My 360 made a static sound and all of the sudden it wont turn on and it has three red lights on the power button
Xbox360 is over heating on the gpu&cpu 7
You have encountered the infamous 'Red Ring of Death' problem that occurs in many Xbox systems. The lights are actually separated into four seperate areas, and depending on which ones are red for you is supposedly some error code (either hardware, software etc). In most peoples cases they need to get it replaced. (this is a widespread problem for Microsoft, and they usually do all the work for free). Your first options would be to run through all the normal things, unplug it, remove and reseat the harddrive, etc (I'm sure you've tried all this many times over by now). The second thing to do is call Xbox support at 1-800-4MY-XBOX (9am-1am est, 6am-10pm pst). The first things they will probably have you do are the things I mentioned above. When they don't work, they will most likely be sending you a box in which to send them your machine for repairs. My suggestion is to do it as quickly as possible. The least amount of Halo3 you miss, the better
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I don't think Halo 3 is the problem(the 3-rings has happened to me twice (now and 6 months ago). The problem with the X-box is the processor is not being properly cooled down which is causing the chips to fry. This can happen with any High graphic game. The fact that more people are having this problem with Halo makes me think that Bungie intentionally added a virus in Halo 3 which is causing the X-box to overheat(since they no-longer have a working aggreement with microsoft)
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