<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Wow! Thanks Ross thats very kind of you:) I might be in Birmingham this coming Wednesday, if so would it be ok to bring it in the following week? The only problem with taking the motherboard off is that two of the little black screws have lost there heads, I will try and grab some new ones and bring them with me and maybe we can prise the stuck ones off with something.<br><br>Thanks again, Joe<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ross Feilen <gm7wed@ntlworld.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for the Electron Club
<members@electronclub.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 25 October, 2009 21:20:09<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ELECTRON] Xbox 360 Fix<br></font><br>Joe,<br><br>Bring this along to the SOLDER group on Wednesday evening (5:30 to 8:30pm)<br>and we can give it a blast with the hot air rework tool. This will re-melt<br>the solder balls on the bottom of the chip and (70-80% likely) reflow<br>everything, meaning any dodgy solder connections under this could get fixed.<br>Another potential fault is a lack of cooling so we can remove the heatsinks<br>from the chips and re-apply some thermal paste between the chip and<br>heatsink. I think I heard rumours that not all Xboxes were properly treated<br>in the factory with thermal paste, so that may also fix the issue.<br><br>Looks like there will be another Xbox coming along for exactly the same<br>fault that night.<br><br>Canšt promise
anything but it might well work!<br><br>Ross<br>SOLDER group leader<br>Radio callsign GM7WED<br><br>On 25/10/09 15:03, "Joe Carr" <<a ymailto="mailto:joe.carr@ymail.com" href="mailto:joe.carr@ymail.com">joe.carr@ymail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hey,<br>> <br>> I received a free xbox 360 that had the E74 error to have a bit of a play<br>> around on and see if i could get it going again. I have found the source of<br>> the problem is the ana chip which seems to be loose. I have fixed the console<br>> in the most amateur DIY fashion which involves a stack of pennys putting<br>> pressure on the ana chip and pushing down into place. I wanted to ask if<br>> anyone knew a better fix? I reckon soldering the chip back on might be an<br>> option but I'm hopeless as soldering! Any help/ideas would be much<br>> appreciated.<br>> <br>> Thanks, Joe<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>members
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