Canezoid
join:2001-02-16
Powder Springs, GA
 ·Comcast
| Re: Sweet Totally agree. Had ours since 12/05, never had probs, but RROD'd back in Aug. , guess I consider us lucky having almost a 3 yr run.
Since I had nothing to loose, I went ahead and fixed myself. Since being familiar w/ building my own PC's, did some research and went to Youtube, watched some disassembly vids and OUILA, had the thing apart in about 1/2 hr.
Really it's not just the aspect of the GPU placement w/ the airflow, it's also the crappy heatsink Xclamps that are the main cause. Overtime as these things begin to bend, as that happens loss of continuity from the heatsinks to the CPU/GPU, hence the failures.
Once I had it open, w/ mobo pulled, cleaned of the CPU/GPU, placed new good quality thermal grease, pulled the Xclamp crap off, re-seated HSinks w/ new connectors and put back together. Been runnin great ever since. Total cost was $25 for parts, plus the learning experience. No $99 fee for Msoft to send back another "defective" unit.
Have recently done same thing to our PS3, boy talk about a monster, geesh.
Peace! |
