Good deal but a pain in the butt to use,
May 21, 2012 Valued Customer (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: XBOX 360 Hardware Repair Kit 1 Complete Screw Washer Set for X-clamp Replacement with XBRdepot Stars 900 Thermal Compound & Complimentary Deluxe Instructional e-Manual (Video Game)
I love how this comes with thermal paste, and its not like Arctic Silver which is more liquid. This stuff solidifies and gums up a bit faster which is nice for this project. My complaint comes with all the freaking washers. I like to use rubber ones and these are vinyl I believe and you surround them with metal ones. I swear I need 8 arms to attach this but after 3 Xboxes I got kinda good at but still. Says it comes with an instructional e-manual which the one that I have did not come with. If these came with rubber washers or something that was more flexible that would be better in my opinion but if you are looking for a good deal to fix your Red Ring or E47 this is the cheapest way to go for sure.
FIXED MY FREEZING AND RROD PROBLEM,
April 23, 2012 H. D. Wong - See all my reviews
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I've had my 360 since launch back in 2005. It's been great, but recently started locking up (freezing) and would get the occasional RROD. It would even lock up when my daughters would be watching Netflix. Total bummer. The symptoms of our Xbox got worse and worse. Eventually it would freeze after about 1-2 mins of powering on. Then I started seeing the RROD. 5 and 2 year old girls that are unable to play Fruit Ninja are very unhappy campers.
I've tried the overheating towel trick in the past and it worked, however it was never a good fix and it didn't last long at all.
I did some research and found out that by using a heat gun to reflow the solder under the CPU and GPU, that it most often fixes the problems I was seeing. Also those X clamps seem to cause a lot of problems.
I ordered this kit (thanks Amazon Prime), and a $20 Wagner heat gun. Disassembled the xbox and reflowed the solder, let it cool down and then reassemble with the hardware screw kit...Read more
Cheap and easy fix for your dead 360,
January 29, 2012 SenorScientist - See all my reviews
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This kit comes with everything you need to transform your dead 360 into an at home refurbished one. They include a link to instructions online, but I found some others on youtube that were more helpful, for me personally. In no time at all, I had a 360 that went from red ring to playing Modern Warfare (the first one seemed like a good test game) online for more than an hour.