This morning I wanted to get on my xbox 360 and play. However, everything on the screen, including my game (Fallout 3 Iz Teh Win!) turned into a wierd shade of green. after turning it off, I went to turn it back on and the screen was black. I went upstairs and plugged it into the Tv in my room. It didnt work either. At first I thought it was an A/V Cable issue, but I was unable to get it to show anything but small fragments of white pixels when I swapped it with a new one. I tried calling Microsoft's support line, but it's suggestions didn't help. Its too late for an agent, so I may call tomorrow, but I wanted to know if and how to fix it, as Microsoft fails at delivering. Seriously, it took me 2 months before I got my xbox back. I just wanna know if I can fix it quick, and how. Thanks to anyone who can help.
Looks like gpu failure. You can do a the x-clamp fix but its just a temp fix anyways. Sounds like your 360 still under warranty so just send it in and get it fixed. Don't open it.
Sounds like the Ana/Hana chip has come away from the solder points slightly or the gpu has lost contact with its solder points slightly at one corner...so your not far from a Rrod, i cant go into too much detail now cos im running late for work so i will help you later with a possible fix.
thanks. That would be good if I get an RRoD, because that is way too fucking common with 360s that it's free to get 1st generation one fixed, because I got mine at the launch.
If your still covered you could "force" it to Rrod quite easily but dont use a towel for gods sake, that method overheats components that should never get that hot which may result in a error 74 or similar problem.
I know that E74 is covered but that is a best case senario with the towel trick, he could blow a cap or it could catch fire...one of my brothers tried the towel trick and it put his xbox in a never ending boot cycle like the bios chip is fried. The best way to force a Rrod is to just let the system run for an hour or so with a game in then put it in the fridge/ freezer for a minute or two this makes the motherboard warp faster than it normally would resulting in the gpu/cpu having poor solder joint then hey presto Rrod ;-)
