Mavox1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Tried it with 2 sets of component cables and had the same result. It's a 1.6 model and does this with various games, maybe 30 games total I've tried. Sometimes it doesn't do it all for 30min, then it'll flicker constantly for an entire hour. Super frustrating. https://youtu.be/wFh10gwcS6E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 You got any bad capacitors in that xbox? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Yep the caps near the heat sink have failed. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Yep..thats what happened to me. The three large caps by the heatsink . I believe they are 6.3V 3300uF but don't quote me on that. Mine had rounded blown out tops. Check to see if yours look that way. Maybe other things will cause this. I don't know. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavox1 Posted May 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Gray1 said: You got any bad capacitors in that xbox? 56 minutes ago, SS_Dave said: Yep the caps near the heat sink have failed. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 42 minutes ago, Gray1 said: Yep..thats what happened to me. The three large caps by the heatsink . I believe they are 6.3V 3300uF but don't quote me on that. Mine had rounded blown out tops. Check to see if yours look that way. Maybe other things will cause this. I don't know. Big thanks. Could anyone point me in the right direction on where to start? I just starting learning to FTP recently lmao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) First open up the Xbox and look at the capacitors. See if the top of the caps are swelled. They should be flat and not swelled like the first picture. They should look like the second picture. The three next to the heatsink are the prime suspects. But I would check them all since you have it out. Edited May 9, 2020 by Gray1 add picture 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavox1 Posted May 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, Gray1 said: First open up the Xbox and look at the capacitors. See if the top of the caps are swelled. They should be flat and not swelled like the first picture. They should look like the second picture. The three next to the heatsink are the prime suspects. But I would check them all since you have it out. Much appreciated. I decide before cracking it open to try some other troubleshooting. 2 things. The first is I was able to find my old composite cables. I found zero flickering using these. The other thing is the green plug on the component cable. I messed around with it for maybe 10 minutes and found that a certain spot twisting it improves the flickering. Now, it does a single, more intense flicker every 20-30 seconds instead that double flicker every 3-5 seconds. Not sure if that helps anyone understand if its actually the caps failing. Edited May 9, 2020 by Mavox1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 How new is the TV? I am a firm believer in doing no harm so no problem in more troubleshooting. Try a different TV if you can. See if that makes any difference. Make sure 480p and 720P are enabled in the settings. Is this stock or a softmod? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavox1 Posted May 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 50 minutes ago, Gray1 said: How new is the TV? I am a firm believer in doing no harm so no problem in more troubleshooting. Try a different TV if you can. See if that makes any difference. Make sure 480p and 720P are enabled in the settings. Is this stock or a softmod? It's a softmod and 480p and 720p are enabled. My other TV went out about a month back or I would try that.The one I'm currently using is about 1 year old LG, I use it for ps4 gaming, never get any flickering from anything but the xbox, and even now that is really reduced after messing around with the green connector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavox1 Posted June 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Update I cracked open the system and did not see the bad capacitors. Another thing I did was tried standard AV cables, no flickering at all. This only occurs at 480p or above with cheap and high quality components, but with all games at that resolution. Could it be the component port on the TV causing an issue? The flickering is better if I mess with the inputs near the TV, but still occurs. Edited June 14, 2020 by Mavox1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted June 14, 2020 Report Share Posted June 14, 2020 The only sure test would be test on a different TV. The cap's can look ok but still be faulty and be leaking from the bottom but in your case I would say the lead is the problem . Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavox1 Posted June 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2020 16 hours ago, SS_Dave said: 16 hours ago, SS_Dave said: The only sure test would be test on a different TV. The cap's can look ok but still be faulty and be leaking from the bottom but in your case I would say the lead is the problem . Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. The lead as in something outside the box itself right? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted June 14, 2020 Report Share Posted June 14, 2020 The lead I am talking about is the component cable. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cgggg Posted May 7, 2022 Report Share Posted May 7, 2022 (edited) I am having an issue where there are artifacts all over the screen and the video cuts out every second to a blue screen . At the top right of my tv is something that says : AV, NTSC this happens in games and the menu. This makes the original Xbox I have unplayable , any ideas? Or is it gone i have tested with Multiple av cables, power cables and tv’s. Same issue dash version : .39.0528A Build 584 Wish I could attach a 4 second video to explain it better Edited May 7, 2022 by Cgggg Added more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lina_Inverse_ Posted May 7, 2022 Report Share Posted May 7, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Cgggg said: I am having an issue where there are artifacts all over the screen and the video cuts out every second to a blue screen . At the top right of my tv is something that says : AV, NTSC this happens in games and the menu. This makes the original Xbox I have unplayable , any ideas? Or is it gone i have tested with Multiple av cables, power cables and tv’s. Same issue dash version : .39.0528A Build 584 Wish I could attach a 4 second video to explain it better Perhaps the video encoder chip is faulty, ball joint on the graphics chip or otherwise faulty graphics chip. I've never seen capacitors cause video to fail in such a way myself but you never know. Probably wouldn't hurt to reflow but I have my doubts and would lean more towards a faulty chip where you'd need a reflow station to remove and change. Sell it as a parts board or whole parts console online if you're thinking of getting rid of it. Edit: Could also be a perfect contender for the XboxHD+ if it were to be encoder chiphttps://makemhz.com/products/xboxhd Edited May 7, 2022 by Lina_Inverse_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted May 7, 2022 Report Share Posted May 7, 2022 6 hours ago, Cgggg said: I am having an issue where there are artifacts all over the screen and the video cuts out every second to a blue screen . At the top right of my tv is something that says : AV, NTSC this happens in games and the menu. This makes the original Xbox I have unplayable , any ideas? Or is it gone i have tested with Multiple av cables, power cables and tv’s. Same issue dash version : .39.0528A Build 584 Wish I could attach a 4 second video to explain it better You can upload the video to a file share or you tube and post the link here. I have seen the main filter cap's ( the ones next to the GPU/CPU)cause that issue as well. Is the Xbox hard modded or soft modded? What video output have you set in the M$ dash? What AV lead Component or Composite ? Try disabling 720, 1080 Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted May 8, 2022 Report Share Posted May 8, 2022 Interesting. Mine was doing this with a shitty composite to HDMI converter. I moved over to a pound converter (which is essentially the same thing, but better made) and the cutouts stopped. I canˋt imagine how that makes sense, but itˋs what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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