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XBox 360 - 3 Red Lights
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exactly..... the xbox was a present from my brother in law.... who had a problem with it and got it fixed out side of microsoft...... so the warrenty on the box is non existant...... any ideas
Most RRoD are from overheating issues, they're not that hard to fix - you could have a go yourself
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TouchingVirus wrote: »Most RRoD are from overheating issues, they're not that hard to fix - you could have a go yourself
go ahead i'm all ears...... mind you i don't think it was an over heating issue as it was only on for 20 mins......the manual suggests two red lights for overheating.... and mine showed three...
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go ahead i'm all ears...... mind you i don't think it was an over heating issue as it was only on for 20 mins......the manual suggests two red lights for overheating.... and mine showed three...
Two red lights on the left quadrants for overheating that's detected as overheating.
Most RRoD faults are related to the X-Clamp (thing that holds the heatsinks onto the GPU and CPU) becoming loose, meaning the heatsinks are not doing their job right which lets the CPU & GPU heat up to the point they become faulty. An incorrectly mounted heatsink can have repercussions within 5 minutes or less, nevermind 20
There are other issues such as poor quality conductivity material (thermal paste) between the heatsink and chip dye.
Pick up an "X clamp repair kit" from ebay - it's just a load of washers and screws. Pick up some thermal paste remover (I use ArctiClean), and some thermal paste (I use Arctic Silver 5) too - I'm pretty sure the stuff in the repair kits is cheapy stuff too.
Then in simple terms, open up the box, disassemble parts, remove x-clamp and heatsinks, remove old thermal paste, apply new thermal paste properly (thinly), remove studs in heatsinks designed to hold the x-clamp in place, use washers and screws to reattach heatsinks, reassemble everything except the outer casing. Chances are your xbox will still RRoD with 3 lights, so disconnect the fans from the motherboard. Let the xbox overheat until you've got two red lights in the left quad. Turn it off, shut it down, let it cool for 20 minutes. Reattach fan connector, and put the rest of the case back on. Power it up, and see what happens
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My son has had an Xbox 360 for just over a year
He had the RROd problem and thinking he was out of warranty took it to a local repair shop. They say the motherboard is dud and cannot source a replacement.
Now I've discovered that the 3 year warranty exists for the RRod problem ! Damn!
The repair shop drilled out the gpu and cpu holes, slung the X pieces, and remounted the heatsinks with bolts.
By any standards , the warranty is voided
Do we just dump it ?
BTW. the power unit light is yellow ? Should it not be green ?
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i opened up the xbox today..... so that when the parts came it would be half done.... and so take less time to get me back gaming.... as i said in an earlier post, my brother in law had previously got it fixed outside of warranty.... so when i opened it up i was a little surprised to see only one heat snyc was changed.... if i still install my new kit on the two heat snyc's.... should it still fix my problem....???? and why would any one only change one?????
I also noticed 5 or 6 half inch things around the heat snyc that was changed, best described as pieces of sticky stuff with what looks like plasters on them stuck to the mother board... does any one know what they are and why their there.????. 0 -
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Return it, got the same on Saturday myself.antomorro-sei wrote: »Got one red sector or whatever today and an "E 74" message.
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i opened up the xbox today..... so that when the parts came it would be half done.... and so take less time to get me back gaming.... as i said in an earlier post, my brother in law had previously got it fixed outside of warranty.... so when i opened it up i was a little surprised to see only one heat snyc was changed.... if i still install my new kit on the two heat snyc's.... should it still fix my problem....???? and why would any one only change one?????
I also noticed 5 or 6 half inch things around the heat snyc that was changed, best described as pieces of sticky stuff with what looks like plasters on them stuck to the mother board... does any one know what they are and why their there.????.
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TouchingVirus wrote: »Pictures explain it better than words
GOD I CAN'T COUNT...lol... only 4 of those things, and they look like they were stuck on top of some chips of some sort.... i also noticed the cooling fans were altered.... one fan seemed to be directly soldered to the motherboard, whilst the other one was still connected to the proper connection... please excuze the photograhy.... hope they help..0 -
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GOD I CAN'T COUNT...lol... only 4 of those things, and they look like they were stuck on top of some chips of some sort.... i also noticed the cooling fans were altered.... one fan seemed to be directly soldered to the motherboard, whilst the other one was still connected to the proper connection... please excuze the photograhy.... hope they help..
Those four pads look like thermal pads, they're designed to dissipate heat off the chips they are covering. I guess they are there as a precaution because there's no direct airflow that cools the pads since they are on the underside of the case
My xbox and my friends xbox both have them too, they weren't put on by the repair shop, they're part of the console
Picture of the fans and the heatsinks?Btw where the hell is the call centre based? It sounded like the girl was speaking a blend of English, French and Polish.
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thanks for all the explainations touchingvirus.. heres a couple more photos... do you think that re doing the work on one heat snyc and getting rid of the x clamp on the other should get my box working again..... the aluminium one was the one that had the work done to it already........ thanks again T.V.
Howdy andyone, the flat heatsink is for the GPU, it's the standard xbox heatsink. It looks like it's missing it's studs for the xclamp, so I suspect that's the one that was fixed by the other guys.
The CPU cooler looks like the original 360, complete with xclamp studs. Removal with a pliers is required there, twist them off. Keep the underside of the heatsinks off the desk and clean, so turn those heatsinks upside down
I'm not sure what's up with the fans there, there might be a problem with your motherboard because the 4 pin plug has a cover over it, the brown and red wires are spliced onto the board. So rather than risk breaking it, when you want to "overheat" your xbox if it still RROD's after replacing the xclamps simply take the fans away from the board, or put the xbox back together entirely and do the "towel" trick, as in wrap the xbox in a towel and block off the fan vent holes. That'll overheat it just as well as disconnecting the fans
I can't guarantee this'll fix it, there could be other problems causing your RROD problem but hell it'll only cost €5 and a small bit of your time to find out if this'll fix it and save you €150 on a new console0 -
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D.I.Y. its the way to go.... hopefully my parts will be here tis week.... missing my box
Haha, a convert to D.I.Y.
Here's another tip if you're the inquisitive type - try to get your RROD Error Code. Fire up the xbox, let those red lights flash, press & hold the sync button for the controllers then press eject. Read the number of flashing lights. Press eject again, read again. Repeat two more times to get a 4 digit code.
4 flashing lights = 0
1 flashing light = 1
2 flashing lights = 2
3 flashing lights = 3
The most common one I've experienced is 0102 (Unknown Error) on three xboxs that I've fixed. Usually relates to that overheating/sh!t xclamp problem. There is an incomplete list of codes over here.
As a further update to the xbox 360 that I bought off ebay, it arrived today. It has one of those new xbox warranty stickers on it, completely intact from what I can see. There's no marking on the case around the holes at the back so there wasn't a screwdriver used to pry the case off at any point
Error code 0102, no bootup at all, no DVD noise like almost all xboxes but surprise, surprise, it's actually still under warranty - I bluffed the guy on the phone saying I had it six weeks and only found out I needed to transfer ownership when I went to submit a repair. Thankfully the ebay seller gave me his name & address (apparently the previous owner's name is all he needed) and UPS is coming to collect it at some stage this week.
The manufacture date of the console is September 26th 2006 ..so maybe the 3 year extended warranty for RROD is in addition to the 1 year standard and not concurrent. 1 year standard warranty + 3 extra for the RROD making 4 years total protection from the 3 red lights? Other than that I can't see how on earth it's still under warranty 0 -
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