Hey guys quick thread here.
So I got a 360 that is from 2007 with HDMI (Zephyr I think) from a lot on goodwill.
When it finally got to me I turned it on and it threw an E74 error (P4 light was red). Upon looking online I found that it's either a HANA chip issue or an issue with the GPU "Flip Chip". So since I have no soldering equipment to try and fix such an issue, I did the next best thing. Hit it with a hairdryer for 4 minutes and apparently, this did somthing. when It cooled down and I put the heatsink back on to test it was now giving me an overheating error (two red lights). Which made sense initially because it was just subject to extreme heat but now as it was room temperature it didn't make any sense. The only thing I can think of that could be it was that when I took the heatsink off it broke the seal with the thermal paste and now it just heats up to overheating instantly. I got paste coming in the mail today to test this theory but other than that I have no idea what could be the issue now. Honestly. Don't have too high of hopes for this console but I thought I would throw everything at it before giving up.
If anyone has any ideas that would be great. Thanks
So I got a 360 that is from 2007 with HDMI (Zephyr I think) from a lot on goodwill.
When it finally got to me I turned it on and it threw an E74 error (P4 light was red). Upon looking online I found that it's either a HANA chip issue or an issue with the GPU "Flip Chip". So since I have no soldering equipment to try and fix such an issue, I did the next best thing. Hit it with a hairdryer for 4 minutes and apparently, this did somthing. when It cooled down and I put the heatsink back on to test it was now giving me an overheating error (two red lights). Which made sense initially because it was just subject to extreme heat but now as it was room temperature it didn't make any sense. The only thing I can think of that could be it was that when I took the heatsink off it broke the seal with the thermal paste and now it just heats up to overheating instantly. I got paste coming in the mail today to test this theory but other than that I have no idea what could be the issue now. Honestly. Don't have too high of hopes for this console but I thought I would throw everything at it before giving up.
If anyone has any ideas that would be great. Thanks