There are a few ways that people perform the xbox 360 3 red lights repair . Much of the conventional wisdom is wrong. Some of the suggested repairs can cause major loss to your unit. Xbox 360s, like any computer, do not like excessive heat. That is why they have fans and heatsinks to circulate heat out of main unit. Go to any CPU vendor website and they will tell you that Severe Heat to a CPU will cause lasting harm to the processors. So it makes sens ethat you should be ware of the Xbox 360 Red Lights "towel trick". Ive cooked a console or two doing that. You may not think you are, but believe me the towel trick breaks consoles. After doing it a few times, you get more and more lockups, until ultimately the unit freezes for good. Fix it the right way from the start. So what is the towel trick and what does it do? If you have the the dreaded 3 red lights defect, you may have come across a YouTube video that shows someone placing a towel around the Xbox 360. Then after running the X360 for some time they do away with the towel and see a functioning Xbox 360 with no red lights! Why shouldnt you do this? Well I personally have done this Xbox 360 towel trick, and it severely and permanently damaged the components of my Xbox 360.