Middle Light is solid green then goes to flashing 3 lights

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Hi all,

Having a few troubles with my box. I started getting intermittent e74 errors. These lasted a couple of month but usually a reboot would sort it out. Then about 2 weeks ago it e74'd permanently. I stripped the box down cleaned up the gpu and cpu and installed an exclamp kit with new compound. I put it all back together and "baked" it as per the instructions i got with the kit. Now when i turn it on i get a solid green light in the middle that after a minute or so changes to 3 flashing red ones. I get no video or sound through the tv. The dvd drive powers up and spins.

Now I'm just stuck and fear i have a large and expensive door stop.

Any help would be very gratefully received

Many thanks

HC

[gigabite]

do a proper re-flow or it will remain a doorstop...

gigabite

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Nice one Gigabyte, i'll dig the heat gun out. One question do you have to do both sides of the board or just the top?

Cheers

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Done a re-flow on both sides of the board. Left to cool for an hour, still the same.

the secondary code when it goes to 3 red lights is 0022 which from looking around here is a gpu error. Should i try the reflow again concentrating on the gpu?

Cheers

HC

[gigabite]

forget it, unless you knocked off or have a broken SMD capacitor on the back of the CPU/GPU or cut a trace (both of which are common) you are screwed...send it to a professional [with a proper BGA re-flow machine]...PM if interested

take a high quality picture of the back of the CPU, and one of the back of the GPU and post them on imageshack and post the link then I can tell if you have or haven't knocked off an SMD cap (bear in mind if you have, you will still need to take it to a professional to get it re-soldered back on or the bad trace repaired since this is quite hard to do even for myself)

gigabite

[FastazNOS]

Okay the error code 0022 is GPU error due to GPU overheating or bad conection (funny enough it seems nearly every common code is gpu related) or can also be triggered by the TSOP so unless you pulled the stickers off with a heat gun and applied them to wax paper then your out of warranty so here are a few tricks that may help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXPGovugs3M&feature=related

At about 6:58 Lawdawg applies 4 small cuts of credit card to the corners of the gpu chipset with superglue I personally havent tried it but if you have nothing to loose this will even out the pressure on the solder so you can do this while the heatsink is off then tighten the heatsink down ontop of it while the solder is still hot.

If it's not the GPU then you can try Flashing the TSOP if you have a mod chip here's a tutorial.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/tsop.php

if none of that works then absolutly must reflow the xbox. Hope it helps. Happy gaming