By killing it again with a towel.



Yeah, I know what it sounds like, but I swear to god I' ve got two working 360' s in my bedroom right now, one' s my modded one, and the other one I' m letting sit on, seeing if it dies again. This all started last week when I got a broken 360 to tinker with, I took it home, and looked up some of the circumstances that the 360' s died under. All were incredibly hot at the time, which I already knew, as it was a problem with the solder, but I was trying to see if anybody had gotten theirs working again.

I was on a backwater personal Pro-Boards page siphoning through the blog crap this guy had on the page, and about half way down he mentioned ressurecting a dead 360 using nothing but a towel. It involved wrapping the 360 in a towel, and letting it overheat, again. So apparently if you got it to heat up enough, the solder reconnects the GPU & CPU to the motherboard (which is what causes 99% of the RROD issues) and you' ve got a fixed 360. Sometimes permanently, sometimes temporarily.

I figured since I didn' t have the proper bit to open up my 360 beyond the case I' d give this a shot. I wrapped it in a towel, turned it on, and left to go do some yardwork. I got back later that evening, and it was still on. I killed the power, let it sit for 45 minutes, powered it up and got green lights! I' ll post proof in a bit, but I figured this was interesting enough to warrant a discussion. Hopefully one of you has an out-of-warranty 360 that this could help with.

Crazy yeah?

Your nuts.

Or am I? The one on the left (I painted it this morning) was the one I was playing the Beta on yesterday.

I see you also have a PS4.

lol, that' s awesome. But you probably shouldn' t keep your 360' s next to that PS4. The extra heat emitting from it is probably bad.

I' ve read about people using this technique, too. It sounded like a joke to me at first, but I' ve heard it from several different sources.

I got a call from the friend who I gave it to, & he hasn' t had any trouble with it thusfar. Here' s hoping it lasts.

The PS4 isn' t hot at all by the way, it uses liquid cooling in the form of stale coffee to keep it room temperature.