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[luminous]

I sent mine off to be fixed with that error 0002 as xclamps didn`t do anything.It turned out to be bad solder on gpu,as i can see they heat gunned it there.After i got it back however it was freezing in games after 5 mins of play.
I took it apart and saw... they`d put new xclamps on(doh!),hot glue all over the shop,thermal pads on gpu/cpu right old mess.I cleaned up everything,applied arctic silver and replaced x clamps with lawdawgs method and its working fine and not so noisy too.
Some others have replaced 2 mosfets on the board that regulate power and got it working have a search on here for 0002 error.Thats why i sent it off in case it was that.
Maybe try a little more gun around the gpu and if it works replace the x clamps sharpish

[Joust]

QUOTE(luminous @ May 30 2007, 01:02 AM)

I sent mine off to be fixed with that error 0002 as xclamps didn`t do anything.It turned out to be bad solder on gpu,as i can see they heat gunned it there.After i got it back however it was freezing in games after 5 mins of play.
I took it apart and saw... they`d put new xclamps on(doh!),hot glue all over the shop,thermal pads on gpu/cpu right old mess.I cleaned up everything,applied arctic silver and replaced x clamps with lawdawgs method and its working fine and not so noisy too.
Some others have replaced 2 mosfets on the board that regulate power and got it working have a search on here for 0002 error.Thats why i sent it off in case it was that.
Maybe try a little more gun around the gpu and if it works replace the x clamps sharpish

Where did you send it?
M$ would not work on a box that you "Tampered" with. Unless this was before they adopted that policy. But I think they did that from day 1.

[luminous]

I sent it to Gt electronics in scotland,uk.to fix,not m$ as i had opened it.

[grim_d]

QUOTE(luminous @ May 30 2007, 01:20 PM)

I sent it to Gt electronics in scotland,uk.to fix,not m$ as i had opened it.

that was a bad idea

they like to make a mess of things

[Boiker]

^^ what on earth?  

Is that dried maple syrup and sugar?!

[grim_d]

QUOTE(Boiker @ May 30 2007, 03:18 PM)

^^ what on earth?  

Is that dried maple syrup and sugar?!

nope that's what it looks like under the GPU heatsink after a heatgun.

anybody need anymore reason not to do it?

[Boiker]

QUOTE(grim_d @ May 30 2007, 03:21 PM)

nope that's what it looks like under the GPU heatsink after a heatgun.

anybody need anymore reason not to do it?

That's reason enough  

To OP: I'm no expert but I would say unless you can find a good repair place, do all the cooling mods etc. yourself, especially the xclamps. If all else fails then go for a new board as you say  

[DrJeckyll]

QUOTE(grim_d @ May 30 2007, 02:37 PM)

that was a bad idea

they like to make a mess of things

And they charge you for damaging your console like this?

[grim_d]

QUOTE(DrJeckyll @ May 30 2007, 03:42 PM)

And they charge you for damaging your console like this?

well acctually it wasn't damaged, just a pain in the ass to clean up, after a x-clamp replacement all was fine.

but all the thermal gunk was all mixed in the with the board laminate stuff and it looked a right mess.

funny thing is they charge the same to heatgun as i do to replace the x-clamps, scam artists.

anyway sorry to hijack the thread buddy, but yes, try replacing the x-clamps with RBJtechs method, even try the extreme shim fix if you have to.

[grim_d]

QUOTE(gummyworm31 @ May 30 2007, 04:48 PM)

Should i leave the hestsinks on when i re-heatgun it, or will that cause problems? In the tutorial video, the CPU still had it's heat sink on. (i had mine on the first time i did it)

dont heatgun it again, have you totally ignored my last few posts?

[pimpmaul69]

QUOTE(grim_d @ May 30 2007, 01:37 PM)

that was a bad idea

they like to make a mess of things

wtf?? i use a heatgun and do the x-clamps an i have never done that.. what the hell is with all the freakin burn residue..they coulda fried the entire board..maybe they need to go to you tube and watch the heatgun video cause these bastards toasted that shit

[grim_d]

QUOTE(Joust @ May 30 2007, 05:50 PM)

That brown residue is the resin remains of flux used to resolder. It is fine to leave that there. Although in that picture they used a tad too much as it is everywhere. it is perfectly fine to leave on. it is designed to be that way. Putting the x-clamps back on was the mistake as we all know.
you can clean off that stuff with solvent (flux remover) it really shoudln't be on the top of the chip.  just around the pins. stuff on the top will exaserbate the heat problems.

nothing was resoldered, that perticular box was only heatgunned before i received it. That picture is not from the same box and the OP, the brown stuff is the melted pcb laminate stuff that has melted and burnt. look around the area at the traces and such.

[DrJeckyll]

I call that damage  

[DrJeckyll]

Have you tried adjusting the pressure on the gpu?

[DrJeckyll]

The pressure has to be just right. Too much and the board will flex, too little and your 360 will overheat. Both producing a nice 3rol.