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Red Ring of Death
micah:
I started to fill out the repair request online but after I entered the serial number it said that I was past the 3-yr extended warranty time period. I wish I'd previously registered :(
It says you can call to dispute it, but I can't find my original receipt anywhere. I can't for the life of me remember when we bought it but I'm pretty sure it was just UNDER 3 years. We had a bunch of expendable income at the beginning of 2007... and we bought our HDTV on 5/15/07 (so it was before than) but I can't figure out when it was.
In addition to scouring my files for the physical receipt, I've also tried searching through this forum and my old blogs to see my first mention of buying it... but I can't. So frustrating!
They want $99 to fix it if its outside the warranty period :mad:
Steve:
Dude you can do it yourself, i have done two of them for friends. The whole thing takes under 2 hours, the hardest part is getting the cover off because of all the stupid push clips and crap. I'll find the guide i used for it (don't go paying for any of them, thats bs) and post it up.
Steve:
turns out i had it bookmarked. Up to page 3 is all fluff, but worth a read if u have time. If the drilling part makes u uncomfortable you can take the case and bolts to any local shop and for like $5 (if not free) they will hook you up.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fix-the-Red-Ring-of-Deathwithout-towels/
micah:
hmm, me and hardware. that seems like a good idea :rolleyes:
The apparent cause of this issue (from both the tutorial in that link and other things I've read online) is that its an overheating issue? Which seems weird, because bought those extra fans that blow air into it and I don't normally play for more than an hour at a time.
On a side note, when it first froze up a week ago, I had just installed some mandatory firmware update. I'm sure its a coincidence but I wonder if that has anything to do with it :dunno: probably not as I've tried googling it and not found any new info.
this is really shitty.
Steve:
It's almost always one of two things (both heat related):
1) The solder connections at the cpu and/or gpu seperate, and require resoldering.
2) The weak connection between the chips and the heatsinks becomes too weak over time from the warping of the mainboard.
Both arent all that hard to fix. If you are uncomfortable doing it yourself pay the shipping and i'll do it for you, but insert the standard "if i blow it or myself up no liability blah blah" disclaimer here :p
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