challenge: xbox 360 red light fixes

What you have is said is correct. I have worked on dozens of xboxs and spent hundreds of hours in research. what i have found is there is ONE website that has people who really know what theyre talking about:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorials.php

Resoldering is one option. But a considerably cheaper, easier, and quicker method is to reflow the solder underneath the cpu and gpu. For this surprisingly all you need is about $20 in supplies and an oven. Before you go off and call me a crackpot, just hear me out.

The first thing you need to do is strip the xbox down to its bare motherboard, no heatsinks or cables attached. Then you need to place the xbox, unshielded, in an oven at a low temp <200 degrees. This link explains it better:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/oven-bake/

After that you need to make reusable heat shileds:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/u6-reusable-heat-shields-for-oven-reflows/

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/reusable-heat-shield-for-an-oven-reflow/

either one is suitable, your choice

This is to protect the sensitive parts of the board, while you use a standard oven to reflow the solder underneath the chips

Here is the oven reflow guide:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/the-ultimate-xbox-360-oven-reflow-tutorial/

Let that cool, put everything back together (make sure to remember to put new thermal paste on the chips), and you should be good to go.

Now some xboxs are stubborn. if the reflow fails after a few days then you need to address the real issue, the massive design flaws of the old xbox 360:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/team-hybrids-ultimate-xclamp-fix-released/

I know this a lot of reading, BUT I have confirmed that this is the only place on the internet that deals with xboxs from a scientific approach. Read for yourself. If you're into the heatgunning and all that, the first link i gave has info on all that stuff

Cheers!

thanks for the help ill look into it and if it doesnt work ill either send it to a couple of guys i know that may be able to fix it or beg my mom to buy me a new one lol

Thanks Again!!!

no problem. lemme know how it goes

just got it insulated and in the oven now i just gotta wait and hope it works

about to remove it from the oven just a few more mins

and it worked thank you so much now i finally have a way to entertain myself at my moms house thank you so much i dont know what id do if i never asked for help ben heck himself gave me the idea just by watching his videos i give him and you all the credit thank you

no problem. Make sure to monitor it for the next few days. Sometimes theyll work for a bit, then die out again. Other times its fixes them permanently. remember that if it does break again you should do what it says here:

http://xbox-experts.com/tutorial/team-hybrids-ultimate-xclamp-fix-released/

its been working lately so i think its permenant but its only been a few days so im still observing it

its been working lately so i think its permenant but its only been a few days so im still observing it