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Xbox 360 Red Ring Of Death Fix - How To Fix Your Own Xbox
The red ring of death is basically due to a hardware failure where the graphics processor becomes loose which is basically fitted on the motherboard. The processor generates heat and cause the motherboard to heat up. When the green light turns into three red lights and if you don't fix it, it will eventually freeze your Xbox 360.
Fixing red ring of death is not at all a cumbersome task. The red ring of death seems to be the highlighted problem when it comes to Xbox 360; almost all its devices seem to be associated with it. If you still have a warranty still enforce on your gaming console, things would be less stressful, as you can contact the store manager and let them take the burden of rectifying it, or you have to do it by yourself. And even if one gets to the store to sort out the issue, you must be mentally prepared to wait as the whole course of rectification will be time consuming. Unless you would want to follow another option which would be of self rectifying it will certain steps that are mentioned below.
1) Disassemble the Xbox 360
Using a fine screwdriver, poke into the grayed holes and also those small holes that are in a rectangular shape. Take off the cover or the faceplate and pull the latch in the upward motion and remove it. Take off the screws from the metal case as well as those under the plastic cover.
2) How to safely remove the motherboard
Motherboard has to be removed very carefully. Before any actions on removing the motherboard, make sure that all cables are unplug and disconnected from all parts of the console box. Also remove any devices attached. Plug out the DVD drive as well and once that is done, safely remove the motherboard and the fan out of the Xbox case. One needs to be very cautious while doing all this.
3) Crucial motherboard disassembling procedure
Get the motherboard to the other side, use the screw driver to take off something called the X-clamp that can be found beneath the heat sink. Be very carefully in executing not just this step but all the other steps as it very important to handle such crucial steps with a lot of care to prevent damage to the console set.
4) Heat sink unscrewing
After exploring the area and doing as prescribed above, unscrew the heat sink to get the GPU and the CPU. Make sure you don't do such steps with rapid speed as it may cause to damage your Xbox and make it much worse than its present state.
5) Cleaning of the CPU and GPU
Once the above procedure is followed, next will be the cleaning of the CPU and GPU. Use some alcohol and gently wipe off the compound on the top of the GPU and CPU. This step should be done with caution and if done correctly, it will stop the console from freezing up. It is an important step and should be followed obediently.
6) Applying Arctic Silver
After which you then apply the compound material (arctic silver) over the GPU and CPU. Let it settle down for around 20 minutes and then place nylon washers around the 2 of them. Next, place back the screws which are on the heat sink and twirl back the screws which are originally on the motherboard. Do not forget to add two of the nylon washers on those screws as well. Lastly, get the heat sink to be placed on top of the screws, push them down slightly and then get the final screws to be placed in. Make sure it is as tight as it can stay strong holding the fan and the CPU in place. Once cross checked on the fittings your Xbox is ready to use once again.
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