0031 = Southbridge problem, caused by either bad connection or defective southbridge

Yeah got E79 1033 to and it sucks I sent M$ a letter today lol


E-79 Primary code 1033 secondary code What is wrong with this Xbox 360. I probably will not get a description or suggestion for repair except send Microsoft a $100. You know you by a DVD player for $100 and it runs for years, you by a Xbox 360 for $400 and your lucky to get two years out of it. I should have know better than trust a Microsoft product. Good products at low quality.

My x360 have error E80 after Fall update NXE ... have 3rl, have fixed this and runnig fine before this update ... but E80 have'nt listed ... anyone ???

first of all, sorry about my English, because I'm from Latvia.
So, my xbox broken down (3 red lights) and I thought that I can repair it by myself, because there are very much tutorials about 3 red lights of death.
I tried everything (remove xclamps and replaced with screws, cleaned CPU and GPU and put on them new thermal paste and also put eraser rubber on 4 black chips (i don't know name of them).
BUT NOTHING IS WORIKING! I still get ERROR code 0102
I think i tried everything, also I overheated CPU removing FAN connector... But... Nothing... Still this damn error code 0102..
Can anybody help me...

I'm getting a 0103 error anyone know what it is?

I have error 0132, i don't no what it could be.
It can't be overheating because it's not getting hot.
Basically if i load up a game, i can only play for like 2 minutes (actual gameplay).
After that it just immediately switches off and two red lights start flashing. No loud noises, nothing.
I don't know what the problem could be if anyone could help out that would be great.
(I have an elite btw)

Sections 1, 2 and 4 are flashing for my secondary error code, is that normal to represent "3"?

had an X360 with E-73 error. Customer fried NIC trying to do NME "Y" point.

Anyway, I swapped the NIC and E-73 is gone, but now it is E-75, so I am guessing the MAC address on the NIC is registered to the bios , just a guess

Hi, re-place/re-solder R6T3 and try booting your console.
Good luck.

Hi.my xbox 360 is giving 3 light rrod.no signal on tv and no spinning of fans.would appreciate if some1 knows a solution.
My power supply works for sure as i've got 2 consoles.

I got one red light with E-74 earlier today.

For the first year i had my 360 I played it vertically, then for the past two days I played it horizontally and now this I get E-74.

This is the second xbox I have gotten E-74 with.

Also, I have 0102.
What should I do?

I have had these Errors I will show you what my board looks like so you can see how to fix my problems i had RROD But its now fixed so ill get a pic as soon as possible.

0102 Error in the "Digital Backbone" (CPU/GPU/RAM), this is usually caused by a cold solder joint between the GPU and the main board.

0103 GPU Error this is usually caused by bridged solder joints. Where the GPU connects to the mainboard. See error 0102 for more detailed information.

E67: Hard Drive Error... It could be a problem with the Hard Drive itself or a problem with the internal connection to the hard drive, Try removing the hard drive and playing without it.

E68: Voltage Error... This error means that the Xbox 360 has insufficient power to function properly. This can be caused by an error in the hard drive or the fans that make them suck up too much power, it can also be caused if you have unnecessary accessories attached to the console like an external fan unit. Attempt to remove unnecessary accessories first, and then necessary components such as the hard drive and USB devices. If you have any case mods you may want to investigate those as well.

E71: possibly a dashboard update error, Check below in the "Console Reset Codes" for instructions. If that does not work there is no other solution and the console must be sent back to MS for repair.


ill get the pic as soon as possible ok thanks AK I OVERLORD I

here is the image of the WHISPER MAX FANS I BROUGHT AND IT SEEMED TO CURE MY RROD BECAUSE IT HAS TWO TYPES OF MODES WHICH AT TURBO AND NORMAL I ALSO HAVE SOME OF THE NEW HEAT SINKS ON THERE SO THAT CURES ALL THESE PROBLEMS I HAD YOU CAN FIND ALL THIS ON EBAY I THINK THE IMAGE IS BROKE




ill try this one
the image will not show DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO INSERT IT INTO THE NOTE

I know mate its this: 0102 Error in the "Digital Backbone" (CPU/GPU/RAM), this is usually caused by a cold solder joint between the GPU and the main board.

OK, I have a 0013, which is RAM overheating, they have answers for other overheatings but not RAM, so:

1) WTF is the RAM?
and
2)What can I do!?!??!?!?!!?!?
PLEASE HELP!

Fixed error 0110 with Heat gun for 3 minutes and pads on RAM.

Been going for a week now without fault *touch wood*

Just in time to get a HDD and 3 months of live for £20.. hahaha...

-> 0013

I fixed mine 6 months ago, or maybe I should say that my brother and I fixed it... .We caved in and got a DIY guide to help us out... good luck guys!

ive got 1 2 3 lights all showing up and 4th light not around the start button going tofrom left to right any info please

Ok i started playing on my xbox 2 days ago where these vertical lines began to appear on my screen so i switched my xbox off n unplugged 2 av cable put it bk on 30 mins later and I got 1 flashing red light in the bottom right quadrant a message appeared on my screen with multiple languages is said contact customer support i look on the internet 2 find out what E74 was and it said it was a problem with the av cable so i borrowed my freinds av cable 2 see if that would work i suspected it would, but no progress same flashing red light and same error code ive unplugged everything and plugged back in ive took out my hard drive no difference and i left it off for about a day tried again in morning nothing has changed i contacted customer support but they said it will take up to 7 weeks for it 2 be fixed also i noticed without my av cable plugged in i do not get the red light flashing as soon as i plug it in E74 and red light and my xbox seems fine what can i do to fix this problem if anyone could reply i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading

I got my friends X360 with E71, and occasionally E79. I know about clearing a cache and system update, but it has NXE, and it cannot be cleared. Is there any new method for it ?

Thanks

Falcon
E71-no DVD
0103- rebaling GPU

hello.. i wanna reheat the GPU and (H)ANA clip.. but i dunno where's this (H)ANA chip is.. can anyone show me?
many thanks

Locate the GPU, it is the chip straight back from the gpu towards the back of the xbox where the fans are. If you have HDMI, it will say HANA and if no hdmi then it will say ANA on the chip.

I had my elite and i got red ring so i exchanged it and got a new console but kept the same wiring and hdd.
i turned da new 1 on and i got e71 in the top left of my screen. so i turned it off removed hdd and setup console then put hdd back on. after this i had to keep turning the console on and off until it loaded up correctly. and when i went on vegas 2 online my game froze half way through a match like it did on the dash. so i did a maintainance check and the turned it off held the sync button in and waited until boot up and worked pretty normal. i turned it off and on a few times and was working fine. so i suggest this to you.

and whem i rang up they said to me it could be a hdd fault. so chances are they would of sent me a new hdd drive but then how do you transfer your data. but if they say send it off dont.

today i have my first rrod problem

but Is the secundary problem

some problem with the power cable and now is solved

Just got a refurbed-360 pro, Worked fine untill I tried getting Live to work, Of coarse an update prompted and thus started getting the E71 error soon after.

Though the guide says to clear the system cache and failed updates, but for some reason I don't see how this is accomplished, there are no indicaters on what updates are good or bad.

So my question is would reformating the HD and setting the Xbox back to original configuration clear all of this up?

Just got a refurbed-360 pro, Worked fine untill I tried getting Live to work, Of coarse an update prompted and thus started getting the E71 error soon after.

Though the guide says to clear the system cache and failed updates, but for some reason I don't see how this is accomplished, there are no indicaters on what updates are good or bad.

So my question is would reformating the HD and setting the Xbox back to original configuration clear all of this up?

Hello everybody, and thanks for the awesome thread which has lead me to fix another Xbox! This is my first post here!

Now, I have two Xbox's present of which I have no idea how to fix them:

The first, I fixed from an 0102 by replacing the x-clamps with regular screws and washers (a guy near me sells them as a kit) and also renewing the thermal paste. It worked fine for a month or two, until my little brother decided he'd try to play MotoGP. He's five, mind you, and the case was open so I would have easy access to the DVD-drive, which had been acting up. I don't know exactly what went wrong, but something happened between the time that I shut it off one night, and the time I tried to fire it back up the next day. One thing that that surely happened, is the fact that he had turn it on, tried to start MotoGP, but failed. What happens next, I have no idea. It could be anything. Long story short, it's now an 0020. I have gathered from the internet and this thread in particular, that it's pretty much a dead case. Any help on this one is appreciated though.

The second, I just bought. It was supposedly a fresh (as in, unopened) 0110. Well, it certainly was 0110, but not fresh. The first thing I noticed was that the warranty sticker was scratched and torn. Then, the actual eject-button had molten shut (I noticed it not working properly when checking for the error). The black part (it catches a screw from the case) in between the memory-card inputs was bent out of shape, and later I found that the screw was hard to turn, until it finally stripped clean. And finally, there was some tin foil STILL covering some of the transistors. I went 'Fuck me blind, I've been screwed'. Sure enough, I got the motherboard out, turned it over, and these 'things' were covering the four memory chips. I can best describe them as poster-stickers, because that's what they resembled most.
Anyway, after clearing all of the residue from a previous 'fix' (the tin foil and 'goo' covering the RAM), and fixing the eject-button so that it would actually work, I went on to a full inspection off the board. Most of it seems to be intact, still, so thank god for that. I then reassembled it, fired it up, but still the 0110. I applied my Xecuter kit (the rubber pads for the RAM chips), and I thought it was gonna work for sure, because believe it or not, the RROD actually stopped flashing sometime during warmup! Ok, so I let it cool down, reassemble, turn it on... RROD.
So far, I've tried applying some thermal paste in between the Xecuter pads and the RAM chips, but to no avail. I've also replaced the X-clamps with screws and washers, like the kit that worked for the first one, and applied some thermal paste there as well. Still nothing works. The 0110 remains. What to do?

I'm sorry for the HUGE text, but I really need some help trying to get these to work. If anyone has any idea whatsoever on getting one of them back up and running, it'd be heaps appreciated!

Regards, and thanks in advance,

Yoep

Currently have a falcon displaying secondary code 0022, does the hot glue round the chips in any way stop the x-clamps effectiveness? is it a case of tweaking the bolts till it sits flat.
Any help would be appreciated as its been given to me for free

Some ive managed to fix:

had one with green lights but no picture, now the best way to source what to heat with your heatgun is to use a hairdryer while its on, just waft it around the hana and the av port till the picture comes back, and then note that area, isolate it and hot gun it, its not always the hana, this one was the U2B1 chip in rail B.

a few 3 red ring machines done so far but there have been a few come in that people have hot gunned to much and the ram or resistors have come off, has anyone ever attempted to re solder any parts back on, looks like a right fiddle!

Stu

hi,i have a big trouble.

0021>good working for 2 months>0021>gpu was cracked>0003

i wanna to buy xgpu from ebay and change it.but how? where i can read about reball?

and how i can treat 0003?

I just want to document what happened to my xbox360 just now. (ERROR 0111) that's right, the "not yet know" one.

Last night I was playing forza 2 (a racing sim) it wasn't installed on the HDD.
I got RockBand 1 Drums for Xmas and I usually just leave the usb cable plugged in, so if the xbox is on, so are the drums. (Maybe this has to do with the problem)

So I was playing Forza 2 with the drums connected and on for a few hours I guess and went to bed.

This morning I wanna play Rock band 2 with my Rb1 drums and I turn on the xbox and it boots to NXE like always. Once I see that Forza2 is still in I look at my xbox to eject the drive and I'm starring at 3 red flashing lights of death again (I did a xclamp replacement before to remedy ERROR 0102 and it's been going strong) so without fiddling with the controller or anything like that I go for the error code and it's 0111. I turn it off using the power button and the fan stays on for a while along with the 3RLs, and then it's completely off...

I unplug everything and I mean everything... except for the component cables in the TV. I waited for 5 or 10 minutes and started plugging stuff back in. I turn it on and wait... It seemed to take a bit longer to display the xbox animation, but it might just be my eagerness to see if my xbox is ****ed.... and well, it ran strong for about 2 minutes. (I turned it off)

...There you have it, now I'm scared a bit... Damn xbox... Hope this little bit helps. U can PM me if you have more questions.

Ei guys,

This is a follow up post to my previous one (topic : 3rl, 0020) well basically I bought a heat gun but to no avail (I even got suffocated by trying to inspect the damn thing after heating the mobo pewwww) anyway so here's the run down of what I've done so far with my box.

Initially I got 1rl-E74 error (after a good 9 months of smooth gaming, mine is a zephyr with custom fans installed) so I read through the forum and found out it was something related to the HANA/ANA chip...I did the x-clamp fix and lo and behold, it worked for a good 3 hours...tried several games and I shut it off. When I tried powering it back on, the E74 error recurred. I tried tightening and loosening the screws to no avail. I removed the screws and re-pasted the heat sinks with new thermal paste and was shocked to see the dreaded 3rl! I got the secondary error codes as 0020. From that point on I never got lucky at trying to make it go away sometimes I get a 0030 when the screws for the GPU get to tight. I try loosening them and I go back to 0020. I tried running the heat gun properly with isolation and yet I didn't get any results. What am I doing wrong? Is this thing still even fixable?

Your help will surely be appreciated, and well right now Ill try anything just to get this thing working again.
(Though I don't wanna try the towel fix coz of the horrible things that happen to people who try this. LOL)

I can't update my post and I wanted to add some more details to ERROR 0111

My HDD was very full I only had about 70MB left. That might be what was wrong.

I had a piece of paper behind the face plate to dim the leds a bit cuz I don't like bright lights when I play at night. Maybe 0111 means something is obstructing or hindering the RF waves?

One last thing... The first time this happened I used the drumset to turn the xbox on using the guide button. The 2nd time it happened I used my controller. So I'm hoping that freeing up space and removing the piece of paper will solve the problem. =)

Hey, just registered. So Hello I guess.


Anyway, thank you so much for this. I was clueless with what the 2 Red Lights was.
I found out I have 0013.
RAM problems.


I don't want to pay Micro$oft to fix some crap which shouldn't happen anyway in the first place.
Google is pretty much as useless as it could possibly be as well just now.
No matter where you go I cannot find a fix for the RAM overheating.





So guys, any fixes on this problem?
Or do you recommend I should just pay the money grubbers to fix it for me?...

Great thread. I've just fixed my xbox which had a 0102 then a 020 error. I got it for free because it was rrod and I've never even had an xbox before, that's how noobie I was so a great guide.

Anyway, it was 3 red lights and before I found this thread I tried the towel trick. It worked, for about 2 minutes then the picture froze with white patterns on the screen. So after googling I found this thread and found out how to find the error code which told me it was an 0102.

I removed the fan, turned it on until the 3 red lights turned into 2 red lights which means it's overheating. Let it cool down again and it did the same as the towel trick, a few minutes working then the white patterned freeze screen. Turned it off and back on again to get the rrod again.

Then I found out that if I pressed down on the GPU heatsink it would turn on but freeze after a few seconds. It would then stay rrod until I pressed down on the GPU heatsink again. If I left it to cool then pressed down on the heatsink, I would get a few minutes before the freeze happened.

So now I'm thinking that the GPU is overheating because the heatsink isn't fitted properly. I removed the x-clamp keeping the heatsink on and found the silver thermal stuff was just a square bit of nothing really. A big hole in the middle of it, I could touch the heatsink, there was hardly any thermal stuff there.

So I cleaned it up and the gpu chip. Applied new thermal paste and put it back. I used 4 nuts I had lying about instead of the xclamp+studs and screwed the nuts in finger tight. When I turned the xbox on it was rrod but this time it was a 020 error. Heated it up again until it had 2 red lights, let it cool off, but still had the 020 error so that didn't work.

I then loosened the nuts on the heatsink and turned it on. It instantly went 2 red lights for overheating so I turned it off. I then finger tightened the nuts again then gave them a little turn loose so they weren't so tight and turned it back on.

It worked! Green lights! I've had it running 4 hours now. The most I'd seen this xbox do was 3 minutes before screen freezes but I've this CoD WaW game running hours now.

So if you're getting the 020 error, your heatsink might be on to tight. Try loosening the nuts off so they're just less than fingertight.

This xbox is an old one, it has August 2005 wrote on the inside. Foxconn.

had my xbox for less than 7 months, played halo 3 a bit yesterday monring, turned it off, went and took a nap as i normally do, woke up turned it on, my friends pictures were fuzzy but everything else was fine, so im just like eh whatever, put fable 2 in start it up get in game, the consol turns off

Turn it back on and get E74 error, fill out a repair form on xbox, call xbox just cause i like the be a %$#@ and yell at people, the guy informs me all repairs in the first year are free, and the 3 red rings are covered for 3 years, also tells me the 1 year can be extended on the phone for 30$, box with label got here 2 days after contacting them, so im like whatever i dont wanna wait to play xbox for it to get back here, so i send mine out, borrow a friends, come to find out, theres different damn power bricks, new bricks dont fit old xbox's, well il be, if its not one thing its another...

though my bitching at the guy on the phone did get me 3 months of xbox live for free, so i do suggesting yelling a bit at M$


Also just curious if its me, or if anyone else has this problem, when my xbox was working i had my network set up so i could listen to music from my pc on my box, welll after about a month when id just go to my pc on the xbox and press play all, if i tried to skip a song it would freeze up the box on me, anyone know if this is somehow e74 related, if i just have bad luck, or if M$ is just screwed up on my box even more?

I also got the E 74 error message. So it is either a AV cord connection problem or GPU error?

(regarding error code 0003)
I recently became a proud member to the RRoD club, error code 0003. After reading many posts, having a spare xbox and time; I got busy.

First the symptoms;

The xbox would turn on but the fan would not. The drive would open and close. i also know that the disc drive is fine. I also tested the fan in another xbox--fine too.

Then i noticed that my power supply was turning red after turning on the 360. I used it on my good 360, it worked fine. i also used my PS from the other 360 on the bad one, it made it turn red sometimes, and others it would stay orange, but i don't believe it was ever green.

Next came a visual inspection. None of the Caps were blown and they all seemed fine, the soldering looked ok too.

I DID NOT LOOK CLOSELY AT THE MOSFETS!!!
i'll come back to this.

I found that the part connecting the board to the Power supply was gunky.. and looked like it had melted internally so i took the good one off the good 360, which was a pain in the ass.
this, however, did not solve the problem and nothing changed in the error code.

From there i figured I'd order an x-clamp because it's quick and easy... for the most part and cross my fingers.

It didn't work. I ended up selling it to someone, but if i had to bet (coming back to the I DID NOT LOOK CLOSELY AT THE MOSFETS!!! part) i missed something on the board.

IN CONCLUSION; in my case i believe if i would have looked hard enough i would have found bad soldering, or bad mosfets to be the culprit.

I found a few posts discussing it further. The second one in particular seems to be on the right track.

Hope this helps.

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=628170
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/i...hp/t667978.html

Hey guy, I was wondering if any of you could help me


I get 3 lights when I boot it, doesnt even show anything on the TV, then after about 30 seconds,
/ \
\ /

It goes to 2 lights.

/ \
\ /

The fan is working fine, not sure whats up with it to be honest.

Any ideas?

Please guys I really need your help.

its overheating. do the xclamp fix if you havent. and if you have clean the gpu/cpu off and redo the thermal paste and put it back together it should work fine.

Guys,

Any news about what E73 - 1021 is? I think it is more than clear now, based on all experiences we found in the forums worldwide that this is not an ethernet problem. No one can fix it after replacing the ethernet connector or chip, it only gets worst turning into E74. Anyone was successful on fixing E73 - 1021?

hey guys!
i'm new here but i've been reading this forum for a while now and it's been very helpful to me so far. now i have my first set of questions . i recently got a rrod xbox 360 and decided i would try to fix it as i've been reading about the massive success rate of the xclamp fix so i got to work and took the console apart. what seems disturbing to me is the lower part of the motherboard which shows some corrosion. i know at least one other person here encountered this a few years back and i was wondering if any1 got to the source of it.
is there any point in cleaning it? what should i use to clean it? does it affect the console behaviour? can i do anything to avoid it getting worse?
my theory is it's probably pretty old (the corrosion) and also probably due to bad storage conditions prior to its sale as i don't leave near the sea or in a high humidity area..

thanks!

ps: here are some pics:

well my 360 has decided to 1020 on me, and i tinkered with it a bit. apparently it was "refurbeshed" when i bought it as it had the x clamp replaced and a 12v mod for the fan, which annoyed the crap out of me. anyways, as i tinkered, i removed the heatsinks to find they never cleaned the old TIM off, and just added new stuff that oozed out and was dipping down the mobo a little, completely covering 2 diffrent diode like things near the gpu. after i cleaned and put the sinks back on i got 0031, which i fixed by loosening the sink a little. so i thinks 0031 is a smashed gpu problem. or possibly cpu... oh well thought id throw in my 2 cents. now to actually try heatgunning the board.

I just bought 3 xbox's for $100 bucks becuase of RROD and 2 of the 3 had the same corrosion as yours does, pretty much in the same area.

I have a idea where it might have came from, when you think about the 360 it gets pretty hot on the inside, and if cool air is being drawn in through the vents, something happens (i forgot what its called) and you get condensation...

Those are my 2 cents

I just tried out the oven fix on a friends the other day and set the sinks on top just to boot it, it booted fine. Today I tried it and got a 0020, I think this may be caused by a short in the gpu sink on one of the resistors because I set a camera on top of the heatsink to level it out and it went away. It boots every time. So if you tried a fix and still have a problem make sure the sink is properly secured. That oven fix worked wonders so I doubt it broke again. I honestly think it was a short.

After getting 3RROD, did xclamp on it, then got error 0002. Loosened the CPU clamps (realized it was too tight), and it now works great.

Seems like some of the codes come up as a result of it being too tight after the replacement.

after further investigation with some more experienced electronics guys i've reached the conclusion that it's probably nothing to worry about as it's most likely just residue from the manufacturing process. that console has been working great for couple of weeks now.

Good to know. The ones I fixed are working too.