360 Rrod, No Error Codes Options

[SlimXero]

Ok, so a few weeks ago, my dad's 360 began red ringing. It's an older model, over 3 years old that a friend of his got for him. Long story short, i purchased an X-clamp fix kit from Llama, and performed the fix, to the T. Cleaned both CPU and GPU, reapplied thermal paste, et al. We ended up having to overheat it 3 times as the first 2 times did next to nothing as we had the dvd drive sitting on the edge of the case, which was allowing the gpu to dissipate too much heat. 3rd time's the charm (or so we thought), left the dvd drive in and it got considerably hotter. Left it on for 45 minutes, and we also decided to wire the fan to an external 12v power source (12v 400mah, fans are rated for 12v 500mah) as we were uncomfortable trying to tie in to the dvd power source, and he doesn't really care if the back of the box has a cord coming out of it. Turned it off, waited 15-20 minutes, and everything worked fine for about 2-2.5 weeks.

Well tonight, we were playing dungeon siege III and we'd been experiencing crashes the last few nights. Last night we installed the game to the HD and tonight we connected to Live and downloaded the newest updates. Played for about 5 hours with no glitches/hiccups, but paused the game to go smoke and came back to a black screen. Controllers didn't work, etc, so we rebooted the xbox only to get the RROD again. No error codes displayed on screen, which is frustrating.

Does it need to reflowed/reballed, or does this sound like a cold joint somewhere, or should i try overheating it again? As i said, it's only really been overheated once, the other two times it didn't get nearly hot enough to reflow anything.

Thanks in advance.

TL;DR: performed xclamp fix, still red ringing. no error codes. help?

[SlimXero]

i performed the x-clamp fix as i'd had moderate success with it in the past. ugh. I guess i'll be trying to find someone here relatively close as i'm not wanting to just drop my xbox in the mail to someone.

If you find someone local, try to avoid random people on craigslist and look for someone in an actualy computer repair shop or video game shop. They'd be more likely to have the right equipment. Some random person on craigslist would be more likely to throw the Xbox in an oven or shoot a heatgun at it, which might work at first, but if it breaks again he's likely out of luck.

I'm sorry, i was misunderstood. I meant i was going to look for someone on the boards here relatively local.

[canyonnehastings]

i performed the x-clamp fix as i'd had moderate success with it in the past. ugh. I guess i'll be trying to find someone here relatively close as i'm not wanting to just drop my xbox in the mail to someone.
I'm sorry, i was misunderstood. I meant i was going to look for someone on the boards here relatively local.

Ahh I understand. You might want to check some other forums too like xbox-experts or se7ensins to increase your chances of finding someone close. You can ship an xbox for about 11 dollars flat rate anywhere in the US through USPS too. I'm in the Chicago area just so you're aware, and I also know people who do this in the Indiana area and California too I believe.