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If you've ever had your XBox freeze on you after a couple of minutes playing a game, then you're very much familiar with what the three red lights are. Found around the power button of your console, it spells doom or General Hardware Failure when these start to blink.Ben Kuchera had the same type of problem and suspected that it's because of an overheating issue. He opened up his 360 and found that he's right, his GPU is indeed heating up. So what he did is that he replaced the thermal interface material with some Arctic Silver. So far, this fix has worked fine with his 360. If you're having the same trouble with your console, just follow these instructions from Ben and you're well on your way to defeat the three red lights of death.
WARNING: If you're not familiar or knowledgeable in fixing computers, handling sensitive hardware and working with basic tools, please consider other options before doing anything to your console.
Materials:
- A thin hex head L-shaped wrench OR a probe tool of some sort.
- 1 T-8 Torx screwdriver
- 1 T-10 Torx screwdriver
- Plastic scraper tool or pocket knife
- Arctic Silver or other brand high quality heat sink paste
- 1 Brillo steel wool pad
- Cleaning supplies
- Open your XBox 360. Get the motherboard out of the metal cage and remove the heatsinks from both the CPU and the GPU.
- Scrape off the thermal pad from both the aluminum GPU heatsink and the copper CPU heatsink using the Brillo steal woolpad.
- Clean the remaining thermal paste from the GPU and CPU. After cleaning it, apply a minimal amount of your own thermal paste. Just enough to cover the entire die.
- Finally, reinstall the heatsinks and put your XBox 360 back together.
Via arstechnica
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These News are not "New". The fix and the issue is known since January in Germany. http://www.gamestore24.de/Anleitungen/xb360over.php
I've been going year for about a year now and haven't heard this on here... (however , yes i have heard of it). Do you people honestly not understand the fact that reporting anything related to the 360, late or not, if it is new to the site and has never been posted, it deserves to be here! SO PISS OFF!!!! reporting old news is better than reporting no news.. dumbasses
or you could just take the xbox back for a new one instead of voiding the warranty lol
Nobody should have to do this much work to make their 400 dollar investment work properly. I agree with #3, take that ***** back. I've had mine since 2-21-06 and it hasn't froze once.
It's fun though.....and i'd say use some artic silver....
it do own the origanl xbox to but when you yry but open it turn red and the screen turn green some stupid words about microsoft
Why didn't Microsoft think of this? It's hard to believe that is the main reason xboxes heat up. They make a patented vacuum water filled copper heatsink for the cpu and use a innefective heatsink paste? Are you sure that's the problem? Also how do you remove it frome the chips without ruining them?
i get the three red lights all the time with the nyko intercooler attached because the power cord won't stay attached right but other than that, mine works pretty well
Ok, so for those of you making comments about returning your xbox for a new one, thats not always possible... my xbox just started overheating and my warranty is already up. That means microsoft basically screwed me... also, if you actually open up the xbox, you can see that it is easy to remove the little paste (if any) thats on the cpu and gpu without causing damage, because the majority of the paste is located on the heatsink itself................ so yah...
dont buy it. it froze like woooo. took it back. buy games for ps2 instead biiitch
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