Bobzilla

That's my Christmas sorted then. Just ordered a set of magnifying glasses to make it easier on my old eyes... I'm tempted to take my second one apart, but I'll sort this one first. Is there a list of the caps I could do with replacing so I can get new ones ordered? Thanks

Yep, clock cap has leaked. It doesn't look too have damaged the board - certainly the underside of board is perfectly clean, but I'll need to clean with ipa before I can be sure. I think I'll remove the cap rather than replace. The other caps looked OK, but there was quite a lot of dust that will need cleaning off. I'll check them properly when i sort the clock cap this weekend. And look at soldering pin headers in. It's a 1.0/1.1 board so should be easy enough.

Just bought screwdrivers to take it apart - Don't want to wait until the weekend. Thanks.

You reminded me. It won't hold the clock any more.

I've got an OLD xbox (1.5 or earlier) with an xecuter 2.6 ce running avalaunch, on a solderless xapt3r mount. But it's misbehaving. In a few ways. Loading has now become very hit or miss. With modchip turned off, it has stopped reading certain discs, getting progressively worse and I think it might be won't read at all now. With chip on, I am getting lots of frag boots - failing to boot, auto reset, fail, auto rest, red green flagging eject button. When it finally boots, it is taking a long time to load, and usually crashes. I'm suspecting that it's time to replace the hard drive, yes? If so, I cannot remember at all how to set up the new hard drive. Is anything else likely to be dying, like the optical drive? I've not opened anything up since I fitted the chip in 2008. All help gratefully received. Thanks.