XBOX 360 REPAIR: THE JOURNEY

Xbox 360 repair. What have I learned so far?

There are many "tricks" that temporarily fix the problem and these are rubbish.

I had one Xbox 360 Elite that the tray was jammed shut. I opened the case by removing the front cover which just pops off. Then I poked the resistance generating tabs on the back of the case to release the case from itself. Then I stuck my screw driver underneath the front retaining clips to release the front top half from the lower bottom half.

After watching many youtube videos I found out the "drive belt" becomes weakened after awhile and wears out. And to restrengthen the drive belt you take a cup of hot water throw the belt in for 10 seconds then immediately put in cold water. I then dried it off and put it back on the little gears inside the disc drive. Low and behold it "fixed" the disc drive and I was able to play game and dvd on it. Looking back I decided I wanted to fix it properly and not have the same worn out belt go bad again. So I bought a lot of 25 belts so I can start replacing them .

The next task was another Xbox 360 with a stuck closed tray. I opened up the case and after watching some youtube videos what I did was spray some WD40 type cleaning on the back of the motor that spins the disc. Apparently the drive gets crud or whatever built up and then it won't spin the disc. I kept getting an open try error when I tried to put in the disc. It was because that little motor wasn't spinning fast enough.

I found out that even though people are thinking they can use a heat gun which looks like a hair dryer, they heat up the board to reflow the solder which is the problem with these consoles in the first place.. The GPU and CPU are getting over heated because of cheap thermal compound and the x-clamps wear out and don't keep the heat sinks tight against the board which stops the air lock from forming so the heat properly dissipates.

I found out that in order to properly re-flow the solder I need a re-flow station. The re-flow station has an soldering iron and a re-flow tool. Essentially the re-flow gun looks like a butane light it pushes hot air through directly as a temperature you set on the station. From what I am understanding you are supposed to aim the little end on just the chip to re-flow the solder. I still don't know how many degrees to set it at, and I don't know how long I should keep it hovering over the chips.

From what I have been seeing the most common problems with the Xbox 360 is the stuck disc tray, the disc not reading, the chips over heating, the laser not in the right starting position, the tray not staying closed, the "icu or whatever it is called" doesn't register that the tray is closed so it doesn't stay shut,

I learned that to program a wireless controller to a console, there is a little white button on the Xbox 360 that you hold down and then the green light spins around the power button. then you turn on your controller and hold down its white little button on top until it shows from spinning lights to one green light. Learning that was pretty cool.

Right now basically I need special tools for light so I can see while keeping my hands free. I need to have a good camera to take high quality pictures of the parts I am looking at. It is my intention to learn about the functions of the Xbox 360 down to the technical level so I fully understand the parameters of what it takes for this thing to work, I started this not really thinking about the time involved, I can't help but feel a little impatient. I do not have the money at this time to buy the jewelry magnification scope, the re-flow station and a special lamp to illuminate my work. I also want a mat to lay my work pieces on.

I learned that there are like 3-5 different watt power bricks. 150W 175W 203Watt for the different systems. Physically they are rather basic with minimal parts, the parts on a technical level are quite complex. I would like to sell one so I have more money to buy more systems however I am not satisfied with the quality of operation I am seeing. While I have two at this time that play games and DVDs I am not yet convinced.

It is pretty cool I had been opening the stuck shut trays by forcing the little gear that is barely visible and every time it has worked. However I have discovered a better way now, and that is to push down on a tab on the top side of the tray and then it easily slides out.

Don't put the Xbox 360 back together if you haven't made sure everything is working right. I had an xbox 360 with a stuck disc drive. I took it apart and did a reheat of the drive belt. I got the disc drive to successfully open.

Combat preparation

• Combat Preparation
• OBJECTIVE: STRONG DURABLE BODY
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• ACTIONS REQUIRED FOR OBJECTIVE SUCCESS
• Physical actions build strength.
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• Push Ups build upper body strength. Which is needed in any circumstance requiring strength.
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•  For example in MMA your ability to push your enemy off, will depend on your shoulder strength. As well as your back strength/leg strength.

Sit Ups:

This exercise builds stomach strength which is core strength. Muscular abdomens can absorb more punishment from strikes.

Stretches:

Vital for reducing chances for injury. Warm the body up and ready it for battle.

Stretch-Arms,legs,back,stomach,ankles,neck,wrists,hips

Take vitamins to supplement your health. Eat plenty of protein rich foods and eat lots of vegetables and fruits.

Eliminate caffeine,greasy food,nutritionally defunct foods, candy, soda.

TRAINING REGIMEN:

Get up begin your stretches to warm up the body for the days activities.

Drink a glass of water.

Prepare some breakfast making sure it is balanced.

Let your food digest read a book for one hour.

Drink another glass of water

Walk for 15 minutes

begin jogging for however long you can stand.

cool down walk 5 minutes

Do a running sprint for a short distance, as long as you can stand.

cool down walk 15 minutes.

Come home take shower and get dressed

Read the book of your choosing for 1 hour.

My Creation

I was driving our car on the freeway. Three of my wives in side, the alpha female in the passenger seat. My two other wives in back. My alpha wife's job was to keep the other two in check. Always a believer in military order, like a wolf pack. Only now I don't know what her nationality will be my AF. I value all three of my wives enough that I would willingly lay my life down for them. I will protect them from any harm, I will fight to the death to defend them. We stopped at a hotel for the night. I had fully debated if we should all sleep in the same bed. Also I had debated whether it would be acceptable for us all to be sleeping together naked. After much thought I found that to be unacceptable, not in my eyes but more so for the rightness between my women. The body is sacred and should not be viewed casually, at least not by any other person besides me. I would see my wives naked of course on some occasion they would stand before me naked for me to inspect them. I will not lay with them together, I shall only lay with one at a time no less then an hour spent with that wife. With incredible disdain do I view porn stars and females who flaunt their naked bodies. They are filth that exists deserving a dark end. Forgiveness for their worthless repulsive acts. My respect and admiration goes to the women who value themselves and will not allow men to degrade them. For these dogs that call themselves men abuse and degrade their women. When a woman is producing milk these pigs squeeze the breasts like a ball. I have researched this and learned that if you do not express milk correctly it causes the woman pain. This to me is unacceptable, a woman should not be made to feel discomfort or pain in the pleasure of intimacy. In the moment my eyes are pleased, but my heart becomes heavy. I become sick to my stomach. When I decided to lay with my AF I instructed my two other wives to fetch us refreshments. I wanted time with my AF and I did not want to be disturbed.

How to lose weight

If you don't want to gain weight, and you want to lose weight here is what you do. It is quite simple, Don't sit down. If you don't sit down you will be less likely to eat, you will be doing something if you are not sitting. Sitting is the enemy of all fat people around the world. You get fat sitting down not standing up.

You also get fat by looking at fast food places. Avoid these places like the plague, they carry the disease of obesity. The biggest factor is just don't sit down. You barely burn any calories and most people eat sitting down. Laying down while eating does not work too well, pretty sure you will choke.... The less time sitting, means the more time moving burning calories and not eating.

I get indigestion when I eat while walking or standing. Hopefully you will too haha.

How to install computer memory RAM

Hello people.
I want to start out by saying, if you have no idea what you are doing don't do it. I work as tech support for a large computer memory company. And as much as I hate to bring work home with me, this is my retaliation on a job that sucks the life out of me. So if I must do this job, you get everything that goes with it. One thing that really annoys me is when a customer calls in and it is obvious they have no idea what they are doing.

This becomes clear when they begin telling you about their problem. Typically these folks are do not know how to articulate themselves. What is shocking is when a PC technician calls me up and he ordered the wrong memory module DoH! Really guy? You work on computers for a living and you can't even order the right memory?

Now I might be arrogant as I did spent 2 weeks learning about computer memory. Believe me I did not enjoy this torturous experience. Every day I got home I thought my brain would explode. The typical questions I get now that I have some idea what the heck I am doing is the following. Typically customers will call in because they ordered the wrong part, the memory is faulty or they have questions about compatibility.

Seriously, a pet peeve of mine is people who have no business upgrading memory. I consider myself computer literate and I did upgrade my own memory. But here is the thing I am A. smart enough to know how to use a website to find out the right memory. B I know enough about memory that I can install it without a manual. Don't get me wrong it is a simple job to take out old memory and put in new memory. You would be surprised how many people much it up.

These people can read you their specs on their machine, but they can't tell you what it all means. I often have people calling me about problems with their Imac Mac Pro ect computers. What I have come to learn is Macs don't like speeds that are faster then what they are designed for. While I could go on further with this I am getting tired and bored of it.

Upgrading RAM is easy. Find out what your computer specs are, find a website to give you a match. Order the memory, take out old memory and install new memory. On some occasions you may need to update the BIOS to get your memory to work. I just talked to a guy today he has spend 6 hours worth of time trying to figure out how to upgrade his RAM. Apparently he had a limit of 3GB and he could only get 1.5GB to work.

If you have 6 hours worth of time in installing new memory, throw in the towel. Then go to your yellow pages and hire a professional. Just make sure he is not a dum dum, get a referral from someone.That is it, that is all i got.

Want to make money? Then you need to read this article.

If you are like me you have spent countless hours looking online searching things like-How to make money, How to earn money, What can I do to make money, What can I make to sell, How do I become rich ect. If you are like me you have come out empty handed. I have scoured dozens of sites looking for the "answer" to solve my problem. But consistently I have been disappointed and have had no luck.

This article is not going to tell you how to earn money. This article is going to help you understand more about earning money in the first place. The first thing you should realize is you don't "make" money, you earn it. The big question is what can I do to earn this scare prey we know as "money". I have spent years on this pursuit and I have yet to find the golden goose.

Let me tell you what you must not do, do not buy get rich schemed packages. They are just people trying to take advantage of people who are ignorant. Of all the things I read online NONE of them ever helped me make any money. One reason could be that I never committed fully to their method, the reason being I never liked their methods. Times are tough these days and work is a scarce commodity.

About the only way I found to make extra money that was consistent and reliable has been Ebay. One method I have used to make money is buying video games at pawn shops and resell online. Some pawn shops are getting smarter and doing that themselves. It did not use to be that way, in the old days years ago I was making lots of supplemental income buying ps2 games and reselling on Ebay.

But then I think people started to catch on in my area and started doing what I was doing. The games dried up and only rarely do I find good deals. Like everything else in this world its one giant competition. I just recently sold Luigi's mansion I bought it for $4.00 and sold it for $20.00. I used to make these kinds of sales often years ago, these days that was just a lucky find. I bought 4 Xbox 360 games at a yard sale for $15.00. One game alone sold for $11.50 plus $4.00 shipping on Ebay.

Unless you have a heavy bank roll you won't be able to afford to buy bulk items and make good money. I have been doing Ebay for the last 5 years. And the biggest obstacle I face is lack of product, the options for buying in bulk that people actually want is near impossible. A con for selling on Ebay is the fact you have so many other people selling the same items you are. I have 455 feedback as a buyer and seller with 100% feedback.

I describe my items as best I can and hold myself accountable for the descriptions I give. I am polite and mannerly when a Ebay customer messages me. I attribute my selling success based on the fact the people I sell to are generally very happy. I have only had 2 returns I am aware of in the last 3 years. Better to keep the customer happy and no get negative feedback. Write in your listings what your policies are, to protect yourself.

These days an Ebay seller is not allowed to give a buyer negative or neutral feedback. The problem was that a lot of sellers were abusing the feedback system. And for the most part buyers are very well protected with Paypal and Ebay. The buyer has the definite advantage in the Ebay system. When you are a small seller life is unforgiving, but if you can sell and keep moving up life will get easier.

Human Origin and Understanding Existence.

How long have humans roamed the earth?
According to one source 200,000 years ago. This of course brings about a few questions. First off how can anyone really say how long humans have been around. According to one article about Sabretooth tigers is they roamed the earth for 20 million years. How can anyone possibly know this.. Which brings me to a conclusion, these are obviously only theories.

Where did humans come from?
Aside from my religious beliefs where did humans come from. If there were creatures on the earth before humans came to Earth, we did not just pop up out of no where. We had to get here somehow, the question is just how did we get here. Well I know I got here by being born from my mother. Only reason I know this is because I was told. I myself have no recollection of my birth.

This fact makes it very clear that when born our minds are incapable of memory. At least vivid photographic memory. If it was not for my mother telling me how I got here, I would be clueless. That is until I saw babies being born. It is true in my opinion humanity is evolving, becoming smarter. I believe that the first humans were put here. The question is why were we put here and what was the reason for the time frame of humanities appearance.

I personally believe we were put here by God. But I am the type of person always seeking answers. I do not believe we formed out of space gunk.. In order for us to know how we got here the first humans would have to have told their children. So what did the first humans tell their children? Could the first humans speak or did they grunt to get their point across.. It is my theory human beings were put here on Earth with no knowledge of the Earth or what it was.

That would have to make sense since in the beginning of mankind we could not write. That was something we invented to communicate. It is my theory that grunts became words and whomever made the word said hey George I named this FIRE. So if we can accept humanity was placed on Earth totally ignorant of it, that would explain the concept of evolution.

Another big question is what did some civilizations evolve and others did not? Take Africans why are they at the bottom of the learning ladder? Africans in Africa have invented nothing like cars, computers ect. At least they did not contribute technology as far as I know. I do not believe their intelligence has anything to do with their skin color. I say this because their are Black doctors and lawyers.

It is my belief at the core of the Africans are unintelligent beings. Their base of ancestors were obviously not that intelligent. But if you recreate their base by having an intelligent person mate with the lessor intelligent African, the children will have a smarter platform to work off of. There is the factor that the inferior may reject the superior. But this is unlikely as the inferior wants to please the superior if given the opportunity.

After coming up with all these theories it seems apparent I need to produce some kind of evidence to prove my theories. One of my first thoughts about proving a theory is to take a inferior person from say Haiti(not to assume all Haitians are unintelligent) But to take a child and raise it as my own from a mother who is not very intelligent. Then to raise the child under my understanding of life. Then see how that child turns out. Even though the pa