Repairing The Red Ring of Death XBox 360 – EricTheCarGuy

1. how unfix your xbox360 kick 1 2 3 and open the xbox trick its for xbox360 only

2. I've just got an Xbox 360 and I'll it does is flash red 3 ov the 4 bits round the power button, not happy at all, I can't take it all apart, I'd end up with a load of screws left after!! I'd put it back together!! Lol, anyone know an easier way than taking it all to bits please?

3. I'm so glad that red ring is over

4. I never put double washers on the bottom cause it would flex the board when the screws were put back in. And in the top side of the board I would slide nylon washers in between the heat sink and the board then when you tighten the screws it would keep them from over tightening and flexing. I never used the heat gun but that seemed to work really nice. Really good video though.

5. Hi Eric, thx for your video, it works Fine. Regards from Germany

6. I thought you said this would work thanks for fucking my day up

7. Sadly, this is only a temporary fix. It will fail again over time. They all do.

8. how u do dat

9. I have xbox one x not the siries x not and xbox 360

10. Great video, but didn’t have flux or heat gun. So I followed directions up to taking heat sink off then wrapped motherboard in aluminum foil on a piece of cardboard. Heated in wife’s oven at 350 degrees for 20 min then reassembled, have played games for hour so far

11. So how long will it work?2hours?😄

12. You broke my Xbox I can’t get it back together

13. Thermal paste is expensive? Lol

14. Can i put Xbox 360 core dvd drive in Xbox arcade ? Because my arcade dvd drive is not working properly

15. "goop" = Thermal Paste. Merry xmas this fixed mine thanks 🙂

16. Will this fix this problem:
    screen freezing? screen tearing?

17. He said “RadioShack” what in the hell is “RadioShack”

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19. Nice! Is it still lives? 🙂

20. Love from 2020

21. 13:21 Don't push sharp things directly toward your hand, always "cut" away from yourself.

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    repairing cell phones
    try Saankramer Electronic Magazine System (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my neighbor got cool success with it.

23. 2020 gang wya

24. This will work for a while. Why does it work? because the cpu and gpu are soldered to the motherboard one of those solder joints will have cracked over time, It won't be giving you a proper connection anymore which is why you get the rrod. This works because he applied extra force with the washers which puts more downward force on the cpu and gpu this will bridge the broken solder joint. This will work for an amount of time until it red rings again. The better solution is for him to put flux around the corners of the cpu and gpu and use that same heat gun method. heating up the board and eventually over the cpu and gpu, after cleaning off the goup on top the of CPU and GPU will make the flux go under those chips it will melt the solder and rejoin that cracked solder. This is better than the washer method and will fix it for longer. Those xbox 360 boards were shit and prone to flex. Don't know why microsoft didn't have standoffs for the motherboard which would allow it to sit flat and have air flow underneath the motherboard that and not being cheap on the motherboard and better cooling overall would of fixed this issue. They only solved the issue later with the newer xbox 360's when APU's became a thing which is just a CPU with an inbuilt GPU. The same design flaw happened with Sony's Playstation 3.

25. Please do not do this. The washers and screws facilitate further bending of the motherboard, which is not at all good. Do not do this

26. I absolutely love this video. I very much appreciate how clear you talk, and that you detail and show every step of the process, for dinguses like me. I like that a lot. I didn't even know about the error codes. Mine unfortunately gets a code "0110", which is a RAM error. Can't be good. But either way, one of these days if I ever get around to trying to fix this issue, I'll definitely use your video as a reference for getting the Xbox apart and back together. I'm interested in doing console repairs one day, and I'll certainly write this channel down and use it as a reference for Xboxes. Very good. Unfortunately not the issue with mine, but for a disassembly/reassembly, hard-pressed to find anything better and more informative.

27. How is your disc drive cover white??

28. sad that radio shack is now gone

29. Don't ever discard the xclamps. A standard PC has a backplate socket support the hack has nothing. All it took was one idiot that started this stupid idea.

30. I fix my Xbox 360 by taking out the memory and putting the memory back in

31. Xsucks 3Shitty

32. can you fix the 3 lights twice in te same console?

33. I remember watching this 8 years ago.

34. how con i fix the power supply

35. While this technically will fix your Xbox, it's a temporary fix, how long is going to last depends, it could be a few days to maybe a couple of years. The issue with the xbox was bad unleaded solder used for the cpu and gpu. (Had to be unleaded to adhere to EU laws, not all Unleaded solder is bad). And with time the Xbox would heat up and cool down when used causing the board to flex and the bad solder to crack not making proper contact with the cpu or gpu, of course this leads to a not working cpu or gpu, and without both of them working ,the xbox cannot boot. When heating up the board it isn't key to heat up the whole board like in the video, the CPU and the GPU are the main to focus on. By heating up either one of them you are essentially reflowing them, which means that you're essentially melting the solder causing those previously mentioned cracks in the solder to disappear, by adding the washers and screwing the heatsink on tightly you are essentially putting more pressure on the CPU and GPU so that there is less room for cracks in the solder. But of course these home made remedies never actually fix the issue, which is the bad solder, to actually replace the solder you need special machines and stencils and what not which is pretty expensive.

36. Dude repared this like repairing a car almost 10 years ago lol I am suprised he didn't damaged that board on the metal table lol or the chip with that screw driver. However the Video was very good.

37. The only proper fix is to reball the gpu with lead solder, and after that, fit a 2nd generation gpu heatsink, the one with the heatpipe and fit a 50 mm or 60 mm 12v fan on top of it, sucking the hot air out of the top. You'll notice there are holes in the metal casing, just where a fan should go, but they didn't make any holes for the heat to escape. I guess they were planning on fitting a fan there but never bothered with it? I managed to squeeze a 60 mm fan in there but had to cut away a bit of the case to make it fit and the gpu heatsink is very cool now. It's also cooling the cpu heatsink as well. Relying on passive cooling for the gpu was never going to work, given how much heat the early chips kicked out.
    I'm looking at adding another heatpipe to the back of the gpu heatsink, that ends near near the rear exhaust fan to cool it even further.

38. These consoles are such a pain in the ass to open

39. all because he "wanted to play his xbox"

40. my xbox is not turning on .it is not giving display what can i do

41. But the problem is, that this little fella has already been modified using RODD kit. So I guess the kit is not working. 🙁 and i am wondering it has been 5 years from puting this video online, is the xbox still working?

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43. He had the wrong code his code was
    0102 which means his CPU needs reflowing he thought the code was 1023 which is a one light error meaning the network chip needs replacing but still cool video dude

44. NEVER DO THE BOLT MOD THAT HE DID IN THE VIDEO IT WILL CAUSE THE MOTHERBOARD TO WARP REALLY BAD AND DAMAGE YOUR CONSOLE FURTHER!

45. Modhacker made a better tutorial.

46. At first I was like, it’s the av cable! But then I saw the real red ring of death

47. What kind of Xbox 360 do you have mine is different.

48. I had a red ring of death 2 times

49. What was the heat gun for?

50. o so you dont just do cars?

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