WARNING! Nyko Intercoolers Break XBOX360 consoles!

i'll take a look around... nope, don't have EDIT button =/

 

prehaps they only let full members do it 0-o

 

I think (and hope) I found the solution.

Check this out here.

I have my 360 all the way down to the mobo right now... gonna dismantle the heatsinks and go nuts. I have all the tools necessary, as well as AS5 (as I'm a fellow overclocker for PCs), so I think I can take care of business here.

Hopefully, I'll fix this darn thing by the end of the week b/c now it's getting late. I'll try to take some pix too.

 

keep us uptodate ^^

late time I played with OCing I put a new heat sink on a ATI 9700 pro it killed it died artifacts then blank screen

of coarse now I realize every lil thing I did wrong *L*
good luck with it and keep us up to date ^^

 

Well I have a HUGE amount of experience with computer modding, such as physical mods for cooling or volt mods... I think trying a few cooling mods will be a piece of cake... it's just I now have to MAKE THE time for it. I start a new job on Monday (IT - Systems Specialist) and I'm finishing up at my current job, so it's going to be tough to squeeze in the time.

I'll keep you posted, though! Hopefully with good news...

 

teach me volts and amps

LOL
I toy with a bunch of low voltage stuff I was annoyed a friend in the "filed" said cat 5 would be bad to run a 7V 1A current threw but after testing I found it dose overheat or blow the lien any (7V 1 A bat sweeper cleaner I needed to put a switch on the handle I have a ton of solid copper wire cat 5,I used 2 pair or 3 wires to send the current up/down (I forget if cat 5 is 3 pair or 5 wires LOL) anyway after testing it for a couple days it works and dose not get hot).

BTW know anythign about mod chips? I need to put a Xeno chip on one of my PS2s but unsure what wire to use I have some cat5,intercom wire and should have some ribbon cable around here *L*

 

Well I cut off the wires of dead computer Power Supplies, so that I have spare wire... I just always have spare wire... anything that dies, I salvage its parts.

As for Cat5 cable, it's 4 pairs of wires for a total of 8.

Mod chips... well, all you really have to do with those is follow the tut or the manual... any time there's a mod chip, there's always some directions with it. I bought a $100 Soldering Station... called the Hakko 936 if i recall correctly... I love it... but you can always get a decent soldering iron for $20-30 from elsewhere. Radio Shack has cheap ones for like $6-10, but it's tough to do more fine soldering with those irons.

Well, hopefully I have time before Monday to get my 360 back up... not sure if I'll have time tonight or tomorrow night, and I'm busy Fri night and Sat night...

 

I have no problems soldering its just....I am unsure of what wire to use

 

This is bull, I have had one on my 360 since I purchased the console! I have had no problems with it and the temperature difference is outstanding!

Seems you have been unlucky, my 360 has a guarantee with the retailer that protects it from such a problem regardless.

 

Well guess what MS just spent 1 billion to shovel bull shit, wake up noob you might not be having troubles with your 360 but some people have had to replace theirs not once but 3 times or more, so before you spout fanboyish nonsense over crap do try and think alil.

Thank you and have a nice day

Really tho if the fail rate is under 50% your not going to see litrealy every other unit fail you are going to have some that work and some that do not with,and with about a 3rd of the systems suffering from either bad manufacturing/parts/design/whatever something is up and MS unlike other companies that sweep such things under the rug is actually cleaning the damn thing.


As for the Nyko cooler turning the 360 into a convection easy bake oven its possible however at a fail rate of over 10%(MS them selfs have state its more like 30%) the system itself could simply be failing and then frying the cooler.

Oh you have not said if yours is a launch system or something bought in the last 5 months when they started improving the cooling system,retailer warranties can be tricky I hope you have a solid one.

SO I will say it again be proud MS is doing something about the fail rates of the 360 and not ignoring it,now if they would just come clean about the disc eating LOL.

BTW your sig is longer than 4 lines,tighten it up some.

 

Two things:

#1 - Zippy is right. The 360s have really been a headache and if you're read through the recent pages in this thread, you'll notice that even I have gone through several headaches. Let's not forget, I pretty much KNOW what I am doing when it comes to stuff like this. I've tried cooling my 360 since day 1... so just think of how much sooner my 360 would have gotten screwed up if I left it with its stock cooling. For the past several months, I had a notebook cooler under the 360, laying FLAT on its belly, and with an intake fan... then, eventually I put exhaust fans in the back. All of these fans were powered with something other than the 360's stock power, so you cannot blame that either.

Now that I have an F-ed up 360 console, I'm happy to say M$ made a piece of crap manufactured product. It's fun and all, but it's a sad product in many ways (yes, I do love it when it works). Now I have to spent even more countless hours to fix the darn thing, which is not the consumer's responsibility, but I've made it my own.

#2 - Why does TREND MICRO PC-CILLIN (anti-virus software on my new laptop) tell me that this site is a "Dangerous web site - You have attempted to open a dangerous Web site."
"Address: http://stuff2.afterdawn.com/"
"Credibility: Dangerous"
"Category: Hacking / Proxy Avoidance"
"Suggestion: Close your web browser window and do not reopen this web site."

Someone care to explain??

 

Its in their filter, check the web blocking stuff its under warez or security info oh Hacking / Proxy Avoidance ,frankly their web filtering technology is iffy at best turn it off.

I am not running TMPC07 right now I am running free AVG which dose better with virus's 0-o and I am running comodo firewall and their anti spyware/maleware.

If the wet towel trick can even partially fix it then best bet is the low lead ROCHS complaint solder that with iffy manufacturing standards pretty much made the 360 a easy back oven for phish and chips :X

 

Anybody know what E68 error is? I get it time to time (rarly) but I got the newer nyko in it but I heard it could be just taking out the hdd and connecting it back in. But it's 2 red lights i think. Im just gonna do the x-clamp replacment on it, like i did to my other one and run smoothly and very VERY cooler now.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917874

something is up with the HD ,unplug it restart the console let it boot up then and find it dose not have it,then replug it in,let it find it and see if that will "fix" it,you might need to update the console as well.

it might be the HD is deing.

 

double post

 

Alright, but I don't think thats the case, it has done that for the past 5-6 months but rarly like onece a month maybe sometimes.

 

a bad or corrupt data can do that,by plugging the HD unit back in after the 360 sets itself to no HD mode it can correct some errors.

if the HD is failing things will only get worse.

 

hmmmmmm, so turn the 360 off then take out the hdd for a bit blow in it and hook back in to see if that was the problem?

 

with the HD off turn the 360 on let it boot up fully,then turn it off and put the HD back onto it.

 

wow i learn somethin new everyday... never heard of this error, but you should try what zippy said. it can't hurt.

or try to run your 360 with a mem card for a while and see if the problem goes away... if it does go away, well then you know it was a faulty hdd.

or... maybe you could just buy another hdd... they are getting cheaper for the 20gb now since the elite is out.