[Dan_9]

When playing a game it keeps doing this & freezes up.

Looks like artifacting on a PC. What are your thoughts ? Is it most likely dead?

ty

 

[Sushimaster]

Yes artifacting

 

[Jaguarbamf]

Check for possible overheating problems?

btw, it looks like checkered flags to me. Did you win the race? =P

 

[8-Ball]

Artifacting.
Check if its overheating.

 

[Dan_9]

It was only going for a few minutes. So i guess its ruined. I took it all apart & cleaned the dust let it cool off, but no luck.

 

[Rowey]

In a usual case scenario, you would probably bake it. But as it's an Xbox...

 

[pioneerisloud]

If you don't have any warranty left, you could always try the towel trick. I've heard quite a few success stories doing that.

 

[BKsMassive]

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Originally Posted by pioneerisloud;13186733
If you don't have any warranty left, you could always try the towel trick. I've heard quite a few success stories doing that.

yeah i did that for about 3months to keep my xbox alive

but in the end it kills everything!

xbox gave me back a letter which was 2 pages long on what was broken in my xbox. some how my mother board was cracked and my CPU and GPU had broken

 

[black06g85]

mine did the red checkered flag thing right before it rrod'd on me. I still have that one too (modded couldn't warranty) maybe I'll try fixing it one of these days.

 

[Rowey]

Blare a heatgun at it for 5 minutes

 

[Xx573v3xX_Z28]

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Originally Posted by Roweyi7;13187008
Blare a heatgun at it for 5 minutes

Don't just keep telling everyone just shoot a Heat gun at it, there's a process, if you honestly just hit it with a heat gun the solder joints will melt together and the board will be ruined.

 

[donrapello]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan_9 When playing a game it keeps doing this & freezes up. Looks like artifacting on a PC. What are your thoughts ? Is it most likely dead? ty

It ain't dead yet.. i've had those problems couple of times.

it's not that hard to use a heat gun with x360 mobo. I've done it to several mobos with success. Even youtube has videos about doing this right.

But first off, i would take those stupid xclamps off and replace them with bolts, new thermal paste.. and some extra cooling.
Original cooling system is really crappy.

I replaced my original fans with 2x70mm fans + 60mm intake fan in front of cpu heatsink and those changes lowered temps a lot and made it silent even that they're running @ 12v