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Xavierking

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« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2006, 04:07:00 PM »
does anyone know the temperatures of the gpu and cpus or whatever when the thing crashes?
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« Reply #31 on: June 20, 2006, 10:21:00 PM »
Hi everybody.

I've resently set my sight on buying a 360, but all these problems I keep hearing (might just be sony fanboys) are scaring the shnizzle outta me. This overheating issue is yet another thing that troubles me. I'm very clumsy with electronics and I wouldn't even attempt this fix myself. Altho it seems to happend to people who've own consoles since launch, and that we're now a little ways since then, I'm pretty confident my local store will be holding older units in stock. (didn't sell all that well down here) I was planning to get a Nyko Intercooler, but would this be enought to keep me in the safe zone? Is there any safe zone?!? lol My funds are real low, and its going to take some of my salesmen skillz to sell me old ps2 to get that little extra I need to buy this thing. Last thing I want is my investment to go up in flames a week or two after the warranty expires. (90 days, not a year? uhh.gif )

So would the Nyko Intercooler be enought and if not, is it possible from manifacturing dates to tell if the units is troublesome? I'm not shy and I'll gladly look at every boxes in the store to find one that's good if there's any kinda way to tell  tongue.gif . Gaming is so expensive now...sigh.
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tommiwan

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« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2006, 11:08:00 AM »
Hey Ben, don't feel unappreciated.  Thanks for posting this.  I have this problem right now.  Last night I disassembled my 360, but I don't have the right torx screwdriver to get the heat sinks off (or the thermal paste).  Once I get those things I will try this fix and let you know how it worked.  

I was a little disappointed when I opened my 360, and there wasn't any obvious problems.  That would have been easier.
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« Reply #33 on: June 24, 2006, 08:16:00 PM »
QUOTE(HavocImpaler @ Jun 24 2006, 06:51 PM) View Post

mine started to freeze exactly aftre the update... but ok, It´s seems to be just a coincidence.
So I opened the 360, and there were the paste spilled out. I cleaned it and so I just replaced these paste for a white ceramic paste wich I had in the moment...

So I turned on the console, and so it just were as before, feezing on start-up, other time on the dashboard, just a couple of minutes after boot up. And so the damn Ring Of Death again.
I turned off the 360 and goes out to solve some personal problems,...

few hours after, I came back and turned on the 360 once again, and so surprise.
The console were fine, I played such 1 hour of GRAW fine without freezes.
Then I turned off just to be sure about, and when I restarted it, once again Ring of Death.

Then I purchased the ArctiClean and Arctic Silver 5 to do everything again,.. maybe were the ceramic paste I´ve used wich just worked fine for a hour.
So there was another try with ArcticSilver 5... this time I got the Red Circles of Death right in the face, and now the console seems not to boot anyway, and by the noiseless, the fans seems to be weak.???

Please, someone can help me? What the hell I could do now?
The error I´m facing still is 0102.



I sell video-games here in Brazil, and always has supported the Xbox at war against over these PShit 2 consoles, but this time, I´m sad to feel such M$ is betraying us with this fucking nice killer console, but full of glintchs.



You noticed how quiet than fans are too? I noticed that when mine started screwing up. They are not as loud as when they were when I first got it. Like their is a voltage problem or the temperature sensor for the fan speed is screwed up or something.
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mr_dimsum

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« Reply #34 on: June 25, 2006, 01:40:00 AM »
I know this sounds quite ironic to some others whom have posted their solutions.. But to even my own surprise, what I did actually got it back up and running after a few tries.

A lot of your symptoms are rather similar to my own system (360 logo crash, in-game crashing, etc.).

The following post is at: http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=524734

Let me know your results by replying that post. I know it sounds farfetched, and to me, I totally don't see the corollation between the two still.. But out of desperation, and to my surprise, it helped. I'm eager to see what results others get.
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HavocImpaler

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« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2006, 07:45:00 AM »
I did some try, but no suscess.
So I keep looking for a fix.
but any help is welcome.
Thanx.
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HavocImpaler

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« Reply #36 on: June 25, 2006, 09:06:00 PM »
...Ok, my 360 were dead with 3 red lights, not booting, the fans were weak and silent.
I did once again all process with ArctiClean and Silver 5, an so all the same way... not booting, etc.

Then, I had take out the white plastic plate from the fans... so with the 360 opened, I turned ON ans so started to hear the noise until the fans speed up, waited such 4 minutes.

So I turned OFF the 360, and boot up once again to see what happen: .... nothing has changed.
Ok I thought, I desist for now...

So I just take it to set back the plastic plate, case, and everithing back to place, gave it another try...
this time it boot up perfect? WTF ???

now everytime the 360 boot up fine, but freezes after such 1 hour of playing, some graphical glintchs appears but none red ring of light this time.

So, I got my 360 back from the death, but still it´s fucked someway.

So, what the fucking hell happens with that console? where is the damn problem?
where and how to fix?

I thinking to add some ArcticSilver 5 upon these two rams above the GPU heatsink? could be a fix?

please if someone is facing the same s***, let me hear.
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tommiwan

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« Reply #37 on: June 26, 2006, 07:07:00 AM »
QUOTE(neoed30 @ Jun 24 2006, 09:23 PM) View Post

You noticed how quiet than fans are too? I noticed that when mine started screwing up. They are not as loud as when they were when I first got it. Like their is a voltage problem or the temperature sensor for the fan speed is screwed up or something.


I notice that on mine... in fact that's part of the reason I opened it up was because I didn't think they were both working, and thought maybe the fix was as simple as that.
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neoed30

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« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2006, 03:40:00 AM »
QUOTE(HavocImpaler @ Jun 27 2006, 07:41 PM) View Post

how did you fix this? Where is placed this temperature sensor screwed up?
When I dissembled the 360, with the motherboard on hands, when I turn it up and down, I heard a sound such something is bouncing...
maybe could be this or something is screwed up.???
Could post some pictures of the motherboard with the fan speed sensor in close detail?
hope to hear.

Thanx


The thing you hear bouncing around Position Sensor. As for the fan speed sensor I'm not sure of it's location. Unfortunately, I do not have a digital camera so I cannot take any pictures of my board. Sorry.
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