of these electronic components generate heat during gameplay. The result is that the cooling that was built into the Xbox 360 by the design engineers is insufficient to dissipate all of the heat generated. In fact the inside the Xbox 360 can sometimes reach of 100°C. If you find yourself in a situation where you have experienced the three red lights problem and your Xbox 360 is out of Microsoft’s warranty (the extended 2 year warranty that they implemented specifically for the 3 red lights problem), you can either send your unit out to a third party repair service contractor or repair your XBox 360 yourself using one of the many Xbox 360 3 red light repair guides that are available for download on the Internet.