Xbox 360 in oven!

Well, I got a 3 rrod 360 from a guy at work. Ordered and fitted x-clamp pro. Worked for an hour or 2 then went bye bye. Tried overheating gpu by disconnecting fans. That was a couple of hours fix at best. With nothing to lose i've just baked it in the oven covering everything bar the cpu and gpu with towels and foil. I've just taken it out and am letting it cool right now.

If it's fucked then never mind, I got it free and did what I could. Warranty was shot too. Oven bake was last resort.

Towel off, no blown caps and nothings melted :banana:

The oven was preheated to 230oC which is the highest my fan oven will go so hopefully it's done something. Left in to bake for 8-9 mins. I was getting very anxious as it got towards the 9 minute mark. Towel is damp to the touch as well.

That is well crazy! All them noxious fumes!!!

Bit drastic for a XBox360 don't you think....

I'll let you know. Tut was on Llama site and on youtube so I thought nothing to lose give it a go.

I'll have a brew, watch a bit of Jezzer and put it back together. Been cooling for about 20-30 mins now.

Good luck m8

It lives! Muhahahahaha! (but for how long?)

i would have changed the paste by looking at the pics!!!

least it works, for now!!!

For anyone interested I used the following pieces of quality items:

Black duct tape (it doesn't melt but kind of bubbles slightly).
1 large towel cut up into pieces.
1 tea towel.
Aluminium foil.

Smoke rises from out the top of the oven door so make sure there's lot's of ventilation and it smells too. Don't bottle it after a few mins. I take no responsability for any fucks ups should anyone else try it.

manutd4life said:

i would have changed the paste by looking at the pics!!!

least it works, for now!!!

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I left the paste on whilst baking and wiped it off after and reapplied some ceramic thermal paste (the white stuff).

Smok3y666 said:

I left the paste on whilst baking and wiped it off after and reapplied some ceramic thermal paste (the white stuff).

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should have tried changing the paste before ya baked it to see if that does the trick, it usually does if applied right!!!!

I did. I changed paste 2 or 3 times as the heatsinks have been on and off all weekend trying to get it to work. Applied Team Xectuter x-clamp pro, tried overheating the gpu by leaving fan off. Reads loads of tut's and got no where which is why I tried the oven baking as a last resort. I was getting a mixture of 3 red lights and e74.

Smok3y666 said:

I did. I changed paste 2 or 3 times as the heatsinks have been on and off all weekend trying to get it to work. Applied Team Xectuter x-clamp pro, tried overheating the gpu by leaving fan off. Reads loads of tut's and got no where which is why I tried the oven baking as a last resort. I was getting a mixture of 3 red lights and e74.

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ah right, didnt no you changed them, but atleast its working now eh!!

Only thing since baking is that the usb ports at the bottom of the console no longer line up properly? They are slightly raised. USB still goes in okay but it's a bit tight. Wonder if it's anything to do with the rubber things that come with the TXPro kit? I read the board warps over time with use which is what causes the gpu to break proper contact with the board.

Better get rid of any evidence before the missus gets back.

the hybrid xlamp kit looks a better alterntive,doenst warp board also i have had a coont of an xbox with rod so took of cpu and gpu heat sink,put a socket set bit on each then got a paintstripper gun on half power and heated em up for 1 min 30 secs betwwen them,not each and worked a treat after repasting,that one been going for over 3 weeks now

Dunno if this is any help, but I have recently come across GPU reballing. Here is a video of reballing in action: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQeanpujmuM]YouTube - Reballing x box 360[/ame]

Maybe you could get yours done locally or learn how to do it yourself

also look at reballing stencils,no good for me though lol

Pimped said:

Dunno if this is any help, but I have recently come across GPU reballing. Here is a video of reballing in action: YouTube - Reballing x box 360

Maybe you could get yours done locally or learn how to do it yourself

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I'm getting a couple reballed local to me. He's only charging a tenner so thought that was reasonble and would prob last a lot longer

reminds me of the time when i done mine in the oven couple of years back....then forgot all about it:Yikes:

cue the misses shouting dogs abuse at me, and the kitchen full of black smoke, took weeks for the smell to disappear

happy daysroud:

I rang my missus last nite from work she said the oven was smelling funny while doing tea and she found a piece of duct tape still stuck to the fan cover at the back of the oven. Lol. I denied everything of course.

did you pre-heat the oven lol