What to do with a semi-bricked 360

- Preheat oven to 230 degrees C (Gasmark 8)

- Strip the 360 down completly, remove the heat sinks so all you have is the motherboard with all the cores exposed

- Wrap all the capacitors and connectors up in tin foil, leaving the CPU, GPU, RAM and ANA scaler chip exposed

- Put the motherboard in the oven on the middle shelf and wait for 4 minutes

- Remove the motherboard and leave to cool

- Re-apply some Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU and GPU, and re-assemble the xbox
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have read this before to fix them, just done one of my borked 360's that was sitting in loft, at the moment its working, lol
 
So guys (sorry for the thread hijack cokecan72 :)), the oven method should fix my 360 that has no video output at all?

When you say "cover all capacitors and connectors", how do you mean exactly? Individually, or just make sure the only exposed area is the chips themselves?

Just don't want to screw it up and permenantly knacker the Xbox!

Cheers for any help guys.
 
You want it so that it looks something like this:

http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic02781ck0.jpg

At the end of the day though, if the console is already knackered you've got nothing to lose even if you do end up trashing it :)

Also to give a bit more info - the no video problem could be the ANA chip or it could be GPU side, as the ANA is connected directly to the GPU. Most likely one or more of the solder joints that link the GPU to the ANA were broken. The oven will actually reflow the solder as the melting point of the solder in the 360 is 218 degrees C - so putting it in the oven at 230 degrees C does the job :) As Kreeeee says, it's best to do the x-clamp replacement fix as well.
 
Mine tends to RROD every few months, i just tighten/losen the X Clamps (I did the X Clamp fix the first time it RROD'd) and apply new paste and it always works again. Annoying, but saves me forking out for a new one.

Well done on fixing it :)
 
The same trick fixed a friends Xbox that died recently. Basically it would freeze and crash on start-up, occasionally giving a single red light and sometimes error 71, which is a dash update failure. Everything I read said it was a proper hardware fault, and would need returning to Microsoft to fix, but I had a go at it anyway.

He now has a fully working Xbox that has only frozen once during a game since.
 
Mines still going strong :) and since doing mine have also done another that had the 3RROD error. That is also working fine now too lol

I just have visions of Microsofts official repair center being like a bakery now, huuuuuge ovens set at 230 degrees and a few workers usin big metal trays to put 12 broken xbox's in the ovens at a time, then takin them out again after 4 minutes to cool on a rack somewhere before being rebuilt and shipped out :D
 
I could pretty much guarantee it will work again :)

I did the x-clamp mod on mine and it hasnt even so much as frozen or crashed in a game since. it survived the Wales LAN in November and its surviving the endless hours gaming i seem to be doing every night till early hours of the morning lol
 
Just to add further confirmation, I've now fixed 6 machines with a variety of faults all using this method. By then replacing the x-clamps, it's almost certain the machine will never fail by one of the standard faults again :).
 
My x-box used to give dirty disc errors all the time and i've given up on it now, i understand this is the precursor to the RRoD. Microsoft wanted £50 to fix it so i didn't bother in the end, does mine sound like the same issue?
 
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