View Full Version : got a spare 360 console
Niku-Sama
03-12-10, 01:23 AM
what cool things can i do with it?
its got rrod but not constant but its WAY out of warranty (2006) so i was gonna pop it open and see what i can do with/to it
any one have any ideas?
no i cant portablize it, i dont have that sort of cash
rainless
03-12-10, 04:50 AM
Watercool it!
Then put linux on it.
lordkosc
03-12-10, 06:19 AM
convert it into a foreman grill ? :D
FudgeNuggets
03-12-10, 09:14 AM
case mod?
Niku-Sama
03-12-10, 09:24 PM
linux?
what kind ok linux, full blown game able linux?
or OS only possibly fold/seti/firewall box?
Add it to your modern art collection. It would be a fine piece.
Niku-Sama
03-12-10, 09:49 PM
i already have one for a collection, i dont need a seccond museum peice
what about different front ends for homebrew and the sort?
garbage with the rest of the console rubbish
Niku-Sama
03-13-10, 04:48 PM
i'd report that if i knew exactly what that meant
j0hnsm1th
03-13-10, 05:58 PM
convert it into a foreman grill ? :D
That was a low-blow :D I love my 360, had it since late '08 no problems, cut a side window into it, dropped it down the stairs, like I said, no problems :) That reminds me, I still gotta get some plexi-glass for it :p
Niku-Sama
03-13-10, 11:04 PM
that big hole might be why you arent having problems with it.
any way i found a less intensive fix, no drilling in this one:
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/263/85/
when i pulled the heatsinks off the surfaces were terrible, on both. so i lapped them down, they arent perfect but i am sure they'll make a good 50% more contact, they were pitted and rutted like they had been squisked through the heat sink equalivant of a play-doh factory
i had a thought though, when i was getting the fasteners i found some rubber bumper feet things, the kinda thing you'd put on the cabinet door or on the bottom of a lamp so it doesent skidd off as easily. any way i was thinking what about putting one under the mobo right under the processor?
i'm thinkin like the crappy x clamp but to a bit better force since it wont be applying force from tabs that stick to the hatsink it'll be a truly up and down force when the mobo is tightened down
Roofles
03-14-10, 12:16 AM
Step 1 is to fix RROD. Its really easy, basically take it apart and remove the old crappy thermal gunk. Then apply new thermal gunk. To fix the RROD simply unplug the fan and power the bad boy up and wait for it to overheat (its good at that). If you want to hurry the process up use a heatgun. Then just let it cool down for a couple minutes then put it back together. Done!
Ive done this for 10+ xboxs so far and there has been only 1 that I couldn't fix. The graphics chip was too far gone and would artifact after just a couple minutes.
^This is a quick fix for no longer then a week or so(maybe 2 or even 3 weeks)..Ive seen major overuse of a heat gun on a 360 by a amateur and I lol'd so hard the guy thought I was crazy... the best fix for it is to properly reball the cpu and gpu BUT that is more $$...a lot more...then that crappy xclamp fix
Use it to hold your door open.
Then next time you go to the bathroom, use it to wipe!
Then take it to GameStop and trade it in for $20.
Roofles
03-15-10, 06:58 PM
^This is a quick fix for no longer then a week or so(maybe 2 or even 3 weeks)..Ive seen major overuse of a heat gun on a 360 by a amateur and I lol'd so hard the guy thought I was crazy... the best fix for it is to properly reball the cpu and gpu BUT that is more $$...a lot more...then that crappy xclamp fix
Nope. Its worked on the 360 I have and I've been using for 6 months now. In fact I've fixed ~10 so far without hangup.
I don't have an infrared rework station so thats not going to happen. Luckily the MSEE I have puts me out of the 'amateur' category.
deathman20
03-16-10, 12:09 PM
I did an X-Clamp fix on a 360 and it worked at my place. Tried to sell it and by the time it reached the buyer it was back at it. Havn't looked at it since but if the cover was removed im sure it would work perfectly fine. That GPU puts out some enormous amount of heat for that little heatsink.
j0hnsm1th
03-17-10, 01:50 AM
I did an X-Clamp fix on a 360 and it worked at my place. Tried to sell it and by the time it reached the buyer it was back at it. Havn't looked at it since but if the cover was removed im sure it would work perfectly fine. That GPU puts out some enormous amount of heat for that little heatsink.
Running the 360 without a case is proven to be worse for heat solutions than running it with a case, because it creates a terrible airflow, you would think it would be the other way around.
Nope. Its worked on the 360 I have and I've been using for 6 months now. In fact I've fixed ~10 so far without hangup.
I don't have an infrared rework station so thats not going to happen. Luckily the MSEE I have puts me out of the 'amateur' category.
If your doing hardcore gaming I mean like the box is on for long periods of time then even I've seen the famous xclamp fix fail...
It seems the heatgun quick fix works for some but only if you are doing casual gaming...not 8 hour straight gaming sessions or so.
P.S.
The jasper and falcon consoles I have have none of that nonsense since I replaced that junk gunk thermal paste that M$ uses with MX-2 the first day I brought those consoles home. Both are fine and dandy since then.
deathman20
03-17-10, 08:12 AM
Running the 360 without a case is proven to be worse for heat solutions than running it with a case, because it creates a terrible airflow, you would think it would be the other way around.
Not if you have a fan blowing on the case. Works quiet well :) I did that even before the X-Clamp fix and it worked compared to it freezing (not RROD).
Roofles
03-17-10, 11:52 AM
If your doing hardcore gaming I mean like the box is on for long periods of time then even I've seen the famous xclamp fix fail...
It seems the heatgun quick fix works for some but only if you are doing casual gaming...not 8 hour straight gaming sessions or so.
P.S.
The jasper and falcon consoles I have have none of that nonsense since I replaced that junk gunk thermal paste that M$ uses with MX-2 the first day I brought those consoles home. Both are fine and dandy since then.
Oh I totally replaced the heatgunk with ICD7 Diamond paste. I used my overclocking experience there ;)
Niku-Sama
03-29-10, 06:07 AM
it lives, i've been playing crackdown on it at about an hour at a time.
unfortunatly it did update the system....which sucks because now it will be harder to load other OSs on or do other things with it. i wasnt thinkin when i lugged in the hard drive from my other xbox and it updated from it...but it only did it half way and some games wouldnt play so i had to online update it so it was able to play games instead of trying to load the saves and lock.
oh well some one will figure out a way to get arround that new lock out eventually
I suggest you use it as a puppy food dish.
Kibbles 'n' Bits go great in mine.
Buy a second-hand PS3, mod the internals from the PS3 into the Xbox. Make folk who come round do a double-take. :D
deathman20
03-30-10, 06:46 AM
Buy a second-hand PS3, mod the internals from the PS3 into the Xbox. Make folk who come round do a double-take. :D
Or put the 360 in a PS3 case. Either way thats a pretty good idea :) Though only think the 360 would go in the PS3 case because of the power brick would be probably too large for the 360 case. Unless its a slim then maybe.
Buy a second-hand PS3, mod the internals from the PS3 into the Xbox. Make folk who come round do a double-take. :D
That's such an awesome idea.
"DUDE! When did GoW III come out for the Xbox?!"
Niku-Sama
04-04-10, 04:38 AM
well if some one told me how to fix the blinking YLOD on a PS3 i could have a free PS3 i bet.
friend of mine has a 80 gig (a big PS3) that went poo poo on him, some resources say that the drive goes bad and causes this but a new drive and it still was all blinky so he waited a bit and bought a new 120gig
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