my xbox 360 broke

[Shifty]

yup its there its fun tho :P

[thebiggameover]

link please. i cant find it....

[Supafly345]

This exact thing happened to me, in the same exact time frame. 1 month after the warrentee it breaks down. I havent' sent it into them yet, but I am thinking that I will.

[timrpgland]

I took the beast apart (for the most part) yesterday. Didn't have enough time to dig much deeper but pics and progress to come.

[timrpgland]

After a lot of messing with it and eventually trying the "hot air gun method" I got the son of a bitch to work last night.

The problem now is that it's running too hot and will occasionally crash and give the 2 left side red lights. I think I can remedy that issue though.

I'll post pictures of the stupid ordeal tonight.

[MetalMilitia]

Did you re-apply thermal paste after dis-assembling the HSF (heatsink fan unit). Assuming it needs some.

[timrpgland]

That's what I was thinking, there was some left but apparently not good enough. I can also rig up some extra cooling device after the fact. I didn't have any paste to do that last night though. I'll be back to messing with it again after work.

[MetalMilitia]

Not sure how much you know about this kind of thing so don't take the following post as being patronising:

Some really good thermal paste is Arctic Silver 5, but when you apply it do not apply too much; there should only be a very thin layer covering the entire core.
You should also ensure that the core is completly clean before applying a new layer of paste. There are specialised alcohol based cleaners available or if you have something similar it should work just fine.

If the base of the heatsink appears slighly rough or tarnished give it a good clean with fine wirewool (away from electonics!). It's not 100% neccacary but will give better thermal contact between the core and HSF.

[timrpgland]

It's really hard to "get to me" so, definately, no worries.

I'm not huge on this stuff anyway, especially these days, I used to put together and fix PC's years ago so I know at least what things are.

I think Best Buy carries thermal paste but not totally sure. There aren't many computer stores here in town. Any idea where I can find the kind you speak of? Hardware store maybe?

[MetalMilitia]

Any computer hardware shop shold carry it or something similar, if not NewEgg will definatly have the exact stuff.

Basically all you need to watch out for are the thermal pads. They don't work well at all.