All 360 Repair Center
Phone  (425) 743-3616        Fax  (425) 743-2676
2724  164th St   SW,   lynnwood,  WA  98087
2724  164th St  SW,  lynnwood,  WA  98087
Phone   #  (425) 743-3616          Fax   # (425) 743-2676
                            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.


Tech info
Our process
                              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.


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Xenon / Zephyr      Opus / Falcon         Jasper
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
Open Tray  ( no disk error )
Console Plug Style / Versions

                          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.

Hours      9:00 - 5:00       Monday  -   Friday
                 R.R.o.D. Three red lights

The primarily  cause  is the  G. P. U . heating   the
P.C. board up which causes  it  to expand slightly.
lead /tin solder could  tolerate  this expansion but
The  E.P.A. has required  all  electronics  MFG. to
use  Silver / Tin solder  similar to plumbing solder
witch  becomes brittle and has   poor mechanical
properties with regards to shear loads, so heating
and cooling cycles will  inevitably start to  fracture
connections . PS3  also experience  this problem
but to a far  lessor degree due  to a better cooling
system.

                  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.


Contents
1 Xenon 3 Falcon 5 Jasper
2 Zephyr4 Opus  6 Valhalla
                             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 .
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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 .


The 360 can be made durable

We here  at 360  repair had to do an in depth
study of all  of  the  primary failures of the 360
console  in order to  asses  whether  the   unit
could  be  made  durable.

  Our finding and recommendations

First is heating  and  cooling cycles  will cause
the   P . C.  board   to   distort   slightly   this  will
inevitably  start   fracturing solder  joints  under
the G P U even  newer boxes  will  experience
these  types  of  failures  after  prolonged  use,
also chips next to  the  GPU  will  start  to loose
contact due to the  same  P C board  distortion.
There are two remedy for 90% of all hardware
failures of  this  console . Some older units and
previously x clamp modified units require more
intensive repairs / upgrades  in order to make
them durable.

Solution 1
Re-flow  the  G. P. U.  and   "  properly "  clamp
it  to  the  heat sink  and  the P.C. board. This is
our  current  repair  procedure and has  proven
highly  effective.

Solution 2
Remove  the heat  with a  thermoelectric  cooler or
other  elaborate  cooling   system  this will  remove
up  to  80 %   of  the  heat  from  the   G  .P  .U   and
resolve the problem however  this  may  not  be  a
cost effective solution.

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Western Washington
We moved from
16515 Alderwood Mall Pkwy., lynnwood WA 98037
To our new location
2724 164th St, SW Suite A Lynnwood, WA 98087
  This is a  highly effective GPU clamping  system
  designed   and   manufactured   exclusively   by
  www.northernsteeldesigns.com for all 360 repair
  and when correctly  installed will eliminate  most
  system  failures  related  to  G. P.U. connections
  issues . The C.C.A  will  even  straighten  slightly
  warped P. C. boards  which will provide for more
  operational stability.
    
  *  Kits with online video instruction  will give you
     easy   to  follow  step  by  step  instruction  on
     proper  installation .
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