just fixed my 360 with 8p

[H3RB]

yes 8p lol
did the penny trick for my 360 with the rrod never done it before pretty easy also u just stick 8 pennies to the back of the ram chips (atleast i think they are ram chips) make sure they are covered with electricians tape tho screw it back together and tadaaaa
anybody else done this? if so how long can i expect it to last?

[Ekona]

Why did you not just send it back to MS?


*EDIT* Ah, because you've got a dodgy box. I remember now. One of the benefits of being then...

[thai boxer]

yes 8p lol
did the penny trick for my 360 with the rrod never done it before pretty easy also u just stick 8 pennies to the back of the ram chips (atleast i think they are ram chips) make sure they are covered with electricians tape tho screw it back together and tadaaaa
anybody else done this? if so how long can i expect it to last?

How exactly you done this mate? What do you do?

[H3RB]

Why did you not just send it back to MS?


*EDIT* Ah, because you've got a dodgy box. I remember now. One of the benefits of being then...

ive sent back plenty of dodgy boxes so that doesnt matter..
i did it because it was second hand and had already been sent off to ms by the original owner (dont no who it was i brought it from game) so ms wanted 60 quid to fix it. so not everything is releated to having a flashed box lol

@thai
dont no what it does 100%, but what ever it does it works. i towl tricked the xbox 6 or 7 times to a point where the towel trick no longer works. done this penny thing and its worked a charm.
basically u take apart the 360, and removet he mobo, on the back of the mobo (mother board) there are 4 small chips near the x shaped clamps they all have a stickey white pad on them, then all u do is tape 2 pennies together which electritians tape making sure u cant see any of the coin sticking out, then stick them to the 4 pads, 2 pennies to each pad. screw it all back together plug it in turn it on and hey presto.

[thai boxer]

Why did you not just send it back to MS?


*EDIT* Ah, because you've got a dodgy box. I remember now. One of the benefits of being then...

ive sent back plenty of dodgy boxes so that doesnt matter..
i did it because it was second hand and had already been sent off to ms by the original owner (dont no who it was i brought it from game) so ms wanted 60 quid to fix it. so not everything is releated to having a flashed box lol

@thai
dont no what it does 100%, but what ever it does it works. i towl tricked the xbox 6 or 7 times to a point where the towel trick no longer works. done this penny thing and its worked a charm.
basically u take apart the 360, and removet he mobo, on the back of the mobo (mother board) there are 4 small chips near the x shaped clamps they all have a stickey white pad on them, then all u do is tape 2 pennies together which electritians tape making sure u cant see any of the coin sticking out, then stick them to the 4 pads, 2 pennies to each pad. screw it all back together plug it in turn it on and hey presto.

[pcp]

yes 8p lol
did the penny trick for my 360 with the rrod never done it before pretty easy also u just stick 8 pennies to the back of the ram chips (atleast i think they are ram chips) make sure they are covered with electricians tape tho screw it back together and tadaaaa
anybody else done this? if so how long can i expect it to last?

I did it to my first 360 about a week before MS made the 3 year warranty announcement I bought an elite last xmas so gave it to my mate, whilst i had it it worked perfectly, since he's had it he's had to towel it occasionally, he says tho after he does the towel trick it'll work perfectly for at least 4 or 5 days again no problem, then maybe need the towel

[Ekona]

Putting pennies on the RAM is just creating a larger heatsink for them, to remove some of the heat that builds up. Unfortunately it'll still end up inside the case and I always thought it was the CPU and/or GPU that overheated, not the RAM?

*shrugs*

[Goto10]

...and 8p *is* a lot of money to waste on a 360, probably best to just bin it.




:)

[matt_mr2t]

...and 8p *is* a lot of money to waste on a 360, probably best to just bin it.

I was starting to like you. Until now.

[Goto10]

...and 8p *is* a lot of money to waste on a 360, probably best to just bin it.

I was starting to like you. Until now.

Did you just find out I'm Scottish then? I tried to keep that my dirty secret...

[H3RB]

...and 8p *is* a lot of money to waste on a 360, probably best to just bin it.

belive me it was a hard choice to make, i could have really done with the 8p:(

[matt_mr2t]

...and 8p *is* a lot of money to waste on a 360, probably best to just bin it.

I was starting to like you. Until now.

Did you just find out I'm Scottish then? I tried to keep that my dirty secret...

I have no problem with scots, I just dont believe in "british" and I dont support them at Sport.

Scots to me are like French, Italians, Germams etc. Just other people from another country.

[RichardK]

I think you're artificially limiting yourself there, and should take a leaf from the Scots in the lowlands - where merely being from the next TOWN is a reason to kick off.

You wanna watch Hertfordshire VERY carefully.

Gotta say, I'd probably mess up your perceptions somewhat. Scottish name, English birth, "European" genetics (German, Swedish, Welsh, English AND Scottish if you go back far enough) and related to the Duke of Wellington apparently (I'm not the one in the family with the big ol' chart).

They're all arbitrary boundaries. Location is a very silly reason to discriminate (in the most literal sense).

[matt_mr2t]

People really have taken my comments the wrong way.

I havent once said I dont like Scots. Or Irish. Or Welsh.

All I said is I'm none of them, I'm English. So is Hamilton.

Every man woman and child in England probably has foreign links, Romans, saxons the lot. It's a mixed up country.

To be English you have to be born here, raised here. Simple as. Same as being Scotish, Welsh or Irish.

So to me, the country you were born and raised in, and the one (not all) you feel is your own is YOUR country.

Any way, it's probably best this stops now, if people want to continue it there's a thread in off topic.

[pcp]

Putting pennies on the RAM is just creating a larger heatsink for them, to remove some of the heat that builds up. Unfortunately it'll still end up inside the case and I always thought it was the CPU and/or GPU that overheated, not the RAM?

*shrugs*

From memory i do believe it's the gpu that the pennies are stuck to, not really a case of removing the heat, they just hold the gpu firmly in place when the board warps, at least that's how i think it works

[pcp]

People really have taken my comments the wrong way.

I havent once said I dont like Scots. Or Irish. Or Welsh.

All I said is I'm none of them, I'm English. So is Hamilton.

Every man woman and child in England probably has foreign links, Romans, saxons the lot. It's a mixed up country.

To be English you have to be born here, raised here. Simple as. Same as being Scotish, Welsh or Irish.

So to me, the country you were born and raised in, and the one (not all) you feel is your own is YOUR country.

Any way, it's probably best this stops now, if people want to continue it there's a thread in off topic.

That can create issues tho matt, i was born in NI, moved to england when i was 9 months, raised there til i was 13 then moved back to NI, what am I? My formative years were english, yet iwas born and now live in NI...

as richardk says, boundaries are a crap way to define things, maybe my experience has formed my view of things nowadays, if i meet somebody abroad from NI i feel no closer to them than anybody else from anywhere else, they're still a stranger to me no matter where they were born/raised, ie i'd rather hang around with a sound english/welsh/scottish/anywhere person than a tool from NI In the case of hamilton, if Irvine had've won the title that year it wouldn't have made a button of difference to me where he was from, in contrast tho i'm glad george best was from here, but that's more a personality quirk than an achievement thing

[James]

yes 8p lol
did the penny trick for my 360 with the rrod never done it before pretty easy also u just stick 8 pennies to the back of the ram chips (atleast i think they are ram chips) make sure they are covered with electricians tape tho screw it back together and tadaaaa
anybody else done this? if so how long can i expect it to last?

interesting... i have only ever performed the towel trick once and it hasnt misbehaved since. I have read that repeated attempts at the towel tricl or overheating for too long can lead to the video card failing permanently so if mine dies again I will try this one.

Let us know if it dies again after this recovery method.....

[mr2nut123]

All it does is raise the board enough for the heated contacts to touch properly again. Still clever.

I did this in the good old days with my dreamcast by bending the pins back on the power unit on the main board. worked a treat