I bought an xbox for 10 bux the other night, came with snazzy xbox case, two controllers and a dvd controller. But the xbox itself seems fucked aye. I try and turn her on and she flashes red and green, the power and eject button have been taped with cellotape for some reason so I reckon it's been tinkered with. the eject button doesn't do anything the tray won't move, not any signs of life on the telly either. So anyone encountered this problem and solved it? The more experience and help the merrier.
Well first off, Xbox disc trays are known to get sticky eventually. You can try hitting the button and then prying/helping the drive eject (that is, if you can hear it "trying" to eject when you hit the button) or use a paperclip to open it manually... But that won't help your flashing error. The unit might be toast... I don't recall red+green flashing being an easy one.
Toast? there must be a way to fix her, If i fix her I'll post my progress, i'm not giving up just yet. The tray... it doesnt even try to open. and yeah i get down about it and everything! Maybe with a bit of determination I'll have my working box. until then I'm up for any challenge If anyone can help i'm hoping it will be someone from the site.
If you're not getting any video, it's a bad trace some where on the board, or something is broken on the board. Throw it out and get another one. Not worth the time.
Ah well, I thought it would be a good start to learning electronics though. If I can fix her I hope to prove you all wrong lol.
I got that once when I left my DVD power cable unplugged on my 1.1 model. IF you get video on the screen it might be fixable. I fixed my 1.1 by swapping a drive from a 1.6 I picked up here.
Sorry, I can't help, but if you can't do anything with it, then don't throw it out, keep it as you can canibalise the working parts if you ever need them as spares for another XBox. You do want a working XBox, though, as apart from the XBox's great games, you can also mod it (either with a mod-chip or software mod) and put in a larger IDE hard drive, and run everything totally from the hard drive (games, emulators, movie/music files, etc). For details (and help on your current XBox problem), see; http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?c=103,107,109,112,110,104,111,113 http://xbox-scene.com/
Well there are several things that can be wrong with the xbox, the most common error with "Green and Red" flashing lights, are related to fragging ,due to something wrong on ether the LPC bus, A bad Modchip / Installation, wrongly flashed Nand, but "Green and Red",could allso be a long list of other things. Start by doing a proper diagnostic, turn the system on and put your ear against it, you should hear the xbox trying to start, if you hear the system start up, and switch off, 3 times, then giving you the red-green lights, it would mean that it is most likely what I posted above, you can allso check on the power LED to confirm if the system is indeed doing 3 restarts before , giving you 3 red lights. Start by dissembling the xbox ,remove the Hard drive and DVD-Rom, and unplug the ribbon and dvd-rom power cable from the xbox, Start the system, and see if it displays anything on screen, it will give you a error though as the hard drive isnt connected. If it is still giving you the same green-red error look for the LPC area and see if there is a modchip installed, if so make sure its seated properly, connected and there is no loose cables ,Be careful of the D0 cable going to the motherboard(it can be easily ripped off of the motherboard) if there isnt a modchip or the chip looks fine, look for physical damage, if there is none, and the modchip is connected to a normal pin installation or is the solderless verity, try removing it. If everything looks good, and its still doing the same, TAKE PICTURES OR VIDEOS of the fault and upload them here and we will help you as best we can PS The cleared the picture the better, if you can go outside and take some pictures of the motherboard in bright sunlight...
A frequently occuring problem is the goldcap leaking, leading to all kind of strange behavour as the spilled liquid is conductive and corrosive. The goldcap is situated under the dvd drive close to the front of the xbox. The xbox should even work without that capacitor. If it has leaked, remove it and clean off the leaked stuff. Check it for corroded broken pcb tracks.
My money would be on a bad BIOS flash, though I think that was orange/red last time I saw one. You could try slapping a modchip in there (or removing a pre-existing one) so it boots off that BIOS but yeah, probably not worth the time/money.
Need Help! Hi. I have a Xbox 1.6 (Crystal ed.), installed with Aladdin Advance XT Mod chip. About two years back its DVD Drive died so I reflashed the bios with M8 Plus disabling the DVD Check (with the help of borrowed drive of a friend's Xbox). It had been working well since then. However, about two days back, it started giving bad display on startup. This happend about 5-7 times, with normal startup about twice, then display went totally blank. Now it tries to start 3 times and then starts flashing red light followed by green light 4 times. Replaced the AV cable, Hard drive, soldered fresh wires for the Mod Chip, applied the alternate composite connectors for display (so that the error in the default AV connector can be ruled out) but all has failed. Any suggestion/help would be really appreciated. The default dashboard isn't booting too. Btw can it be due to faulty mod chip? Somewhere I read that the nVidia X-Chip may also go bad .... Can this be the cause? No bad solder or damaged traces are found on the board...also, all the problems occured without any fresh messing around with the Xbox. Is there a way to check if mod chip is fine? Thanks.
No video or bad display is some form of an error on the motherboard, like a broken trace or some solder on the LPC points. Check the board very closely. Otherwise you're best to get another xbox and use the motherboard.
Samsung <3 - I honestly don't care what ANYONE says, these drives are a pain in the ass. They give me the most trouble.
