I got this box through the post this morning he said he'd 'tried' to repair it, ive opened 100's of xboxes and i have to say this is the worst ive seen in a long while. i don't usually post stuff like this but i was shocked when i saw it
Lol you think that is bad? After repiring 360s for so long ive seen just about everthing from broken traces, to cement on the gpu, to painting the board in thermal paste and butter ...... Lol honestly people can be so dumb sometimes.
ive seen as bad (cracked gpu comes to mind because the guy didst put any washers in between the heatsink and board) and ones wheres all the tracks are melted and destroyed becuse people cant use soldering irons, but this guy had no idea why it didnt work, i just looked at the other console he sent me and its just as bad about 13 broken tracks
Man, I thought I did a bad job when I accidentally scratched 2 tracks near one of the mounts! I guess the difference was mine worked again after the repair
I got one off eBay that was listed "as-is". The bastard had tried to remove chip containing the kernel and what not by flooding it with solder and what I can only imagine was a blow torch. Crunchy.
i got one once it was missing the nand, and had a cygnos on the bottom of it and the tracks round the gpu/io ports weres all destroyed,
White stuff looks like bird shit. I've gotten consoles that have pop spilled on them. Makes them sticky as shit. Worst was a PS3 that broke and so a friend took a replica Katana to it. I bought it off him for £5 and repaired it so it worked fine but what beaten to shit.
What was he doing with a screwdriver? The are that is damaged seems to be the squiggly line area, which is squiggly so that all the data lines are the same length which is not going to help the cpu / gpu out much...
he was trying todo the xclamp fix. i guess il use the 2 boards he gave me as reballing/reflowing practice lol, im not repairing the 30 tracks he destroyed lol
How the fuck has he done that then? I have shaky hands but to date I have yet to break a shit tonne of traces.
i take mine off with a flathead screwdriver and mine NEVER looked like the ones in the picture above lol.on a serious note i personally own a BGA rework station. back when i didnt own one i found the xclamp fix being quite useless and repetitive. a nice combo ive also seen was reflowing then using the hybrid fix which is used to keep the board from warping.
