3 RROD on-and-off

[finn1016]

I bought a 360 with RROD, cause I've fixed a few for friends, and I wanted a 360 for my dorm room... I re-did the thermal compound, got it in running order again, played for about a week, and it started freezing. I opened up the case, and stupid me, i had forgotten to tighten the screws after the thermal had softened up. So I tightened it up and it ran fine; but then this week it decided to freeze, and give me red ring again... i checked and everything was snug... I didn't know what was going on, so i replaced the thermal, and it still gave me red ring, but the sinks were throwing heat, lots of heat (which isn't normal for an RROD machine in my experience)... so i hit the start button again, and it started running fine... 10 or so minutes later it froze and gave me red ring. I turned it off and on a couple times and it started running again, and then it froze and showed red ring. my best guess is that there's some kind of malfunction where an error code or something needs to be cleared; What do you guys think?

[iLLNESS]

i think you need to assume its a legit red ring and it needs to be reflowed

[Ghostrid3r]

I heard that if you hold the sync button then power up it clears a bad update! "you could try that".
have you done the screw fix through the case and/or motherboard?
Have you tried extra cooling mods for other board chips?
Im no expert but im sticking in my corner and saying that the 2 spacers between the board and sink are slightly 2 thick!

I did leave my box switched on deny cooling to gpu till 2 red lights power off then cool down.
best of luck with your rrod fix

[Gazcoigne]

you need to reflow the GPU with a heatgun you will never fix it by removing/adding thermal paste only.