Topic: 2 Red Lights, No Overheating....? (Read 154 times)

postal worker · « **on:** July 22, 2009, 06:14:00 AM »

if your sure it's not overheating...you can cut the temp sensor trace. its on xboxhacker site somewhere

DodgerTheKing · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:30:00 AM »

...Somewhere?

Do you mean like this?

http://xbox-experts....utthecputemptra

Is there a different method for RAM overheating?

postal worker · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2009, 07:53:00 AM »

i don't think so...ram do burn and heat but i don't think the cpu would monitor if the ram did overheat.

this is only if your sure your box isn't overheating.

DodgerTheKing · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:12:00 AM »

I've severed the trace.

Still getting the same error. Is there a different temperature sensor for the GPU of RAM chips? How does it determine the error code to display?

Locohead · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2009, 12:05:00 PM »

Just because your system doesn't "feel" overheated doesn't mean the chips aren't overheating. If there is poor contact between the chips and the heatsink, tons of heat could be generated on the processor(s) in a very short time without being channeled to the heatsink and felt externally as heat. A lot of systems have too little or too much thermal paste, many might not be in full contact with the heatsink. I'd check that before you start carving up anymore traces...

DodgerTheKing · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2009, 07:56:00 AM »

Sorry, I should have mentioned I've checked all the contacts, replaced all the thermal paste with Arctic Silver and the unit was still getting an overheating error after being in the freezer for 12 hours (not advised I know but it's worked with so many of my electronics that I have to give it a go).

Even ignoring the freezer, it usually doesn't overheat for a full 10 minutes, even if you turn it straight back on after it gets 2 red lights. All of which which leads me to believe it's not actually overheating.

I don't understand how it could be the RAM, as it boots up fine, just gets the error after being on for a while.

I've definitely severed the trace (there's a pretty deep gash).

Any other ideas?

DodgerTheKing · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2009, 06:11:00 AM »

Bump?

MadMaxGR · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2009, 12:43:00 AM »

If you get 0013, then it is the right cause. You must reflow all your memry chips with a heatgun or BGA reflow station.

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