I love repairs like this

[tom66]

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.)

[Rulycat]

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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)

[tom66]

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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?

[Rulycat]

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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.

[tom66]

Re: I love repairs like this

It could. My brother had two fail on him.

Any idea to tell which models are affected?

[Rulycat]

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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.

[370forlife]

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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.

[Agent24]

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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

[tom66]

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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...

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.

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.

[mockingbird]

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

[tom66]

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

TS-H963 made by Toshiba-Samsung.