Purple and Yellow picture from my Xbox - solution?
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Towel it? Leave it on over night? 
Hmm, difficult to say, it sounds like the GPU itself has died. It's not a general hardware fault (RROD) which is caused by the flexing motherboard, this is an actual borked component.
Try and force it to RROD somehow? Hopefully someone else will be more help.
Try and force it to RROD somehow? Hopefully someone else will be more help.
Aye, it does sound like it's an actual fault with the GPU rather than the usual RROD/E74/No video problems. You could try the usual fixes (x-clamp, oven trick) to see if they help though.
Drop me an email if you don't fancy tackling it yourself
Drop me an email if you don't fancy tackling it yourself
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sure its not the TV? Silly question but if its an old CRT then the colour gun could be on its way out?
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If you're using component cables check they are firmly connected.
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this happened to mine - ultimately ended with no picture output at all.
£65 repair from M$
£65 repair from M$
this happened to mine - ultimately ended with no picture output at all.
£65 repair from M$
Free repair if you do it yourself
. It's really easy to do, I have no idea why more people don't.Free repair if you do it yourself
Easy to repair the rrod, but repairing a broken GPU surely isn't so simple?
Free repair if you do it yourself
Are you talking about RROD fixes, because these problems aren't RROD related by the sound of it.
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Force it to red ring and then send it in for that
Or just ring up get an extended warranty (provided the warranty covers this fault) and do that, should work out about £25 for a years cover
Sounds like the GFX card has gone though, happened to mine, then finally red ringed without me forcing it to
Or just ring up get an extended warranty (provided the warranty covers this fault) and do that, should work out about £25 for a years cover
Sounds like the GFX card has gone though, happened to mine, then finally red ringed without me forcing it to
Yes it is, I've done it twice now. The GPU 'failure' is nothing more than the same thing that causes the RRoD. The GPU chip lifts away from the motherboard, causing an intermittant connection, giving a corrupted picture. Eventually when the connections break completely, you get no picture.
By doing the oven trick to reseat the GPU on the solder pads, and then using the x-clamp mod to even the pressure applied by the heatsink, you not only fix the GPU failure but ensure it doesn't happen again
.As I say, I've fixed several 360's now with alleged GPU failure, including my launch day machine that started corrupting the picture and eventually gave up displaying a picture at all.