"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/17/2018 at 21:53 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/17/2018 at 21:53 • Filed to: None | 0
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I just snagged a broken 360 with a ton of accessories and games for $20. I mostly bought it for the controllers and batteries, but figured that I might give repairing it a shot and use it in the upstairs bedroom as a media center extender for my DVR. Has anyone here successfully repaired one of these things? Since I essentially got it for nothing I’m not terribly worried about destroying it during the repair process.
Nibby
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/17/2018 at 22:08 |
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i tried baking one in the oven but it didn’t help
MM54
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/17/2018 at 22:08 |
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I had one a long time ago with it, took it apart and re-fastened the heat sink with bolts instead of clips. It worked for a couple months before crapping out again. Wasn’t difficult.
facw
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/17/2018 at 22:09 |
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Nope, I packed mine up and sent it back to MS. As soon as I walked into UPS with the plain white box, the UPS clerk said “Dude your Xbox!”, which can’t be a good sign for the number of these MS took back.
I do remember reading tricks like running it wrapped in a blanket, or other things to try to overheat it enough to get the solder to reform, though I don’t know if that can actually work. I’m sure there are other methods out there. Unfortunately it seems like a real solution would require desoldering the chip and then reattaching it, which would certainly be beyond my skill.
If you do get it fixed, you might want to look at improved cooling, MS eventually added an additional heatsink to the refurbished units to help avoid the problem.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> facw
04/17/2018 at 22:16 |
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I did the same thing with one that was given to me for repair about 8 or 9 years ago. The previous owner didn’t want to wait for a replacement so they just bought another one; it must be nice to have a mom with a six-figure income that spoils you rotten. I looked it up online, sent it in for replacement and continued to use it for years (I don’t know where it is at the moment and haven’t fired it up in ages).
I doubt that MS is still providing replacements these days...
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/17/2018 at 22:23 |
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I used to work on 360s back in high school. There isn’t anything you can do for a permanent fix for the traditional RROD caused by overheating. You can often revive a RROD board by baking it in an oven for a few minutes but it is going to fail again after a short time. RROD boxes are really only good for parts to repair boxes with other failures.
You can get a error code for the RROD pretty easily. With the console on hold the sync button and press the disk eject button (keep holding the sync), a new light pattern will begin to flash indicating a number from 0-3, the number of segments flashing indicates the digit with all 4 lights being 0. Press eject again to get the second digit and so on until you get all 4 digits of the secondary code. This site has a list of all the secondary codes and their known meanings. (EDIT: I forgot the old trick, the secondary error code is actually a base 4 representation that matches to the Exx error codes the console will display if it is still capable of doing so. More of the Exx error translators are still on the internet and are easier to look up than the raw secondary codes) Essentially you are hoping for a 0001, 0101, or 0232. All other codes are essentially not repairable at home without specialized equipment/ experience. I once managed to diagnose and fix an 0203 GPU resistor code which I was quite proud of.
Depending on what the build date of your machine is I have a box which is 100% functional other than a busted drive mechanism. If your console has a build date around 2007 (it’s printed inside the internal metal case) I would be interested in your disk drive to try to fix the one in my box.
El Darto
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/18/2018 at 02:01 |
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I used to. Hot air rework station to reflow the GPU, then I replaced the X-Clamps with bolts. I still have one that works okay 6 years later, so I’d say it works pretty well.
Echo51
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/18/2018 at 02:45 |
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I have!(With help)
Bolted the heatsinks down as per the guides and did some ductworking. It really needs a conversion to proper bigger fans cause the rear ones are LOUD. It held up for a year, i had borrowed it out aswell, he said it started RROD’ing again. a towel wrap and run to heat it fixed it for a week, but then no dice. Took a washer out of the bolts and re-tightend and it’s run for the test period i used it afterwards.
syaieya
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/18/2018 at 08:59 |
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Most i got out of one was a year. But i tore into them enough that i could have one field stripped in half an episode watching morning cartoons