Question: What cause the Red Ring of Death (RROD)?
Answer: Mainly heat. During normal game play, your xbox 360 generated excessive heat inside the xbox
and cause the GPU and CPU and other small components' soldering points to break. When you
turn
on and off and xbox 360 get hot and cool. After for a long period of time, those little
soldering points will break and loosing their connection. The result of Red Ring of Death. Such as
E68, E71, E73, E74, E79, no video, game freeze, 1 red light, 2 red lights, 3 red lights, 4 red lights,
and ETC... The heat also can cause the GPU, CPU and many other small components to go bad
such as capacitors, diodes, resistors, inductors, regulators, I/O controller chip, ethernet chip,
power chip, voltage regulator chip and ETC...