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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KoG brenden" data-source="post: 14020" data-attributes="member: 278">rawr they'd give him a refurbished one, and there's still no guarantee he'll get that, or if they'll even give him a new one, i was reading things online that people were getting theirs back and they were still broken. But hotshot, if yours comes back still not working, first let microsoft hear no ****ing end to it through their phone system, than look online for vids on how to open your xbox, and how to heat your motherboard up(voids warranty but no point in a warranty microsoft won't carry out anyways =/), we did it with a $20 heat gun and my xbox works fine now.  The most likely problem for you is a solder joint came loose from the crappy soldering done  by microsoft during assembly and now it is sausing a cable or possibly more than one to not connect properly. By heating up the xbox's motherboard this should get the solder joins to loosen up than re-seal where needed. Now there could be something else wrong as they decided to only use one error code on the 360 (3 flashing red lights), but this is your most likely chance at fixing it.</blockquote>

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