Xbox 360 Troubleshooting & Repair Guides

[DSep]

For those here who are interested in repairing consoles, here's a great troubleshooting guide: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=484726
It has explanations of almost all of the error codes as well as the secondary codes.

If you're looking into reballing the gpu or cpu, this is a great resource for learning how to do it. He has videos of the entire process: http://forums.xbox-experts.com/viewtopic.php?t=4706&p=27383

ifixit Xbox 360 teardown and hardware replacement guides

EDIT:
Cleaning the DVD Drive Laser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbNXslxxtrM
Fixing a Stuck DVD Drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=owSmOwGqijM#t=369s

I used tips from both of these to fix an Xbox 360 Elite yesterday.


I'll add more links as I find them.

Happy repairing!

 

[Frankie0566]

Kool! I had never worked on a X-Box 360 before or any game system and today I had a chance to work on one. I din't even know how to take it apart. It had so much dust inside, it wouldn't even read any of the games. It was more like dust rabbits instead of dust bunnies inside. LOL! Thanks to this link I got it all cleaned up inside and inside the DVD drive.
Im glad I found this. Now I feel a little more confident to work on game consoles.
Thanks Dude!

 

[DSep]

Glad to be of service.

I just added another couple of links that I found useful in dealing with the DVD drive.