XBOX 360RROD

[excalibur1814]

I've held off buying a darn 360 for ages, ever since buying the first Xbox JUST to play Halo 1. (It then came out on the damn pc.) I then played Halo 2 on the pc and read the books, all of them.

I want to play Halo 3. I do.

£42 later. RROD console. Anyone interested in pictures of how and what I'm going to do to try and fix the thing?

I've had a quick look and the net's full of complete Anchors selling repair guides. Idiots. Hope it goes well as after I've played Halo 3, it'll be back on ebay.

Fingers crossed.

[excalibur1814]

Looks like the topic is well covered. Ohw ell.

[matt_mr2t]

It's a half hour fix, costs a few quid and has a very high success rate.

[H3RB]

my new fix is alot better and cooler. will get pics later

[excalibur1814]

so... a kit of screws is recomended then?

Did look at a cooler but its fix, Halo3, sell

[H3RB]

here is my new fix. after a pretty extensive bashing of cod 5 last night my xbox started over heating every hour or so (ive already fixed it once)
this is my fix i have this (naked xbox viewer discretion is advised lol)


its sitting on top of this:


so now to keep my xbox cool i have to keep my pc on while i play, which i usually do anyway. my pc temps were around 47° the hole 5 hours so not too stressful and it works like a charm lol the heatsinks were ice cold for the entier 5 hours

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

Hahaha crazy !!! Ive just sent mine off today to be fixed !!

[excalibur1814]

Now THAT's a good fix

I look forward to fixing minie. Any tips? Go easy on the plastic tabs? No hammers?

[H3RB]

Now THAT's a good fix

I look forward to fixing minie. Any tips? Go easy on the plastic tabs? No hammers?

poke a SMALL screw driver through the holes in the sides as u lift the front of the plastic grids and they pop off easy. for the back do the same inside the little notches along the back plate but gently lift the top of the case as u do it so it pops up.
you can buy the unlock kits for about £3 they are very handy indeed

i can probably dissemble one in about a min and half now lol

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

Now THAT's a good fix

I look forward to fixing minie. Any tips? Go easy on the plastic tabs? No hammers?

poke a SMALL screw driver through the holes in the sides as u lift the front of the plastic grids and they pop off easy. for the back do the same inside the little notches along the back plate but gently lift the top of the case as u do it so it pops up.
you can buy the unlock kits for about £3 they are very handy indeed

i can probably dissemble one in about a min and half now lol

wearing a bindfold ?

[H3RB]

Now THAT's a good fix

I look forward to fixing minie. Any tips? Go easy on the plastic tabs? No hammers?

poke a SMALL screw driver through the holes in the sides as u lift the front of the plastic grids and they pop off easy. for the back do the same inside the little notches along the back plate but gently lift the top of the case as u do it so it pops up.
you can buy the unlock kits for about £3 they are very handy indeed

i can probably dissemble one in about a min and half now lol

wearing a bindfold ?

quite possibly:P

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

poke a SMALL screw driver through the holes in the sides as u lift the front of the plastic grids and they pop off easy. for the back do the same inside the little notches along the back plate but gently lift the top of the case as u do it so it pops up.
you can buy the unlock kits for about £3 they are very handy indeed

i can probably dissemble one in about a min and half now lol

wearing a bindfold ?

quite possibly:P

I know who im coming to when my warranty runs out !!!

[H3RB]

sounds good to me, ive fixed around 50 lol

[excalibur1814]

Well, it's arrived and taking the case off was quite easy, even though I can see how people could snap bits etc. So farm no need for any special tools at all.

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/Xb ... sembly.htm

I have a sneaky feeling that it's been open before

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdo ... i=2610&p=2

and then he gets to the X-clamps... scratch that... easy

The heatsink for the GP is far, far too small and naff. I would see if I could get a better one but nah, I'm here now so might as well clean, apply and put back together. Plus the x-clamp doesn't make it easy to apply thermal grease, then apply the damn clamps

[excalibur1814]

DAMMIT!!

Still three red rings!

Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. (USed arctic silver compund)

Off to ebay I go

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

I have a sneaky feeling that it's been open before

Really ?

Did you buy it new ?

Ive been looking into the whole fixing thing and ive heard various things about used parts from broken consoles going inside the ones being sold as new on the shelves....and even ones that have been repaired,fitted with a new skin and packaged up to sell as new. WTF !!! Guess MS trying to save some money anyway they can. Bit naughty if you ask me !!!

[Mike 'MR2' McHugh]

sounds good to me, ive fixed around 50 lol

Do you work in germany ?

[excalibur1814]

Nah, pucrhased from ebay so there you go

Error code:
0102 unknown error - literally means the console does not know what is wrong. Possibly a short or cold solder joint somewhere (2 reports of people repairing this, one was removing moisture build up inside the console, the other used a hot-air rework to reflow the BGA Ram chips)

Crappo.

[excalibur1814]

... How many stickers are on the seals? I can only recall breaking one?

http://tinyurl.com/y97yqbt




Oh yes

[H3RB]

[quote="excalibur1814"]... How many stickers are on the seals? I can only recall breaking one?

http://tinyurl.com/y97yqbt




Oh yes[/quote
only one, but they are easy enough to get off with a hair dryer and some tweasers lol