pirate !! : p kidding now....I and my customers, and my friends - have also experienced this problem HOWEVER I have narrowed it down to this....it only happens when you plug and old HDD from an old system into a new OR repaired system so conclusion, don't touch or move anything...but stay with Microsoft, oh and keep paying them to

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and your not switching WHILE the console is on are you ?? cause that would cause problems....your using all the right parts ? your soldering is 100% perfect (those legs are easy to solder to) ??

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when you get please insert your HD-DVD...turn off your Xbox 360, wait, turn it back on and you will have 4532 - you don't need the hd-dvd player

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follow my advice : p !!

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but redline....what would be the difference??....as apposed to using the DVD to activate it, and using the enable0800.bin (ONLY 0800 firmware....early Xtreme releases it's in) and then YOUR version ?

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You just un-flexed the board...instead of going down your boards up - it's a non lasting fix...you might have screwed up the board when you pushed on the chips and heated it.....re-do it properly, evenly heat the WHOLE board then do the X-Clamp fix...12v fan mod and AS5 on CPU and GPU AND....use a special thermal epoxy to hold the chips TO the board, that'd be the absolute best way to go... I can only make suggestions only you can follow them

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Completely wrong section....might learn how to spell lol - but the Xclamp Mod is what you want ...as for person, where are you located ?

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don't worry about pressure...re-flow it - then use a special thermal epoxy to hold the chip down

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i'd replace the cable...i'm curious as to how a video cable can be damaged (blown components) regardless of the accident

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and this is a perfect example of why NOT to use $#!tty $#!t $#!t $#!t poop dog crap auto flashers (no offense to the creators, the idea was good...) the only thing I can suggest...it's pretty useless but go through the "key locations" manually with a hex editor (example theres more than one in the Hitachi 79s...sometimes for me fw toolbox doesn't pick up the key)"

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yeah...600 degrees...re-flows everything well, of course covered in foil

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650f....I do it at 600 c !! i'd at least go much hotter, check if you have any half fidely broken SMD caps and re-do your X-Clamp mods etc (you could also try a shim, don't just re-flow the GPU...re-flow the CPU and SB and RAM)

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lol...seriously, after how many years of the Xbox being out...and how many SECONDS it would have taken to type in hack xbox in g00gle you'd think you would find an answer

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close down all your applications, make sure your drive has actually be assigned a letter and that it is the actual drive your trying to flash (not another DVD drive) - try using only numbers as a folder name

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XD that is soooo good hahha - good work I love it

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hahah, no it's called a softmod - you need 1 of (iirc) 3 particular games and some files...go to xboxscene.com and look at there tutorials section, there are heaps of tutorials on it

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- cut those wires and solder them...eh...IMHO take a look at my set up...and if you really wanna prevent it (only if it's happened) do what Protonus - basically get some special thermal epoxy, and epoxy up all the BGA's

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well - you can play with the words..it attracts people 

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patchs it fine - I used win patch....oh but now that you mention it...long file names do screw it up wich is why I renamed it to KK.iso....then run win_patch KK.iso

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well - try that but it's Vista...oh and someone posted an actual fix to the Vista/fw toolbox problem dam it, i'll try to get it

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