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[ahtze]

Update: My 360 still working with the "rubber Pad" replacement modification, Modified on 5/12/2007 Night

Update: I got a 3red lights the day on one morning I think it is 5/16/2007, I put my Aircon too cold and I think my room is below 68 temperature. Plus, the aircon is facing my 360.

What I did to fix it was heat up my 360 for 20seconds, after that, everything is fine Too cold is not good for 360.

I am so happy. No more red lights yet.  My games never freeze. It will at most get 3 red lights early in the morning when My aircon is VERY COLD.

[superkayser]

just stepped by to say THX to the author of this fix!

Had the 3 red lights, now they're gone

The mod really sounds awkward, but hey, it woks out just so nicely. Great.

[wellmodded]

UMM i see people are till getting sucess on this method i gave up on this method couple months back when i hear about xclamps replacements
how long has a xbox lasted wit this method casue i might try it on another xbox i have to see how long it last

[ahtze]

Hi, so  far I see someone reporting 6 weeks+ and still working, he usually post the result every after week.



Update: Modified on 5/12/2007 Night.

5/13/2007 No problem
5/14/2007 No problem
5/15/2007 No problem

5/16/2007 : Got a 3red lights in the morning I think it is , I put my Aircon too cold and I think my room is below 68 temperature. Plus, the aircon is facing my 360.
What I did to fix it was heat up my 360 for 20seconds, after that, everything is fine smile.gif Too cold is not good for 360.

5/17/2007: No problem
5/18/2007: No Problem
5/19/2007: No Problem

5/20/2007: Morning. Got Red lights again.   Too busy, didn't fix it.

5/21/2007: I open up the 360 and found that the eraser is broken into pieces. My eraser is too soft and not tough enough. Changed the eraser to duct tape. about 2cm long, wrap it for 12 times(about 4cm thick I think).
My Duct tape is quite wide(4.8cm) so I can cut them into 4 pieces. each piece = size of the memory. Only took me few minute.

Played games, no freeze, very smooth. Hopefully this will last longer than the eraser(which can't stand the force and the heat).

From what I see, those who use eraser, if they get 3 red lights, they just need to replace the broken eraser and it will start working again. It won't break the 360.

Duct tape might be more efficient. I will report back again.

[ahtze]

Ops.. the thickness "cm"  suppose to be in mm. My bad

[nukeme]

After replacing the old rubber i used twice to fix the red lights the third time i've used some eraser rubber and that as fixed the xbox its lasted 9 days now still going strong

[wellmodded]

QUOTE(nukeme @ May 23 2007, 12:15 PM)

After replacing the old rubber i used twice to fix the red lights the third time i've used some eraser rubber and that as fixed the xbox its lasted 9 days now still going strong

Y don;t u just do xclamps replecement it stoping u having to open yr xbox all the time casue it fixex the problem

[DrJeckyll]

I was fidgeting around with a original 360 today and got the 0102. Then did an X-Clamp replacement and tightened it well so the gpu-sink pushes down a bit on the ram sinks. It works perfectly now.

[mardy]

hi. i tried this fix today and it seemed to work first, but now the xbox turns off automaticly after less then 1 minute, showing 2 red lights. the error code is 0011 - "over heating - If you are receiving this error after disassembling your console make sure to all 8 of the heatsync screws are tightened securely to the board/heatsink holes."

maybe i am on the right way, but i dont know what to do know. is there anyone who succesfully solved the 2 red-light problem after putting in the erasers? i made them about 5mm thick.

edit: before the fix i had the 0020 error

[wellmodded]

UMM 2 redlights in a min tht might it possible that u might have to replace your thermal paste on yr GPU and mod your fan to 12v  @ same tme try the xclamps

try and see if u remove the eraser if it start to over heat after a minute if it don';t over heat so quickly when the eraser is removed that could mean the eraser causing the problem not too sure how it would tho

IF it still give u red light like aroud a minute try replace the thermal computer

[gasclown]

2 months in

See page 12 for my working variant on this.

[wyldstallions]

This fix kinda works for me with some additional mods and My 360 was well knackered

My 360 was about 6 months old and had been working perfectly until one day I came to switch it on after it had been sat idle for a couple of weeks and was greeted with the 3 red lights of death. I had the extreme vrs 1 firmware on it it so no chance of a warranty repair.

After reflashing the firmware (made no difference) I found if I put firm pressure on my southbridge chip it would, and allowing it to heat for 30 secs I could normally restart the 360 and it would continue to work. This worked for a couple of weeks but it got less and less reliable.

I had a look on the net for a popper solution and found a professional console repair company not far from me who fixed 360 among other things. After a week in their care and some fixing I got it back and it worked I fitted it with an intercooler and it continued to work for about a month before it died again.

So back to the pros who did some more fixing, this time when it came back it worked for all of 2 days before failing. After a 3rd visit to the repair shop they declared it was a gonner.

I went back to my original fix I then found i could get the console to run if i pressed down on the motherboard below the dvd drive by the left edge of the gpu heatsink, then i used a plastic peg stuck to the bottom of the dvd to apply pressure as the top of the case got screwed down. This worked for about a week before I was back to the ROD

I then tried adding a heatsink and clamp through the bottom chassis to pull the board down, but this didn't work and I then tried the the x clamp vix and variants of to apply force in various ways but this didn't work either.

So then it was tossed in a cupboard in bits and stayed there for a few months. I hadn't tried the heatgun fix, as it again seemed temporary at best and there was the possibility that it could just as easily destroy the 360 as it could fix it.

Then I stumbled on this and thought well I've tried practically every other fix in the book may as well give this a go.

I added 4mm blocks of eraser to the 4 lower ram chips and screwed it all down. Then switched it on no joy. Added the top case and left it to warm for 20 odd minutes. Still dead.

However the 360 wasn't warming up a lot I could still easily touch the CPU and GPU heatsinks. So then I wrapped it a towel, after half an hour I tried again but still dead, so I wrapped it back up and let it bake for another half hour.

After all this it still didn't work and I was ready to call it quits, but I then thought I'd put some pressure on the GPU heatsink, pressing down forcibly on the left side. Rebooted the 360 and it worked!!

I've added another larger 25x50x4mm block of rubber under the DVD drive to put constant pressure on the left side of the GPU heatsink when the top case is screwed on, (the rubber is placed to the right of the lefthand side heatsink pegs).

And now its working perfectly. Ran it for about 8 hours yesterday with no glitches, let it cool overnight and it's been running off and on today for at least another 4 hours and counting.

I have yet to see if it's a long term fix. I had given up with it to the point where I'd just ordered a brand new 360, it'll be typical if this old one keeps running now!!!

I guess the blocks underneath are holding the board up casing it to flex less now when I add pressure to the GPU heatsink its closing the broken connection.

[panne]

hi, a german guy here - forgive my bad english - thanks

i have a japanese 360 and just before i bought blue dragon i got the 3 lights of death.

i looked for a way to fix it, since the warranty was void. I found this strange tutorial with that brasilian guy who repaired his 360 with a ...... eraser...

i did not believe this method, but desparate as i was i tried it out.

at first my 360 fans were acting crazy, using the ultimate turbo speed they nearly flew out of the box...

then i reduced the thickness of my rubber from 4 to 3mm (extremly hard rubber).

i switched the console on and 3 red lights appeared. I thought "oh well, might aswell wait for 25minutes now - but i dont think it'll work" after 25minutes i turned the console of and on again - and now it works perfectly! i'm running around in gears of war for about 2 hours now, and i can finally buy the multi language version of blue dragon

let's hope that it lasts for a few weeks

what i want to say is: this method sounds crazy as hell, but it actually works - even if its not permanent.

i love the brasilian guy who found this out

[boomstick777]

Yeah this does seem to work im doing the same thing with my 360 execpt using the 3 penny method instead (more solid should last longer) before I tried that mod my 360 would crash on logo screen or have 3 red lights.

I did the 3 penny mod then heated the console for about 10 mins untill 2 red lights. I left 2 cool over night and now its working again played gears of war for 30 mins today (longest its worked for in weeks!)  

No crashing no over heating case is surprisingly cool will do a full test tonight for a few hours..

Basically im holding out till rjbtech does his x clamp mk2 tut then I will look at doing that mod for a permanent fix..

[panne]

mh... might aswell replace the rubber with pennies... next time i open that thing up

and my box didn't even boot anymore, no av signal - nothing. just the red lights from the beginning.

Thats why i thought this method wouldn't help me but ok, now i know it better