I decided to revive my brother's Xbox 360 Elite (black one) from the infamous Red Rings of Death, a hardware failure generally due to overheating. He took the hard drive out of it and put it in a new one so there's no way to save games, but I figured I'd give it a shot just to see if I could fix it. So I brought it back to college station, opened it up and got to work. I pulled the CPU and GPU (central processing unit and graphics processing unit) off the motherboard and replaced the thermal conducting paste. This basically makes a better thermal conduit between the processors and the heatsinks so the they cool off faster or better.
Naturally the next step was to put it back together and see if I had fixed the problem. Oh wait, that's right I left all the cables in Waco.
Fail....
I'll let you know if I get some cables to test it out and get it fixed.
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