Aublak

The situation has now changed. I tried testing it again. Now I get... flashing green lights... system stops.... flashing green lights... system stops.... altering green and red lights... system continues No video output of course The MCPX X3 chip gets so hot its impossible to touch. Damn.

It is connected though. I checked several times. maybe the soldering broke on the gpu when I removed the heatsinks.

flashing between green and orange okay, I see

Agh! Now the Xbox won't start! I took the machine apart. Pulled out the PSU and started giving it some love by reinforcing the joints in the video shown by KaosEngineer. I took this as an opportunity to finally desolder the clock capacitor I've been meaning to get rid of. I also reinforced an SMD nearby (C7G8) because it looked kind of rough, likely corrosion. I also removed the heatsinks to reapply thermal paste. I fit everything back in and try to start it. The fans spin twice briefly before spinning continuously on the third try. There's power running through it, but no output. Now what's the problem? PSU or the mobo?

Shoe goo? I'm not sure I understand. Where in the back exactly?

yeah, that must be it. I actually remember watching an Xbox repair video at some point and them mentioning that was an issue with some of the earlier models. I totally forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. Also the wall sockets are fine, just had to flip the breakers back.

I'm new to Xbox modding. And I've been hard modding my Xbox. I have a 1.0 Xbox with a Duo X2 installed. I planned on doing a lot of modding to it eventually. Anyways, I was fooling around with my Xbox trying to get UnleashX installed on a 512gb SSD. As I was pulling the SSD from its sata adapter I suddenly heard a pop sound coming from the wall. No more power was coming from that socket, as well as another socket not too far away. The unit was turned off but still plugged into a power strip when it happened. Maybe I touched something that I shouldn't have on the PSU. Or the PSU is bad. I really don't know. The PSU looks fine on inspection. I wasn't using the Xbox surge protector unfortunately. Just a simply two prong power cable. What I really want to know is, "What did I do wrong?" Is the Xbox still alright? Do I just have to scrap the PSU? What can I do to not let this happen again?