XBox 360 Red Ring of Death
My brother bought a job lot of busted XBox 360s and recently gave up trying to fix them. I have stepped into the breach and decided to show these machines who is boss. At the moment, it looks like I might even be able to fix one as well. :) I tried replacing the thermal compound , but to no avail. Then, I found this article , which seemed a little extreme. However, to test it out, I tried firing up the XBox while leaning heavily on the CPU heatsink. Lo and behold, the RROD had disappeared! So tomorrow, I am off to a hardware store to pick up some nuts, bolts and washers to properly squeeze this processor back down. I'll update with how it goes... UPDATE: Well, I busted it. Now it shows a different error code. I suspect I tightened the bolts too much and the stress on the motherboard broke more connections. I feel like a ham-fisted dumb-ass.