Alright, I have this oldschool 360 without HDMI. Old as they come, but I don't mind since I have my VGA cable/monitor. Anyways, it also haas the old heatsinks, which I believe may have something to do with the Red Rings I get from time to time.
It goes something like this: one time I turned on the 360, and it gave the RR's 0102.
I took it apart, and I noticed that one of the screws seemed much looser than the others... it was one of the 8 small black screws in the center of it.
So I tighten up the screws, and let the console overheat.
It was working for about... maybe 2 weeks, then the same problem.
Usually freezes after a few minutes, and doesn't red ring after powering it back on.
That has only happened like twice so far.
Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to freeze at all... ever, while playing 2D games like castlevania.
The 360 is currently working again, after letting it overheat once more and fiddling with the screws, trying to make them all equally tight, without being *too* tight.
Now, the big question I wanna ask; if I were to buy a Jasper type heatsink set, could I put those heat sinks on my old board? and do you think it'll have any effect on it?
Yeah you can. Not sure what board type I have but no HDMI. Anyways I had the second gen GPU heatsink but 1st gen cpu. I replaced the cpu with the newer heatsink and with pasting both chips with AS5 it seems a bit cooler as well as I did the heatgun reflow cause it had the RROD for the second time, did the xclamps the first time to fix it. Running good now for a while.
Mine is noisy no matter what cause I have the talismoon fan in it. Once it RROD'd for a second time I did the CPU heatsink, hoping with that and the heatgun reflow will last for a while longer.
