FrostyMaGee

I believe you have the market corned on those Bowl. Lol. I’ll be sure to ask around though and throw any takers your way.

Exactly! I’ve done it both with a desoldering gun or just taking 5-10 secs and “walk” one out as it were. Both are more than fine when removing radial caps. I just can’t imagine loosening one up a little with an iron and then throwing that aside and using a pair of needle nose pliers to rip it out the rest of the way. Aside from the possibility of having left over cap pieces you could rip the damn pads up as well. The inanity of some things on the internet rarely surprises me anymore but that video did. Lol. The video itself was done rather professionally but the advice was rubbish.

I’m still amazed that there are people who would think “you know what? I’ll just pry this heat sink off a chip with a screwdriver no matter how much force I have to apply.” Even well before the Xbox days I’d have never done that. Damn. Unfortunately there are a few YouTube videos out there that suggest this practice (I had to satisfy my curiosity and look around to see). One not only suggested that but pulled his caps off with a pair of pliers after getting them “loose enough” with an iron. Yikes. These weren’t clock caps either but cpu caps he was replacing. All I could think was how many people followed that shit advice and pulled the leads out of the caps or broke the legs off. It was a scary video. I don’t know what else to say about it but just wow. SMH.

I wondered if that might work. I’ll have to dig around and see what old ones I have that would fit.

I replace it on every single one I work on. If you remove them without force it’s fine. The biggest pain is cleaning the old stuff out but things like articlean, etc work really well. Once I’ve replaced it temps are usually ten and sometimes 15 degrees cooler than they were previously.

I can believe that people run in to problems given videos of how some people try to pry the heat sinks off. Usually the cpu heat sink falls off it’s so dried out. The gpu is the one I’ve seen people pry off. Yikes. I usually just hit the stubborn ones with a heat gun on low moving side to side above that specific heat sink. Five seconds or less and it comes right off.

I do that too. Lol. I usually use the gpu heat sink since it tends to be tighter and move less than the CPU one. Also I’ll reach down to where a little bit of my fingers are on the plastic base.

That would be ideal. I like the metal clips that are on the gpu of the 1.0/1.1 versions.

That’s the one yeah. Also the backside (that’s on the same side of the mobo as the clip in your post) on the gpu.

I’ve noticed that too in the last year, Fox. Some will just snap even taking them off the right way and usually on the exact same side. I feel like the age, material, tension, and heat around them just wears some of the clamps out and they turn brittle.

Thanks for the link. I’ll have to look at that more in depth. Currently I’m ok on clamps but I appreciate the offer Bowl! I’ll keep that in mind if I run out. Much like our discussion with making hdd cables I was thinking it would be nice to have a way to make replacement clamps or an improvement thereof should the need arise. Made me start to wonder if someone else had already tried to do that.

As I was working on a repair Xbox for someone and noticed the two thrashed and broken heat sink clamps (not sure exactly what they did to them but clearly they didn’t quite grasp how they came off lol) I pondered this question. Has anyone ever tried to make replacement clamps to match or improve on the originals? I always just use others from parts Xboxes but I’m curious to know. I would assume they have to be injection molded or something of that nature. It seems like a 3D printed part might not hold up to that stress or maybe it would if done in the right material. Anyway, just thought I’d throw it out here and see if anyone had ever run across that before or tried themselves.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a flowchart/decision tree type of thing for Xbox repair scenarios but that sounds like a great idea. Like @Bowlsnapper said I imagine it would be quite time consuming to put together but would definitely be useful as hell and cool.

Thanks! Glad to be of help. I looked at some other cap orders I had and some of the ripple currents were 2.47A so I’ll amend my previous statement and say 2.47-3.2A on the ripple current range if that helps when you’re ordering. Yeah the “low ESR” range seems to be slightly subjective from manufacturers based on some values I’ve seen. That’s why I definitely wanted to check some I’ve had to see what it actually said for that value. Best of luck in your replacements and trace repair. Hope it gets your Xboxes back to functioning properly!

I’ve never actually used one but I’d be interested to hear people’s experiences with it. From everything I’ve read you either have the people that love it because it’s quiet or the people that hate it because while quieter it’s also smaller than the stock and has to run faster to move a sufficient amount of air to work as well. Additionally they say, as you mentioned, that the Xbox still seems to run hotter than with the stock fan. I’d love to know what someone with hands on with it experienced though. I’ve always just replaced stock with other stock fans from parts Xboxes but eventually that’ll run out. If it’s a viable alternative that would be cool (no pun intended lol).

It does feel like a manufacturing issue. Especially in the 1.2-1.4 vers. The five I’ve had to do have all been in that version range and almost exclusively in the same area or directly adjacent. Annoying.

Yeah the frag is just red and green and it’s usually right from the jump. Though I’ve seen it delayed for a few seconds before it frags too. The flashing red and orange is a whole different animal and it usually does it exactly like in your video actually. The ones I’ve seen do it at least. Not one I’ve really run across a lot.

I’m glad I basically remembered it right. Lol. It just popped when I saw the red and orange flash in the video. I knew I’d at least read about it before.

It’s quite possible I’m remembering something I read that Kaos wrote actually. Lol

From what I recall reading my guess is yeah. Or maybe a bridge on a ram pin. Seems like there was something about the lpc port as well (pin 5 I think?). Kaos would obviously know better than I though. Just popped in my head when I saw the red orange flashing.

Well initially you could do a test run and see how bandwidth usage held up making it a private server of sorts that was by invite only. You’d have a front facing page but credentials you doled out on an invite only. That could give you a relatively small test pool to get a gauge of the jump in bandwidth based on active users. Your backend would have enough logging to quantify that sample. It would at least give you an idea of the jump that you could extrapolate to a larger user set and give you a general idea of what you might need from the ISP. I’d definitely have a dedicated line just for that server though. If it gets large enough down the road you can run a secondary server and put in a load balancer should that end up being a necessity. That’s thinking way down the road though.

That would be cool. Are you actually planning to house the server locally? You said local so I assumed so but figured I’d ask. Lol. I’d probably make folks register before you could download or something just to keep direct download links from propagating everywhere and killing server bandwidth. That would be cool though. Lots of possibilities there on what you could do and hdd images you decide to host. Build up a collection of trusted and custom ones.

Oh I have seen that thread before. Lol. I didn’t remember it until I saw a few posts in it.

If he was that crazy acting and pervasive spreading that uninformed craziness around I can see how they’d both be given their status in the Xbox community. I can’t believe I managed to miss his nuttiness all these years. Lol. It’s possible I did like you mentioned and just passed it over thinking he was a troll.

Wow. Lol. I had no idea. I can totally believe he’s really like that though.