Worth getting a 360 with blown PSU?

shroomz · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:24

Hi all, I've got an opportunity to have my mate's old 360 (he's gone and bought another one) for free. It has a blown power supply and has had to have the motherboard resoldered for the RROD crash before. There's no warranty and since it's free I'm not particularly worried if I totally brick it as I mainly game on my pc and ps3; it would just be for the sake of having both consoles. Would you helpful folks say it's worth getting and fixing it?

craptakular · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:50

Well it is free...

Kreeeee · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:51

Fixing a blown PSU involves buying a new £12 PSU (they're external) so yeah, it's worth it.

Vision · 5 Apr 2010 at 21:42

I'd go for it!

Linx · 5 Apr 2010 at 22:14

Nah no point getting it, a re-soldered motherboard.. The thing is a time bomb waiting to go off.

I have resoldered motherboards before, it is never the same there's a potencial flaw in his model of Xbox, older generation GPU.

Not worth the stress, trust me.

Nanoman · 5 Apr 2010 at 23:09

It's free, I can't see any reason not to have it.

shroomz · 7 Apr 2010 at 09:22

hmm 4 Aye's and one Nay... Although Linx has a good point

NightSt@lk3r · 7 Apr 2010 at 12:24

shroomz said:
hmm 4 Aye's and one Nay... Although Linx has a good point

Who cares all 360's are a ticking timebombs whether new or baked, just go for it.

thedoc46 · 9 Apr 2010 at 20:55

I'd take it, even if its to throw it out of the window to watch it smash up into a thousand pieces..

IT'S FREE !

Defcon5 · 9 Apr 2010 at 20:57

Where do you live? I have a 360 psu you can have

shroomz · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:12

Edinburgh mate, bit far to travel

wannabedamned · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:17

Get it mate, resoldered motherboards arent as bad as all that. Its a toss up with all 360s. Not resoldered ones specifically.

I've done 3 reflows, only 1 of which has needed a second reflow. All of which are running still.

For free and a PSU purchase its worth it without a second doubt

Insanties_birth · 10 Apr 2010 at 16:48

shroomz said:
Hi all, I've got an opportunity to have my mate's old 360 (he's gone and bought another one) for free. It has a blown power supply and has had to have the motherboard resoldered for the RROD crash before. There's no warranty and since it's free I'm not particularly worried if I totally brick it as I mainly game on my pc and ps3; it would just be for the sake of having both consoles. Would you helpful folks say it's worth getting and fixing it?

Ring MS, when my PSU died they replaced it for free, even though it was out of warranty and they knew it was out of warranty since they checked.

I have an old model with a resoldered motherboard and it's been fine for around a year and a half. Quick tip is to just have a break every 3 hours just for safety.

Defcon5 · 10 Apr 2010 at 17:18

wannabedamned said:
I've done 3 reflows, only 1 of which has needed a second reflow. All of which are running still.

Do you have a link to a guide to this? My 360 has the 3rrod and I fancy a stab at fixing it

wannabedamned · 10 Apr 2010 at 21:27

Defcon5 said:
Do you have a link to a guide to this? My 360 has the 3rrod and I fancy a stab at fixing it

I'm about to go out and get reasonably drunk, But promise to post it tomorrow, not used it for ages, Its a good step by step guide though. Its been posted on here before im sure.