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He tenido una semana dura tanto en Hive como en mi trabajo, pero siempre encuentro un poco de paz quitando tornillos y tratando de diagnosticar y arreglar este tipo de consolas, mi vieja Xbox 360 habia estado desde hacia un tiempo guardada acumulando polvo desde que dio un error por la tarjeta de video asi que he estado estos ultimos meses tratando de darle un mantenimiento primero antes de hacer algo drastico para arreglarla, hoy por fin pude comprar algunos de los destornilladores que me faltaban para terminar de desmontar la placa madre y limpiarla a fondo, ya hice un post limpiando un poco la carcasa de la Xbox e investigando un poco el error que habia que solucionar, en este post vamos un poco mas a fondo removiendo el ventilador asi como limpiando el procesador principal.
Lo primero que hice fue quitarle definitivamente el flex del frente de la consola el cual es un poco molesto mientras estoy sacando tornillos, le di la vuelta a la consola y saque los tornillos restantes del ventilador y la pieza que lo sostenia, despues de eso ya es cuestion de tecnica para sacar desde la base la placa madre y empezar ahora si la limpieza completa de la consola, la conecte primero para ver si aun daba el error de estar sobrecalentada o que el ventilador no funcionase y una vez visto el error empece a sacarle el polvo desde lo mas profundo, no van a creer la cantidad de polvo que tenia el ventilador y el procesador, parecia como si hubiese estado guardada por decadas cuando solo estuvo un par de meses dañada en un cajon antes de sacarla a reparar. Para desajustar por completo el ventilador habia que voltear la consola y soltar una pieza de metal que termina de sellar el ventilador y colocarlo en su sitio, no fue gran problema y basto con hacer palanca con un destornillador.
Para esta tarea use una pequeña ayuda y es que mi pareja me regalo una de sus viejas brochas de maquillaje con la que podia sacar el polvo perfectamente sin dañar ninguno de los circuitos de la placa madre, desconecte el ventilador por un tiempo mientras pasaba la brocha por la placa y note que el procesador de la Xbox tenia un monton de pasta termica seca, como si alguien ya hubiese sacado la consola o tratado de repararla, ademas de que estaba mal aplicada la verdad es que era muy poca la que habian aplicado por lo que pense que muy probablemente el procesador halla entrado en sobrecalentamiento tantas veces que ya no era reparable, aun asi este ejercicio esta bastante divertido asi que segui sacando el polvo de la consola, le quite la pasta termica restante y conecte nuevamente el ventilador para ver ahora como funcionaba, la cosa es que en lo que encendi la consola el ventilador empezo a soplar muy rapidamente, no se si era porque la consola estaba calentandose rapidamente sin la pasta termica en el procesador o si la limpieza habia hecho efecto, pero es bueno saber que algo habia cambiado.
Los conectores tambien eran un problema que debia resolver ya que al no tenerlos en mantenimiento constante han estado cubiertos de polvo mucho tiempo y puede llevar a que no funcionen correctamente puertos como el HDMI o mas importantes los del disco duro o USB, por ahi aplique la misma tecnica de pasar la brocha con mucho cuidado de no tocar los circuitos hasta que viese algo limpio el interior, mi emocion era tal que decidi probarla ya limpio el procesador conectando la consola, la encendi y parecia que todo iba bien hasta que conecte el HDMI.. no queria agarrar video y ni siquiera mi TV reconocia el dispositivo, algo andaba mal asi que habia que ir nuevamente a la mesa y descubrir que habia hecho mal, no soy un experto ni nada por lo que ya me veia venir este tipo de problemas, aunque soy un tipo terco asi que esto es solo un pequeño tropezon en el camino.
La buena noticia es que la consola ya no arroja ninguna luz roja! aunque lo mas probable es que creo que sea porque no agarra video > por lo tanto no puede dirigir algun mensaje como las luces rojas, ya habia visto este tipo de comportamientos en algunas consolas pero ciertamente me agarro por sorpresa esta vez, mas problemas! en resumen si logre limpiar a fondo la consola, su ventilador y procesador pero a la hora de ensamblarla la consola aunque funciona no quiere agarrar la conexion del cable HDMI, mañana voy a probarlo con uno de esos viejos cables VGA a ver si es un problema externo del equipo pero lo mas probable es que este proyecto dure mas de lo previsto!
Todas las imagenes son tomadas por mi camara
English
I' ve had a rough week both at Hive and at work, but I always find some peace removing screws and trying to diagnose and fix this kind of consoles, my old Xbox 360 had been sitting for a while now gathering dust since it gave a video card error so I've been these last months trying to give it some maintenance first before doing something drastic to fix it, today I was finally able to buy some of the screwdrivers I was missing to finish disassembling the motherboard and clean it thoroughly, I already did a post cleaning a little bit the Xbox case and investigating a little bit the error that had to be fixed, in this post we go a little more in depth removing the fan as well as cleaning the main processor.
First thing I did was definitely remove the flex from the front of the console which is a bit annoying while I'm removing screws, I turned the console over and removed the remaining screws of the fan and the piece that held it, after that it is already a question of technique to remove from the base the motherboard and start now if the complete cleaning of the console, connect it first to see if it still gave the error of being overheated or that the fan did not work and once seen the error I started to remove the dust from the deepest, you will not believe the amount of dust that had the fan and the processor, it seemed as if it had been stored for decades when it was only a couple of months damaged in a drawer before taking it out to repair. To completely unscrew the fan you had to flip the console and release a piece of metal that ends to seal the fan and put it in place, it was no big deal and was enough to pry it with a screwdriver.
For this task I used a little help and my partner gave me one of his old makeup brushes with which I could remove the dust perfectly without damaging any of the circuits of the motherboard, unplug the fan for a while while I passed the brush through the board and I noticed that the Xbox processor had a lot of dry thermal paste, as if someone had already removed the console or tried to repair it, besides that it was poorly applied the truth is that there was very little that had been applied so I thought that most likely the processor has gone into overheating so many times that it was no longer repairable, even so this exercise is quite funny so I kept dusting the console, I removed the remaining thermal paste and reconnect the fan to see now how it worked, the thing is that when I turned on the console the fan started to blow very quickly, I do not know if it was because the console was heating up quickly without the thermal paste on the processor or if the cleaning had taken effect, but it's good to know that something had changed.
The connectors were also a problem to be solved because not having them in constant maintenance have been covered with dust for a long time and can lead to not work properly ports such as HDMI or more importantly the hard disk or USB, so I applied the same technique of passing the brush very carefully not to touch the circuits until I saw something clean inside, my excitement was such that I decided to try it and clean the processor by connecting the console, I turned it on and it seemed that everything was fine until I connected the HDMI. . it did not want to grab video and even my TV did not recognize the device, something was wrong so I had to go back to the table and find out what I had done wrong, I'm not an expert or anything so I already saw this kind of problems coming, although I'm a stubborn guy so this is just a small stumble on the road.
The good news is that the console no longer throws any red light! although most likely I think it is because it does not grab video > therefore can not direct some message as red lights, I had already seen this kind of behavior in some consoles but certainly caught me by surprise this time, more problems! in short if I managed to thoroughly clean the console, its fan and processor but when it comes to assemble the console although it works but does not want to grab the HDMI cable connection, tomorrow I will try it with one of those old VGA cables to see if it is an external problem of the equipment but most likely this project will last longer than expected!
All images are taken by my camera.
