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Fixed my RGH with the towel trick!
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Sent my RGH away to get repaired, they said it needed re-flowing (It does).
Before I went to buy some paste etc I towel tricked it, and it works.
(It did) now it freezes at boot.

I knew It was the GPU.. By the way, I'm not being 100% serious... Its for the lols...


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Read this very carefully: That IDEA was dumb. I'm not in any way saying YOU are dumb, but the IDEA
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When making something hotter to fix a problem with overheating does not make sense at all.
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I said It was a stupid idea, It hasn't worked in months, Haven't really bothered with it.

(I just made this thread for people to facepalm and call me stupid)


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Good job! Now you could have potentially ruined other components that will need more than a reflow to fix!
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TGK wrote Good job! Now you could have potentially ruined other components that will need more than a reflow to fix!


Thank you so Much

I would like to thank TheTechGame and all its user's for helping me gain this award.
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Hender wrote
TGK wrote Good job! Now you could have potentially ruined other components that will need more than a reflow to fix!


Thank you so Much

I would like to thank TheTechGame and all its user's for helping me gain this award.

But in all seriousness, you could have damaged a MOSFET which are extremely hard to get off while keeping the motherboard in good condition.
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TGK wrote
Hender wrote
TGK wrote Good job! Now you could have potentially ruined other components that will need more than a reflow to fix!


Thank you so Much

I would like to thank TheTechGame and all its user's for helping me gain this award.

But in all seriousness, you could have damaged a MOSFET which are extremely hard to get off while keeping the motherboard in good condition.


No its cool, its the GPU, I don't really tend on fixing it anytime soon to be fair, I got bored.
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I would like to say after leaving it to cool down the console works amazingly well without freezing.

I only did this because it RROD'd the first day i got it and its been sat formonths.

I know this is a temporarty fix, but i'm happy, I know it was a seriously stupid idea.
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Well your console will soon be dead, and this time you wont be able to fix it.
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