Heatvent Posted July 31, 2022 Report Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) OK, I had a lot of trouble getting the AV port out of my v1.6 XBox. The solder pump I was using removed the traces on the underside of the board. Traces on the top are fine so I am able to tap the SPDIF and 5V. However, on the bottom, I tried using bodge wires soldered directly to the resistors going to pins 11, 12 and 13. My work so far has unfortunately been messy at best and I am getting flashing orange when starting the XBox so I am pretty sure it is my bodge work that is the issue. Does anyone know if there is a better way to short pins 11/12 and 13/14 elsewhere if my AV port through holes are toast? Reference picture of pins below... http://i.imgur.com/pyjq4y6.jpg BTW, the specific behavior I am seeing is I get a green light on the Xbox initially. The HD+ blue light blinks slowly (about every 3 seconds on 3 seconds off). After 10 or so seconds the Xbox flashes orange and needs to be unplugged to turn off. I did check the ribbon cable installation a couple of times. I checked for bridged connections. I also checked that I got continuity all the way from the ribbon far edge to the opposite side of the resistor that the trace was soldered to. So I believe the cable is soldered correctly (I'm sure, however, I could be proven wrong). I also tried checking continuity from by bodges to the other side of each resistor and had mixed results. I checked my soldering and it appears to be good. Not sure if maybe I fried the resistors if that is possible. Maybe I need to jump across the resistor (not sure if they do anything when pins 11/12 and 13/14 are bridged). Edited August 1, 2022 by Heatvent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatvent Posted August 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) I had maybe some progress? I soldered my bodge wires to the other side of the resistors and now, no orange flashing, only steady green. The HD+ Blue LED is now flashing on/off each second instead of slowly. Not sure what this means. I think there should also be a green LED. Edited August 1, 2022 by Heatvent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatvent Posted August 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2022 Ok went back to the ribbon cable and resoldered each connection and that seemed to fix it. I had no sound but figured out the trace on pin 6 was damaged when the av port was removed so one more bodge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 7/31/2022 at 6:16 PM, Heatvent said: After 10 or so seconds the Xbox flashes orange and needs to be unplugged to turn off. Flashing orange is an indication of overheating. Do you have the case fan connected/powered so it moves air across the CPU heatsink? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatvent Posted August 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 It was loosely assembled because I wasn’t sure if I was done with the ribbon do that makes some sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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