Hardware 360 Slim overheating for no reason

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Hi, just got my 360 out of storage after moving house, I connected it up the other week and everything was fine (apart from 2 updates)
Turned it on yesterday to find the fans ramp up to max on the dashboard, tried a game today and it turned off from overheating with a red light

The console says overheating but its not, cold air is coming out and the whole console is cold, how do i fix it?
 

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If the air is cold then that's the problem. The air being exhausted must be hot, which means the console is cooling itself efficiently. What you can do is simply open it up and replace the thermal paste or take it to a repairshop to do it for you.
 
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If the air is cold then that's the problem. The air being exhausted must be hot, which means the console is cooling itself efficiently. What you can do is simply open it up and replace the thermal paste or take it to a repairshop to do it for you.

Ah ok i was thinking that could be an issue, time to figure out how to take it apart then!
 
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Ok i'm back, after replacing the thermal paste, its still happening, I'm worried somthing more complicated like a temperature sensor has been damaged or somthing
 

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Hi, just got my 360 out of storage after moving house, I connected it up the other week and everything was fine (apart from 2 updates)
Turned it on yesterday to find the fans ramp up to max on the dashboard, tried a game today and it turned off from overheating with a red light

The console says overheating but its not, cold air is coming out and the whole console is cold, how do i fix it?
The xbox 360 console has error identification codes, on the internet you can find instructions and what type of error does your console have, it could be simple overheating, just change the thermal paste, the most serious problems are the cold contacts on the card always due when the console is heated.
 

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2 red lights is overheating. there's an error code thing, yes, but it only works with rrod. it's the secondary error code. often times, rrod will be the result of overheating though. one red light could be e74, which is hardware failure as well. I'm not sure if this applies to slims though, because afaik, they can't actually get rrod. they get rdod (red dot of death) for the same reason.
 

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2 red lights is overheating. there's an error code thing, yes, but it only works with rrod. it's the secondary error code. often times, rrod will be the result of overheating though. one red light could be e74, which is hardware failure as well. I'm not sure if this applies to slims though, because afaik, they can't actually get rrod. they get rdod (red dot of death) for the same reason.
E74 is the HANA chip, this chip takes care of the video signal, it converts the signal for the tv digitally, if you have a component cable try to attach it to a tv, the component cable is analog and the console could work, to fix the chip you should unsolder and resolder with the help of a heat gun and of course soldering iron, first but just try to change the thermal paste it could only be a problem related to the thermal paste, this happened on the first models of xbox 360, do not pass the heat gun as in some video tutorials, it works for a few months but you risk breaking the motherboard, like the cloth left on the console ..., make sure you have followed the procedure well to understand what your error code is before performing a repair.
 

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weird that it had one red light. even microsoft's website says two red lights is overheating. one red light is supposed to be hardware failure.
 

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if mean those stations, then yes. you can get one on ebay for like $800 from what I remember, but that was a couple years ago.

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I just saw this (didn't read description though): https://www.ebay.com/itm/Upgraded-B...969374?hash=item338b55839e:g:nl8AAOSwkB1exodT

looks like the prices have come down. most seem to be around the $500. I think a reball for at least a ps3 is usually around $80 or the price of a new, used system.
 

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scam, he stole one of my jtags, then 2 weeks he said he was almost done, and he would get back to me, never heard back and got my money back through paypal, you pay him to give him parts

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no i was referring to the reball or reflow service
 
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I had to send my xenon away to get a reflow/reball once when I had fixed it for the last time. the guy wouldn't return it either. he ended up breaking one of the fans as well. I got him to return it after I told my friends on usenet about it. they started harassing him.
 

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scam, he stole one of my jtags, then 2 weeks he said he was almost done, and he would get back to me, never heard back and got my money back through paypal, you pay him to give him parts

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no i was referring to the reball or reflow service

I think so. I'm not really sure. I think they do for the ps3 at least, but it's not worth the money.
 

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it's a slim? I didn't notice that, but I didn't read every post. I have no experience with slims (never even seen one), just phatties. :D

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I have two falcons (both jtags with one being the aud clamp), and one jasper (flashed drive). never really had any problems with the jtag I use. though, I keep temp thresholds at 60 degrees C. I've even left it on all night while I transferred content from the internal hdd. kinda noisy with the fan, but not too bad.
 

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it's a slim? I didn't notice that, but I didn't read every post. I have no experience with slims (never even seen one), just phatties. :D

slim uses an soc that combines the gpu and cpu on one chip so less to reball

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i have/had Jtag xenon/falcon RGH Trinity & RGH OPUS
 
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