Topic: FAQ: Xbox 360 Error Codes Explained (Read 4270 times)

neoed30 · « **Reply #120 on:** July 16, 2006, 01:37:00 AM »

QUOTE(jfishel @ Jul 16 2006, 12:03 AM)

by simply looking at the design of the heatsink for the GPU, it should be fairly obvious that there is indeed a heat problem where the chips located under the heatsink are exposed to higher temps w/o any benefit of the heat sink just milimeters above it. i'm curious to see if anyone has chopped off their GPU heatsink to expose the ram chips below, and added a fan to it. Even adding some sort of heatsinks for the remaining RAM chips exposed on the top of the planar like the ones referred to in the above post. Anyone wanna give that a shot and post the results?

My Error Code was 0110. I cut my heatsink a while back and placed heatsinks on all of the memory chips on the top side of the board and added a fan. It worked for a couple of weeks. I think I waited to long to do this though. My 360 has now finally bit the dirt for good.

R.I.P
I am currently parting it out. These items are now on Ebay. Hitachi DVD Drive, RF Board (ROL) ,Power Supply.

GPU Heatsink

jfishel · « **Reply #121 on:** July 16, 2006, 11:34:00 AM »

your post is exactly what i was thinking (and i suspect the next board revision will prove it). the only problem with it is the 20% loss of cooling efficiency by hacking off the heat sink. its obviously too late for anyone who has the current planar revision. one last thought for anyone who has gotten a refurb system, have you checked to see if they changed anything on the boards? (ie, ram chips, heat sinks, etc...)

This post has been edited by jfishel: Jul 16 2006, 06:47 PM

Team Modfreakz · « **Reply #122 on:** July 20, 2006, 05:12:00 AM »

Hallo,

here the howto video!!
http://www.freepler....air_gun_fix.mpg

and another link of this video, view it at YouTube.com's site!!

1/1/07 Edit: Link to video, hosted by Google.

PS: I cannot guarantee that it will also work on your xbox360, but hey! it's the last chance to bring your console back to life!!!

MichaelNet · « **Reply #123 on:** July 22, 2006, 03:54:00 PM »

Very interesting video, it's awesome ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
I also have an error 0102 with my 360, I bought it 14 days ago, I got this error for the 1st time after rebooting, I was playing DoA 4 on the Live -> sometimes, after deconnecting AV & power cables for the night, when I reconnect the console, it starts with freezes at the interface sequence boot, then in rebooting it lets a totally black screen with error 0102 -> 3 LED giving 4, 1, 4, 2 signal in pressing the white button + eject button 4 times. Sometimes the console reworks normally after putting it in "stand" position & it can run 4 or even more hours without probs.
I know the error 0102 's not well known, but are there more info about this error ?

This post has been edited by MichaelNet: Jul 22 2006, 10:57 PM

SoulFlow · « **Reply #124 on:** July 23, 2006, 12:57:00 PM »

Just wanted to drop by and say thank you for the video post. I have/had an xbox with the 0102 error code and the heat gun trick really works. I just performed this method about 2 hours ago and have had success. 20 reboots and all is well. So, give this a try if your are out of warranty and have nothing to lose! Good luck..

This post has been edited by SoulFlow: Jul 23 2006, 07:58 PM

illidur · « **Reply #125 on:** July 23, 2006, 07:11:00 PM »

lots of info since i have been here last, and i myself have found the problem with mine. after giving my box to my friend to open, he said he found a huge black streak across my graphics chip. so maybe 0102 could be ram/gpu because that seems to be the problem. now i am just wondering if its possible to replace a graphics chip somehow ? i highly doubt my problem was from overheating, instead i think it was a surge or somthing of the like.

oh, and whats a hot air gun supposed to do to the motherboard ? thanks!

SoulFlow · « **Reply #126 on:** July 23, 2006, 07:50:00 PM »

From what I understand, it is supposed to re-seat some cold solder joints that cannot be seen by the naked eye. I was jamming on mine for over 5 hours today, rebooting once in a while just to test, without a problem.

Mightyni · « **Reply #127 on:** July 26, 2006, 07:31:00 AM »

QUOTE(Darkshot1 @ Apr 7 2006, 07:54 AM)

I'm getting the 3 red lights, and the error code is 0102, and I have no idea what's wrong. It gave me this error before, and would not turn on, but somehow fixed itself (only thing i did was plug in my mp3 player to it, but thats most likely unrelated.)

Now its doing it again and its not turning on at all. I guess i got lucky last time. It hasn't even been used for about 4 hours, and it wasn't any rigorous playing, so its not overheating. I just decided to turn it on and it did this. It also froze up earlier during Perfect Dark, might be related.

It says on this thread that 0102 is an unknown error... anyone know?

I had a same problem, I take my 360 to pieces, but no result. But one thing helped me. I have opened my 360 and removed a plastic heat-conducting path, then I turn on 360 and wait 2-3 minutes until the graphic card has strongly heated up and turn off 360. When I has again turn on 360 all worked perfectly. I think that 0102 error is a problem somehow сonnected with a videocard and overheating is the thing that helps to solve a problem. I hope this method will help all with a problem 0102 And as soon as there will be PS3 I shall buy it and forget about all problems.

jasrCSU · « **Reply #128 on:** July 26, 2006, 06:09:00 PM »

Hey everyone,

As I posted earlier I was getting the unknown 0021 and just randomly diecided to turn it on the other day. Well it cut on, no sound but the xbox logo finally came on. It was really sluggish and after it finished it gave me the service screen. So now I have an error E64. I then put the harddrive back in and its stuck back on the 0021.

Any info on these yet?

Thanks,
James

[email protected] · « **Reply #129 on:** July 27, 2006, 02:06:00 AM »

I had recently took my 360 apart to find out what drive I had. Upon putting it back together I received error code 0011 (2 lights lit 1 and 3), over heating problem. As it turns out the tutorial I used to take it apart show to remove all the screws (including the heatsink screws) took it back apart and made sure the heatsink scrwes were really tight and now it works fine. I hope this helps out a few of you.

PS I want to thank everyone of you, who contribute in anyway, wether coding, reversing, or posting, and especially to XBOX-SCENE. be cool and happy hacking, Pasqually.

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #130 on:** July 27, 2006, 06:08:00 AM »

updated the top post with suggested remedies for the 0102 error code
Thanks to Team Modfreakz for the Re-heating video and BenS for the thermal compound replacment tutorial

G0t M4xx 21 · « **Reply #131 on:** July 28, 2006, 02:41:00 PM »

If you shorted out the 5V on the 360 for some reason, and now your 360 has the error 0001 or 0002 (psu error), and using a different brick does not fix it, i have a *now confirmed working* fix:

(IMG:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/g0t_m4xx_21/Dev/IMG_0377_edited.jpg)

The two MOSFETs circled in blue must be replaced.

The part number is NTD60N02RG:

http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/product.do?id=NTD60N02R

I posted the fix a while ago, but it was untested, but Smartmod has repaired his motherboard by replacing the FETs, so the repair is now confirmed working.

Gerjan · « **Reply #132 on:** July 29, 2006, 03:53:00 AM »

Any way to fix the "open tray" problem?

When a original xbox360 game or xbox game is in the console the drive will not start spinning is it did earlier.

It seems the spinning is way to slow to recognize a game disk (dvd-video does work = slower read speed).

And after a while the xb360 says: "Open tray" as if there wasn't a disk inside.

/edit it's a sammy drive and mfr is 30-5-2006

This post has been edited by Gerjan: Jul 29 2006, 11:06 AM

Gerjan · « **Reply #133 on:** July 29, 2006, 10:41:00 AM »

NVM, will order a replacement laser @ divineo

Black_Like_a_Cat · « **Reply #134 on:** July 29, 2006, 05:15:00 PM »

I got an xbox offa ebay the other day that had the 3 ROL error code 0020 which, from reading on this site, points to the GPU. I just want to confirm that the "heat gun" fix works. I went out to Pep Boys and got a heat gun for like $20 bucks... it came with an attatchment nozzle to reduce the tip size, so I used that. I dissassembled the xbox down to the main board and removed the heat sink for the gpu (I left the cpu heat sink on because I didn't want to chance burning two chips). I covered anything other than the GPU in foil for heat shiielding (in retrospect, it really didn't matter everything got hot anyway). I turned on the heat gun to its lowest stting, which the package claimed to be 420 degrees F. Solder melts at about 360 degrees so you wanna get a gun that's as close to that as possible, any more could damage the chip. I pointed the gun at the chip and circled the outside, in attempt to heat the solder and not the silicon for about a minute... minute and a half. Let it cool down (be careful not to move the chip when it's hot). Let the chip cool for like 15-20 min and it works like a charm.

I was like most people that believed the media hype that 360's were burning holes through chips. Then I thought to myself... wouldn't we have seen MS pass the buck on to the chip manufacturers if that was so? Instead maybe one of the plants rushed the board through the reflow oven and they didn't solder right. I would bet that the prob. on most of these returns.

JE

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