I recently got the ring of death on my 360, error code 0102, and I was able to fix it using the towel method. I'm pretty sure this is only a temporary solution and I'm probably gonna do the heat gun trick soon. Does anyone know how I can prevent this from happening again? I heard something about Nyko Intercooler, but i've heard conflicting reports. I searched the forums but couldnt find anything concrete. Any suggestions?

Ring of death errors that a fixed with towel or heat gun come from bad solder joints... the Nyko cooler wont help with that.

There is no way to prevent it either...

read this:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=591894

only don't use erasers, they have other solutions to it in the topic

So you're saying there is no way to prevent it? but the guy above posted a topic where they r using erasers and what not to prevent this error...so should i not try that method?

It will not last forever!!

rgds, soso

If only...

I'm going to try the toothpick trick and the heatgun trick...hopefully everything will be back to normal. i'll post my results here

sadly enuff...nothing worked...i sold my xbox in parts