Three lights of death?

[clipperjay]

Cool fella!
 

[supramad77]

Did this on my first xbox and it worked for about 8 months after but it happened again. You need a paint stripper heat gun to reheat the solder. TBH get a new one, they are about £150 and don't have the same issues anymore. I have a ps3 as well and tbh it never gets played that includes the kids the xbox it just a better gaming consol.

[clipperjay]

His birthday is in April and we are considering the PS3 quite like the fact you can play blue ray discs and going online is free?
But just missed boxing day deal at Morrison for £99 on the Xbox 360 

Anyways I'm not too hot in buying stuff just because its cheap and being Christmas time they get what they need and should be happy with what they get TBH. 

Haaa just remembered my brother in law has one, four rings of death I said I'll take it apart with mine and see if I can make one good one LOOL! 

[leigh_harty]

Sainsburys are doing ps3's for £129 i think i saw?

[bobbarley]

Recently tried to fix my mates Xbox with no success.  Took it all apart and removed the manky thermal paste, which was EVERYWHERE!  Looks like someone tried to fix it in the past but decided to use  gallon of the stuff!  It's all over the resistors and capacitors.  Did the best I could then put a tiny bit of new paste on.  Tried it out, no red lights.  Put the consol back together gain and plugged in properly, red lights 

[supramad77]

Damm £99 was a good price. Think i paid more than that for my second hand xbox. Was a few years ago. Not got the new shape one but i have the one one with the jasper chip set that runs the 150 watt block .
Requires less power and does not get so hot. Been no bother since 2008.

[bobbarley]

Mine's a Jasper model as well, so far no issues 

[clipperjay]

Recently tried to fix my mates Xbox with no success.  Took it all apart and removed the manky thermal paste, which was EVERYWHERE!  Looks like someone tried to fix it in the past but decided to use  gallon of the stuff!  It's all over the resistors and capacitors.  Did the best I could then put a tiny bit of new paste on.  Tried it out, no red lights.  Put the console back together gain and plugged in properly, red lights 

I use Acidtone best stuff to remove thermal paste quickly, but some of the white stuff is just rubbish plus when you take it off you can see peaks of paste that show of the mobo is warped by the way the paste looks after you take it off.

[clipperjay]

My brother in law said his xbox 360 was dun in (four rings of death) so I took it back with me. I think he was running it through a CRC TV and they don't like it, but the first boot up the colour was a tad green on our LCD.
Cleaned it up and it works fine for now, so drama over he now has a xbox 360 and my moths can stay in my wallet!

[cняis]

Jasper chipset on mine has been fine since 2008, regularly in use as well.

Only time I've ever had issues was when hdd wasnt connected properly, or when the psu stayed on a red light once.

Sometimes the disc drive jams and won't open, but thats an easy fix with a new drive belt from ebay (repair guides on youtube), done one before in about 5 mins