The red ring of death refers to the three red lights on your console that indicate a general hardware failure. Perhaps you have a new xbox that works just fine and want to prevent the red ring of death from happening to you.
Feeling down because your Xbox won\’t stop freezing? Do you keep getting the ring of death failure. You are now a member of an expanding international group of frustrated Xbox owners.
In order to get a jump on the competition, the Xbox 360 was rushed to completion far too rapidly. The legacy of this is that over 30 percent of these machines have a red ring of death breakdown. The Xbox 360 is a fragile device due to poor design and manufacture.