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Background. I got hold of a v1.0 (gpu fan model) with the intention of TSOP flashing it, but it wouldn't boot past the logo, and I diagnosed hard drive failure. The clock capacitor hadn't leaked when I removed it, and the Thompson DVD drive works, so I'm guessing the hard drive failed early and the Xbox was put away faulty. Anyway I fitted an Aladdin (breaking a track fitting the rom disable ) Having fixed the track, fitted the rom disable to a different place and swapped the hard drive, it works! However, there is a horizontal line (usually pinky coloured) that slowly moves up and down the lower third of the screen. The line was there before I fitted the Aladdin. Sometimes it disappears, sometimes it is very noticeable. I tried removing the motherboard again and cleaning all the contact points to the screening can, including the fingers on the video socket. The video lead is fine when connected to my other xbox (component video btw) I'm hoping it is just a capacitor, but which one? They all look perfect even under a magnifying glass, no signs of leakage, splitting or bulging. I'm reluctant to just change loads of them, as 1) I'd fit eBay components, so they might be fakes and worse than what is in there at the moment 2) with the trouble breaking a track (my eyesight isn't what it used to be) I might cause more problems than I solve trying to change them.

I've done the same thing It's what you get blindly following instructions when your eyes are getting dim with age. Like the OP, I soldered to the test pad which neatly de-laminated it, then the slight flex of the wire broke it off. If I'd looked with more magnification in the first place to trace the tracks I'd have spotted that I could have soldered to the through hole at the end of the track with no trouble. I'll have a look again in the morning.

Just joined. I modded my first xbox around 2004, I'm fairly sure it was an xecutor or an xecutor clone. It fell into disuse for years when TVs stopped actually having any input sockets, but recently I got hold of a Pound HDlink and resurrected it, although it has developed a fault that I'll research on here later. Meantime I was given my nephews old v 1.0 xbox that seems to have a dead hard drive, I'll have a go at resurrecting it with an Aladdin. Thanks for letting me in, I'm sure I will have the odd question or two later.