Xbox360
A repair of an xbox360 ring of DEATH!,
The first thing to do on an xbox is to clean it out, I opened this one and it was full of dust. Often these things overheat so you need to replace the thermal past under the heat sinks.
See this dust, dust it away using an air can!
I then flipped over the pcb board and took off the two x-brackets to apply new thermal paste under the heat Sinks
You can see where I applied the new thermal paste to the left!
There will be two heat sinks the cpu is under the flat one and the GPU will be under the high one.
After that you can see what type of error your xbox has by pressing the two buttons on the front of the x-box , The red leds will flash and give you a 4 digit code that you can search online for the error.
In my case it was a bad CPU so I had to replace the motherboard.
Motherboards can be found online by finding the same make and model as your xbox, just look at kijiji and find a used one. I was able to buy one off a guy who had an xbox with a broken CD drive but the motherboard was good.
After installing the new motherboard the xbox is up a working again, happy playing. !!