Hi,
Thought I'd fixed my son's XBox but it appears that I am wrong. I've ordered a new one primarily because my son has a disbility (aspergers), uses his XBox an awful lot and was distraught because it kept failing.
But in slower time, I'd like to see whether the old one can be repaired (either by myself or by a professional).
Symptom:
When playing any game, after a while the screen will freeze and then the console reboot. This has been going on for some time now but is getting more and more frequent - started off as once or twice a week, then maybe once a day, till finally within 15 minutes. No red lights at all. Thought it was going to develop into a RROD (has already been fixed once for this) but no signs of any red lights.
What I have tried:
Opened up the box and cleaned a load of dust and fluff from CPU heatsink and fans.
Removed CPU and GPU heatsinks, cleaned off existing (dried up) thermal compound and replaced with Arctic Silver 5.
None of this has made any improvement.
Any ideas what it can be - I've tried googling but everything I've found so far is related to Red Lights and I'm not getting any.
Cheers,
Nigel
Thought I'd fixed my son's XBox but it appears that I am wrong. I've ordered a new one primarily because my son has a disbility (aspergers), uses his XBox an awful lot and was distraught because it kept failing.
But in slower time, I'd like to see whether the old one can be repaired (either by myself or by a professional).
Symptom:
When playing any game, after a while the screen will freeze and then the console reboot. This has been going on for some time now but is getting more and more frequent - started off as once or twice a week, then maybe once a day, till finally within 15 minutes. No red lights at all. Thought it was going to develop into a RROD (has already been fixed once for this) but no signs of any red lights.
What I have tried:
Opened up the box and cleaned a load of dust and fluff from CPU heatsink and fans.
Removed CPU and GPU heatsinks, cleaned off existing (dried up) thermal compound and replaced with Arctic Silver 5.
None of this has made any improvement.
Any ideas what it can be - I've tried googling but everything I've found so far is related to Red Lights and I'm not getting any.
Cheers,
Nigel
