If you do decide to try this yourself, invest in a proper 'opening tool' and a decent Screwdriver set with 'Torx Accessories' I use the 'Draper 31 piece precision set' - stock no: that I bought off 'Amazon' and is great for changing the lasers as well.
Infact I use it all around the house, and on my VW Golf. If your logic board or 'Mother Board' is warped, or you want a 'guaranteed to last a while' solution, you need to have your 'Mother Board' RE-Balled. You could go down the road of a RE-Flow, but it wont last as long. I just thought you might like a professionals opinion and not just some youngster that got lucky - I am in my 60's and have been repairing electronics for 30 years.
Steve Warnek. Reflowed board twice using our own method as it was not recommended by our guys to heat both sides of the board, as there are several resistor packs on the underside that may become dislodged.
Replaced several of the uf capacitors on the logic board Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Back Answers Index. Xbox The Xbox is the second game console made by Microsoft, and was released November 22, View the answer I have this problem too Subscribed to new answers. Is this a good question?
While the sink is off the GPU fire up and within 30secs you get 2 red lights, leave for 30 secs more. Unplug and reasssemble. Job done. If its still RROD then fire up again with fans diconnected, blah, blah, overheat, you know the drill This will re-seat the chip. Re-adjust you bolts as they will now need tightening again. You only need to 're-flow' the GPU and these other apparent issues go away.
A very good X-clamp fix above though. I never saw this one before but its very good and makes good engineering sense. I still think the GPU sink is inadequate though. Ive been looking for an aftermarket soloution but with the DVD drive in the way is a never ending search. If only someone could find a low profile laptop style heatsink with integral fan which would fit?
Last edited: Feb 5, You have to be VERY careful heat gunning though, its not a case of holding it on right over the GPU and praying it will re-solder, your more likely to knock off all or some of the capacitors on the bottom of the board then your screwed. It has to be an even spread of heat with ample protection for parts that are susceptible to heat, and do no move the board once completed. Its ok for a budget fix but dont expect it to last forever.
Im currently looking into reballing solutions as a complete fix for all errors and a lasting solution for a good 3 years or more.
You can x-clamp and heat the board but its only doing temporary repairs, only takes more heat and your back to square one, so the more cooling you can get put in there while its open the better.
They should have used leaded rosin core solder rather than lead free rosin core. Heres one from the 'hall of horrors' collection I have please do not scroll down if you wish not to see a damaged xbox lol! Last edited: Feb 6, Simon Coates Guest. If you're really that bothered about it then the ideal system is to recase the system with water cooling or modify the case so you can have an external reservoir. Using this method you can pretty much eliminate all noise, a fan might still be necessary to proide airflow for other components but I've not looked into it..
Passive cooling just isn't suitable really as it doesn't remove the heat quick enough which is what causes most of the problems eventually.
I think the reflowing the CPU idea is suggested as a precaution and in all honesty its worth doing if you've got the board out anyway. You must log in or register to reply here.
Similar threads S. Advice for someone getting back into Hifi. Check your local hardware stores. You can also go with. Been playing G. I tried to fix my rrod in the past with just reseating the heat sinks using arctic silver, but with limited luck.
It would usually only last about a week. Hey, nice writeup thanks. So the nylon washers go on the top of hte MB and the metal ones are used for the bottom? Please correct me if I am wrong.
Any type of replacement screws? Greatly Appreciated. Did anyone by any chance download the metacafe video that went with this? I watched it once, but now it seems it has been taken down. I used all the parts listed upabove 8 M Used the fix on my bought in It lasted about a week, and then started freezing.
Tried the Fix again to no avail, so im going to buy the EBGames Pack, as it comes with the Elite and supposedly, the new ones are fixed. Great tutorial, I used this and cross referenced a few others. Any ideas to what I have done wrong? How could this fix work for a week and repeat the same steps and not work?
Good piece with nice photos. But there are some good products out there that just require some basic household tools to do the red light fix. I certainly know of one that works.
See ya later. I used your method, but have left out the rubber tabs on the chips. So far so good. The system has been running for about an hour now. I also added a mm fan to the top of the case over the heat sinks.
I used a seperate 12 Volt power supply to run the fan. One plastic washer on the bottom, and two metal washers on the top. Not too much tension on the crews as well. I will continue to test this machine, in hopes your method is a permenant fix. Thank you. It should make good contact with the heat sink and use lots of thermal paste. I used this in conjunction with a vid on youtube and once I finished up the box booted right up for the first time since it froze and the RROD error hit me!
My fans are speeding up to max I think unfortunately. I want to find out why. God bless all and thanks! Mine was fixed for a while too, but I got the RRoD again.
You can also use screws. It was metal to metal anyway. I put in the nylon washers and screws into the cpu and new thermal paste and then it worked for about 10 mins then back to 3 red lights again and then it will come on the odd time but then freeze and go to 3 red lights again what went wrong?
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