Looking for an XBox repair guru...

Cristobal09 · 03-29-2012, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Huck

Not to derail, but if you PS3 guys are playing MW3 at all PM me, I play a lot. That and Skyrim take up way too much of my time to be healthy.

Sent from my iPizzle using magic and new fangled science stuff.

Skyrim is god (450 hours in two games), but not as good as fallout.

But my xbox when it died on me, I found a guy on craigslist to fix it. Lot of people offer their services to fix them on there.

MightyBobo · 03-30-2012, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Cristobal09

Skyrim is god (450 hours in two games), but not as good as fallout.

But my xbox when it died on me, I found a guy on craigslist to fix it. Lot of people offer their services to fix them on there.

The people on Craigslist generally do the simple fix which costs about $5 perform, which I already did. Its easy to do.

MY problem unfortunately, is quite a bit more expensive more than likely.

MyKindaGuise · 03-30-2012, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by MightyBobo

The people on Craigslist generally do the simple fix which costs about $5 perform, which I already did. Its easy to do.

MY problem unfortunately, is quite a bit more expensive more than likely.

Did you bake it yet? Typically with Xbox the solder like to come loose and the heat sinks on the south bridge are garbage. Rip it apart and throw the motherboard in the oven at around 350~F. That is enough to remelt the solder and fix most south bridge connection issues. If you don't like that just take off all heat sinks and turn it on. It will thermal shutdown after 10-15min and will have the same effect. I prefer the latter because I also like to redo the factory TIM because no manufacturer can apply TIM correctly...my temps dropped about 10~C after a fresh application..

MightyBobo · 03-30-2012, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by MyKindaGuise

Did you bake it yet? Typically with Xbox the solder like to come loose and the heat sinks on the south bridge are garbage. Rip it apart and throw the motherboard in the oven at around 350~F. That is enough to remelt the solder and fix most south bridge connection issues. If you don't like that just take off all heat sinks and turn it on. It will thermal shutdown after 10-15min and will have the same effect. I prefer the latter because I also like to redo the factory TIM because no manufacturer can apply TIM correctly...my temps dropped about 10~C after a fresh application..

I'm going to get a heat gun today and reflow the solder myself with that. I dont like the baking idea, personally - prefer a more focused and higher-temperature option.

Taking the heatsinks off wont help me: the southbridge HAS no heatsink :-p. Besides, I've already replaced my X-clamp and redone my thermal paste on the CPU and GPU. They are running properly.

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