By June of 2006, there were reports showing red lights on the 360 power button, causing the system to crash. Microsoft and its hardware partners discovered the problem creating the RROD was thermal stress within the system. Repeated heating and cooling cycles during normal use placed strain on GPU and CPU solder joints, which ultimately caused hardware failure. However, the problem got fixed on later 360s when engineers developed a new, physically redesigned chip and packaging. Even before the...
