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to start off this is a vella-tech guide ..out of all xbox 360 repairs red ring is the most imfomus as well as the most perminit and by saying this i mean that no matter what you do your syatem will re-red ring due to the fact that whaen your syatem over heats due to age and ..mostly your fans not oprating at full capasity the bord starts to worp and it cracks the prossesing chip indiganes to xbox 360 arcade year 2008 and balow .yet not all due as long as there servist with an anual cleaning ...AND KEEPED OF THE CARPET.now for start you will need to pic up a bottle of quick silver the all amount stand by for home reapirs ,a flat head screw driver and star key driver (or a well sized flat head...not recomended but works if you are skilled) ok so take your face plate of form the usb door prying upwords and out .now is bets to take top abd botton covers of by taking the end of you screw driver and poking it throu the holes alon the top on both sides of the rim of xbox while prying upword and out the clipse will relase if done corectly .(repart for top as well as you have conducted on the bottom) now place your thunb and middle finger in a snaping motin at the top and bottom of the iner rim of ither the top or the bottom of the xbox while using the flat head screw driver to realis the clips found alond the front of the xbox where your faceplate was removed untill the bottom of the xbox is realesed .now grip both the xbox and the lose bottom [plate and carfuly pull apart there will be snaping nioses simerly sounding as thou your braking your shell (dont worry your not) now take your star key and unscrew the more flat looking curcular screws on each side 2 as well as two in the middle making a tottle of six they will all be long screws .now remove the tope plate of your xbox shell exposing the mother bord and now you must return the back of your xbox were you reamoved the screws and remove them all flip the system over and pro-sed with upluging and uncliping the fan now your mother bord should lift free this is the time you should take to thuraly clean your fans and any other dust and dirt on the mother bord worning do not use damp towel or liquid of any typ as well as using a blower or aresal can without removing the cd rom drive so as to not damage the eye of the laser .now you must prosed with removing the xclamps on the back of the mother bord with the flat head screw driver prying them up in a slow faction now remove the mettle grate that is covering the cpu and gpu chips on the bord form the exposed side now caarfuly and thuraly clean off the resedo on the cpu and gpu chips leaving a polished surface now take you arctic siver and generuslay leave an...EVEN!! cote on the newly shiny cpu and gpu contact plates folwed by reabling..(note if you do not have a reablalling gun a high powered blow dryer will do the job )now take your heat gun and very carfully bring it across the soder contact on the hole bord giving very etiologic atetion the ones located ner the gpu ..make shur not to stay in one place veary long as not to completely melt the solder away or to warp your bord further now replace the mattle grate and re atact the xclampse on the back of the bord as not so smer the artic silver and now you must run your system without the fan for about 15 to 20 muinets then alow to cool for 30 minuets best to run system with a game in it to give the syatem a good work out after the 30 muinet if your system comes back on and is runing properly congratulations you have just reapir your red ring note that this is a temorery fix with ALLLLLLL red ring reair regarles whatany one tells you two day two mouths two years the system will re-over heat