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brandogg

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Xbox 360 Hardware No Video **help**
« on: March 06, 2008, 10:40:00 PM »
NOTE: Doing the towel trick will destroy your system. You can't buy an "Xbox 360 graphics card" mainly because it doesn't exist, at least not in the way that you probably think that it does...and the manufacturer is Microsoft (or Toshiba I guess). An X-Clamp replacement might fix your problem, and you could most likely have convinced Microsoft to fix it for free, since the no video problem and the 3 red lights go hand in hand (your system just isn't recognizing the error), but now you've tried the towel trick, so you can throw that idea out the window.
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brandogg

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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2008, 09:06:00 PM »
You shouldn't have said that...
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cgfern

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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2008, 08:00:00 PM »
Hey all...my warranty is voided, for obvious reasons...and I am also getting the no video issue...I'm not very clear as to why the x-clamp fix corrects this issue, can someone explain?
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brandogg

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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2008, 08:26:00 PM »
It bridges (hopefully) a broken solder joint (or joint), by pushing down on the GPU with a little more force. In the no video case, it's a broken joint leading "out" of the GPU (to the scaler), and for some reason the 360 doesn't recognize it.
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brandogg

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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2008, 09:29:00 AM »
Don't ever use "towel trick" and "professionally" in the same post. It just doesn't make sense.
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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2008, 10:44:00 AM »
Don't ask how to force the RRoD. That's warranty fraud and gets you banned here. If your 360 wasn't opened just send it to MS. They don't turn it on and send it back if it doesn't give the RRoD. They're x-raying the board and if they see the error that leads to a RRoD (broken solder joints) they'll fix it anyway.

If you opened the console yourself you could try putting some pressure on the HANA/ANA scaler chip and as others said the x-clamp replacement.
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scuba156

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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2008, 04:15:00 PM »
the towel trick should void the warranty as it is fraud. the towel trick is classed as tampering with the system which voids the warranty.

as scan c said, do not ask how to force the 3ROD either
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2009, 07:56:00 PM »
i dont know if this will work for you but what i did was take the case off,then turn it on let it heat up push down on the tall heat sink turn it off let it cool down then turn it on and you sould have video again i dont know how long it will last but it seems to be working for me. and of course you warranty will be void.hope it works for you.peace
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