Saturday, May 12, 2012

Tips to Fix and Prevent Xbox 360 Screen Freeze

By Katherine Martina


The biggest reason that the Xbox 360 screen freeze problems happen is due to the unit heating up. If you notice three of your green lights on your gaming console turn red, your Xbox system is getting hot which leads the GPU to pull from the motherboard. When left unattended, the motherboard continues to get hot then to vibrate. If the motherboard vibrates, the connection with the GPU through solder joints actually starts to break up as well as your Xbox stops.

You are going to find here to help you through the Xbox 360 freezing problems as well as ways to correct heating up damage. Before we go on, let us address a common and unsafe myth that wrapping a big towel around your Xbox 360 will fix the freeze up problem. This is not true and in fact makes it all worse. Doing this will do away with any chance of your effectively fixing it yourself and your only solution could be to send it off to Microsoft to fix it.

Repairing your Xbox 360 console Freezing Complications

To fix your Xbox and do away with freezing instances here are a few steps comparable to what you would find in your repair guide:

1. Take off the covering. The faceplate can be taken off if you take a fine tip tool and poking the grayed out hole and also the little rectangle shaped holes from the back.

2. As you take off the faceplate, move the latch up that is part of the DVD drive.

3. Look below the plastic casing and unscrew the metal case.

4. Anyone can take away the DVD drive and take away the cables.

5. Next, comes the motherboard as well as fan.

6. Search for a large silver piece that has long holes after rotating the motherboard upside down and using the identical poker as applied before pop the corners of the X-shaped clamp found beneath the silver piece.

7. Bring in the GPU as well as CPU by taking out the heat sink.

8. Take Arctic silver thermal compound and put a large amount on the GPU and wait a quarter of an hour.

9. Put the washers about the screws situated on the heat sink and place it well around the motherboard.

10. Place two more washers around the screws as they stick in the motherboard.

11. Place the heat sink back on the screws and get them tight.

12. Now you have to work your way backwards in the removal process.

13. It's simple to power on your Xbox 360 console.

If all the steps were put into practice the right way, the machine should be devoid of Xbox 360 screen freeze troubles.




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