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the penny trick works for a good bit of time, eventually the clamp would give way but nothing a little bending would not help.
I doubt there are many people on craigslist that can do a solder reflow. i would venture to guess it not more then a hairdryer job.
by the way i removed reballed the xbox chips when the problems first occurred years back, you can look under xboxscene under same name for more info. you only put the board in the oven to get the temp up equally so you dont warp it but you need a special ($$$) machine to remove reinstall the chip ( i used one by called sniper) and you need another one to re-ball.
lets say that i sent my 360 to microsoft. what do that do to fix the problem?
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I dont think that. I know what im talking about im sure I have surpassed you by the hundreds in xbox repairs but reflowing is pretty much explained by its own term. It is the process of reflowing extreme amounts of heat to the solder so it can heat up and remelt again solving any cold or broken solder issues.
It depends on what chipset you've got and what problem you had with your 360 initially. Depending on the issues (and if you've got a special box like a Halo 3/Resident Evil unit) they'll likely fix your actual unit. Generic Older Xenon units got a new heat sync and get sent back out. Ones with dead drives are given 'new' refurbs and are sent back out as well. I'm not sure what needs to be done with the 374 errors.
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Well, anyone be under the impression that you think that.
I didn't read all of your posts until now, but after reading that post and then skipping right to you asking saferkefka to explain the how the process of getting his machine reflowed I thought that you didn't know what reflow was.Reflow is just a fancy way of saying that they did the xclamp fix and let the system run till it overheats to remelt the solder so that it is positioned in the rite place on the chips and board.
Even if you've fixed "hundreds" of 360, after you've fixed one or two there's basically nothing more that you can learn by fixing a 3rd or 4th.
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As far as I'm aware its part of the Terms of Use that you void the warranty if you open the Xbox (as it is with any of these systems) and if they find that the sticker has been damaged/removed that they will just return back the unit sent in and the money will be refunded with no work done.
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There are ways around it though I have never used this method. You can buy stickers on ebay.
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=xbo...kers&_osacat=0
i got another 360 that needs fixing and i got no thermo paste.
where can i find arctic silver 5 in canada? (no links to online stores plz)
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