Leo Del Castillo, a member of Xbox’s hardware engineering, explained that the Red Ring of Death was actually caused by connectors inside the components of the console breaking. Although the reason that the components were breaking was thermal, high temperatures inside the console were never the problem. Todd Holmdahl, Xbox’s head of
Can anyone please explain to me the difference between the red ring of death on the older 360 consoles and the red dot of death on the slim and the E models? This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast
Red ring of death is caused by connectors inside the components (e.g. GPU) of Xbox 360 breaking due to the console's temperature going from hot to cold too frequently. Xbox hardware engineers explained it in a recent official documentary for Xbox 20th anniversary: This is the correct answer.