been following the thread for a long time and last night I decided to take the plunge and crack the old girl open, she'd been ring of deathin on my for about a week now, tried the towel method witch worked fine for a day or 2 and then she died again.
started following the thread a few days ago and was really interested in the results, after a bit of thinking I decided to go for RJBTechs method as it seemed to be getting the most coverage and did seem to be the most sound of the two, it dose involve a bit more work but I was up for the challenge
I gathered all the required bits and followed the tutorial (Excellent by the way) don't think it could be any more straight forward + the parts guide was spot on, although think B&Q might have cottoned on to the demand and have hiked the price by 20p, whats an extra 20p against the price Microsoft would try to charge me if I sent it in for repair
anyways I set to work, dismantled her and started drilling and lining up, took me in all about 2-3 hours as I spent a lot of time cleaning the die's and the GPU heat sink was a bit of a challenge( might have been down to the fact I didn't really have the right tools HA) got it all together and booted it up, 3ROLD straight away so I let it on with no fan and no shroud and let it over heat, turned it back on after letting it cool down for a bit, booted to the dash no problem, left it there for a few min and then whacked in PGR3, left it on the demo screen for about an hour and came back,
IT WAS STILL RUNNING
Before this mod I was lucked if it even gave me any video out put so as you might gather I was very pleased, I turned it of as I dint really want to leave it on all night
First thing this morning I fired the old girl up and she started first time, and thats from cold, left it on the demo and got ready for work, about half an hour passed and I came back, still on
, started playing and it was fine, could stop for long as I was already late for work
not really had a chance to give it a good work out but hopefully tonight ill do some Xbox live, give the girl a run for her money, ill post again soon just to give an update,
Guess it 50+ fixes now, when it going to get on the front page?