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[kidderboots]

pimpmaul69 Don't knock it til you try it. as long as you keep it NO thicker then 2 layers thick it works perfectly. Idealy youd could use different tape of course but this works and is for the everyday 3RLOD sufferer.
The little amount of heat the pennies disepate is more then enough to correct this accurance. We are not trying to replace the motherboard here we are just fixing the flaws. This Fix works. Thanks everyone and keep fixing and posting

Halo3 Beta almost gone - if you want to add and play my Live account is DiCTheGreaT also willing to answer questions on there.

[Lastrite]

Thanks for posting this  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)  

I'll give it a shot as I don't have all the materials for the x-clamp mod.

This post has been edited by Lastrite: Jun 9 2007, 09:48 AM

[Major Cottenham]

I used the penny fix,
Nothing,
Currently doing the Towel thing to see if that helps.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

This post has been edited by Major Cottenham: Jun 9 2007, 11:00 AM

[Lastrite]

Ok well I've done it but the fans are really really loud and i'm getting two red lights which according to the error codes means its overheating :S

This post has been edited by Lastrite: Jun 9 2007, 04:30 PM

[deadparrot]

QUOTE(Major Cottenham @ Jun 9 2007, 10:58 AM)

I used the penny fix,
Nothing,
Currently doing the Towel thing to see if that helps.  

DO NOT attempt the Towel Trick.  It can only damage your console.

[Lastrite]

It seems to have corrected my previous problem, prior every second start up would result in the three red lights. Now the machine starts perfectly but as I said it's very loud and it seems that it's overheating.

Perhaps I tightened the screws too much?  

[kidderboots]

yeah its possible your tightening to much. alter this method how ever you need the important part is that its working again. If this method doesnt work for you post the things you've tried previously so i can revearse the methods and see what is most harmful and detrimental to this not working. thanks

[Lastrite]

I managed to sort it out  

I had to remove most of the screws to lower the tension, now the fans operate at the normal speed & during initial testing now my games work perfectly.

I believe it was probably because I used three pennies per chip whereas two would have sufficed.

So thank you kidderboots! I can confirm that this has fixed my 0020 error!

[LiGhTfasT]

mines still up and running but fans are at max so gonna try loosening some of the screws

[Boomstick777z]

My 360 is still running fine not a single crash, Freeze or red light since the fix. Hope the pics helped you other guys out (This really does work) well worth doing if your warranty is shot. Can't wait for alan wake and mass effect...  

[Boomstick777z]

By the way when I had 3 pennys on each ram chip I couldn't screw in the gpu/cpu heatsinks, The fans were really loud and fast. So I changed to just two pennies for each ram chip and it solved the problems, The fans were almost normal speeds slighlty faster than stock (I use talimoons) and I can screw all the screws back in the normal way..

[kidderboots]

Yeah i started out months ago doing just 8pennies total and it worked but in some cases it didnt work till i did 12 pennies so thats why i decided to call it (12 cent fix). But I am glade everyone is getting good results---->yes a veryimportant step is removing the black screws from the x-clamps replaces where the pressure goes on the board. Thanks guys!

[snow rider221]

so my 360 already6 has these foam little heat-riser things on all 4 chips... would this be useless for this case because those foam things are basically doing what this would do?

[durtydawg]

Tried it no luck, same thing fast fans then fans shut off 2 blinking lights. tried going to 8 pennies again no luck same result as above with fan and all maybe to tight never tried without screws. Maybe when I get in the mood to try again I will do that.

[XxDUNITxX]

First off, anyone who has ever thought of doing the towel trick needs to burn every towel they own before they burn the house down.  It is dangerous and will harm other things.

The penny trick works for me, I did it last night and I have had my console on for 3 hours straight now and no problems.  I used 3 pennies on each ram chip and wrapped them in electrical tape, I don't think that the pennies are really there to dissapate heat though, I think that it is more the space they provide for airflow and the pressure they put on the motherboard that does it.

For those of you getting the loud fan and the 2 red light overheating now, this happened to me too at first.  You need to remove the Gpu and Cpu heatsinks, clean all of the thermal paste off of the motherboard and the heatsinks, apply arctic silver, and reassemble.  And if you don't tighten those cpu and gpu screws enough you will get 3 red lights, so tighten the f'ers down.  I think that the reason that it overheats after you do the penny trick is because when you remove the motherboard from the metal housing you remove the bolts that tighten the gpu and cpu down and break the current bond that it has with the factory thermal crap paste, and from then on it will overheat if you bumped the heatsinks enough.

Also if you cannot get the Gpu and Cpu screws back into the metal case, press down on the cpu and gpu from the top of the motherboard when you are tightening them from the bottom, also save those for last, I managed to get every screwI took out back in and every port on the 360 lines up.

Hope this helps some of you!

And THANK YOU for this topic, I thought that my 360 was screwed and I didn't feel like doing the x clamp.

Thanks!

Also I almost forgot to mention, my 360 had the foamy pad things already on the ram chips, so I took them off when doing the penny trick.  And just a tip you can actually rip those pads apart and they are like a glue, I used them to stick my penny stacks to the Ram chips! Thanks M$!

This post has been edited by XxDUNITxX: Jun 10 2007, 05:05 AM