I was playing Xbox, then my counsole froze. I turned it on and off, and it worked again for a bit, but then again it froze and this time I got the RROD (all red lights on except the top right.) My t.v. didn't read it as on, so I never got a error message. Everything is plugged in and the power cord seems to be working.
My question is, I have no warranty (I bought from a pawn shop over three years ago) so I thought I would just do the towel trick. If I do so, and then add a fan (one of those ones that attach to the xbox) and keep it as cool as possible, will that help my chances of avoiding another rrod? I heard of another fix for rrod where you open it up and use arctic silver thermal on the GPU, will that work for this problem?
Thanks,
Connor
Suggestion:
The towel trick isn't a permanent solution. There's only about a 15% chance it will actually work. It involves melting your 360 over the cables to trick your 360 into thinking it's cooled down.
You might as well just freeze the thing. Either way you will wreck it, and you will have to buy a new one. The repairs will cost you about 150/200 bucks. You can't get it repaired if you have done the towel trick, as well.
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Once you get a rrod and you do the towel trick to fix it the rrod will come back it could be months or days or even hours but it will come back as all it does is overheats and the solder starts to melt recreating the original connection. Eventually the solder will melt away and the towel trick wont work and more.
If you want go about fixing it with the thermal paste route here is a kit you can order: http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/ring_of_light_x-clamp_fix.htm
To legion i've done the towel trick and then sent it to microsoft to get it repaired and i works fine now so you thinking that doing the towel trick will result in it being unrepairable is false the xclamp fix involves removing all of the old solder and replacing it with thermal paste which withstands much higher temps.
Also look on craigs list and you can most likely find someone in your area that will fix it very cheaply or even give you one that has been fixed for like $50 and your xbox
They all work. But they're also just temporary.
LISTEN.
If you're thinking about doing the towel trick, DO NOT, I repeat, DO not do this. It might make your xbox temporarily work but it will also FRY it in the long run and it will eventually just break down again. It overheats the crap out of your system.
What I did was looked up a solution online, and found this link http://bit.ly/90Kvtk with a step by step on how to fix it (29.99). I was able to do it simple (and i'm a girl who is not very good with electronics) It's money back guarantee for 60 days so you don't really have anything to lose. I don't know about warranties from Japan, but if you don't have a warranty I would strongly suggest giving that site a try and if it doesn't work just get your $$$ back.
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