Good luck with it. Overheating on its own never lasts very long, but with the 12 cent fix, you might have a chance. The problem with ALL of the fixes is that they are focused around bending the motherboard. I know they say that they just make the motherboard perfectly flat, but they are actually just creating the opposite effect of the x-clamps. The x-clamps along with the intense heat produced by the 360 break the solder joints around the outside of the GPU chip. All of the 360 fixes focus on bending the motherboard in the opposite direction in order to push the solder joints back together. This works fine, until the fix itself breaks the solder connections toward the center of the chip due to the stress that it puts on the motherboard, and then you're screwed. This isn't just limited to the 12-cent fix, RBJtech's and Lawdawg's methods work the same way. Sometimes you get lucky and the solder joints towards the center of the GPU don't break, in which case you have a lasting fix. Your best shot at having this result, if you did an x-clamp replacement fix, is to not tighten the bolts to much, but just enough to fix it. If you did the 12-cent fix, then I would suggest that you don't tighten the motherboard screws too much. In the end, the only way to guarantee a lasting fix is to have the GPU professionally reballed. Unfortunately, this is expensive and involves paying a lot to ship your 360 to someone that you don't know, but like I said, that's the only way to ensure that your 360 won't break again.
This post has been edited by Bandit5317: Dec 19 2007, 02:07 AM
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