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Xbox 360 Freezing? - Learn How To Repair Your Xbox 360 Freezing

Xbox 360 freezing is a very widespread problem. In fact, almost 1 million people are dealing with Xbox 360 freezing. In an official communication from Microsoft in July 2007, Microsoft was that 10% of all consoles sold, and the rest should have a chance of failure.
If you would like some help with Xbox 360 freezing and want to your Xbox 360 repaired once and for all that this article is for you.

The cause of the Xbox 360 Freezing

Their green lights will flash in the 3 red lights, if your GPU (Graphics Processing Unit will) begin to lose. The GPU (which on the motherboard) is dissolved heated than the motherboard. As the motherboard heats up it begins to vibrate. These oscillations solve the soldering holding the GPU in force, and every time it comes, you lose your Xbox 360 freezing.

This article will help you with your Xbox 360 overheating and freezing, but before you do something, you know, fix the towel may have read, is humbug. It will do damage to your Xbox 360 and the problem worse. 94% of red light error Xbox 360s do not need new parts, just manipulate a little to fix them.

If you resolve to use the "towel", you risk permanent damage and you can no longer be able to freeze your Xbox 360 repair on its own (you'll need it) to send for repair. You have been warned.

How to Fix Xbox 360 Freezing Up

Before we start, I suggest you see a professional Xbox 360 repair guide with videos and pictures. A professional Xbox 360 repair guide will show you freeze everything step by step, which really help you through this process.

Here's how to fix Xbox 360 freezing:

1. Take your case apart. With a fine tip poker, plug the holes they grayed out (the locks are held them together) and pat on the back of the small rectangular holes. Remove the bezel and move the latch on the DVD drive until you remove it. Unscrew the metal case, just under the plastic case.

2. Use the DVD drive and unplug the cable.

3. Take out the fan and the motherboard out.

4. Turn the motherboard over, and with the poker, pry out the X-clamp under the heat sink by popping up the corners. The heat sink is the big silver box with slits in it.

5. Turning to reveal the heatsinks to the CPU and GPU.

6. Clean the GPU and CPU (critical step to stopping Xbox 360 freezing)

7. Apply Arctic Silver thermal compound (you can find a $ 1 tube of this at any computer store to) generously over the GPU.

8. Leave it for 15 minutes.

9. Put 2 nylon washers on each of the screws from the heatsink. Put the screws into the motherboard. Now, with the screws to slide through the motherboard, add 2 more nylon washers on the screws.

10. Place the heatsink on the screws and screw up, they pushed a little, then. Make sure they are tight. This is really help with Xbox 360 freezing.

11. Put everything back together. Turn it on.

There you should now see your Xbox 360 freezing have been fixed.

If you need help with images or videos again, I recommend you check out an Xbox 360 Repair Guide freeze.

Xbox 360 Repair Guide freeze are fairly cheap, around $ 25, and they save you over $ 100 by sending to Microsoft. Plus, Xbox 360 repair can freeze up to 6 weeks if you send them in.

Whatever you do, do not do anything. Xbox 360 is a freeze not go away on its own power. Once you get Xbox 360 freezing, you will always get the 3 red lights flashing, until you fix your system.

Best of luck fixing your Xbox 360 freezing problem!

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