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[l0tics]

Here's a warning to everyone: resistors can fall off near the gpu/cpu while you're heating the board up, or afterwards. The first time it happened I thought I had simply knocked it off and soldered it back on (it was a larger one near the gpu). This time, about 5 very tiny ones that I couldn't have possibly knocked off must have fell or became damaged somehow, with no hope of getting these back on.

[grim_d]

in future, don't use a heatgun, there is absoluty NO need what so ever for it if you are doing an x-clamp replacement.

[l0tics]

I'm not stupid enough to use a heatgun, I just let the box overheat itself with the heatsinks hand tightened. I also don't move the box while it's hot and I use the remote to turn it on/off. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember heating it being a required step in the guide, and so far it has worked for me. I also knew that heat transfered to the bottom of the board, but damn, I didn't expect it to affect transfer that well. Some of the resistors are soldered in crooked now, so I can say with certainty that I did not knock them off. How would you recommend doing it to avoid this?

[l0tics]

Pics!

First of all, microsoft gets the failure award for their beautiful use of thermal paste, or lack thereof: http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5112.jpg
http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5114.jpg

Here is the first one I had come off:
http://glitches.plan...0s/250_5087.jpg

Now this just happened. I was fixing a new box my friend had bought since his was banned and:
http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5118.jpg
The two missing resistors seem to be destroyed, I have no idea how. You will notice that two more are crooked.
http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5123.jpg
These three are gone.
http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5120.jpg
So are these two.

Oh shit, I just looked at the cpu. Game over.
http://glitches.plan...0s/251_5128.jpg

[twistedsymphony]

this belongs in hardware chat...

[vinny1684]

How the hell did u manage that

Ive dont know how youve done that without a heatgun and a mash hammer