Posted by Suhas on August 3, 2009 ·
How it works?
Primarily, as the heat increases near the CPU, the RPM (Rotations per Minute) of the fans increases.
So, lesser the voltage –> slower the fans –> Rapid heat buildup.
In this mod, we will make sure that the fan gets 12 V all the time.
Materials needed:
* Some spare wires
* A cutter
* Soldering Iron (Optional)
Procedure:
Assuming you already know to open an Xbox 360, if not one [...]
Posted by Suhas on August 2, 2009 ·
Recommended reads before reading this article.
Reason?
Motherboard is in great stress due to flexing of the motherboard.
How to fix it?
This is the X-clamp replacement method.
Note: Its is not a permanent fix.
What you need?
* M5 5x10mm Machine screws (8 Pieces)
* 5mm Steel/Zinc Washers (16 pieces)
* 5mm Nylon/Fibre Washers (16 pieces)
* Torx 10 and Torx 8 Screw driver to open the 360 and pull [...]
Posted by Suhas on July 15, 2009 ·
If your have a wrecked Xbox 360 Drive. Heres how to replace the drive,but I cannot write a noob friendly tutorials like my other posts due to some reasons.
1) Extract the key from your old Xbox 360 DVD Drive.
2) Load your Dummy.bin in the buffer.
3) Select the target firmware.
4) Click on spoof to target source.
5) Flash your New Xbox 360 DVD Drive with your spoofed firmware.
Posted by Suhas on July 13, 2009 ·
If your Xbox 360 plays some discs and doesn’t play some by showing ‘Disc Unreadable’ or ‘Open Tray’ or ‘Dirty disc’ error, this is the tutorial you are looking for:
1) Check your ‘unplayable discs’ for disc errors. Click here for the tutorial.
2) If they they don’t have write errors. Try a pot tweak. Click here for the tutorial.
3) If [...]
Posted by Suhas on July 13, 2009 ·
Many times, you get Disc read error and you’ll have a dilemma – Is it the DVD or the DVD Drive?
You can check if the DVD is faulty using this method.
1) Download ImgBurn
2) Install it in a computer with a working DVD Drive.
3) Run ImgBurn.
4) Click on Verify and Insert the disc you want to verify.
5) If you have the Image of the disc. Check ‘Verify Against Image File’. Then, [...]
Posted by Suhas on June 30, 2009 ·
If you have an old (read ancient) computer, you might be having problems getting the CD/DVD tray out of the drive (It sometimes does, sometimes it doesn’t). This is a very simple fix.
1) Press the eject button repeatedly and somehow eject the tray.
2) You can find this belt wound around this disc like thingy.
3) Use a forceps or some pointy instrument to pull (carefully) out the belt. You’ll [...]