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Reflowing the motherboard of your xbox 360 allows the solder balls located beneath the cpu, gpu, ram, and other chips to reconnect with their contacts on the. If your graphics chip has been overheated it may be possible to reball or reflow the solder on the chip. Im hesitant to simply throw this thing away not very earth friendly and have heard rumblings of online. Most reball techniques used to repair the gpu issue use lead based solder. Where the xbox 360 went wrong technology the guardian. I saw a chap on youtube reflow an xbox 360 chip with nothing other than a high. Jul 21, 2010 what exactly does it mean to reflow an xbox 360. Weve been fixing playstation 3 and xbox 360 systems since 2007 and is the only repair shop dedicated to fixing game systems in nyc. Heres a link to a video from ihacked that shows you how to fix a rrod xbox 360 by.
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Rrod gpu solder joints reflow fix video how to fix your 360s rrod yourself. I measured the heatsinks side after 15 minutes of just cooling the cpu with my digital probe. Today im going to give you a laymans education on how these systems are repaired via reflow vs reball. Vapour phase reflow this is the latest technology that is used in soldering where the solder joint is made by boiling the pcb in liquid. Bgas have technical data sheets with strict temperature limitations to prevent. The heating elements of the preheater looks pretty good too and they are probably quite capable of distributing the heat evenly.
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