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# There's someone on ebay who can fix it for about £45
no idea who though. The likelihood is that the ships have come loose on the motherboard; if it's out of warrenty open it up and press every chip back onto the main motherboard then re-power up (sounds bollocks, but that's how 90% of them are fixed by Microsoft)
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:45, archived)
# i fixed mine myself
quite easy once its opened up.
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:49, archived)
# I was looking into soft-modding it
Apparenly if you have a SATA port on your motherboard in your home pc, you can remove the DVD drive from the console and connect it to the SATA port - it's possible to flash the DVD drive to play backups through a floppy boot disk by doing this.

Found an 8meg word doc on it (pics included). Not got an Xbox anymore though lol
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:53, archived)
# mine is soft modded
its really easy to do. Hence the reason i fixed mine myself cos microshaft didnt want to know! :b

If you need any advice let me know.
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:57, archived)
# I might do...
...will earn another freebie one of the net :)

Trying to earn a Wii at the mo, got half the credits for one.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 11:05, archived)
# mines covered by warranty
if its the 3 red ring problem then its free, which is nice of them.. its not too bad, just annoying i was looking foward to playing a bit of rainbow 6 and it doesn't work.

saw a thing on youtube about fixing it by purposly overheating it by wrapping it in a towel dont think i want to do that.. can just see my house burning down if i try
(That Random Guy, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:53, archived)
# The prob is the motherboard is jammed in the case of the first few batches
When the console heats up and the DVD drive is used, the motherboard vibrates slightly off the external casing and eventually shakes the chips from the motherboard. The console BIOS spacks out and gives 3 lovely rings of death. They've sorted it to a much better degree in the latest batch of consoles plus as it's their fault you should be given a replacement free of charge too.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:56, archived)
# the towel trick is BAD
you only need to slightly overheat the GPU memory chips and let them cool. Too much heat elsewhere will fry other components.
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 10:58, archived)