or else i wouldnt be posting :P

 

 

 

so my elite red ringed about a week ago, so i took all the steps and phoned it in, blah blah blah

 

anyone with a 360 has gone thru that at LEAST once haha ;D

 

 

 

so my friend ryan told me about the towel trick,

 

for those of you who are in the dark about this, let me tell you about it

 

for short, you wrap ur 360 up in a towel and give it a 15 min nap, and *poof* fixed! :D

 

 

 

for those of you that are intrigued as to how it works

 

[hide=]what actually happens is when you wrap it up, you turn the system on, and leave it there, and essentially what your doing by over heating the system is re-soldering the connections that broke loose when the system died[/hide]

 

 

 

so i did that, and leik, 0mG! it worked :D

 

(i swear thats the last i ever do that -.-)

 

 

 

but theres a catch

 

yeah, it would turn on and show the dashboard with everything, but NO disk game would work

 

not a dvd, not a demo disk, not the orange box, not a normal game

 

nothing.

 

all the stuff already on there works fine! like ive got fable and halo 1 downloaded (thank GOD)

 

but thats about it =/

 

 

 

thus ends my tale of woe.

 

*bows* haha but is there anyone else who has any idea on how else i can get it to work on my own? im moving out of town in about a week, so if i could get that working when im just settling in, thatd be amazinggg

So you wrapped a 360 up in a towel, and got it hot enough internally to remake a connection on a dry joint?

 

 

 

What are you nuts? not only will that damage other components but it's a fire hazard. Jeez whoever came up with that idea should be shot, then hung drawn and quartered and then made to explain to me what an idiot they are.

 

 

 

Don't you ever go doing something that stupid again. Take it from me, I am a professional technician, don't EVER do that again. And the site you got that info from, I would seriously think twice before taking any advice from there again.

*agrees with what Clare said*

 

 

 

I think your option is to send it in for repairs.

*agrees with what Clare said*

 

 

 

I think your option is to send it in for repairs.

 

Ya send it in, you shouldn't of done the repair yourself as Microsoft would of fixed it for free...

So you wrapped a 360 up in a towel, and got it hot enough internally to remake a connection on a dry joint?

 

 

 

What are you nuts? not only will that damage other components but it's a fire hazard. Jeez whoever came up with that idea should be shot, then hung drawn and quartered and then made to explain to me what an idiot they are.

 

 

 

Don't you ever go doing something that stupid again. Take it from me, I am a professional technician, don't EVER do that again. And the site you got that info from, I would seriously think twice before taking any advice from there again.

 

 

 

Plus you probably just voided your warranty. Good job.

A little on what Clare said. You must be a complete idiot with no common since to supposedly over heat your xbox enough to make it resolder the joins. I can tell you that solder starts to melt at around 360 degrees and doesn't melt all the way till about 420 degree. So if your xbox is getting that hot you can only images what is happening to the other pats of it. As nadril said it would not surprise me if you voided your warranty by doing that which means you will be paying for your xbox to get fixed for a dumb [wagon] move.

All of you, flaming like this? Sure, what that person did is bad, but there are more sensible ways to react. -.-

 

 

 

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~D. V. Devnull

Please be mindful of what kind of advice you're trying to give out, indirectly or not, as it may cause irreparable damage and could lead to some unforeseen consequences on your part. :|

 

 

 

And for those who are screaming against the method: Just politely point out the problem next time. :) No need to call him a moron, no matter how stupid the action may be.

 

 

 

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