06-10-11, 01:22 PM
This happened to me twice. The first time I sent it back to M$ for repair, they had it for two months over Christmas the gets!
Second time I bought a heatsink conversion kit off the web and re-seated the main CPU heatsink and took it off those stupid springs!
That xbox is still running now and I've had mine for many many years.
The only tricky part of the job is opening up the xbox (you can make your own tool but prolly easier to buy one) and getting the old heat-paste off the cpu and heatsink with a cotton bud and photocopier cleaner
Second time I bought a heatsink conversion kit off the web and re-seated the main CPU heatsink and took it off those stupid springs!
That xbox is still running now and I've had mine for many many years.
The only tricky part of the job is opening up the xbox (you can make your own tool but prolly easier to buy one) and getting the old heat-paste off the cpu and heatsink with a cotton bud and photocopier cleaner