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It doesn't say in Wikipedia, what is the towel for?

• bowsamic 4y ago
  If you let it run wrapped in a towel it would sometimes temporarily fix it
• xattt 4y ago
  The towel insulated the Xbox and remelted the BGA.
• scohesc 4y ago
  If I recall, the theory was that wrapping your 360 in a towel and turning it on would heat it up so much that whatever microfractures in solder joints that may have been causing the RROD problem would temporarily bond together again and make your Xbox usable for a time.
• neerd 4y ago
  It issue was with brittle solder on the boards and wrapping it in a towel and turning it on would allow it to get hot enough to (hopefully) re-flow broken connections.
• deleted 4y ago
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