Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy (Post 323109)

Wow lutach, wasn't expecting that out of you. That's like someone posting a problem about their T-Maxx and people jumping on them for not buying a Savage...

Originally Posted by big greg (Post 323137)

lol, glad it woorked out for ya dude, its funnhy how badly 360's are built when ya take em apart huh?

Originally Posted by Modding_out (Post 320233)

fix it your self and sell it at at discount, no reason to destroy a perfectly good xbox.
what I understand the red ring of death to be is a glitch in the system that after it over heats it goes onto this vicious circle were even after it's cooled down it's still telling it self it's to hot to run. And the only way to break the circle is to "heat cycle" (bad) or the "penny trick" (good).

what beaks the cycle with the penny trick is you have to disconnect the power supply along with every thing else to fix it, and the penny's just keep it from happening again.

If it happens to my xbox I'll do a full wright up on here doing it the right way, with a fan, custom made heat sinks, and thermal epoxy.

(look it up on you tube you'll see how it's the best method out there but could use some improvement)

Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy (Post 324958)

It worked for a few weeks, now it's back to the 2 rings. I tried tightening down the heatsink some more and it went up to 3 red rings. Backed off the screws and let it sit for a while and it runs for maybe 3 minutes before the fans go nuts again. I have been going over every component on it and none of them had exceeded 105 degrees at the time of shutdown, that's well within the acceptable limits of the hardware.

Forza 3 comes out in 3 weeks, I am really tempted to go buy a new Arcade and put my Elite's hard drive in it and then either toss my Elite or keep it for parts (I may take the case off and put it on the Arcade, the black looks SO much better).

Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy (Post 324958)

It worked for a few weeks, now it's back to the 2 rings. I tried tightening down the heatsink some more and it went up to 3 red rings. Backed off the screws and let it sit for a while and it runs for maybe 3 minutes before the fans go nuts again. I have been going over every component on it and none of them had exceeded 105 degrees at the time of shutdown, that's well within the acceptable limits of the hardware.

Forza 3 comes out in 3 weeks, I am really tempted to go buy a new Arcade and put my Elite's hard drive in it and then either toss my Elite or keep it for parts (I may take the case off and put it on the Arcade, the black looks SO much better).

Originally Posted by J57ltr (Post 320455)

Or you could do what a guy I know did and buy a new one then swap the guts and take it back.

Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy (Post 323152)

Oh geez, it's one step up from cardboard and duct tape. I don't know who designed the hardware on the XBox 360 but he needs to be fired.

Originally Posted by Gee (Post 323161)

That sound a lot like the stuck rotor on the Novak HV ESC. Once it thinks the damn thing is stuck there nothing you can do to change it's mind. Other then send it in for a 75.00 blipping upgraded esc. :grrrrrr:

Originally Posted by Modding_out (Post 325015)

don't the 2 rings have some thing to do with the fan?

Originally Posted by Freezebyte (Post 325011)

Just buy the Elite and be done with it. Or if your a COD fan, reserve the special edition 360 Modern Warfare editon with two controllers and the 320gig HDD.

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bo...ContentsLG.jpg

Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy (Post 325247)

I bought the 360 over the PS3 because I enjoy trying to get it fixed every 5 minutes when the damn thing overheats (again).