Beating the Big Freeze (XBOX 360 maitenence)

[Monk]

http://www.koolance.com/water-coolin...product_id=329

Microsoft needs to hire some guys with laptop experience to design their next-gen console. Good job on your part, hopefully it solves your heat problems (and some other random part doesn't fail....)

Oh dear lord, What is that horrible abomination of science?! And.. look at the price on that. Does that come with an xbox or is that solely for the water cooler? If it's the later then someone is making a killing out there.

Im disgusted. Both by how they designed this, and your lack of a static free work envrionment.

As an IT student, surely you would have taken precautions.

Wouldn't that have taught you, shorting out the mobo.

I may be slightly knowledgeable but I am also horribly lazy. It took me a year and a half just to open it up. Kidding of course.

It was about halfway through when i realized I hadn't really taken much in the way of precautions, and by that time I had no choice but to move ahead. My professor would have a thing or two to say about that...

Alright, so lets say I've been having this problem with my 360. Are there any possible solutions beyond tearing it apart or buying a new one? It's becoming almost impossible to use it for any length of time.

There's a lot of crazy remedies around the net including (among other things) wrapping your xbox up in a damp towel to absorb the heat or just buying a fan to latch onto the back. Many of the crazy "quick fixes" like the towel fix won't help, and will probably make things even worse while the fan may or may not help at all.

Before ripping this thing open I installed an intercooler TS which i bought for pretty cheap off of amazon.

It's a unit that latches onto the back to adds 3 more fans. It increases air flow significantly but the main problem is this thing is loud. Worse yet it still didn't solve my freeze problem so i was forced to look elsewhere. If your warranty is still intact you can send it in the Microsoft to repair, but they seem rather fickle about that part of their customer service. I had heard they'd work on it for free and all it would cost me is the time, but after investigating this i learned they wanted a hefty sum for labor. Considering my options I just did it myself.