I bought an Halo3Xbox360 from a guy who was selling it at Gamestop. They where offering him $34.99, I gave him $40 for it. I figured the wireless controllers (2) where close to being worth that much anyway so what the heck.
Apparently the thing has an issue with the GPU because after a minute or so the screen gets gray lines and freezes. I'm guessing it's just overheating.
Anyway, I'm wondering if it's worth trying to fix.
I sent another unit out for repair and it was a nightmare. The guy fixed it I guess, but it'd last 5 minutes and then it was back to the RROD again. I did that 4 times since he offered a one year warranty, but the shipping charges where getting kinda high to send it back to him and after a few heated emails I just gave up. That unit just RROD as soon as you'd turn it on though.
Since it's still in the "screen freezing" time frame, is it worth trying an xclamp/thermal paste fix? I saw Team HYBRID's Ultimate X-Clamp Fix and was wondering if that was worth a try at this point.
I don't think it's overheated to the point of melting any solder that would require a reballing, and I guess I was hoping that if I could use the Team HYBRID's Ultimate X-Clamp Fix solution to lower the heat, I could still save it.
I'm kind of burnt out on the idea of sending it in to a "we repair your console" place after my bad experience above.
So is it worth messing with, or should I just buy a refurbished console for $100? I guess it just seems like you never know what you're gonna get since most of these have been fixed once already, and if they're just reflowing them, I don't wanna pay the money to get something that's gonna RROD in six months.
Yes, that's the early stages of the failure so should be repairable fairly easily. Though you'll need more than an x-clamp replacement. Either have someone reflow it professionally with a rework station or do it yourself with a heatgun (tutorial in signature). If you use good hardware that fits properly and especially if you use flux it can be a permanent fix.
If you think the system is overheating you can also do a 12v fan mod. It helps a tremendous amount with the cooling...I had one that almost burned you when you touched it then 12v mod and it was barely warm. The downside to the 12v mod that most people don't know is some systems can get a lot of vibration from it because the fans are running so fast. Though that's not always the case.
