I have an Xbox 360 with a BenQ drive that is modded. I was enjoying it for several months until it recently went RROD (and, of course, the warranty was void).
My brother's 360 died just a few weeks earlier and he gave it to me to fix/use for parts or whatever. I discerned that his 360 was fine, but his drive had failed.
I removed the heatsinks from my motherboard and re-secured them as instructed. The big, cubed heatsink (CPU?) seems to be working properly and gets quite hot, but the thin square heatsink is not. The screws used to secure it also seem to have bored through part of the metal ridges of the heatsink. I don't know for sure if that even affects it or if something else is wrong. Anyway, it now gives two vertical red lights instead of 3 and still does not work.
So, that's the exposition. It seems I have a few options for attempting to make one good 360 out of the two and I was wondering if one of you gentlemen could tell me what is the best idea.
Should I...
A. Remove my brother's heatsink from his motherboard and replace the one I accidentally tore through with screws on my RRODed one, and then hope that fixes the problem. Also, why does it now have two red lights instead of three when I turn it on?
B. Swap my drive into his functioning 360. His 360 is Hitachi I think. Is there a way I can just stick my BenQ drive in there and go? I know you need to spoof them or something, but is there a way to do that while maintaining it's modded-ness? I don't really know how spoofing works. Like, could I just give it a Hitachi DVD-key and still keep my modded firmware on it and put it in his 360? I really don't want to have to mod it again. I've only done it that one time and it took days. I don't think I could remember how to do it again if I had to, and I definitely couldn't do it on anything other than a BenQ drive. I tried Hitachi for a friend and failed miserably.
C. Get another BenQ-drived motherboard? Is it possible to buy a drive-less 360 that has a motherboard that already works with BenQ and put my modded one in it and be good to go?
D. Trash them both?
Sorry. I know this is a mouthful. Basically, I really want to get my modded drive working again by some means and I would just like to know what is the simplest solution to fixing one of these 360s if possible. I'm very inexperienced with such things and I am extremely grateful for any help.
Thank you!
Edit: In hindsight, I think I should have put this in the xbox hardware thread... Sorry. :x
I think you can fix them both. Depending on the screw lengths you used, it sounds like you over tightened them. Try again...but not so tight, try rebooting. If that fails, try w00ly's heatgun method. link
With your brother's, purchase a another BENQ as a replacement drive, Swap the PCB out (requires a bit of soldering), and you're good to go.
Or
Buy another drive (Benq is usually preferred) and dump the original...flash the saved key to the new drive using jungleflasher and use the jungleflasher.pdf tutorial as your exhaustive and comprehensive guide to xbox 360 flashing. You will need the BENQ 1.1 firmware if you still want to play backups and use xbox live.
*You may have to purchase a VIA 6421 sata card if your motherboard's chipset is not supported, and an xbox 360 connectivity kit.
"All drives should be updated to Lite Touch + (LT+) firmware if playing on XBOX live. Samsung drives and pre-78/79 Hitachi drives do not utilize AP 2.5. All other drives are considered to be detectable by Microsoft (YMMV). Make sure all rips are ABGX verified, contain SSv2, and patched AP2.5 (where needed). XGD3 must currently be burned on new drive with PC Burner Max firmware for 100% rip. All modded consoles can be potentially unsafe for use on XBOX live."
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. August 2010 @ 08:20
Awesome. Thanks for the info. So, you think the heatsink will be fine even if I bored through some of the little ridges on top? It's just a heatsink so I don't really see why it would hurt. I will try loosening them up a bit before I try w00ly's guide.
Thanks again.
