2 Reds Lights Of Overheating, what can i do? Options

[Xfab29]

hello
just receive a xbox core, opened, no warranty.
When i plug it, boot on xbox360 sphere intro, then 2 lights red fragging and nothing on screen
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\ <---- like this

i have not played for long hours, just plug it and frag.

what can i do?

thank you

[robivy64]

You may want to refer to this post made by BenS:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=522113

It seems some 360s have abismal cheap thermal compound on the CPU and GPU. In his guide he uses household cleaners to remove the old thermal compound... not recommended. Get yourself some Arcticlean.

-R

[Xfab29]

thank you

even if it's a cold boot, it frags.
i will try changing the thermal for artic silver.

thanks

[robivy64]

Also see this post I made about the GDDR3 memory chip cooling. Good Luck!

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=521505

-R

[Xfab29]

i've got the fucking metalic foil on the gpu
i have get it off

[robivy64]

There's your overheating . Hopefully after cleaning the CPU/GPU cores and Heatsinks properly, and installing the arctic silver, everything will work properly. BTW, what is the manufacturing date on your system?

-R

[Xfab29]

2005 10 15

bye

[Xfab29]

woot woot

xbox360 is working flawlessly now
overheating cause by this fucking aluminium foil



i change for artic silver ceramic, and it works now.

[Xfab29]

i'm so angry

i succeed in correcting my 2 red lights (overheating), when getting of the foil and changing thermal paste.
All be ok but today I've got 3 red light of death, with 0102 error no video on screen.
The GPU radiator is so damn hot!
When i get the radiator of, i get 2 red light error (overheating)

wtf could this error be?

[patrick2269]

i'm so angry

i succeed in correcting my 2 red lights (overheating), when getting of the foil and changing thermal paste.
All be ok but today I've got 3 red light of death, with 0102 error no video on screen.
The GPU radiator is so damn hot!
When i get the radiator of, i get 2 red light error (overheating)

wtf could this error be?

Sorry to say but I think your 360 is now officially dead, you had the exact same problem I had with my first 360. I did a AC5 upgrade and found foil on my GPU and I even did the fan upgrade, that fixed my box for about 3 days after that I got error 0102 and my GPU heatsink got extremely hot ( I could not touch it for more than 3-5 sec.)

[Xfab29]

i reanimated this biatch


i've let the gpu cool down, and i ve done a 12V fan mod on the gpu heatsink

video here (right click, save to)


now it runs fine
hope it will go that way for long time

[Grim187]

i didn't care what MS said about the Foil its crap even with that clay its crap and the heatsinks are a pair of jokes, the first thing i did when i opened my box is take off the CPU and gpu heatsinks, carefully picked off all that clay (with a razor then q-tip and alcohol), sanded them down (to 1500, my HW store doesn't have 2000 Bastards!) and put some Arctic silver 5 on, haven't had a problem with over heating since (except for the gpu, still burns my fingers to touch it), can you really fit a 120mm fan in there and get the case back on?


Edit: Spelling

This post has been edited by Grim187: Jun 19 2006, 11:06 AM

[Xfab29]

120mm fan in there and get the case back on?

70 mm

the case will be with drive out, so no probleme to fit the fan for the moment.
I'm waiting for a watercooling mod, and a new 360 case.

bye

[Sharky3]

I don't think you can get the case back on after that because the DVD drive sits right over the GPU heatsink. With the fan it will be impossible to close and that would block all the air flow anyway. That is why he has extended wires for the dvd connected to the motherboard.

[Xfab29]

That is why he has extended wires for the dvd connected to the motherboard.

bingo
i ve bought this xbox360 for a few bucks(less than 100 dollars) because there were frag problems.
And it works now.

thx xbox360's god for that