360 freezes on certain games

[stos]

My 360 freezes after a few minutes playing fifa 07, nfs carbon and dead rising, both on the originals and backups, first the sound stops then the game freezes. It plays some of my other games without any problems.
I've swapped the drive from a samsung to hitachi 47 with garyopa 3.2 r2 and tried a different power supply but still does the same thing.

I don't get any red lights on the ring, does anyone now what I can do to solve this.

thanks

[bidomo]

God, 700+ read and not a clue...

My friend's box is doing the Same, it locks up with Rock band 2 (also shows a dead pixel on screen, not normally shown in other games or dashboard), CoD4 has some video problems, it will lock up only while loading a video or something.

It makes you think it was shut down, as it will do the fadeout on the video sometimes, not always...

Seems to me like faulty RAM, as my friend's house is surrounded by bad electrical installs, bad electrical distribution, even his house is badly electrified (i mean, bad installation, 3 computer mobos fried and like 5 PSU).

Any help would be appreciated.

[phonsey]

do you have the lastest 8955 rev 3 or 3a

[bidomo]

8955, retail, no xbr, my xbr boxes are running just great!

This console manufacture is January 2006, never ever failed, till like 2 months ago, I did the x-clamp fix (arctic silver applied correctly), but it recently started failing...

I really think is a RAM fault, unless it needs a complete rework/reball...

[ReverseAffect]

8955, retail, no xbr, my xbr boxes are running just great!

This console manufacture is January 2006, never ever failed, till like 2 months ago, I did the x-clamp fix (arctic silver applied correctly), but it recently started failing...

I really think is a RAM fault, unless it needs a complete rework/reball...

it's not that 700+ had no clue...it all boils down to if it ain't the drive it's the mobo GPU or ana/hana chip
it either needs to be re-flowed or a chip re-balled...
what you can do is put a nice surge suppressor on your friends (as you stated problems with faulty wiring),
but i don't think that's not the main problem...
you can check to see if there is a gap between the spacers and the gpu (to big of a space it can cause this)
after all how many measure and adjust spacer kit washers(i know i do).....

I choose to pay more to the GPU as you have video and sound so that's a reasonable clue.....(re-flow/re-ball)
most cache(memory) when it fails, shows a E error.
but i also seen some that didn't so placing some if none thermal pads/heatsinks on them can help...

bottom line is some solder point from the GPU to the ANA/HANA chip is loosing contact under stress or heat...


Peace...

[bidomo]

Well, now that I know RAM would show some error (strange on M$), yes, it could need a reball, I found someone in my area who does it.

Thanks for the info.