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Red Ring Fix?
juan0tron:
Just curious, would you be able to solder the GPU instead? Surprisingly we have a crapton of soldering irons, but no heatgun. Just savin' myself a trip to home depot.
wshbrngr:
satoshi_matrix:
Home depot has a heatgun with two settings - 750 and 1000deg, will this one work?
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xh4/R-100371401/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
Cheapest one they sell.
satoshi_matrix:
Absolutely. One word of advice though is to avoid using the 1000 degree setting for RRoD repair. The chips can take an awful lot of heat, but I wouldn't recommend blasting them with enough heat to cause steam to come off an icecube ::)
wshbrngr:
OK, If I can get his 360, I will try it.
and post an AAR.
satoshi_matrix:
--- Quote from: z0mbiew0lf on December 05, 2009, 09:46:15 PM ---Just curious, would you be able to solder the GPU instead? Surprisingly we have a crapton of soldering irons, but no heatgun. Just savin' myself a trip to home depot.
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Absolutely not. Unlike common cheap PCBs, the 360 motherboard (and most other motherboards) are machine assembled and have soldering points hidden under the chips and right on top of the board. Here's three reasons why you should never EVER take a soldering iron to a 360:
1. There is no physical way to get to the soldering points with a soldering iron
2. Soldering irons provide direct heat to a single precise source. By nature, this isn't what you want to do to fix the RROD. You can to tackle a large area as per my tut. The point is, even if you could see the solder, you wouldn't be able to reflow it all at once with a soldering iron.
3. Precise interments like a soldering iron run the risk of damaging components if there were machine assembled.
bottom line: you need a low-end heatgun for this kind of repair.