JM Curdy
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Registered: 20th Jan 05
Location: Stranraer, Scotland
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anyone remember in one of the call of duty threads i joked about 3 red lights destroying my days off to play cod?  
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Should have gone to Specsavers.
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JM Curdy
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Registered: 20th Jan 05
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o rly?
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Tommy L
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Registered: 21st Aug 06
Location: Northampton Drives: Audi wagon
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Should of bought a PS3
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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elite console ?
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JM Curdy
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Registered: 20th Jan 05
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quote:
Originally posted by Sunz
elite console ?
yeah
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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Why do these Xboxes come up with these red lights of death? (I don't own one, I just wandered why so many people have dead Xboxes lol and what causes it to happen).
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LukeS
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Registered: 25th Nov 07
Location: Ormskirk
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Overheating or something which makes the glue loose and the motherboard moves apparently.
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LukeS
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Registered: 25th Nov 07
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Something along those lines.
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Reecemac
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
Location: Essex
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Close, when it overheats the paste under the heatsinks drys up because they use hardly any, if you stick some arctic 5 under them it will work fine.
[Edited on 19-11-2009 by Reecemac]
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JM Curdy
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its out of basic warranty but still covered in the red light warranty so off it goes, got a loan of my wee brothers
sorted 
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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0800 5871102 for Microsoft repairs. 
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa_tomtom
Should of bought a PS3
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Sam
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Is that it then? 
I thought it was something major like the CPU melting
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Kyle T
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Registered: 11th Sep 04
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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I heard it was some new environmentally friendly solder used on the motherboard and in the power supply, which loses its conductivity over time whilst under load.
There are a few theories flying around tbh, but either way - it's pretty shoddy stuff 
Lotus Elise 111R
Impreza WRX STi
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Reecemac
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The solder can melt off and move around, you can heat gun it to re-melt it but im not sure if its worth it, cant see it lasting. The paste works though, iv done it to a few now and my backup one still works over 1 an a half years after.
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
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Modern solder is lead free, its pretty rubbish to be honest, doesnt take very well, I usually pull out the lead stuff and the flux if I need a job doing properly.
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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As far as I knew, the heat warped the motherboard so the CPU would come away from it thus giving out the RRoD.
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JM Curdy
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quote:
Originally posted by TheNobleOne
As far as I knew, the heat warped the motherboard so the CPU would come away from it thus giving out the RRoD.
it rattles about when booted up , sounds like somethings come loose
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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That's how bad things can get for the GPU/CPU ball grid array if the thermal compound isn't replaced on anything prior to a Jasper/Falcon console.
Also, on the earlier consoles, the 0.1uf teeny weeny peeny capaictors under the bga had a habit of falling off due to the shitty RoHS solder
[Edited on 20-11-2009 by Richie]
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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I got the bottom right ring yesterday, I made it overheat by sticking cotton buds to stop the fans turning and it's fixed itself 
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xa0s
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Registered: 4th Mar 08
Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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Xbox's are seriously un-stable. My brand-new Xbox crashes quite often when playing the two latest games out (Forza 3 and CoD:MW2). I've only got the RRoD once and that was on a 3-month-old Elite (Falcon, which is supposed to be the best).
[Edited on 20-11-2009 by xa0s]
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