Problem after RGH.

[bjoernen]

Just did my 4th RGH, this time on a Jasper (16mb), everything went fine, no real problem as everything went fine. I used the coolrunner for this hack and the nandx (v3) to read the nand.

To the problem; Once I reassembled the xbox and turned it on the fans went to 100%. So I checked the temps in FSD and said that the CPU was at approx 90 degrees Celsius, even tough it only was turned on for about 20 seconds.

Have no idea what caused this? :crazy:

 

[krypt1c]

Did you pull the mobo out of the case by the heatsinks?

 

[WNYConsoles]

If you are working on a sealed system once you remove the xclamp screws and the motherboard from the cage NO MATTER WHAT the thermal tape seal is broken and you MUST replace the thermal paste. Slims use a better material but should be replaced too.

I replace thermal tape with paste with all with RGH service.

 

[bjoernen]

Did you pull the mobo out of the case by the heatsinks?

Now that you mention it; yes I think I did (how stupid of me).. I'll remove it and apply some new thermal paste and then report back what the results are.

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If you are working on a sealed system once you remove the xclamp screws and the motherboard from the cage NO MATTER WHAT the thermal tape seal is broken and you MUST replace the thermal paste. Slims use a better material but should be replaced too.

I replace thermal tape with paste with all with RGH service.

Never removed them in the first place, if I had done that, then I would have replaced the paste. I'm wondering whether I've put a cable close to a thermometer or something (or if its even possible to interfere with those)?

 

[WNYConsoles]

Never removed them in the first place, if I had done that, then I would have replaced the paste. I'm wondering whether I've put a cable close to a thermometer or something (or if its even possible to interfere with those)?

What do you mean, you HAVE to remove the XCLAMP screws (the 8 little black ones) from the bottom of the cage to remove the motherboard. Once those are loose just tapping the heatsinks will break the thermal tape seal.

 

[bjoernen]

What do you mean, you HAVE to remove the XCLAMP screws (the 8 little black ones) from the bottom of the cage to remove the motherboard. Once those are loose just tapping the heatsinks will break the thermal tape seal.

Oh well of course I removed the screws, but thought you meant removing the actual xclamps and heat sinks.

 

[bjoernen]

Okay, got it working.. Removed the huuge amount of old thermal paste (clearly overusing it at the production), applied some arctic silver 5 & installed a Team Xecuter RRoD II kit. Now everything works CPU and GPU running at around 42 C idle (which is OK I guess).

I should have thought of this before posting it here, sorry for the inconvenience but thanks for the quick responses!

 

[WNYConsoles]

42C is normal, but since it's RGH just set the fan up. I generally edit the NAND Config and set it to 60% on Jaspers. Additionally, upgrading the GPU Heatsink to GEN2 is good as some Jaspers, generally the 512MB with later manufacture dates comes with GEN1 heatsinks.