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DrJeckyll

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« on: June 12, 2007, 03:21:00 PM »
Haven't seen the pictures yet but has it been heatgunned before?
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nightmare84j28

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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2007, 03:29:00 PM »
Go ahead with the fix, everything should still work fine!

Clean up the board though  biggrin.gif
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DrJeckyll

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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2007, 03:30:00 PM »
The white stuff's normal. Probably some soldering residu.

Looks like some vias popped out at the black spot?
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DrJeckyll

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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2007, 04:24:00 PM »
A via is copper hole which connects the top to the bottom layer of the board.
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brandogg

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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2007, 08:57:00 PM »
0001 is a power supply problem - if your power brick's light is orange when off, and green when you try to turn on the system, then the problem is with your motherboard. Take a picture of the other side of yoru board, where the burnt-looking spot is. It's probably a burnt out MOSFET, which can be fixed, but there might be too much damage done in the surrounding area. If this was the case, then you probably had a power surge or something like that.
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brandogg

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2007, 08:33:00 AM »
If you know someone else with a 360, try using their power supply, or take it to a Gamestop and ask if they'll let you try theirs. The sucky thing is though, if you need a new power supply, it usually costs at least $100.
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2007, 08:44:00 AM »
QUOTE(DrJeckyll @ Jun 12 2007, 05:06 PM) View Post

The white stuff's normal. Probably some soldering residu.

Looks like some vias popped out at the black spot?



nope its the laquer on the board. notice how its just around the hot spots, capacitors and such. a brand new motherboard wouldnt have this. clean that spot with some alcohol it doesnt look life threatening. is the metal cage blackened too? is this a refurb?
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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2007, 10:45:00 AM »
QUOTE(brandogg @ Jun 13 2007, 04:09 PM) View Post

If you know someone else with a 360, try using their power supply, or take it to a Gamestop and ask if they'll let you try theirs. The sucky thing is though, if you need a new power supply, it usually costs at least $100.


are you serious?????????????? they sell psu's at gamestop used for 39$....where the hell did u get 100$ from..
brand new psu's are 79$
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gummyworm31

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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2007, 02:27:00 PM »
QUOTE(A7X MadDog A7X @ Jun 13 2007, 06:21 PM) View Post

are you serious?????????????? they sell psu's at gamestop used for 39$....where the hell did u get 100$ from..
brand new psu's are 79$



A guy at gamestop told me they're $100 new, but i've seen them for $50 on ebay  biggrin.gif
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agibby5

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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2007, 04:53:00 PM »
ok, i got it all together, new AS5 applied, and got it to teh testing part... however, upon plugging it in and turning it on, i get 2 flashing red lights... numbers 1 and 3... how can this be? doesnt this mean overheating? also the center of the power button is flashing green.

any ideas?
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agibby5

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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2007, 05:21:00 PM »
QUOTE(agibby5 @ Jun 13 2007, 07:29 PM) View Post

ok, i got it all together, new AS5 applied, and got it to teh testing part... however, upon plugging it in and turning it on, i get 2 flashing red lights... numbers 1 and 3... how can this be? doesnt this mean overheating? also the center of the power button is flashing green.

any ideas?



also, when its booting, the power brick is green.  then it turns orange after a couple of seconds and hte cpu and gpu heatsinks never get hot.  so i figured i'd put the dvd drive in... by the time i hit the eject button, it ejects and i hit hte eject button to retract the tray, the xbox turns off and the tray is stuck in the middle.. however the two red lights are still flashing... i found the secondary codes: 0011
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JAmerican

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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2007, 08:08:00 PM »
I got two PSUs OEM M$ for $40.50 shipping included smile.gif

http://cgi.ebay.com/...I...p;rd=1&rd=1

JAmerican
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agibby5

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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2007, 04:15:00 PM »
QUOTE(JAmerican @ Jun 13 2007, 10:44 PM) View Post

I got two PSUs OEM M$ for $40.50 shipping included smile.gif

http://cgi.ebay.com/...I...p;rd=1&rd=1

JAmerican


its not the powersupply, thanks for NOT advertising in my thread.
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gummyworm31

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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2007, 07:17:00 PM »
Yeah, I took mine in to gamestop too. My power supply works fine with my other motherboard too, It's more of a single component on the board that went bad (i'm assuming)
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agibby5

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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2007, 08:18:00 AM »
After no success of selling this thing in non-working condition in the FS forum here, I decided to mess around with it a bit more.  Here's what happened.

I was going to put all the original parts back on including hte x-clamps.  Once I remove the x-clamp replacement parts, I put all the original stuff back on, before putting the case back on I wanted to see that I would still get the 3 rings of death.  I did.  But then i did a power cycle like they recommend when doing the x-clamp replacement mod.  then NO rings of death.  that's right, its working now (dashboard shows up, played GOW for a bit with no freezing).  I didnt even really take care at all when putting the original stuff back on (eg didnt apply anymore as5, etc).  It seems to heat up fast though.  So, my question now is, what did I do wrong when I did the x-clamp replacement?  I've successfully done them in the past before this xbox, but this was the one that confused me more than anything.  any ideas?

thanks,
agibby5
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