Recycle options - Old 360?

[Jayfunk]

My old generation 360 has been sitting in a cupboard for 6 months as it got the 3 red lights.

I'm under orders to get rid and wondered if I should:

Bin it - job done.
Try and trade the power supply or box or both (one half of the combo must still be ok?).
What the hell to do with my memory as it won't fit my new slim version?
Take the thing apart and try and salvage enough bits to stick in a toaster with wheels to get on robotwars.

What should this clueless forumite do?

[Skinleech]

People with the right tools skills and tools can fix the RROD by reflowing the box, so you could sell it as RROD, though you'd not get that much for it I'd wager. As for your memory, you;d need a data trasnfer cable, or if you have a mate with a phat console you can format a USB stick to be 360 compatible so you can transfer from 360 HDD to the formatted USB then over to your own console.

[Jayfunk]

Thanks SkinLeech. (As it's one of my first replies you get the full on mexican wave. As my forum career progresses I will nurture a full on loathing of smilies and become somewhat cantankerous.)

I take it it's the box and not the PSU thats died then?

I may just go to CEX and trade the power supply and memory for whatever i can get and bin the rest.

thanks again

[Digisword]

You could always do what this guy did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtxs5rl7jk

And as always, have nice day!

[Skinleech]

It'll be the box that'd died - phat models have pretty cheap and brittle solder round the GPU/CPU and with usage & time and the expansion/contraction of the motherboard due to usage & heat the solder stops providing the contacts needed between chip & board, giving the dreaded RROD.

Can't check Digisword's video here at work, but assume it's a towel trick or oven baking of the internals. These can work (I oven baked my first 360 3-4 times and it always brought it back to life for a while until the last time it went) but I'd not recommend either method, especially the oven method as it can melt the eject & sync buttons.

My mate oven baked his - but got sidetracked on MSN and cooked it too long - the ram chips fell off. Oops.

[Jayfunk]

You could always do what this guy did:

Removed link as not posteed enough.
And as always, have nice day!

Why does he even have an xbox with all his other toys!

[Jayfunk]

It'll be the box that'd died - phat models have pretty cheap and brittle solder round the GPU/CPU and with usage & time and the expansion/contraction of the motherboard due to usage & heat the solder stops providing the contacts needed between chip & board, giving the dreaded RROD.

Can't check Digisword's video here at work, but assume it's a towel trick or oven baking of the internals. These can work (I oven baked my first 360 3-4 times and it always brought it back to life for a while until the last time it went) but I'd not recommend either method, especially the oven method as it can melt the eject & sync buttons.

My mate oven baked his - but got sidetracked on MSN and cooked it too long - the ram chips fell off. Oops.

Digis video was full of gunplay. the xbox was full of holes.

I've found the towel trick and can immediately see that I will regret going down that road with my oven skills.

Thanks all for your posts.