1.4 ghz Xbox arrived....showing christmas lights >.<

Hi,
I know I am impatient, but today I picked up my new 1.4 ghz Xbox (made by trusty, but not bought from him!).

I changed the PSU (US->EU) and tried it and it gave me the well known christmas lights after trying to boot 3 times.

at first I thought it would just be the CPU/CPU adapter that got loose, actually it was but even after getting this fixed it gave me christmas lights.

After that I found a broken Capacitor and all the Acid is all over the board in a radius of about an inch.

I took it to the local electric shop guy, he told me to come back on tuesday, he is going to change that Cap (didn´t want to do it myself on such exclusive/expensive Hardware).

is there any chance of getting this thing to work again with just replacing the Cap and cleaning the board?
Or could there may be more damge caused by the Acid?


It was insured so money ain´t the problem but I would still like to know....



it´s the Cap in the lower left corner with the blue mark on it (this Picture was taken by the seller! actually this blue dot makes it look suspicious.....)


thanks for (hopefully) keeping me from freaking out that it doesn´t work after waiting one month -.-

-Toby

 

are you sure you are using a V1.2-1.5 PSU and not a V1.6.
I know he TSOP flash the board. You might want to try an install a duoX2 GS to rule out a BAD TSOP.

 

Actually I´m using one of these all-xbox-compatible- PSU`s and yes, I did test it in another Xbox before and it works (yes, I used the right plug...I pretty much triple checked every plug and stuff).

I do actually think that it really just is the Cap and I do hope that the electrolyt didn´t do any more damage to other parts....
If this won´t work, I do have a Xecuter3 on the way....

*fingers crossed that this baby will be working again*

 

Probably more likely the TSOP flash was bad and a chip will fix it. Have yet to see an XBox that FRAGs and can't be fixed with a modchip.

 

ok, I already got the board back, as it should work without the Cap (it´s only there to save the time for some minutes if the Xbox is unplugged)
didn´t test it yet though.


BTW: I received another Xbox that has the exact same thing.....it did leak, but this one is still "working" (gives me error code 5 w/ green/orange)

 

I'm not positive but that cap might have something to do with the RTC. IIRC from Bunny's work he found that it doesn't use a battery (as you never see one do you?) but some sort of super capacitor that lasts a few days or so at best. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case.

As for your new XBox:

5 - kernel - HDD not locked (The retail xbox bioses require the hd to be locked)

Sounds like someone might have botched a softmod attempt or the harddrive has died without informing it's controller board. Modchip will fix it nicely and if you REALLY want you can dump the EEPROM, find a compatible unlocked HDD (I think I've got a seagate or two around here for example) and lock it with the XBox's HDD key from the EEPROM dump you have. Then you can pull the chip out and have what amounts to a retail XBox or TSOP flash it if thats your bag.

Making me tempted to check out my XBox stash to see if that cap has leaked on mine. Though none of mine have problems with booting at this point (both are chipped).

 

Hi,
the new one already works, he just kinda fucked up the X3 in it, I had to flash a new Bios on it.

I will just check the trusty box, replace the thermal paste and then I will give it a try if everything seems to be ok...

EDIT:
nevermind, it does work now (without the Cap) so the elecrolyte was the reason.
It does work with booting from the EEPRROM (has a Xecuter 2 Bios)
and with the Xecuter 3^^

Finally^^

 

Great News. Now all you need is a 2TB HDD.

 

it already has a 500 gig, that should last for some time (my other 2 Xbox´s have only 80 gig )

 

I've always prefered a chip. If you really wanted to you could flash a bank with the debug BIOS and have a pseudo-debug XBox sitting there. Not sure if the debug BIOS required a locked hdd or not so take that for what its worth.

 

I do also prefer chips, that´s why I was pretty happy as I got me a Xbox with X3 and the X3Frontpanel for only 61€, I basically just threw the Mobo out, put the trusty Mobo in and there we go^^

I also thought about getting me the Debug Bios on it, but actually I wouldn´t really have any use for it besides maybe taking screenshots.....so I probably won´t load it one the X3

ok, anyone here hs one of trusty`s Boxes, too?
as I did just try to get GTA SA working and it simply doesn´t load, it always reboots when I try to start the game (no matter if I try to start it from the Disc or from the HDD).

Everything else works fine, both PAL and NTSC but GTA doesn´t do anything, I also tried patching the *xbe to 1.4 g and 128 mb RAM but still, nothing happens...any suggestions?

Or may someone here who could try to get GTA working on his trusty Box?

 

Surprised to hear anyone say that. I just xmased two working XBoxes trying to install the modchip for my first time. I didn't think I did that badly and it wasn't that messy. But as far as I can tell, they're both fried for good.

Now I have 3 busted XBoxes I'm probably gonna have to sell as junk.

 

Sounds like you really screwed up (no offense). Likely didn't flash the right BIOS onto the chip as the whole x-mas lights thing isn't because of a hardware failure. 9 times out of 10 it's a BIOS problem.

I'm inclined to believe GTA SA is likely not going to boot on anything but a 733mhz CPU. The XBox made by Friendtech had a switch that made the CPU ignore 1 of every 2 cycles somehow to effectively limit the thing down to 740mhz or so. It was still faster than stock but it seemed to improve things overall.

 

I bet they are V1.6 xbox mobos, Always do a wire LPC rebuild and never use the LPC rebuild boards.

 

One is 1.0 the other is 1.6. I used the LPC that came with the chip for the 1.6. I didn't flash anything -- I never got to that step. My soldering isn't terrible -- I just made a Neo Geo cart and it works.

 

If that´s the case (would be possible, although I´ve never heard of any game not running at all.....just running too fast), thats annoying...
But isn´t that to be patched by the 1.4 g *xbe patcher?
or is there any other way to patch it/get it running?

I just wanted to try if my GTA SA Xbox Mod runs on this one without crashing/lag.:-(



EDIT: it does NOT have to do anything with the 1.4g mod, it´s just because GTA has some kind o f region locking, so the PAL can not work on a console that is NTSC (no matter if it has a Modchip or not)
So, I could simply use Enigmah, but I guess I will just get me a NTSC copy, as I don´t want to do too much to that console

 

Probably abit late to add, but its not uncommon for those caps to leak or blow up, seen a few do it over the years...

Most important thing to note is to clean the board ASAP if this happens, its very corrosive and will eat into the board rendering it pretty useless if you don't sort it pretty quickly..

Pleased to hear you got this one going again though. :thumbsup:

 

trusty on the XBox-Scene forums I believe was modding XBox mobos for something like $250? I'm not completely sure on that number though.