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Graphics glitches after 3 reds?
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B3lmon7
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27. December 2009 @ 21:09 |
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Hey guys, I came home from christmas break to find that my xbox decided to give me the finger and go three RROD on me. I looked around for guides on how to fix it and found out that it was the x clamps on the back of the motherboard causing the problem, which it was. I took them off and screwed the heatsinks to the motherboard itself which solved the three lights.
Now however, the console loads, the logo shows with a couple glitches on it, and then the console shuts off and shows two red lights instead of three.
I know it's an overheat error which I think is being caused by me not putting enough thermal paste on the gpu/cpu chips. I just wanted a firm second opinion before I take off the heat sinks for a 3rd or 4th time. Anyone have any ideas?
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27. December 2009 @ 21:35 |
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i dont put on too much thermal paste either, about the size of a grain of rice is enough. I just spread it around and make sure i cant see any of the metal showing through. Have you tried adjusting your screws? Perhaps you dont have them tightened evenly or not enough
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B3lmon7
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27. December 2009 @ 22:28 |
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Lol, I think I'm using too big of screws. I'm using 10/24 x 1/2 screws with matching nuts for the first heatsink.
I had them really tight but it didn't fix the three rings, so I loosened em a little bit and now I get two rings instead of three.
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27. December 2009 @ 23:24 |
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the metric ones fit pretty good, m5 .80 x 10. It probably has broken solder somewhere though if that doesnt fix it and needs a reflow
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27. December 2009 @ 23:27 |
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Try the Llamma fix. That's worked on all the boxes I've fixed.
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B3lmon7
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28. December 2009 @ 00:49 |
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Well I don't wanna buy any custom parts that someone else made, I'd rather just fix it using screws and washers that I have in my house.
If it's really a last resort I'd probably just buy a refurbished one from gamestop or something...
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28. December 2009 @ 02:27 |
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Yeah, that's all the Llamma fix is. Just screws and washers.
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B3lmon7
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28. December 2009 @ 03:33 |
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Hah, well I manned up and took the heat sinks off again and made sure that I fully covered the chips with paste this time. I didn't glob it on there but there was a good amount evenly surfaced on all 3 chips.
Then I screwed it back together tight as shit and guess what? Three rings again. I let it overheat without the fan for 15 minutes, turned it off/on and still had three lights. So I loosened the screws only a little on the silver heatsink only, the one that covers two chips instead of one, turned it on and boom, Green lights.
One glitched area during opening screen the first time it turned on but it went away in a second. Played halo for about 20 minutes without having any problems.
Take that Micro$oft, you douchebags.
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 28. December 2009 @ 03:34
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28. December 2009 @ 03:56 |
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Good to hear! Well, good luck, and I hope it holds up.
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matt54321
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28. December 2009 @ 07:23 |
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Wont be long before it breaks again. Time to start saving for a new box :)
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B3lmon7
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31. December 2009 @ 15:12 |
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Well you were right that didn't take long.
It was literally working like 5-10 minutes ago. I just went out and bought MW2 so I could play on live with some friends, and my disc tray kept spitting out the drive every time I would hit close. (another problem on my box I have yet to fix) so I kept trying to close it until I said fuck it and turned it off. 5 minutes later I went to turn it back on and hey, 3 red lights again.
I'm in the process of tightening/loosening the screws to see if it does anything or if it's an actual hardware error this time.
-edit- Retightened the screws, overheated it, reset it and green lights. Letting it cool down before I put it back in its case.
-edit2- I went to play MW2 and there were so many graphics glitches that it was pretty much unplayable. This didn't happen from the last time I fixed it til today. I was wondering what the glitches are usually caused by?
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. December 2009 @ 16:51
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1. January 2010 @ 03:43 |
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Graphics glitches are a problem with the gpu/hana chip flexing. When you overheat it you're trying to get the broken solder workable so hopefully it'll make connection again (when there's no connection you have 3 red). But the "overheating" does not get it hot enough to actually melt the solder to put it back into place. I'd say with the x-clamp fix if you did a reflow on it it'd probably be fixed.
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