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not entirely sure how serious this is but my falcon motherboard has some white markings all over it. It kinda looks like residue but I don’t think it is? I’ve been cleaning the marks with isopropyl and they disagree when it’s on it but after drying the same marks return. Is this like a lament thingy or something? Don’t really know how MBs are constructed tbh. All the traces seem fine though and I don’t see any actual problems left. Should I just not worry about it?

I’v been restoring a fat 360 and came across a lot of rust on the smaller sheet of metal and scrubbed it off with bicarbonate and vinegar. My question is how do I stop rust from returning or getting worse? I think I’ve heard WD40 works for tools so I’m wondering if it will work for an xbox360?

I got an xbox360 yesterday without its power supply but the plug indicates a falcon motherboard but apparently if it’s made after a particular date it should be safe from red ring? The MFR date is 2008-09-18, is this one safe or at least more reliable? Any advice is appreciated.

My childhood 360 just read ringed and I want to know how fixable it is. I found out it has the error code 0020 and before it crashed it hade a big graphical glitch and would freeze so I would turn it off and on again and it would work for a minute or so, (this happened all in around 20 min). Apparently I might be able to solder something to do with the gpu clock or something but just wondering if this sounds like a total gpu failure. Any help is appreciated.