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Hi. I’ve taken out the heatsink, cleaned out the dried up thermal paste on the CPU/GPU and bottom of heatsink, and coated it with a fresh new coat of thermal paste. I then reassembled the heatsink and fan and did the overheat reset thing. After leaving it to cool completely, I started it up again. No luck. Still got the solid red dot. I’ve done this twice already. I should mention that the light only goes red when connected to an HDMI cable, I’ve tried a couple of other cables. The HDMI is not the problem. I got a couple of videos to help illustrate my problem. Here’s the xbox starting up w/o the HDMI in. Here’s the boot up with the HDMI in. Help me, please! I’m losing hope. Got a lot invested in the old thing.
There are no fixes to this. The chip is dead. Reflow/reball will bring it back for a month or two, sometimes more depending on how you use it. With laptops you can replace the chip with a new one. With xboxes no new are available so every fix to this is a jerry rig at best. Like all devices that use a flip chip GPU that has failed, if no new available it belongs in a bin!
Hey Pocholo Dela Cruz, I’ve found a couple of solutions for your problem. Please try all of them: Red Dot of Death Reset Solution Xbox Support Suggestions Stack Exchange Suggestions -If none of those work I suggest you replace your Xbox 360 Slim Parts and you can click this link for that. This is the cheapest but fully functional parts. Try this or try an AV instead of HDMI. -Hope this helped.
Hi try reflowing the southbridge and the ram chips under the heatsink mostly the ones right of the gpu/cpu are the ones that can cause this problem. If you apply pressure to the south bridged and it boots up then that’s your problem. Let me know what you find out and I can help you. Check the USB ports also to Make sure the not touching and grounding out.
