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  • tom66
    EVs Rule
    • Apr 2011
    • 32560
    • UK

    #1

    I love repairs like this

    I bought an Xbox 360 for £35 because the disk tray was jammed.

    Solution: take the case off and tweak it up slightly.

    I didn't even need to replace the DVD drive, so that saved me £18.

    I left the case off for now until I can properly fix it, but I'm not bothered about replacing it.

    Works perfectly, could hardly disagree with the price!

    The TV also was a dumpster find for just £20 and £5 to fix the caps.

    FFXIII works very well on it .

    Home cinema system total cost just under £100. (5.1 system was free.)
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  • Rulycat
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Apr 2010
    • 724
    • United Kingdom

    #2
    Re: I love repairs like this

    Wow. Now that's epic scavenging. Is this the early gen one that had a high RROD rate, are you going to perform the clamping mod? (where you change the clamp used for the GPU cooler or something so the solder doesn't melt out of place)

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    • tom66
      EVs Rule
      • Apr 2011
      • 32560
      • UK

      #3
      Re: I love repairs like this

      Originally posted by Rulycat
      Wow. Now that's epic scavenging. Is this the early gen one that had a high RROD rate, are you going to perform the clamping mod? (where you change the clamp used for the GPU cooler or something so the solder doesn't melt out of place)
      It's almost 5 years old, you think it will go before too soon even though it survived the rest of its life?
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      • Rulycat
        Badcaps Veteran
        • Apr 2010
        • 724
        • United Kingdom

        #4
        Re: I love repairs like this

        Originally posted by tom66
        It's almost 5 years old, you think it will go before too soon even though it survived the rest of its life?
        It could. My brother had two fail on him.

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        • tom66
          EVs Rule
          • Apr 2011
          • 32560
          • UK

          #5
          Re: I love repairs like this

          Originally posted by Rulycat
          It could. My brother had two fail on him.
          Any idea to tell which models are affected?
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          • Rulycat
            Badcaps Veteran
            • Apr 2010
            • 724
            • United Kingdom

            #6
            Re: I love repairs like this

            Originally posted by tom66
            Any idea to tell which models are affected?
            I'm not sure. They kept shrinking the chips and newer ones are ok. Have a look on wiki and it might tell you.

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            • 370forlife
              Large Marge
              • Aug 2008
              • 3112
              • United States

              #7
              Re: I love repairs like this

              Originally posted by tom66
              Any idea to tell which models are affected?
              If they have an HDMI port on the back and a little heatpipe coming from the gpu heatsink to just in front of the cpu heatsink, they are less likely to fail. I say less likely, as they still do.

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              • Agent24
                I see dead caps
                • Oct 2007
                • 4951
                • New Zealand

                #8
                Re: I love repairs like this

                I got a DVD drive once for $1 because the owner had dismantled it for some reason and couldn't put it back together.

                Took me about half an hour to figure it all out and it's still working to this day
                "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                -David VanHorn

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                • tom66
                  EVs Rule
                  • Apr 2011
                  • 32560
                  • UK

                  #9
                  Re: I love repairs like this

                  Originally posted by Rulycat
                  I'm not sure. They kept shrinking the chips and newer ones are ok. Have a look on wiki and it might tell you.
                  No luck...

                  Originally posted by 370forlife
                  If they have an HDMI port on the back and a little heatpipe coming from the gpu heatsink to just in front of the cpu heatsink, they are less likely to fail. I say less likely, as they still do.
                  It doesn't have HDMI, only component and composite video.

                  Originally posted by Agent24
                  I got a DVD drive once for $1 because the owner had dismantled it for some reason and couldn't put it back together.

                  Took me about half an hour to figure it all out and it's still working to this day
                  Similar stories with old computers that people don't want to clean up - HDD formatted, new install of Ubuntu or XP... done.
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                  • mockingbird
                    Badcaps Legend
                    • Dec 2008
                    • 5484
                    • -

                    #10
                    Re: I love repairs like this

                    Looks like you have a Xenon. Which DVD drive do you have? It is the TS-H943?

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                    • tom66
                      EVs Rule
                      • Apr 2011
                      • 32560
                      • UK

                      #11
                      Re: I love repairs like this

                      Originally posted by mockingbird
                      Looks like you have a Xenon. Which DVD drive do you have? It is the TS-H943?
                      TS-H963 made by Toshiba-Samsung.
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