Great Deal

[Decatur]

So yeah, I was talkin to a real good friend today and he said he had to buy a new 360 cause problems with his old one, so I asked him whats he doin with it? He said it's gathering dust, and I jokingly said, I'll take it! Turns out, he took me seriously, and said I'll cut you a great deal, 60 bucks for the system and a HDD.(20gb)

 

So heres the catch he told me a couple problems.

• Overheats easily
  
• And gets 2 red rings
  

Anyone know any quick fixes/fixes for these?

[Curtis]

Hmmm...

 

Take it apart, blow all the dust out. That should be a temporary fix.

[iBotPeaches]

I think an X Clamp mod would solve that because after a few more overheats that video encoder junk chip will throw that E 74 error.

[Korupt Data]

Keep the system open'd up and make sure it gets alot of air flow.

[Decatur]

Okay, I have every intention of flashing this second box, what does 'Xclamp' mean?

[Pargy]

Yup the x-clamp fix will fix that if just cleaning it out doesnt

[Decatur]

Anyone have experience with flashing a drive, OTHER than xpargas?

[Dark Slipstream]

2 Red Rings is just caused by overheating.

 

If it has a warranty, just purposely overheat it with towels, and send it to Microsoft for a new one LOL.

[Decatur]

Pretty sure this box is roughly 2 years into warrenty so I want to RRoD it so I have time to save up for sata card + other things needed.

[blacklabelfosho]

open up the 360.

pull out the motherboard.

on the bottom there will be two big fking X's.

 

pop them off... be very careful.

 

then reveal the chips underneath,

there should be three, they are shiny. clean them off and then put the clamps back on. re assemble w/o the Disk tray attached. turn it on, should get 2 red lights.

then turn off, fully reassemble then turn on one more time.

 

should work perfectly

 

xclamp fix in short hand...

 

there are many videos on youtube about it... its really simple