So I recently encountered something that most college students dread. The day that you turn on your xbox and instead of booting up like normal you see 3 flashing red lights on your console. These red lights in fact are so common that they have received the well-understood nickname, “The Ring of Death”. It has received this nickname because it is literally death to you and to your xbox. It requires that you pay outrageous repair fees or buy a new console. Something that no college kid wants to hear. Worst of all, in almost every circumstance of “The Ring of Death”, it occurs with no warning. Having worked fine the time before, and now refusing to boot.

After doing the standard reboot multiple times to eliminate the possibility that it was a fluke, I eventually turned to xbox.com for support. I discovered my problem, in the support home page under “most common problems” column. I found it as the first item in that column. There I clicked,