Magicaldave

Update again: followed the doc above for my 1.1. My multimeter doesn’t test continuity, unfortunately, and I think I fried the resistor measurements on a previous attempt (live circuit.) however, I was able to measure a little bit of voltage going end-to-end on both the power and reset lines on the top of the board. All four resistors are present and don’t look burnt out or damaged. I followed all four traces on the bottom of the board straight up to the SMC and they look great! There was one part of the power line that almost got damaged but it looks like I removed the clock cap before it reached the power line. Still, I retraced about an inch of the power line around section 7. No change. I’m gonna try to pop the SMC from my 1.0 into this system and see if it boots. Update:welp, SMC swap mostly went okay but did nothing. I’m at a loss.

Amazing! Second, third, and fourth BIOS banks allow it to boot properly. Except then it displays another red/green code, this time apparently for hard drive. Goes to service screen with no error, although drive is spinnging. I have an Xecuter chip laying around somewhere I think I can fix that with. Edit: I’m not entirely sure this drive is dead... seems to spin fine although does make a weird noise when starting. Should ai just go straight for a swap here or could there be more to the drive?

Hey all! I’ve got a couple Xboxes in the office I’m trying to renovate and maybe get back up and running. They seem to be in pretty terrible shape. This post is primarily about my 1.0, but I also have a 1.1 that boots up three times and instead of standard red/green, it flashes orange and does not power off with the power button. Clock cap leaked, too. A lot. I replaced a few capacitors nearby as they looked bad too but same deal. I cleaned the board three or four times with rubbing alcohol, it looks pristine - can’t find any bad traces. I haven’t looked at the P/E board yet; could this be an issue? Anyway, main part of my post: i have a 1.0 Xbox that seems like it’s FRAG’ing but not quite. It turns on - no video - and after a bit, the front LED flashes green. After a bit of this it goes to red/green, still no video. I haven’t cleaned this one yet, but I have taken a look at the board and can’t find any super obvious problems. Clock cap does look to have leaked a little bit, but a quick cleaning and removal did nothing to fix it. One of the vias nearby looks as if it may be burnt. I’ve attached photos of the entire board here, I hope someone knows or spots something here I wasn’t able to. These boxes deserve good homes!!! Quick edit: this box has never been modded, not was it even opened before I started trying to fix this issue, warranty stickers and all. From the writing on top it looks like she gave out on the previous user and made its way from their garage sale to me.