This was my first time doing my xbox in an oven and it fixed all the errors I had. I reflowed the GPU, RAM and Southbridge. It is not necessary to do all of these but doing them all cannot hurt.
Doing this can fix errors such as: E67; E69; E71; E73; E74; E76; E79.
0013; 0012; 0011; 0001; 0020; 0021; 0022; 0100; 0102; 0103; 0110; 0010 and more.
I do not take responsibility to any damage you do to yours or any other person's xbox and/or oven
Anything red in this tutorial is important to keep in mind.
1. Start with your motherboard.

2. This is the stuff I used. You don't have to use the exact same stuff. Anything that is a poor conductor of heat will be good.

3. Make a base layer of (sello)tape or light material.

4. Then a layer of foam, bubblewrap or whatever you're using.

5. Then another layer of old clothing or whatever you are using.


6. Now a layer of foil.


7. Now it's time for the oven. Put it in at room temperature then turn it up to 90C or straight to step no. 8 to let it heat up.
Make sure you have it on something so that the heat can get underneath.

8. Let it heat up to 150C. Once at that temperature leave it to heat for 30secs to 1min.

9. Turn it up to 180C. Once at the temperature leave it for another 30secs to 1min.

10. Then up to 200C. Once heated, leave it for 1 minute. You will probably get a (burning) smell. This is most likely your tape melting and/or burning.

11. Finally heat it up to 230C. Once heated, leave for a good four mins. Smoke may arise into the room, I suggest opening the windows and sticking a fan in the room.

12. After a few mins turn the oven off and leave it in there up to 5 minutes to let the smoke gradually seep out.

13. Open the door and leave it in or take it out (your choice). Some of my foil came off but no biggy.

14. Once cooled start stripping the layers away. As you can see some of the tape melted a bit.


This stuff can't be re-used as it's all sticky from melted double sided tape.

Here is the finished board looking normal and hopefully fixed!

15. I suggest doing a hybrid fix on the GPU and CPU or a 'normal' fix on the CPU. Links can be found at the extras.
You can re-use the insulation.

Here's a pic that shows the masking tape is undamaged! I recommend using this rather than Double sided tape.

16. Test.

This post is specifically just for me to have Q & A with people needing assistance with repairing their Xbox 360.

Ask me any questions you have in regards to repairing your 360 and I will get back to you in the comments the same day.


I know all the error codes so if you can't figure yours out just post it here and I will let you know. If you have any friends who are trying to fix theirs, feel free to refer them here I will be happy to help anyone.

1) First remove the faceplate by carefully pulling it towards you.

2) After that you have to remove the grey covers on the top and bottom.
Each of them has 6 clips which you do first have to loosen with the help of a thin screwdriver, a toothpick or something similar that fits through the holes.
Once a clip is loose you pull the cover up a bit to prevent it from snapping back in...
Some clips are pretty annoying, just move the cover around a bit until they finally get loose as well...











3) Then you will have to loosen the clips on the back of the 360 behind the ventilation holes. Hold the 360 like shown on the picture.
Then stick the 360 case-opening tool in each hole like shown on the pictures. Slightly pull the case apart to prevent the loosened clips from snapping back in once the tool is removed.





4) Once you are done with that loosen the remaining clips at the front then lift the upper part of the case up.




5) Now you have to make a choice. If you only want to flash your 360, replace the drive or the fan, then only unscrew what is circled in blue.
However, if you want to disassemble the 360 completely so that you only have the plain mainboard in the end unscrew everything (red and blue)


Only the ones circled in blue unscrewed

All unscrewed(red and blue)

6) Remove the eject-button and then lift the white case and store it in a safe place.



That's what it should look like (at least similar to this - there are a lot of different 360 revisions)

7) If only want to flash your drive then just unplug the SATA cable[[blue]. Unplug both cables if you are completely disassembling the 360.
Then carefully remove the DVD-drive by pulling it upwards.




8) Afterward remove the fan-shroud by pulling it upwards - there is a clip that fastens it in the fan.



9) Unplug the fan and carefully remove it as well by pulling it towards the middle of the mainboard and once it is past the metal overhang of the case, pull it upwards. There are two plastic pins on the underside of the fan so be careful not to tilt the fan too far before pulling it upwards, otherwise they may snap.







10) Now unclip the little white jewel attachment. Unscrew the three black screws holding the ROL board in place then unplug it by pulling it towards you.






11) If you unscrewed all screws(red and blue) before then you can now get the mainboard out of the case.
Do it like shown on the pictures, that is the easiest way.


12) Last but not least also unplug the last cables(SATA and power for the DVD).

Images by: Wilhelm 
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