GENERAL multiple repairs for donation

[rghpro]

Hi all.


I posted this earlier and it got me thinking..

I had a situation with an xbox 360 that was brought to me for repair the other day which resembles this somewhat.

I had a customer bring me 10 xbox 360 units and 3 PS3s, They all had SMD issues. One phat Xbox 360 had an 0102, I repaired it just fine, but when I attempted to load a game I got a 1RROD, every time.

It had a benq drive, I looked up the secondary error code (which I have forgot now) but when I looked it up on xbox-experts website it said something about a spoofed drive osig is wrong. At this point I feared the worst thinking someone had messed up the drives fw. I assumed it was spoofed and decided to connect it to the PC and see what I could find.

Upon connecting it to my PC the usual way, using my X360USB pro, the benq drive would not show up, when this happens, I usually just unplug the X360 usb pro and plug it back, and it shows, but this time I got nothing. No matter what I tried it didn't work, tried intro, outro, benq unlock, everything, I got nothing. You won't believe what actually worked.

Since I assumed it was spoofed, after trying all the accepted methods to get benq into vendor mode, I clicked Sammy unlock, after a few tries it failed, then I did the eject then half close tray for Samsung and tried to unlock again, got nothing. Right then when I was about to give up, I clicked "Slim Unlock", when I did, all the hash info came up but it failed to unlock (of course), but then the drive was finally detected as a benq, at that point I clicked outro then it was detected normally. I had clicked benq unlock after that and got to vendor mode, after reading I found the benq fw was old and the dash board was new, talking about 16203 new, so I used the Key I dumped and I used 0442 stock fw instead of the dumped fw, it started working fine.

The problem was fixed and everything started working great after that, retail discs loaded fine without red light.

I'm guessing some inexperienced person had replaced the drive and flashed the replacement benq with old stock firmware but with correct key, the person who did this was an idiot for not just using the firmware dumped from the original drive, however, I cannot be sure a benq is the correct drive, the only thing I am sure of is the DVD is correct as games still boot from the drive.

I actually wanted to glitch it and check to be sure, but dash was to recent. The customer was just buying broken consoles to donate to a kids hospital, so I'm charging nothing on this one. I got no $$$ on this one but I learned that sometimes going the extra mile and trying unlikely scenarios sometimes can yield good results.

On top of that, the xbox 360 system had a family timer and a password, I had to dump the nand and view the unencrypted smc to get the reset code to get the console functional.
I figured that if its going to be donated to a hospital I will take the extra effort to get it going as out of the 10 xboxs it was the only one that a reflow fixed. I got one of the PS3s fixed too, of the two.

Note to TX:

I know how TX only like solutions posted to be backed up and tested and acceptable solutions that a guaranteed to be accurate and working. The method I used to bring the benq drive back was nothing but desperate attempts by me to try to get a system going after an incompetent person worked on it. It was a RROD 0102, that I fixed then I got this error, so I wanted to make it work as I already fixed the RROD 0102, and for the kids the system was donated for too.

Out of the 10 Xbox 360's I got only one working, I'm not charging the customer for these repairs, well for labor anyway.

Out of 10 xbox 360 units and 2 PS3 units, I got 1 xbox 360 and 1 PS3 working by doing a reflow, the others have been massacred beyond reflowing repair, well that's my opinion anyway.
The 9 xbox 360s I could not repair consist of 3 HDMI consoles and 6 Xenon/Opus consoles, I already told my customer (the one donating to kids hospital) more than likely they will need replacement GPUs, or at the very least to be reballed, I do not do reballing so I said a reflow is all I can do, unless he wants me to replace the gpu which I dont want to do, I just know something else will mess up after that repair, its a Xenon, so I'm just assuming that.

If anyone would like to do the repairs my customer can donate the consoles to the kids hospital would be appreciated. I would make sure to provide proof that the consoles are actually been donated and not just sold to make money, I have not got proof my customer is actually donating, but if anyone were to help out with the cause I would request proof beforehand.

Thanks.

John.

 

[Martin C]

I think the point is this is a TX Product support forum.

I would suggest you use other avenues for charitable donations.

Closed.