SO what you’re really trying to say is you just want people to give your brother $40 to fix their xbox’s because it’s more a convenience rather than difficult as anyone with time and patience can do it… You’re making it seem like you don’t want to make it seem to easy because everyone will do it.
Why don’t you do positive advertising and say “He has a lot of experience doing XYZ fix and for $40 he’ll do it right and do it fast for you, so that you don’t have to.”
Instead you come on here trying to hide the easy fix not realizing that the service isn’t for the fix itself but for the convenience of just dropping it off and getting it done for $40. Don’t treat us like we’re dumb and will break shit. We are car people… we’ve probably all taken a wrench to more than one thing and not broken it.
Yea i will a.s.a.p, i dont really know much about it. I know that when i gave him the xbox it had RRoD and did something and used some thermal paste and now it works perfect…
Yeah, he reseated the heatsink and prob added washers to the screws or used an x-clamp kit. I’m about to do it to mine. Mine is overheating but no RRoD yet.
certain methods to fix a RRoD will in fact fix the xbox, but the question is for how long?..certain methods will fix the issue and the xbox will work fine, but for only few days…a week…a month or two…then its right back to the RRoD.
Yeah, no fixes are permanent but the best method I’ve read was a combination of reseating the heatsink w/ an x-clamp kit then heatgunning under the mobo to make sure the GPU stays in contact with the board.
We did the heat gun trick on one here at work and it’s really quite difficult to get the solder up to a temp where it will melt and reflow without cooking the capacitors on the board. We were using a pretty high end laser thermometer to monitor the process and even being careful where the heat was aimed and covering all the components in foil to help deflect the heat we popped several caps.
The funny thing was even with 4 exploded caps the RRoD went away and the 360 has performed flawlessly for 3 months now. Maybe MS just put the caps on the board to make it look fancy. :lol:
i fixed mine with the clamps and good thermal paste, it lasted 3 months, then i sent it in to have it professionally reflowed, 25 bucks from ebay and its been fine for months now.
