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Bullet Proof SRi
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12th Nov 11 at 23:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Cant believe it mines just gone into standy by with the yellow light coming on when i try to turn it on.

Looked at some guides on how to fix it, but has anyone done it on here and does it actually last.
mattievRS
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12th Nov 11 at 23:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Is it a flashing yellow then red light?
Bullet Proof SRi
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13th Nov 11 at 00:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

its red , i then press the power and it goes green, then to yellow then quickly back to green before flashing red.

the yellow does not flash
mattievRS
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13th Nov 11 at 10:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Needs the chips and board reflowing then. Follow the YouTube how too's and should be ok. I did mine twice as the first time it lasted about 10 days the second it lasted long enough to transfer the data to a slim ps3. I then did it a 3rd time and sold it as working so no ideas if it's still going or not!
Dom
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13th Nov 11 at 10:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Do a search for YLOD in here, i posted a few good guides in Tigers thread a week or so ago.
Tiger
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13th Nov 11 at 14:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'll be attempting a repair on this soon. Got an Xbox360 to do first though.
Tiger
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13th Nov 11 at 14:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Here's the xbox at the minute:

Ben G
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13th Nov 11 at 16:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

my brothers done this so my dad flogged it on ebay, got £42 for it.
Tiger
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14th Nov 11 at 19:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I've got as far as reflowing the MoBo, waiting for Thermal Compound to turn up now.
Tiger
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15th Nov 11 at 20:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Xbox is back in action again now, giving it plenty of load (oo er) for a few hours to see how it holds up...3hrs so far and its been ok.
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what kind of chip is it that fails? i have an original 60gb fatty still going strong. I work in electronics manufacture so know my stuff just wondering what kind of chip is it that fails? QFP? BGA?
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by cunningham
what kind of chip is it that fails? i have an original 60gb fatty still going strong. I work in electronics manufacture so know my stuff just wondering what kind of chip is it that fails? QFP? BGA?


Ball grid, usually the GPU from what i've been reading but people tend to reflow both CPU and GPU + memory (i think that's what they are; grouped in pairs, front and back of the board).
Tiger
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15th Nov 11 at 21:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I know I keep barking about the Xbox, and I apologise, but I reflowed the CPU, GPU and Memory, Hana and Southbridge, its still running fine on high load.
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quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
I know I keep barking about the Xbox, and I apologise, but I reflowed the CPU, GPU and Memory, Hana and Southbridge, its still running fine on high load.


Did just use a heat gun on it and replaced heatsink compound? Did you flux any of the ball grids?
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15th Nov 11 at 22:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Yeah I used a heat gun at 600°F for 4 minutes focussing on the areas I mentioned earlier, I also fully removed all old compound and polished the CPU and GPU to a mirror finish, and used Arctic Silver thermal compound on it and reasembled.

Edit: I didnt reflux anything.

[Edited on 15-11-2011 by Tiger]

 
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