Hi Guys,
I just wish to confirm with you, when you are playing intense FPS games like GoW, CoD2/3 and etc... did you notice there were textures flickering on ground/guns/object?
For my xbox 360, first few minutes it won't show but after 10 minutes, I see the textures are flickering

I opened up the xbox and cleared the ori thermal paste and I found out there are bubbles around the dies plus the thermal paste seems "melted" due to excessive heat.



At the back of motherboard, I saw 3 double sided tapes on the rams chips. But those are not the so-called thermal tapes. Its usage was to protect the ram chips from breaking during motherboard installation. Why I think so? Because the pink color are removable like double sided tape!


After I had cleared the thermal paste and put on artic silver on both CPU and GPU. Also removed the double sided tapes on ram chips. It does not help much

Anyone can advice on this overheating issue? You don't like seeing glitches while playing games right?

it happens to me sometime but doesnt flicker just doesnt render the background or player model graphics at sometime
but rarely thou
i got my xbox place horizon and with a 16deg aircond room to pump it cool

Wow, you have a big horse power aircond in your room. Playing xbox360 really consumes lot of energy.

I believe for your case, it is a bug rather than hardware problem.

16deg isnt normal for any brand new aircond?
its just a 1 horse power by panasonic

3ROD and now this!!M$,what's goin on?!!

This post has been edited by double_agent: Dec 19 2006, 12:09 PM

my PDZ does have that kinda problem...i dont have other FPS games...but other games like PGR3, Fifa 06, Tombraider etc is okay...

I would say it is a symptom of heading to 3ROD

It seems I am the only one in Lowyat.net facing this problem
My xbox mfg date is June. I will post some samples of glitches for you all to have a look tonight.

i have distorted graphics during the boot sequence..where the xbox logo is shown... everything is tearing up...but after a restart everything is ok...weird huh

yup same here distorted graphic kindda awkward if u tell me.....it only happen sometime

my friend told me maybe because my tv dont have HD but i dunno...so far okay xcept for PDZ..

hi
u have XBOX360 3 Red light Error code 0102
problem
just watch video show how to work back normail Green light working
link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYv6b7MndJk...0x360%20xbox360
u watch done u try HOT AIR GUN FIX - XBOX360 will be work Green Light

Dothan
u both CPU and GPU. Also removed the double sided tapes on ram chips
u cant Removed Sided tapes CPU AND GPU AND Ram Chilp
Senang just watch video how to also Removed
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnoijDTup7E
u watch done u try this will be also removed tapes
What happan wil be work Cool XBOX 360
help hehehe

the first link should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYv6b7MndJk

cheers

I think the 2nd youtube link is for removing the epoxy resin which able for you to solder wires into modch*p for ahem purposes.
Thanks anyway...

Yesterday playin RSV 5 hour straight and got some glitch. Weird, everything going well again after restart the mission.

Hi All,
A short update on my xbox, i opened it again to re-coat the artic silver. Below is my steps:
1. Found out the previous coating was too thick, this is no good.
2. Cleaned up the mess
3. Polished the heatsink with sandpaper
4. Re-apply the artic silver again (this time very little and smooth the surface with unused credit card)
5. Running dead rising to raise the heat on GPU
6. When it is hot, press the ram chip to ensure firm contact.

Now praying hard it can minimise the glitches

haha very good idea!!
DIY , will the artic silver stick to the heatsink or it'll just melt off because of the constant heat?

The artic silver is not sticky and I don't see any melt off like what thermal paste MS used. I only see MS thermal paste got bubbles (due to boiling?) around the dies and some melt off. See my photos posted on 1st post, thermal paste concentrate more on the 10Mb die on GPU. This is scary to me man.

Oh yes... one of the reason why the MS thermal paste concentrated more on 10Mb die on GPU because my xbox was standing vertical before that.

still have that problem?