Unfortunately, this 360 had fallen victim to Microsoft's infamous "Red Ring of Death". Obviously i needed to bring this dead console back to life before wasting my time and money modding it.

The dead console (RROD Error 0102):

The open bare internals:

This is what causes all the problems:

Not a problem though. I replaced those clamps with some screws:

And after one or two little extras that needed to be done, i was playing some Call Of Duty 4:

That fix cost me less than a meal at McDonalds. Pretty cool eh?