EPTAbout a year ago, my 360 RROD'd. This didn't bother me that much, it was towards the beginning of my senior year at my undergrad, and the combination of homework and a social life meant i wasn't using it that much. I let it sit around until June, where i cracked it open and fixed it using the standard penny trick. I played it a lot at toward the end of June (Mass Effect 2), and lightly for the remainder of the summer, all with no problems.
Now, I'm at grad school, and while i have more homework than i did at my undergrad i have much less of a social life, and occasionally get the urge to shoot things in the face. However, just today my 360 RROD'd again, which has me concerned. What I'm wondering is, since at the end of the penny trick process i had to do the towel trick to reset the heat sensors in the 360, would doing that get things working again, or do i need to crack it open and fix stuff up? If i was back home I'd just open it up and make sure things were ok, but I'm currently several hundred miles from my torx screwdriver so if i wanted to open it I'd have to go spend precious money on a new one, or wait a till the end of the semester when I'm back home. Likewise, i don't want to be in a position where i have to towel trick it every week or so, both because I play the thing so infrequently that I'd basically be doing it every time i wanted to play.
TLDR - Has anyone who fixed a RROD with the penny trick but had it fail again a few months later been able to get it back on track without opening it up again?
