I never thought it would happen to me. . .(RROD)
Seiphon
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Yeah well its hardly a serious issue, but its pretty annoying. I dont know what to do with it, I've had it for like 5 or 6 years (has it even been out that long?) so my warrantys out of date, Every fix that I've looked at looks like to much hassle for what I see as a temporary soloution. That penny fix looks a little weird to me, the towel damages over time right? and I dont even know what the clamp fix is.
The only Viable thing I can see is buying a new bloody Xbox, and I'm not exactly rolling in cash at the moment, I'm on about 500 odd pounds (what is that, 800 dollars?) and most of that goes on rent, bills and food.
Is there another soloution that I'm missing? Or is it just a matter of bumping up the overtime, selling my old console for scrap and buying a new x-o-mo-box?
...they still pay for medical testing right?
The only Viable thing I can see is buying a new bloody Xbox, and I'm not exactly rolling in cash at the moment, I'm on about 500 odd pounds (what is that, 800 dollars?) and most of that goes on rent, bills and food.
Is there another soloution that I'm missing? Or is it just a matter of bumping up the overtime, selling my old console for scrap and buying a new x-o-mo-box?
...they still pay for medical testing right?
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It's been out less than 4 years. Launched Nov. 2005. If you bought it after Aug. 7, 2006, you're still covered. If you got it soon after launch you're f'ed. I would also just buy an Arcade version if it was no longer covered by warranty.
if that fails, especially if you're short on cash, fix it yourself... it's really a simple process and costs literally $3 in parts:
1. you open it
2. you unclip the heatsink
3. you use new screws to secure it again
4. you put the xbox back together
5. you cook it under a towel to complete the fix
there are tons of easy tutorials, including video ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTVtO7IhiV4
You can, but if it's old enough to be out of warranty, it's an old hardware revision that you don't really want anymore.
Xbox 360 Hardware Revisions
The best you can get from a fix are the Opus motherboards, with 65nm CPU and 90nm GPU, with no HDMI.
The Jaspers came out fairly recently, and they're really awesome. Most important are the upgrades to 65nm for both CPU and GPU, as well as a drop in power consumption to 100W. There's also increased onboard flash memory and HDMI inclusion, and I think some new DVD drives. My new arcade is noticeably quieter and runs far cooler at the 65nm than the old one, and it's far less likely to have heat issues in the future.
Here's basically all you need to know for determining whether you're buying a Jasper
This should be in all new Arcades. As of the time the article was written (Dec last year), there were no known Jasper Elites in the wild. This probably has changed, but I'm not sure.
As far as the differences between arcade, pro, and elite, it's mostly what it comes with. The motherboard and internal hardware I'm pretty sure is the same.
Retail Configurations Comparison
Also, it should be noted if you're seriously considering the Elite (whether it's for color or hard drive size or whatever) to WAIT. They're supposedly phasing out the current Pro line, so it will just be the base level Arcade and the upper level one (I can't remember if they're going to call it Pro or Elite). If and when this happens, there's likely going to be a price cut to the Elite, both simply because of the reorganizing of the lineup and because they're going to want to beat Sony to a pricecut.