Yeah my old revived 360 that was dead on Saturday came back alive yesterday, I asked my son to play some games (from 2pm until 10pm) that's 8hrs straight and it's ok. I noticed that when it went dead again the fan was not spinning fast enough to pull out the heat/hot air and that was the cause of the 3ROD again(yeah many great thanks to MS). After the fan managed to spin at it normal speed at 5v, everything is fine.
This situation goes the same with Arj's 1ROD problem. After the fan managed to spin at it's normal speed, it is ok.
I'm doing the 12v fan mod (on one of 3ROD case that went dead again, it's not yours Arj but if you want me to do it on yours I will) right now so that it will bypass that stupid temp/speed sensor.
MS should really look into the quality of the 360 motherboard. I've read at joystiq that one company in UK that has been doing repairs for x360 is now refuse to repair any 3ROD cases as they said the problem is the mainboard and the repair cost for each 3rod case is very high.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=26211QUOTE
UK-based repairs specialist Micromart has told GamesIndustry.biz that it has had to refuse to service Xbox 360 consoles that display three red lights, dubbed the Red Ring of Death.
"We were seeing about 30 a week before we pulled the plug on the service," said Jeff Croft of Micromart.
"We saw it over a period of several months and it was just getting worse. It began towards the end of last year. Once the twelve month warranty finished then we started to see more and more machines being sent in to be looked at.
Micromart acts for individual retailers who send customer's goods to the specialist. Croft says his company pulled the service after discovering problems with the motherboard, and that that repairing the console wasn't financially feasible. Even after working on a number of machines, the company didn't feel comfortable with the end result.
Croft said the company had written to Microsoft to inform it of the problems encountered but had received no reply.
OT: A forumer wanted to buy my old X360....I'm letting it go this weekend.
This post has been edited by tot31: Jul 2 2007, 09:02 AM