You may have never experienced it if you're a new or young Xbox gamer, but longtime fans of Microsoft's 25-year-old gaming brand will undoubtedly remember the infamous "Red Ring of Death" from the Xbox 360 era in the mid-2000s.
This notorious hardware issue began cropping up everywhere soon after the console's 2005 launch, and is thought to have been caused by overheating that warped the soldering connecting the system's motherboard to its GPU, resulting in failure. When this happened, the Xbox 360's green lighting would glare an ominous red, and it would no longer be usable.
