When a Microsoft Xbox 360 console experiences a "general hardware" failure or "core digital" failure, three flashing red lights appear (known as the "Red Ring of Death" or the "Three Red Lights of Death") around the power button, in lieu of the four green lights indicating normal operation.

Warning signs may include freeze-ups, in which the screen has strange, spontaneous graphical problems in the middle of gameplay, such as checkerboard or pinstripe patterns on the screen, the sound is frozen and changed to a strange, static-like sound, and the console only responds to pressing the power button to turn it off.

These events may happen once or several times until the general hardware failure occurs, or not at all. Just because an Xbox freezes once in awhile does not mean that the error will follow.

 When the error does occur, the user attempts to turn the console on and the three red lights are seen and the console will not function.Some have confused General Hardware Failure with a similar looking error warning where four red lights appear, in which case the console does not detect an AV cable is plugged in.

The four lights can sometimes also be seen when power surges or very brief power outages occur while the console is running, in which the console needs to be unplugged and plugged back in again to reset the error.

In newer consoles, there can be three lights flashing with a green light flashing in the center for power outages

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