# Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 27, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-360-red-ring-of-death/247136 "2009-09-27T18:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-360-red-ring-of-death/247136/30 "2009-09-28T13:35:36Z")
> [@Is this an automotive first?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-this-an-automotive-first/23636/20): > > Elaborate for shits and giggles, sir. Theres a set of IIRC 6 chips on the back of the Mobo that microsoft neglected… Anyways these are the cause of the RROD as they have really hardly any ventalation or heatsinks… Basicly you take a stack of 3-4 pennies for each chip, wrap them in electrical tape then use thermal compound to stick them to each chip… Like a ghetto heatsink if you will these help keep the chips cool and hopefully prevent the rrod or at least from occuring as frequent as it would without it --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-360-red-ring-of-death/247136)._