Robin Hoods Playground

quick question...

would a griddle that only goes up to 400F work out for this application, or does it need to be at 450F specifically for any reason?

ok so i went on ebay and am just wondering about this stuff is this the right kind of flux, and would it be worth it to get this much for just 2 360's and maybe a 3rd down the line? http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-200-Thermal-Paste-Fix-Xbox-360-CPU-GPU-RROD-Repair-/380242762990?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_Defaul...

upgrade my GPU? wouldnt that involve removing the one on there(obviously) and arent i not supposed to do that? is it even possible to replace the gpu without ruining the mobo, and how would i know that it will work with the older board that i have? or that i have installed it back in correctly so th...

so pretty much what your telling me is that i do not want to take the GPU off but instead get the flux underneath the chip until i start to see it ooze out of the bottom of the board, or the top of the board but bottom of the chip? first one doesnt sound right but just wanna make sure i dont under-d...

Haggard,

if you could throw a link up to the new video you make that'd be awesome!

i have no soldering skills so to be able to show my step-dad exactly what to do would be extremely helpful. thanks again for the help

i did an x-clamp fix on one of my consoles, but it didnt fix the secndary 0022 code on it, and still getting no output at all from the 360... when i power up the box none of the green lights circle the ring like is normal on a functioning 360, just dark until like 30 seconds later the 1,3,and 4 play...

So i had an idea this weekend in the middle of my late night gaming... now im no computer genius, or even know how to program, so this idea may be taken with a grain of salt; but i was wondering if there was an easier way to modify our systems either for regular backup reading, or maybe even to make...

after re-reading that you said i need to get screws and washer too... do i need some specific ones, like do they have to still be t-10 screws the same length, or can i just take these ones out and bring them to lowes/home depot to find a match? same with the washers??? thanks for the response to thi...

Freaking AWESOME! Im gonna grab some heatsink paste tonight hopefully and give this a try if i can find some free time this evening. that gives me hope, cuz i thought it involding soldering and a heat gun and all that intricate stuff that would be the next step for a reflow/reball. thanks for the de...

so after reading around i think i may have to x-clamp this beezy to get it to work again, short of doing a reflow/reball on the board. does this sound like the logical next step? also, does anyone know of somewhere other thanyoutube i can get a GOOD tut on how to do the x-clamp fix, like a pdf or te...

so it was neither of those two options haggard... i have 2 sammy drives sitting around, so first thing i did was open them up and just switch the band around the tray gears. both seemed in the same condition, and fine, but i swapped just for the hell of it, and no luck. tried taking the bezel off an...

got lucky, then completely F*ed everything over... so i figured out that i had accidentaly put 1.6 on my sammy, so i got it back onto the computer after openning the tray and starting the drive in vendor mode. read, and reflashed the ms28 with the new ix1.61 and everything looked good to go, until i...

try that first thing when i get home, well second after i get the damn thing to open... but i dont believe it was "fried" before. what had happened was that i had been using my 6421 card wrong, with drivers installed, and not installed at different times and was using j/f 1.63 (i think) to...

im definitely gonna have a look-see when i get home and to tinkering tonight. i'll play with some plyers and my drive and see what i cant work out... any other ideas as to something more specifically mechanical that is happening to my drive by chance? i had definitely thought about the band on those...

so i have a 2006 sammy ms28( iknow its old, but it is what it is) that i just recently fixed after months and months of being without f/w on the whole 360. now when i got it to finally have f/w and hopefully be good to go i run into a whole other issue that doesn't deal with any software. so when i ...