Connector on the PCB probably has a broken solder point. I hear about this quite alot.

You're not going to like my answer.

You have a bridged solder point under your gpu and the only way to fix it is to reball the gpu. You have to physically heat up the chip and remove it without damaging the bga pads on the board. It's a very time consuming, expensive and delicate process.

All those hackjob fixes probably caused this, the penny fix causes more warping, the towel fix causes more warping and a xclamp fix (the wrong one) causes more warping by not immobilizing the motherboard. So you basically broke it more by trying to fix it yourself.

Reballing is usually about $100 and then you'll need to redo all your soldering points on the jtag because i'm sure you don't want to leave them when sending it in to a legit business. I've got a few jtags for sale if you're interested, it would be cheaper in the long run for you.

You can't cause 0021 by installing a jtag hack, mainly because you don't turn on the xbox when you dump the nand. You only need power going through the xbox to power the chip, if you turned on the xbox while trying to read the nand you need to reread tutorials and punish yourself for being retarded. If you have your wires crossed up i'm sure you could easily short one of the smt components and without having a scope or some sort of testing equipment your sol.

do you really need a fancy a** station thing to do it?

nick49286 wrote do you really need a fancy a** station thing to do it?

As far as i know like i have already posted all you need to do is sort the port for your av cable like the jack in the back it happened to my friend and he just taped it up till he got it sorted. But i might be wrong i think this is your problem tho.

nick49286 wrote do you really need a fancy a** station thing to do it?

I have no idea what that guy above in even talking about...

The most common occurrence of that is a loose GPU and it would need to be reballed. You don't NEED a fancy station, a heat gun, soldering iron and tools and you COULD do it but it wouldn't be very smart.

yea i know there risk are very high and idk either...lol....but i cant afford to have it sent in to someone i know where to get most of the stuff...its just like how much heat to add and how to install the solderballs correctly....but ive also herd of a southbridge problem as well

AlliedTurtles wrote You're not going to like my answer.

You have a bridged solder point under your gpu and the only way to fix it is to reball the gpu. You have to physically heat up the chip and remove it without damaging the bga pads on the board. It's a very time consuming, expensive and delicate process.

All those hackjob fixes probably caused this, the penny fix causes more warping, the towel fix causes more warping and a xclamp fix (the wrong one) causes more warping by not immobilizing the motherboard. So you basically broke it more by trying to fix it yourself.

Reballing is usually about $100 and then you'll need to redo all your soldering points on the jtag because i'm sure you don't want to leave them when sending it in to a legit business. I've got a few jtags for sale if you're interested, it would be cheaper in the long run for you.

You can't cause 0021 by installing a jtag hack, mainly because you don't turn on the xbox when you dump the nand. You only need power going through the xbox to power the chip, if you turned on the xbox while trying to read the nand you need to reread tutorials and punish yourself for being retarded. If you have your wires crossed up i'm sure you could easily short one of the smt components and without having a scope or some sort of testing equipment your sol.

You always want to try a reflow first, most of the time, it will solve your problem. A reball is a longer term fix but is also costly and time consuming.

I honestly would rather have the long term fix, rather than having to fix it every so often.