Don't have an account? Sign up for free! How long do you have to play your Xbox Elite before you get the red ring of death. Also, does the age of your add to how long you have to play it before you get the RROD. User Info: darkdragon Accepted Answer. Take a metal scrubber and remove the thermal gunk from the heatsinks. Nothing better than powering on a reborn with clean heatsinks, no?
To use those 5MM machine screws, you'll need to widen the 8 screw holes in the metal case that previously secured the X-clamp posts. They are highlighted in the second photo. If you're using a hand drill, set a wooden block under each hole as you drill it to avoid warping the case. If you're using a drill press as I did there should be a steel pedestal with a hole for the drill bit to pass through, saving the case from serious FUBAR-age.
Have the bit spinning before you push into the center of the hole. Repeat this for all the holes. Make sure there are no burrs left on the holes or shards kicking around in the case afterwards. Bang it around a few times to get them out. The last thing you'd want is to have your die from little pieces of metal shorting it out. So far, we've prepped the heatsinks and the motherboard case for these 5MM screws. Now we get to make sumthin' of it!
With the case sitting flat, fan hole in the back on the right, take note of where you need to stick these screws. Now put the 5x15MM screws in the GPU screwholes, screwheads on the outside, so that they come into the case. Put tape over the heads to keep them from falling back out, as shown in the second photo. This tape is very important so don't take it off until I say so! Ha ha. Lay the case flat again and all the screws should be poking up at you, as they are in the main photo.
Place 3 or 4 5MM washers on each of them, the idea being to get them level with the motherboard standoffs. Use a straightedge to check. If they come up too short or too high the motherboard will get warped and you won't be fixing anything. Now the fun begins. You gotta get the motherboard back in the case with the goal of getting the screws into those orange holes that the X-Clamp posts went through.
All while you try to keep those washers on the screws! If they fall off at any point, you'll have to take the motherboard out, put them back on the screw s , and repeat. So try not to do it, eh? Tilt the case onto its right side where the hard drive connector would be so that you can reach the screws underneath. Angle the back of the motherboard into the case and push it all the way to the rear of the case.
Now, untape one of those rear CPU screws and point it into its hole. Give it a few twists to hold it in place and thread the other one in.
Now, while carefully holding the motherboard and those untaped screws, lower the motherboard until more screws hold you up and get them into their holes. Don't let those washers fall out! When it's all said and done you'll have screws poking through those holes. Tape the heads back to the case so they don't fall out. Now press on the motherboard around the screws.
It should be solid at each screw. If not you'll need to get back to those washers and pop another one on. But if it's all nice and immobile throw two washers onto each GPU screw, one onto each CPU screw, and head to the next step!
Now we get to mess with those screws one more time before the tape gets taken off for good. A paper-thin coat will be good. If you're using a silver-based paste, make sure you don't put on a ton because if it gets onto anything the silver's conductivity will mess with the other components.
Pick whichever heatsink you wanna put on first. The easiest way to get this right is to look at the smudge marks on the heatsinks, and match 'em with their processors.
When you thread the screws on start each one off lightly, then get them up tightly. Try to get them evenly tightened to avoid having too much pressure on one side of the processor and too little on another. When it's all done right the heatsinks should not move at all. Now we get to test it out! Otherwise you won't be turning it on. Turn it on without the fans plugged in, checking to see how fast the heatsinks heat up.
Getting hot in less than a minute is excellent. Now plug in the fans and put on that plastic fan shroud. Turn it on again and it should boot up normally, assuming you did the heat test if you didn't plug in the DVD drive, the center LED will blink green. If it goes RRoD instead, unplug the power cable, re-insert it and try again. If you cannot get the console to boot, press down on both the heatsinks with even force and power it on again.
If it boots, power it on with only one heatsink pressed upon. If it boots with that particular heatsink pressed on, power the off and keep re-booting until you find the problem corner s on the heatsink that needs tightening.
The idea is to tighten any heatsink corners that aren't tight enough in order to allow a good connection for that processor.
So if it boots up normally and you can play a game for at least an hour without it locking up, you've worked your magic and the can be re-assembled! Now that you've resurrected your console, what can you do to prevent such a travesty from happening again? As you see in the main photo, I attached a small fan from a PCI graphics card onto the CPU heatsink and wired it into the 's fan power supply. With it pushing air through the heatsink or pulling it in if that's your view the air coming out of the exhaust is actually cool!
You have been warned. Since there's no room to easily add a fan to the GPU heatsink, the next best thing you can do is optimize airflow.
While the has dual exhaust fans, most of the airflow goes to the CPU heatsink. Keep me logged in on this device Forgot your username or password? Don't have an account? Sign up for free! How long can you play?
User Info: eyedial. Depends on how old your console is. The newer ones create less heat which means they can be played longer.
I only play my for 2 - 3 hours at once and have never had a problem on my elite console jasper chipset or my early Arcade Console falcon chipset. User Info: mitsmirage. Mine is 4 to five years old but it gets hot from 8 to 9 but nothing happens or I do not now if it uh nothing User Info: mariobroz I have played many a game for hours without a problem.
My problem is that I smoke and the back of it gets all full of stuff that I have to clean out every now and again.
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