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QUOTE(mid292 @ Aug 2 2010, 06:34 AM)

So my soft-modded xbox 360 bit the dust about a year ago and I recently applied the x-clamp fix to repair the 3RROD. It worked and I booted the 360 to the dash.  Unfortunatly, my brother had been using the HD on his xbox and had fully updated the drive to play on live. So, as soon as I try and play a game I was prompted to install an update before the game would load. I accepted. The update installs and restarts the xbox and when it tries to reboot, it goes back to 3 red rings.

TLDR - My question is this: was there an xbl update that would brick an xbox 360 that was flashed with year-old firmware?

I keep reading stuff about soldering the R6T3 resister and I can't seem to piece the answer together myself. I am wondering if I should try another fix or try the x-clamp again...

Thanks.

You fucked yourself out of a JTAG is what you did. Way to go.

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QUOTE(inspuration @ Aug 2 2010, 01:48 AM)

You fucked yourself out of a JTAG is what you did. Way to go.

maybe, I don't believe he specified what kernel he was on before updating, but maybe being a little more helpful then useless is the way for you to go.

mid292-

What error code comes up on the TV if any? Sounds like you just have a console that is suffering from the RROD, though the update could have messed up but that is unlikely unless you powered off your console while it was updating.

No, I don't believe Microsoft released an update that bricks your console, they tried to cripple your hard drive a few months back but they ended up giving the ability to make saves, etc back but only on that console, if you moved your HDD to any other console your data would show up as corrupted.

The R6T3 resistor is used to supply a voltage to the CPU that blows 'Efuses' that tell the xbox kernel what update versions are allowed and since the summer of 09' update any kernel past 7xxx and made past 6-18-2009 would be locked out of the JTAG hack which is essentially the hardware version of the KK exploit. The Jtag allows you to execute unsigned code like games with mods, homebrew, or linux.

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QUOTE(inspuration @ Aug 2 2010, 06:48 AM)

You fucked yourself out of a JTAG is what you did. Way to go.

 

Stop spamming threads with your 'non-info', and try and be nice to new posters - if the console is a year old, then it may niot have been taggable anyhow.

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No worries - I wasn't clear either - if it hasn't had the 8XXX dash update, then it still could have been JTAG'ble.

0103 - I'd remove and redo the x-clamp replacement - sounds like you may be bridging one of the capacitors around/underneath the GPU....or you need a reflow/reball.