Topic: Dead 360? No Warranty? Look Here. (Read 444 times)

Tfizzle · « **Reply #30 on:** June 25, 2006, 11:56:00 PM »

there is actually a total of 8 chips. 4 on top and 4 on bottom.

the two under the heatsink are not actually touching the heatsink.

neoed30 · « **Reply #31 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:11:00 AM »

QUOTE(Virtucon @ Jun 26 2006, 01:07 AM)

right now I have the 360 out of its white shell, sitting vertical, with the dvd-rom sitting on a small box fan that is aimed at the CPU/GPU. now I can play all I want...looks like ass

That's how mine is. Sucks don't it?

QUOTE(Virtucon @ Jun 26 2006, 01:07 AM)

there were 2 mem chips under the smaller heatsink, and 2 more just an inch or so from the sink itself. why are two touching the heatsink and two are not?

The 2 mem chips under the GPU heatsink do not touch it. There is a Gap between them. They are just sitting there under it baking away.

leo5111 · « **Reply #32 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:46:00 PM »

if you have determined its youre ram put ram sinks on them my friend did before he could play maybe 10 minutes then frag city now he has played as much as 5 hours straight no problems....

angadsingh · « **Reply #33 on:** June 29, 2006, 11:03:00 AM »

Hey all ... i tried this thing but it didnt work for me... earlier i used to gets freezes every 2 mins or during a boot up ... and i used to get error code 0102 .. Now i get 0020 ..
Help

Hey all ... i tried this thing but it didnt work for me... earlier i used to gets freezes every 2 mins or during a boot up ... and i used to get error code 0102 .. Now i get 0020 ..
Help

BenS · « **Reply #34 on:** July 09, 2006, 05:15:00 AM »

Hey guys,

I haven't been around much due to starting a new job and holding my wife at bay from buying stuff for our bun in the oven.

Anyway, I wanted to give an update to how mine was doing. I got about 12-15 hours of play time in and decided to switch to a Pelican component AV cable. After I had finished re-arranging my tv cabinet, the 360 quit working and just started giving the 3 red lights again, this time constantly. It wont boot at all now.

There have been some 360 motherboards on ebay here lately, and I think I might pick one up soon. I have some old heatsinks lying around, I might try putting them on the ram just to see what happens since some of you have had luck with that.

QUOTE(neoed30 @ Jun 26 2006, 01:42 AM)

The 2 mem chips under the GPU heatsink do not touch it. There is a Gap between them. They are just sitting there under it baking away.

You sir are correct. Everyone seems to think the GPU's HS somehow magically touches the top ram chips, but there's about 1/8" gap between the two.

CerealKiller741 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 09, 2006, 11:07:00 AM »

So does that mean that heat from the heatsink is radiating down onto the memory chips and making them even hotter? If that's the case, why would they have made the heatsink that way?

bigjimmy · « **Reply #36 on:** July 09, 2006, 03:34:00 PM »

QUOTE

So does that mean that heat from the heatsink is radiating down onto the memory chips and making them even hotter? If that's the case, why would they have made the heatsink that way?

Well yes those 2 ram chips would be a lot hotter sitting under the GPU heatsink like that. Even the GDDR3 ram chips on my 6800GT graphics card get hella hot after a session of gaming and they even have little heatsinks on them....just imagine how hot the ones in the 360 must get...
Not sure why they made it that way, but they mustve thought it wasnt going to affect the ram at all sitting it under the HS like that...

CAjr45 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 09, 2006, 04:25:00 PM »

im confused this. there were reported aluminum foil pads on the gpu for which manufacted 360s (consoles made back in october or septmeber)

oh yes BENs you guessed my problem spot on. Ive had my 360 for about 6-8 months (i brought it at launch) and has been dyeing (no 3 red lights just freezing everytime i boot to dashboard)

I'd love to hear what your symptom is to my problem, Thank you

micraz · « **Reply #38 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:34:00 AM »

What tool do i need to open the heat sink and how i open it

bozo8787 · « **Reply #39 on:** December 14, 2006, 01:28:00 AM »

Such a great solution deserves a bump.

Unless is this is no longer valid or there is some newer method of dealing with these issues.

jcdenton2003 · « **Reply #40 on:** December 14, 2006, 07:24:00 AM »

I had one.. Just got it replaced.. sucks

St8kout · « **Reply #41 on:** January 12, 2007, 12:55:00 PM »

I don't understand why he had to do the repair himself in the first place. I also bought mine on ebay in Dec 2005 from an individual (in Canada no less) and MS still replaced it for free just last month. The production date was Oct 2005 and I had no extended warranty, but I did register it with MS when I first got it.

It seems all launch models are covered until March 2007, so before anyone voids their warranty, they should check with MS first.

biga55 · « **Reply #42 on:** February 11, 2007, 11:49:00 PM »

I actually did this repair today before having read this thread. I had what seemed to be an overheating problem and had nothing to lose so I went ahead and replaced the thermal paste. Did anyone else think the paste they used was very cheap, and was probably a big reason so many of these units fail? Whenever I have removed heatsinks in the past, the grease is still 'greasy' and still like a moist paste even if they haven't been replaced in years, while the stuff on the xbox cpu/gpu was dry after a year or so. Is it that the 360 cpu/gpu runs extraordinary hot and so the paste can't handle it?

Still, I am worried that the thing is going to breakdown again in a few weeks like some of you have reported. Was this a permanent (to date) fix for any of you? What kind of paste did you use?

darksith36 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 03, 2007, 10:52:00 PM »

I would like to mention to everyone that has responded to this review that i for one have fixed my xbox 360.He is totaly right mine had foil and was launched 10,18,2005.I have repaired it with arctic silver and done a fine job of pasting and even lapped the cpu heatsink but only with 600 grit sand paper was still pretty good thow.Mine had not booted , thow 3 red lights had came on for a bit just let it sit for a while
.I think after the termal paste must have bonded better after heating up and was conducting well because,i was like no this cant be happening to me not after this ,well dont panic it will fix very quick .Had about 5 freezes in need for speed and then game ran forever and gears of war too shut down booted up no problem
no freezing for 9 hours and counting .Plus i want to mention for detail that when the five freeze's happened i had to reboot. The 3 red lights never came back on and never froze at 360 logo, dash board never froze once out of all of this. So i knew it was working again and has been ever since.So thats got to be the reason for all these problems.Unless the ball grids on the chip's are screwed, mine werent.So i would really try this if you can do it its not really hard at all just be carefull.ill keep updating on my results.darksith36.

warlin · « **Reply #44 on:** March 07, 2007, 07:47:00 AM »

How do you get the video memory cooler? Anybody know of a tutorial for that?

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