My box has started overheating superbad now, before I could play it an hour or two before the 2 RROD would rear it's ugly head. Now before I can even reach Halo 3's log in screen the box does it. And it's not the fans they run perfectly fine still. I think it was the GPU heatsink I touched and it was burning hot within like 2 min., while the case was completely taken off. I think it might be a thermal paste problem(* I had to fix the 3 RROD a while back), basically before I go through with it I want some other opinions before the procedure. Thx for any insight you guy's might have in advance.
What I would try first is just tightening the heatsinks down a little bit at a time. If the CPU heatsink is hot thats not necessarily a bad thing, it means its absorbing the heat from the CPU. Try tightening the GPU heatsink a little more.
Tighten a little(barely quarter turns at a time), turn on the system, wait and see if it overheats, if it does, try tightening a little more.
You'll know if you overtighten as it will give you the RROD again. If it does, loosen them up a little bit. do this for both heatsinks.
If that does not fix it, then take the heatsinks off, scrape off old thermal paste, and reapply with new.
Make sure the system is in the open and getting fresh air.
Thats about it. But I would try tightening the heatsinks down a little at a time first to save from taking them off again.
I applied both the thermal paste and tightened the Gpu heatsink(whick I'm positive it's the reason that it continues to overheat. If ANYONE Else has an Idea please tell me. I'm seriously lost and out of ideas at this point. Thanks in Advance again.
If its still overheating then I am all out of ideas.
If you have correctly applied thermal paste, and the heat sinks are tightened down just right, shouldn't get overheating error unless there is an hardware problem.
I worked on a xbox the other week that was a royal pain to fix. I would get RROD, loosen the heatsinks up some, and I would get the overheating error. It took me a long time of playing to get it perfect.
Have you tried the hybrid xclamp fix or the ultimate xclamp fix? Those work pretty good when the MB is being exceptionally hard to work with.
You can stop by a wal-mart and get the craft foam to put under the chips(bottom of board where xclamps use to go). That helps keep the MB flat and not warping so you can tighten the heatsinks down more without getting the RROD.
I actually fixed it, I touched the heatsink before my last post, it was really hot. But stupid me I thought it wasn't supposed to be that hot,DUH... it's called a heatsink for a reason. So I kept freaking out and thought it was going to keep 2RROD(Over heating). I never actually saw it 2rrod AFTER i REPLACED THE THERMAL PASTE. It's been like three weeks since then and everythings going fine. I just wanted thank you guys for all your help and advice.
