Thread 2948171

Hey anons, I opened up my old fat 360 to replace the thermal paste and now I’m getting 3 red rings with error code 0110.
From what I found online, it’s usually GPU or RAM around the GPU. I circled some empty spots on the board in the pic, but people told me that’s normal for this revision.

Question is: how do I save this thing at home? Is a heatgun reflow actually worth trying, or is it just a temporary bandaid and a full reball is the only real fix?

Anyone here had success reviving an 0110 without professional BGA equipment?

tl;dr: how do I resurrect my fatbox, don’t wanna bury it just because of a few cracked solder joints.

You're unlikely to find much help here but i vaguely remember the phat motherboard revisions

Falcon and jasper are the only two possibly worth fixing but even then, what's a 360 going for these days? $20? Maybe $50?

>>2948171 (OP)
Did it work before you changed the paste?

Yes, everything worked before I changed the thermal paste, maybe I'm an idiot and ruined everything.

>>2948184
I think your x-clamps aren't seated properly which overheated the GPU. Redo the x-clamps and power it on for a while.

>>2948171 (OP)
i used to fix these things as a side hustle back in 2011.

normally if i did the classic penny trick and it didnt fix it meant either the power cable is fucked up, the disc drive wasnt in correctly or the x clamps were on wrong.

clean your contact points for literally everything double check your screws and make sure the heat sinks are all solid. good luck OP

>>2948658
>>2948171 (OP)
Another thing you might consider is getting some double sided thermal tape and some little heatsinks and attaching them to the chips circled in pic related. I don't think it will fix your problem but I heard somewhere that they were often the cause of RRD failures. So if you do fix it, it probably wouldn't hurt to attach a few little heatsinks while your at it. Just dont go overboard and block/disrupt airflow off of the main heatsinks. I suppose while your at it putting the same quick and dirty but better than nothing supplemental cooling on any other chips just sitting around wouldn't hurt either.

>>2948171 (OP)
It looks like a falcon or Jasper revision, you probably knocked a component off removing or reinstalling the x-clamps.

>>2948171 (OP)
Top-right, HDD port shielding is laying on the PCB. Might be shorting something.

>change thermal paste
>fuck up xclamps
>RROD
every time

The real fucking answer is this: most hardware failures up to Xenon have GPU defects. Most of the time even a reball won't completely fix it, though it WILL need a reball with a newer GPU.
Properly diagnose your own console or give it to someone who can.

>>2949353
>>2948658
>>2948188
x-clamps is the only thing I remember about fixing mine back in the day. consider a pawn shop these have to be cheap as shit these days outside of the niche faggots.

>>2948171 (OP)
Just throw a wet towel over the vent bro.

>>2949353
>>fuck up xclamps
Amazing how this bullshit persists. I regularly buy working boards which are shaped like a banana after 20 years of an installed heatsink with no backing plate bending it, remove the heatsink, put one on with a backing plate, and it still works. Electronics shouldn't stop working because you disturb them slightly, an XBOX board should boot with the case open, and a block of metal resting on the CPU and GPU.

You either reball the GPU with 60/40 or 63/37, or you replace it with a Zeus GPU (which you have reballed with 60/40 or 63/37). That's how it's fixed. End of story.

Everyone who bought aftermarket clamps 15+ years ago is a complete retard because Microsoft REPLACED YOUR GPU FOR ZERO DOLLARS if you just mailed them the fucking console with a shipping label they'd send you for ZERO ADDITIONAL DOLLARS.

>>2948171 (OP)
>without professional BGA equipment?
If you're really diligent you can replace a BGA chip with a heat gun. Hot-glue seal some tinfoil to protect the rest of the board (glue the bead on the side of the foil which doesn't get direct heat, then fold back You will need a re-balling stencil regardless.

Anything unpopulated from the factory isn't important.

>>2948658
>"I used to fix a latent hardware fault I didn't understand with temporary fixes which did nothing except create a new latent fault."
Yeah, you were one of the cowboy retards conning other retards.

>>2949917
>Yeah, you were one of the cowboy retards conning other retards.

i was 14 and wanted to make a quick $70 to buy weed and bmx parts go fuck yourself and figure out how to fix it if it breaks when you buy it