Ok so here is my situation.
I took a broken xbox 360 elite off a friend (with no HDD) because it had the no picture but sound problem. I wanted to look into how easy an xbox was to repair (after reading many threads and things online) and see if i could get it up and running again so i could give it to my girlfriend (as she ((and her mum)) loves playing lips)
I bought an x-clamp replacement kit off of bay and got to work. Within 30 mins or so the xbox was rebuilt and working with no issues at all.
I was over the moon. tested the machine for hours on end (playing DVD's and a little SF4) as i didnt want it to fail again before giving it to the GF.
All seemed well and i didnt have 1 issue with the machine what so ever. So i popped the machine over the GF's house fitted a spare 20GB hard drive and off they went playing lips for about 3 weeks with no problems.
However, last weekend the machine decided to reproduce the problem of no picture but sound.
Now I;m going to have another look at the machine to see if i can get it up and running again but my questions i would like some advise on are as follows:
1. Would them sitting the machine upright cause much of a problem if the x-clamp fix screws where not tight enough? As I have a feeling the heat sinks might have either come loose and caused GPU overheating again?
2. Do you think a simple re bake/screw tighten will sort the problem out?
3. Do you recon the chip is just to far gone and is going to keep causing problems? Because if thats the case I will bin it and just buy one from new.
(Oh and btw the GF knew it was one i fixed, I didnt try and pull a fast one and pretend i bought her an xbox from new to score brownie points
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I took a broken xbox 360 elite off a friend (with no HDD) because it had the no picture but sound problem. I wanted to look into how easy an xbox was to repair (after reading many threads and things online) and see if i could get it up and running again so i could give it to my girlfriend (as she ((and her mum)) loves playing lips)
I bought an x-clamp replacement kit off of bay and got to work. Within 30 mins or so the xbox was rebuilt and working with no issues at all.
I was over the moon. tested the machine for hours on end (playing DVD's and a little SF4) as i didnt want it to fail again before giving it to the GF.
All seemed well and i didnt have 1 issue with the machine what so ever. So i popped the machine over the GF's house fitted a spare 20GB hard drive and off they went playing lips for about 3 weeks with no problems.
However, last weekend the machine decided to reproduce the problem of no picture but sound.
Now I;m going to have another look at the machine to see if i can get it up and running again but my questions i would like some advise on are as follows:
1. Would them sitting the machine upright cause much of a problem if the x-clamp fix screws where not tight enough? As I have a feeling the heat sinks might have either come loose and caused GPU overheating again?
2. Do you think a simple re bake/screw tighten will sort the problem out?
3. Do you recon the chip is just to far gone and is going to keep causing problems? Because if thats the case I will bin it and just buy one from new.
(Oh and btw the GF knew it was one i fixed, I didnt try and pull a fast one and pretend i bought her an xbox from new to score brownie points
