Hello all,
Today when trying to play my xbox 360 Pro (or slim? It's the slim one with a 250GB hard drive) I recieved a ventillation error message immediately when I turned on my box. I waited awhile, moved it to an open space, then tried again multiple times and the same thing happened. My warranty's run out so I figured I'd just crack it open and try to clean it myself; I presumed that the fan was just dusty or something and that was the issue. When I got in there I found that it was almost completely clean, I wiped off what dust was in there and blew it out with compressed air. After reassembling when I turn it on the fan immediately starts going very fast and then I get the message again.
I'm thinking of re-applying the thermal grease under the heatsink, but it doesn't seem like the box is actually overheating. If this was a computer I'd just buy a replacement fan and be done with it but I presume microsoft isn't selling aftermarket parts.
My other worry is that I did overheat it yesterday and now something in the motherboard is fried and it's time to just buy a cheap used one.
Anyone have any ideas or similar issues (hopefully resolvable?)
Today when trying to play my xbox 360 Pro (or slim? It's the slim one with a 250GB hard drive) I recieved a ventillation error message immediately when I turned on my box. I waited awhile, moved it to an open space, then tried again multiple times and the same thing happened. My warranty's run out so I figured I'd just crack it open and try to clean it myself; I presumed that the fan was just dusty or something and that was the issue. When I got in there I found that it was almost completely clean, I wiped off what dust was in there and blew it out with compressed air. After reassembling when I turn it on the fan immediately starts going very fast and then I get the message again.
I'm thinking of re-applying the thermal grease under the heatsink, but it doesn't seem like the box is actually overheating. If this was a computer I'd just buy a replacement fan and be done with it but I presume microsoft isn't selling aftermarket parts.
My other worry is that I did overheat it yesterday and now something in the motherboard is fried and it's time to just buy a cheap used one.
Anyone have any ideas or similar issues (hopefully resolvable?)