XBox 360 3RLOD - Launch day console

[djay]

XBox 360 3RLOD

Thought i would share my story.
Well i guess it had to happen sooner or later. My launch day core console finally bit the bullet last thursday. I powered it on from cold and was greeted with the ring of death, gutted. After several attempts to fire it up i finally gave up, it was gone.

I decided to try and strip it down and remove the rubbish thermal compound and slap on some arctic silver on the CPU,GPU and remount it all. Low and behold it is back up and running Has been running now for the last 12 hours straight. If it happens again i have the bolts sat here for the xclamp mod but i hope it don't come to that.

So happy it's working again.

 

[djay]

Thanks for posting this mate. Mine just started doing the same thing. Was going to send it off for repair but I may give it a go myself if it was a simple case of cleaning off the old paste and re-applying. Probably the act of removing the heatsinks and putting them back on tightened up the necessary joints etc. Anyway gives me a little more hope now, so thanks!

Sorry to hear that, definitely try it though, the paste that is on there is rubbish.

Kainz, you are one of the lucky ones then

Khrest, i take it you tried the xclamp mod? May be worth it if you haven't already. I was going to try it but i need some 5mm washers i think it is. I have the bolts etc. Or just maybe it overheated too much and damaged the gpu