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« on: February 14, 2008, 11:09:34 AM » |
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After many months of worrying it all finished. MY 360 finally showed up with the 3 red lights.
After many attempts at fixing with the x-clamp mod and all still no progress...The as a joke today i decided to revive my 360 with the towel trick and much to my suprise it works!
IT BLOODY WORKS.
I understands it's probably only temporary but still, its quite impressive how something so simple and stupid works.
Also are there any side effects? making it worse?
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Arakon
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 12:22:32 PM » |
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it overheats ALL components, even those that would usually only get warm. it can result in leaking/blown caps, for example.
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agent_z
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 12:32:01 PM » |
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Well, that's confirmed my thoughts...
Now that it is fully "working" any ideas on how to prevent it from re-red lighting. I found an old laptop under fan thing...so that should keep it cool-ish... Playing it for unreal amounts at a time will be avoided as well.
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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2008, 01:41:56 PM » |
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try a pcb-heater (IR) and some flux beneath the gpu+cpu
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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2008, 06:30:09 PM » |
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Although this fix is a bit expensive, it sounds like you could send your 360 to someone to get the soldering redone (aka reballing it). They replace the cracked Microsoft solder with high quality solder, but the only thing is that there are some cases of RRoD that it can't fix. But so far, it seems like every 360 that's had it done works just fine.
If you want to reball your 360 CPU/GPU, you should probably shouldn't do the towel trick again. Chances are that'll just do more damage in the long run.
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agent_z
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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2008, 07:10:58 AM » |
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Yea thanks for that mates, I think after the first towel time there won't be a second.
Should be interesting to see how long the beast lasts without resorting back to 3 red lights.
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2008, 08:47:56 PM » |
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speaking of the towel trick the current gamepro has it in there magazine to try as a fix  they state if it works most likely will be temporary but still how stupid is that?  |
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agent_z
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2008, 10:46:33 AM » |
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Yes all the magazines currently recommend it as micro$#!t apparently said to someone to give it a try.
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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2008, 11:49:50 PM » |
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it works? don't even look at it.
sell it on e-bay and get a new one.
allso on a new 360 I strongly advise to change the gpu heatsink.
Older cpz heatsinks do a nice job, LOL.. I know a few guys who run that as a cool solution..
and please do add sinks to the ram chips, they need it..
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 06:04:37 PM » |
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allso on a new 360 I strongly advise to change the gpu heatsink.
Older cpz heatsinks do a nice job, LOL.. I know a few guys who run that as a cool solution..
and please do add sinks to the ram chips, they need it..
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would you recommend doing it for a 360 elite with the tallismoon whisper max. i have the heatsinks on the ram chips. but should i also change them on the gpu and cpu. oh and this is a brand new elite from the holiday bundle. if that helps.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 06:10:00 PM » |
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The new heatsink does nothing...literally, it lowers the temperature by .2 degrees (not even 1 degree !!) - as for heat sinks on the ram you might get a tiny temperature drop - you'd get better performance if you stick a fan under the DVD drive like I have done - THOUGH this cannot be done on any console that has the new GPU heatsink as the heat pipe is in the way...you can only cool 1 BGA of RAM with a fan or heatsink...as for the whisper max...pfff....want a broken 360 that only has pretty lights, go ahead (check the thread I wrote a while ago on why not to buy it) - use stock M$ fans or if you really like those pretty colours get the Tailsmoon ones (not the whisper max...the original ones) or get your own
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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2008, 01:39:34 PM » |
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The new heatsink does nothing...literally, it lowers the temperature by .2 degrees (not even 1 degree !!) - Again I would disreguard this comment. I don't believe it for a minute. There is no way the new heatsink could not be thermally more efficient unless the heatpipe is defective and after dealing with several, I believe it's working just fine. There is no reported GPU temperature and no way to measure DIE temperature as such. Which is what this would be affecting. So there is no way to know how well it's working. What I DO know is microsoft wouldn't be retrofitting them if they weren't effective. Consider the cost - for the new 360's with 60 nm CPU's they changed the heatsink designed to be pure AL instead of a copper/ AL hybrid with a heatpipe. Cheaper - they're all about saving money. They would not spend any dime on a refurb 360 they didnt' feel was neccesary. |
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2008, 02:57:35 PM » |
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don't mind him, he's releasing the ultimate cooling solution sometime soon, so he's badmouthing everyone ain't that right mate?  |
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2008, 10:54:46 AM » |
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I've got a new 360 coming tomorrow I think, so I might aswell get the heat gun out and try that on the old mer.
What do you guys think?
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« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2008, 04:21:45 PM » |
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The new heatsink does nothing...literally, it lowers the temperature by .2 degrees (not even 1 degree !!) - as for heat sinks on the ram you might get a tiny temperature drop - you'd get better performance if you stick a fan under the DVD drive like I have done - THOUGH this cannot be done on any console that has the new GPU heatsink as the heat pipe is in the way...you can only cool 1 BGA of RAM with a fan or heatsink...as for the whisper max...pfff....want a broken 360 that only has pretty lights, go ahead (check the thread I wrote a while ago on why not to buy it) - use stock M$ fans or if you really like those pretty colours get the Tailsmoon ones (not the whisper max...the original ones) or get your own
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well so far the talismoon whisper max seems to be working fine. i have my box in a more than well ventilated area. and i usually have them running at full blast when im playin online. dvd's and stuff i just turn them down. i have noticed quite a decent temp drop just by feeling the top. with the stocks the top of the xbox was warm. with the new fans it is actually much cooler almost room temp.[quote
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agent_z
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« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2008, 06:54:25 PM » |
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So the heat gun completely killed the box *sob*
So i have spares if anyone is looking.
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« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2008, 08:47:43 PM » |
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The problem was probably between the heatgun and the floor. LOL
I had to say it..
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