Flashing Red/Orange

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot or fix this are more than welcome. The board looks brand new, no signs of trace damage.

 

Gotcha, should I try replacing the port on the mobo or is there an easier way to test first?

 

You have a short somewhere during boot is what it looks like. Have you tried another set of AV cables? Because you don't have any controllers hooked up it's not those. I can't tell if you have the lan port plugged up or not but it could be shorting out there too.
Sorry I don't remember but I have seen this same thing before. Errrrr my old brain.

 

@ToXZiN 1 I had a green Debug kit do this after a while it just stopped turning on. I went ahead and replaced the PSU and all was good after that.

 

Yes I guess it could very well be a power supply also.

 

I know it's not the cables bc it's the same set I use for my DVT-4 and other chipped consoles. The LAN was plugged in so I will test without it hooked up when I get home and report back the results.

I hadn't thought of that. I have a spare 1.0 PSU that I can throw in when I get home as well. Thanks for the replies guys, I'll keep you posted on my findings!

 

Ok, Tried both suggestions and neither worked. Xbox still flashes Red/Orange.

 

Maybe the port? @ToXZiN 1

 

The A/V port does have a weird color to it..but it's the entire thing, not just some burnt piece. It looks factory. I'll upload a pic or two. Maybe someone can see something I'm missing.

 

Here are some pics. As you can see the AV port is much darker than all the other metal on the board.
http://imgur.com/a/XRhfi

 

Ive had a xbox do this before and found the cause to be a completely failed DVD drive. Not sure if it is in your case though, worth checking.

 

I had thought about that as well but swapped it and it still fails to boot. :/

 

Green reset, green reset and then orange/red flashing LED?

http://xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-163.html#xboxerrorcodes6

 

yes, with no video out to show an error code

 

If it’s a v1 Xbox you won’t get an error screen anyways, they added that in v1.1 boards. That came with a newer kernel.

 

Oh, good to know. It is a v1.0

 

Can you, have you, tried a standard definition (composite) A/V cable to see what happens?

Check the tutorial at Xbox-HQ.com http://www.xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-174.html

Bad memory is also mentioned. You might have to replace one or more of the four DRAM chips on the motherboard to fix.

 

I haven't tried standard cables yet but will tomorrow. Anyone know how to test the ram or figure out which one(if any) have failed?

 

You might try the XBlast_OS (BIOS). It has a memory test function. But, I'm not sure it can boot without the original 64MB of memory working to perform the memory test.

A program would have to be written to run from ROM (EEPROM)/CPU cache without using any additional RAM memory to test those chips. Not sure where the memory test would send its results. The power RING LED, LED on the modchip, etc.

Update:
Checked the memory test function of XBlast_OS. Its a 128MB RAM test to test the upper 64MB of RAM and will show which chip(s) failed or passed the test. It's for modders installing an extra 64MB of RAM to the Xbox to verify a good install not an overall general purpose test of all chips.