Let me guess what has happened to you.
You were playing with a few of your friends on Xbox live when suddenly it just died.
Now instead of a green light all you can see are the three flashing "rings of death.
" Now you have got to get your machine fixed.
Not only can you not play your Xbox 360 now, you can't play for at least two months.
You heard that correctly, if you check with Microsoft it will take eight weeks to fix your game console and return it back to you.
In the mean time, what are you going to do? On top of the two months wait time, it is also going to set you back a pretty penny.
Microsoft is going to charge you $140 to repair the rings of death problem.
On top of that you have to pay for shipping and insurance.
That is a lot of change to drop on getting your game back on.
Even if your warranty is still good, you will have to shell out the shipping and insurance charges.
Not to mention that you will still be without a game console for eight weeks.
And you have to spend the time to get everything packaged up so that it can survive the trip.
I bet you have even been searching online for ways to get your Xbox 360 up and running again.
Let's see there is the towel trick.
You can wrap a towel around your console and this is supposed to get the red lights to go away.
Have you tried it? Don't worry about it, it doesn't work anyway.
Another Internet myth out there is the power adaptor.
It goes like this.
Place your console at a 45 degree angle and store your adaptor vertically.
This is supposed to magically fix your Xbox.
Guess what? It doesn't work either.
There is a solution that will work to repair your Xbox.
It is much cheaper that the $140 that Microsoft will charge you.
Contrary to what many people believe, it is not really all that hard to fix this problem yourself.