[hackeyking]

Originally Posted by xtreme1 so Ive seen a few methods on the internet... one looked like you just reflow the motherboard with arctic silver thermal paste just like you do for a ylod on ps3... which surprised me because I know for the ps3 it will eventually fail again even after being reflowed. So whats the best most longest lasting method of fixing a red ring? any tut links for one that work particularly well?

Plenty of lube!

[Herman]

As said previously, the best fix is to reball the console, however as also stated above, what is the secondary error codes? It may not be a GPU issue, however if it is then a reflow will keep failing (espescially a towel trick or what-not, because it's not a proper reflow), a reball will keep on going for years.

Reballs are not expensive, about £40/$50, I know guys over here who charge £35 for a reflow!

Also, the problem with the X-clamp "fix" is that most people either over-tighten it (had a console come in the other day that needed a ratchet to undo it!!!) or they do not tighten all the bolt up evenly.

Also, replacing the old thermal compound which appears to be like concrete at times with Arctic Silver 5 will help keep the RRoD at bay once it's fixed (assuming it was a CPU/GPU fault).

[tjhooker73]

Easy fix all you have to do is take apart the 360 and get a hair dryer and just heat up the cpu/gpu for about 5 mins and replace the thermal compound with artic silver thermal compound and put back together and test if it didnt work heat it up again. worked for me :D

[screwhead]

I would not use a hair dryer use a heat gun and replace thermal paste you can alos try just thermal paste to its up to you.

[racer0018]

The best way would be to reball because Micros*ft didnt use lead based solder on them. The cheapest way would be to reflow. And that is people have said to do in the post.

[pbanj]

Originally Posted by racer0018 The best way would be to reball because Micros*ft didnt use lead based solder on them. The cheapest way would be to reflow. And that is people have said to do in the post.

you cant knock them for not using lead solder as almost every electronic has to be rohas complaint these days, the ps3 does not have lead solder and nether does the wii

[racer0018]

Not knocking just saying that they didn't. So if they did maybe it wouldn't happen. I know none of the other ones don't cause I have had to reball many ps3s as well as the 360