The funny thing is my friend's with the video issue doesn't RROD. The video just scrambles and craps out, then there's no picture until after another fix attempt. For both the ones I tried it was heat gun plus flux under the chip, then clean the flux residue after cooling. Then arctic silver and screws and washers instead of the crummy clamps.xan_racketBOY_fan wrote:I had the video issues as well (the colors would flicker) and eventually led to the RRoD. Aside the clamp replacement, did removing the old thermal paste and applying new paste on both GPU and CPU make any difference to my console's successful fix?
New clean thermal compound will help pass the heat along to the heatsink, but some machines just have worse problems with the solder joints breaking than others. Replacing the clamp might close a few broken joints well enough to work in one but not in another.
