Xbox 3603 flashing red light harddisk problem
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Malph46
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Hello
I am new here
I m Malph46 an xbox 360 & xbox one gamer
I have this weird problem with my 360 and i ll hope someone can help me
My 360 shows up 3 flashing red lights when turning on
When i disconect everything (also harddrive) and turn it back on (without harddrive) everything is normal , then i connect the harddrive while the power is on and everything works normal again , and i also can play my games from the harddrive ,, but when i turn off the console , and turn it on again i have the 3 flashing red lights again ,,,

Does anyone know what could be the problem here ?

Kind regards Malph46
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Flashing red lights. The dreaded Red Ring of Death.
A quick Google search will give you a lot of information about the RRoD, it's a problem that plagued the 360 for the duration of its lifetime. The good thing? You've found a fix for it, even if it might be temporary. The bad thing? You probably won't be able to fix it without sending it to Microsoft or just buying a new console.
Usually 3 lights is a hardware or power supply problem and I have for sure seen the hard drive being responsible for a RRoD. You can try simply getting a new hard drive and see if that works? Keep doing what you're doing and deal with that stress of unplugging everything, putting it all back, etc. or you can try to contact Xbox and see what they can do.

With this all being said, good luck figuring it out and welcome to TTG! Hope to see you stick around once you get this problem under control cause it's a great site
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Althought 3 rings usually means you're **** sometimes there's fixes and also theres a power brick problem i think that shows 3 rings. I used to prank my friend by barely unplugging the power brick and it'd show the RROD but that may be 2 or 4 i don't remember.
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Replace the hard drive. Should fix the issues

Simple as that you answered your own question by doing exactly the steps to take.

By disconnecting everything. You found the issue.
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