I Bought an UNTESTED Xbox 360 from Goodwill... GONE WRONG 😬 

Fun fact - I used to do Xbox 360 and PS3 reflows back in the day… before it was well known that it was just a temporary fix. I wish I could remember my success rate, but it was so long ago that I have no clue. For my first rrod repair, all I had to do was clean out the dust! Got lucky.

We need more Danny in the future. He seems like a chill dude and he had a good first impression. 👍

Danny seems really nice and chill, hope to see more of him in the future! 😊

Danny's a natural on camera. Hope to see you on the channel more often.

Sometimes the goodwill purchases don’t go as planned… what should I buy from goodwill next?

Why do I find myself liking Danny the Editor more than Jacob 😂. I find it amusing the guy most knowledgeable about consoles edits the videos 😂.

The red ring of death i think every 360 owner had one of those at some point. Cool to see Danny on there hope to see him more

We need more of these

We want more Danny

i must say danny's hair is magnificent

It was cool to hear from Danny! Have fun on vacation Jacob. Love the videos y’all put out

I remember the original Xbox 360 console, I had the 4GB one because my dad worked in janitorial and found it and yeah that one lasted me a long time, I have the 360 Slim and it still works 💪🏽 Danny is pretty cool, he should be on Jacob's RU-vid Videos more often 😊

Rework the guts from a slim into a classic body? Start on the arduous journey of making a pcb recreation of the 360 to revitalize the life of the hardware while adding insane quality of life upgrades? That sounds more like main channel jazz

I used to get 360's from ewaste (to clean and resell locally for $20) and used come across quite a lot of Xenon's. I found that you never had to heat the chips for long, from memory it was only a minute or 2. Out of the 40-50 of them I "reflowed", only around 8ish couldn't be temporarily fixed by this (never sold any of these). I highly recommend against anyone getting Xenons, Zephyrs or early Falcons as they will all die this way, no matter how cool you run them. The HANA chip (or ANA for Xenon's as they don't have HDMI) I've found to be pretty problematic as well, even in slims, but it's nowhere near as common as the early GPU failures.

Danny - you make SUPERB videos - please keep making more! Would love to see more of your content on here with Jacob's!

It would be fun having a crack at the red ring fixes like the towel trick/paperclip trick from back in the day. Those original 360s are worth nothing anyway so theres no harm. Maybe you can also test the rubber method on the ps3 and see if it actually works because there's quite a debate on whether or not it works

The OOF got me 🤣

This was definitely interesting liked to see more of this it’s informative for sure !!!

Uh… did ya wait long enough for the board to cool off all the way before testing?

This video is amazing, it's so great to see that the true cause of most RROD is becoming more well-known.

I really enjoyed Danny’s content and knowledge. More please!! 😊

I have a Falcon Elite with RROD. I did the Q-tip trick in which I stuck a bald Q-tip in the fans to prevent the fan from spinning. Turned it on and waited for it to overheat, turned it off immediately and let it cool for 20 minutes. Turned on after that, however the disc drive has issues, combine that with the 0110 error code and it is not worth permanently fixing, especially considering it’s on the metro dashboard.

Go Danny go!

found a jasper at goodwill last year for 30 with cables. peel on IR receiver. opened to service and maybe clean. it wasn't dirty at all. paste still pasty, i still put some newer stuff on. unfortunately broke some clips, was very brittle.

Great video!

Not even sure if Danny has any kind of IT certification presently, but he’s so natural at this, he probably could do well with IT training video guides!

Good job Danny with the video excellent work

I have one that was made in 2006 and it’s still working surprising I even refurbished it myself and kept it for myself it was given to me for free, so fun stuff edit all that was wrong with it is it needed to be cleaned and the belt replaced for the disk tray because the dish tray I was having the stuck issue so I fix that good times

More Danny content!!!!!

I cleaned mine up unplugged the fan until it had the two flashing lights an it fixed it been playing on it all night last night with out a hitch only payed £12 for it mainly for the silver launch trim

I had an xbox 360 that was saying it was overheating but the heatsink was room temp, i found a tutorial online that said there is a sensor and ahowed you qhere toncut the trace for it, after i cut it the console worked fine that was 6 years ago and the guy that has it says it is still working

Danny is a very talented presenter would definitely watch more of him

The amount of "alright" he says 😂😂😂

Nice to see you Danny on this video maybe you should think about being in more videos

The seller was like: Shit how should I get rid of my empty toilet paper roles from 2020

Danny is the man we need some more of Danny

I reflowed a PS3 before when l got it from someone and it only lasted a month before it was fully out of commission not too bad for a free system. I only recommend reflowing if you need to get files off of the system to transfer it to a new one. Reflowing gives you enough time for that if successful.

Resistors R4d3 - 8 possibly causing the instant overheating error? My 360 has a corona v2 mobo so im not sure if this console has the same resistors or atleast in the same location but they are for the thermal sensors and if they dont read 0 or near 0 ohms when testing resistance you could try adding some solder to each one to make sure its not a weak connection or removing them with a soldering iron and bridge the connections for each removed resistor usually if not all atleast one will have gone bad by now! Im not an expert but im learning and have saved 2 360 slims so far and many other random electronics i refuse to let go loll! as far as any other suggestions i can think of check for any bent or touching pins in the usb ports , av , power connector sometimes even the connector on the power brick that goes into the xbox just needs to be cleaned off with higher% isopropyl alcohol and q tip! Im sure theres other things to check i dont know to check yet but with that i hope im able to help someone who sees this!

Not sure how you reflow with the underfill still on the chip

The way I fix this is without flux. In fact the point is not to "reflow" the gpu. You have to heat up the gpu to bring up the temperature, and then concentrate on the dies In hope that a connection gets fixed. If you have a finer heat gun, you can try it but it might be too far gone if it's fake overheating. Also it was cool meeting Danny, hope to see more of him in the future.

I have one of these 2006 consoles without the HDMI port. It still works great. I guess I'm one of the few. Still, I'm afraid to turn the thing on.

this is not about the bga on the interposer to motherboard, it's the bga for the die to the interposer. this has been confirmed by MS and Ocatal450. The best fix for this would be to replace the GPU.

I would’ve done the reflow differently first off you had the hot air station set to the wrong temperature it should be around 500 degrees and I’d only put it on the chip for 2 minutes

Only 20 bucks? Goodwill has raised console prices so hard that I find this tough to believe

Nice video, i really liked the... Plot twist?

I fixed my xbox 360 from 2007 by just putting it on the oven at 130 Celsius.

I enjoyed the video there was this one guy reflowing in his oven on RU-vid we should try that and there was this other guy that would take a torch to the GPU heat sink every 6 months 😁 thanks

I need to know on what dashboard it on

I wanna see Danny more often!

I got one for free from a fb marketplace post its the same model as this video took it apart put new thermal paste and its my secondary 360 out of my gaming room in my bedroom

I got mine about a week ago for 5 dollars and it still works from 2008 and I just need a controller and that's it

The Last i reflow Work. I Put Flux on the Chip and Turn on without aircooling. Then they shutdown after a while. Then i wait for cooling down The Xbox360. Then they Work fine. Can be I have luck 🤷🏻‍♂️

I want see logo😭 (hasnt watched full video yet)

What a gent.

Yesterday was just thinking.

Does anybody know what motherboard version that is? Heatsinks/gpu/cpu look like Zephyr but motherboard looks like Xenon? 🤔

Definitely not original thermal paste heat sinks would not have came off that easily

Pls try again😢😢😢

I don‘t like the 360 because 1. Red ring of death 2. A friend of mine had one and scratched all the discs and ruined his games 3.The Dashboard is hard to navigate through and the ps3‘s interface is so easy to use

You broke it

what do you do with all the consoles you buy?

And so the Danny takeover begins. 😂 what next? Subliminal messages to convince us to come see your new channel? 😅

next time you reflow which you already know is no good for a long term fix and pretty much kills the board long term., there is no need to warm the board like that. you do want the board supported so it does not sag from the heat. flux is your friend and bring the heat gun right to the chip just hovering above with its medium size tip. you want to cook the gpu and bring the solder to its melting point and you want to do it fast. crank it to like 450 let the gun preheat like 15 seconds. small circles just over the chip lower fan speed. the flux will bubble and you will see surrounding solder mirror over. as soon as that happens let off a second or two after it happens and let cool 20min before touching the board

When Xbox 360 just came out reflow was the ulimate fix. Some flux and heath gun and hurry to sell it .

More propagation of shotty repair methods. Sad, and disappointing. You could use your platform to educate people on proper rework. :( Fun fact, your "reflow" isn't even reflowing anything. The solder is not melting from this. The only reason this gave temporary revivals is because it caused the underfill under the GPU die to contract from thermal expansion properties.

i saw Nathanal bandy do you know him btw

Playstation 3 have the same problem.

This is why the xbox one is a far superior console to the xbox 360

Man stop supporting goodwill. They get all their items for free and charge eBay prices while the CEO sits at home on his Yacht and the employees work for minimum wage. This company is a joke

Good try Danny

Yo

Well the Xbox one can play most of the 360 games

Oof

what were you doing under the desk? ewww

worst reflow in history xD

yoooo

Second

Untested is the biggedt lie

Should of done the towel trick, it works, did it with one of mine, and it work for a long time.