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Originally Posted by maxair45
I did it standing on some "stilts" so it could still get airflow underneath. I got about 30-40 minutes of good game play with my fan on it cooling it from the bottom. I came back about 4 hours later and I turn on the fan, turn on the xbox 360 and what do you know....frozen dashboard....just my luck. I'm reattempting the towel trick as we speak so cross your fingers i'll keep you updated
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The PCB board is already warped under the GPU and CPU due to the heat expansion over and over as you power cycle the 360 and due to Microsofts poor design. So no matter what, its gonna keep failing until the Ball solder joints on the CPU simply fail and the 360 dies permanently
Here's an article explaining what I mean
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3472