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Hey Adam! I'd pay you to fix my 360 for me. I assume it's the clip/contacts thing because I'm getting the freezing and intermittant rrod that I've heard can happen with these things. I'd ship it to you along with the backups if you're still interested in copying those. Let me know if this is something you want to do and how much you'd charge. There are people on craigslist claiming to do it for $65 but I bet you'd do a much better job.

Never done it before,

is this the same one I sold to you?

SOLDER BABY!!! HOW I LOVE IT!

Jack Straw wrote:Never done it before,

is this the same one I sold to you?

Yeah, same one. I've read that the board flexes and the contacts on the chip come loose or something like that. I'm sure I can get it done locally. I almost had someone who was going to trade me their "banned from xbox live" box for my "not quite working" one, but I took too long and it fell through. I can probably get a deal like that done if I try really hard.

I'M NOT REAL GOOD AT DESOLDERING THOUGH

WHAT MORON WOULD DRINK HIS OWN URINE JUST TO STAY YOUNG

the things aren't light; it'd probably cost us at least 20-30 bucks just to ship it back and forth.

If I had done it before I'd do it for free, but for now I'd say have someone locally do it, or swap it out like you said.

Or, shit, Walmart just had an Arcade for $200 + $100 walmart gift card, keep an eye out for something like that and swap your hard drive on it.

Jack Straw wrote:Or, shit, Walmart just had an Arcade for $200 + $100 walmart gift card, keep an eye out for something like that and swap your hard drive on it.

is it easy to switch the dvd drive too? Or would I have to flash the new one?

I think it has to be the same brand of DVD drive, but it's very possible you could just unplug your already flashed one and plug it into the new box.

Some of the new ones can be flashed and some can't. If you do end up getting another one that needs to be flashed, just send the drive to me and I'll flash it no problem. I'm still using the same Dell that I used to flash yours.
Somewhere there's a list of flashable vs. non-flashable ones. There's also supposedly new firmware coming out to try and avoid backup detection, after the latest wave of banhammers on Xbox live.

My brother took his son's xbox board into work where they have one of those big laser re soldering machines. (DELETED) Thing has a camera that can look under the IC chips and flow the solder on individual pins. I guess it preheats the board to a certain temp then uses a laser to melt the solder. Sounds cool as hell to see. Anyway, he fixed it right up. Now he wants to buy a bunch of RROD boxes off of eBay for cheap and refurbish them and make a profit. Sounds like there's a market for it. I guess this is the third xbox board to get the treatment and the third successful fix.


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AArdvark wrote:My brother took his son's xbox board into work where they have one of those big laser re soldering machines. (deleted) Thing has a camera that can look under the IC chips and flow the solder on individual pins. I guess it preheats the board to a certain temp then uses a laser to melt the solder. Sounds cool as hell to see. Anyway, he fixed it right up. Now he wants to buy a bunch of RROD boxes off of eBay for cheap and refurbish them and make a profit. Sounds like there's a market for it. I guess this is the third xbox board to get the treatment and the third successful fix.


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Hey Vark, can I ship mine to you and pay your brother to do mine? That would be great!

My brother says no problem. I'll send you an address via PM.

I guess him and his buddy are thinking of going into a small capital venture seeing as how there were over 70 hits on ebay for the RROD consoles. Many for under twenty bucks. He figured out how to remove the board from the case in under ten minutes and the average run time on the reflow machine is about ten minutes. He should see a decent profit.


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He's six for six in Xbox repairs. Whoo-hoo!

He's reflowing the solder on these things? To fix the red ring of death issue?

Exactly. They've started buying broken units for cheap so they can flip them and turn a profit.

Success rate is now seven out of seven. Boom times for the undead xboxing.

So I got my xbox's red ring fixed (wife insisted on not mailing it but instead getting done locally, $71, sorry Vark). After playing fine one day it's now finding all xbox games and regular dvd's to be unplayable disks. It works fine playing the awful demos included on the hard drive. Before I call back someone who just wants to make more money off of me I have a couple of questions I'd love to have answered. Do you think this means the drive is probably now toast and I'll have to get it replaced and re-flashed? If this is the case, I can just copy games to the hard drive and play that way or would I have to modify the box further before being able to do that?

sorry Vark

No sweat! The current revival is now 15 machines


(and over two hundred in profit, may I add)



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Vark - do you guys ever get deals on xboxes to flip that are RROD and also banned from xbox live for being modified?

AArdvark wrote:Exactly. They've started buying broken units for cheap so they can flip them and turn a profit.

AArdvark wrote:(and over two hundred in profit, may I add)



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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I'M NOT REAL GOOD AT DESOLDERING THOUGH

WHAT MORON WOULD DRINK HIS OWN URINE JUST TO STAY YOUNG

The History Channel points out that because of the ammonia, this used to be used before someone invented toothpaste. While it apparently did do a good job at keeping teeth white, it did have it's drawbacks. No minty flavor here.

"Try Paul's raw ammonia - I manufacture it fresh, in small batches." The manufacturing method is a trade secret.

Don't know if any of the 'boxes were modded or not. Just know they were once dead and now they aren't. I know they test them after the repair but I doubt they get on Xbox live. I'm not really involved in any of this, it's my brother's gig. I'm more amazed that there are so many of these units that just die. I figured that there'd be more people out there doing this repair work.


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