XBOX Dying/Dead

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:30 pm

My XBOX has been slowly dying and now it seems to be dead. When it is turned on with either the eject or power button, the green power light flashes, but there is no video and the drive never opens. This is the original model (I think people call it 1.0).

DCFan2004 · Post by **DCFan2004** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:09 pm

Its in a coma state most likely. Basically the main memory bank has become corrupted and can't read the data off it to boot up. I had this happen to one of my xboxes and its not too hard to fix as long as you can solder and have a steady hand and some patience. http://llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/ComaConsole.htm go there, it tell you exactly what you're going to solder so that you can force your box to boot from one of the other 3 memory banks.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:47 pm

Okay I'll give that a shot. Its not like I have anything to lose, its long out of warranty.

DCFan2004 · Post by **DCFan2004** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:57 pm

also, another tip, use a 15W soldering iron, and really small gauge wiring like 22mm or thinner. The traces you need to solder to are pretty small, so using those two things will make it less of a bitch to solder. Good Luck.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:11 pm

I just opened up my XBOX and found the solder points. There is no way I can ever solder to those. I am correct in thinking that this could be solved by sticking a (preferably solderless) modchip in it?

DCFan2004 · Post by **DCFan2004** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:25 am

No Name wrote:I just opened up my XBOX and found the solder points. There is no way I can ever solder to those. I am correct in thinking that this could be solved by sticking a (preferably solderless) modchip in it?

I couldn't tell you. My box is softmodded so its still running of the systems memory banks. I guess if the chip has its own, then perhaps it would work. As for the points, yea they're pretty much a bitch to do, it took me a good half hour of frustration to get done, but ti works and thats all that matters.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:00 pm

I just got the chip I ordered (Spider v1.1) and installed it. The XBOX now turns on and displays video, I just need to get around to getting a BIOS flashed on the chip.