Xbox 360 Repair Center

The towel trick

Some of the possible results . Your unit may

come back to life temporarily , If you repeat

the towel trick you will damage the fan speed

thermostat that is built in to the G. P. U. and will

reduce the chances for a reliable repair. The

heat sensitive parts like capacitors and diodes

will be damaged due to excessive heat. This

will shorten their life considerably.

Cracked solder joints due to insufficient clamping

force to the board ( Microsoft will not replace the

X clamp which is the primary problem). Without

GPU CPU re-flow procedures and an X clamp

modification a repeat failure is likely .

Two red lights

Overheating of either the C.P.U / G.P.U. is

caused by air gaps bettween the heat sink ,

and the chips or a restriction of air flow through

the console This will cause the unit to go into

thermal shut down

One red light

All E66, E67, E68, E69, E71, E74, error codes

are hardware failures .The hardware that causes

all the problems is called the X clamp .The X

clamp is an over engineered spring / retainer,

that has serious problems keeping the G.P.U

chip connected to the board. Heating and

cooling of the chip can and will eventually crack

open connections under the G.P.U. An X clamp

mod done correctly after the C.P.U G.P.U are

re-flowed to the main board fixes all of these

error codes usually permanently.

The X clamp mod and re-flow

corrects the follwing :

Sound no video , Freezing , Slugish game play , H.D.M.I

problems ,White / Green vertical lines, 1, 2 or 3 red lights with

or without error mesage, E66, E67, E68, E69, E71, E74

Re-flow process

The re-flow process refers to precision highly

localized heating of integrated circuits and other

parts.In order to melt solder laden pins directly to

the main board .Establishing sometimes1000's of

separate connections at once.

R.R.o.D. Three red lights

Is caused by the G.P.U. desoldering itself from

the main board . The fix is an X clamp mod

and when done correctly it`s a permanent fix.

The X clamp mod done after re-flowing the

G.P.U resolves a host of problems, Including

but not limited to: freezing , lagging, hardwear

error, ( A.K.A. the three red lights ) , white

vertical lines. All proper X clamp modified units

will run cooler and be extremely reliable.

Tray doesn't open

The cause is from the magnet that clamps

and holds the C. D . in the drive.The magnet

is stronger then the eject motor, so the motor

can't break the magnetic seal. But if you slap the

top of your Xbox ( hard ) over the drive right

after you press eject the tray will open.

The fix is to open the CD drive and gap the hold

down magnet , allowing the motor to break the

magnetic seal with less force.

L N N N N N N Y W W F F

L = Factory Line

N = Factory output for that week

Y = Last digit in the year of manufacture date

W = first # week of that year

W = second # week of that year

F = Factory 02 = Mexico 03 = Hungary

05 = China 06 = Taiwan

Heat gun trick

Most common results form this procedure are

a severely warped and useless 360 PC board.

It's not practical to try and thermal cycle chips

manually with a heat gun, you have little control

over damaging heat build up at the surface of the

P.C. board. A better solution is to have a repair

shop that has a Re-flow machine to re-flow the

G.P.U. back to the main P. C. board .

Laser Replacement

Your CD rom drive fails in two ways, It spins up

then stops , and the screen says there's no

disk load in the drive (open tray problem).This

is likely caused by a weak or dead laser .Dust

isn't normally an issue due to the hi RPM of the

drive . Dust gets swept off before it can settle

Drive Replacement

The other cause is one of the two motors in the

drive is weak or dead . Same result (open tray ).

This repair requires that you replace the drive

and swap the old PC board to a new drive .

Coming soon

Hardware update

Conformal Compression Assembly

This is a highly effective G.P.U clamaping

system that will even straghten slightley

warped P.C. boards.

Easily installable and non conductive.

Protects P.C. board from thermal distortions.

Stiffener /Thermal transfer plate

This is an 16ga aluminum backing plate

with a cooper inlay that goes between

the G.P.U. and the heat sink .This plate

preforms a duel function.

1 It stiffens the stock heat sink allowing

grater loads with minimal corner flexing.

2 The copper slug inserted in the plate

will absorb heat from the G. P .U. die

at a much higher rate and will disperse

it more rapidly and evenly over the

surface of the stock heat sink.