I Bought an Xbox Series X with MAJOR Liquid Damage! - Can I Fix It?!
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I Bought a BROKEN Xbox Series X for $342 - Can I Fix It?! I bought this back in May of 2022 - when $342 was a pretty good price for a used Xbox Series X. While it would turn on it wouldn't even try to take a disc so, of course, I had to take it apart. When I took it apart I found a lot more issues than I was expecting.
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I cannot believe it powered on after seeing all that damage! In some videos, one tiny bit of corrosion can kill a system, but here, all the corrosion was for the most part not crippling. Incredible.
Microsoft's engineers did an awesome job with the Series X. Even here most liquid was kept away from the internal components (except for the disk drive).
It's kinda understandable, if something gets wet and is powered for just a quick second, it can run power where it isn't supposed to, easily killing something important, but if it just sits and dries off, that may or may not cause issues partly depending on how corrosive it is.
Not as bad as it looks.
Xbox has improved their hardware alot since the Xbox 360 red ring of death era. I'm also impressed this series X is still alive.
Imagine one day there's a video where he powers the broken unit on, it works, reads disc, plays with nop issues and then the video ends
Lol, I should do that someday!
That'd be a great April fool's video.
that would make a pretty boring video though
It would be hilarious to see that happen and the issue was the person he bought it from the breaker popped or surge protector died
"No problems found, how about a Let's Play?"
If I saw the state that was inside I would never imagine that it would be possible to turn on the xbox. Amazing video like always!
That thing had to of been in a flood with that much water damage and sand in there. I'm surprised it even turned on.
That or it fell out of a window.
What a testament to the design of the Series X. Those sponges did what they were supposed to do. It does look like that one got a lot more water damage than the sponges were designed for. Makes me really wonder what happened to this Xbox.
This was my old console when I was living out on the Bayou. Damn gator grabbed it out my gaming shed!
It baffles me how many people treat their electronics so poorly.
wonder if they ran this thing outside... you would be surprised what electronics here in fl look like after a while of being outside..
That again falls under poor treatment. You never run sensitive electronics outside where moisture is in the air
It baffles me how it's always the perfect amount of thermal paste. Electronic magic!!
Baffles me also
called exes..........
Also, the disc drives have 2 or more chips, and the quad flat square package is the main diskdrive microcontroller and its married to the xbox motherboard but the other chip, a texas instruments motor driver chip (drives laser assembly) is replaceable. A tip! searching up the numbers and data sheet of the chips always helps cause the custom microsoft arm chip does not show up results but the texas instruments one does, also when the chip has a metal square in the middle it means its a power chip (heat dissapator) and can be replaced, hope this info helps :)
Yes it helps a lot. Know I now.
Congratulations on winning the 50 50 gamble on which chip was married to the mobo Steve!😀
It wasn't totally 50/50. I used to know, it's just been so long since I've done that job.
I am amazed the damn thing survived not only being thrown into mud but also remaining wet long enough for most of the metal parts to rust.
Dang! Can't believe how much corrosion was on this and it still turned on! You're a wizard and I love learning from these videos!
It was so satisfying seeing that disk tray repair working at the end. Thumbs up for right to repair!
Looks like someone got mad at the owner and threw it outside lol
The fact that it still worked with all that damage is nothing short of a miracle. Wow.
The board marry issue is quite simply atrocious. I get why they do it, break it buy a brand new one, but still its so incredibly wasteful. An entire console dead because of an easily replaceable part.
Great fix and great video Steve. One of the highlights and a great way to close off the week. 👍
It is a security measure to stop piracy. And considering that the disk drive was a main entry point on the Xbox 360, I can kind of understand why Microsoft does it. Of course it's annoying for fixing it.
It should simply be illegal to do that
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Even so, I bet it doesn't do much to stop piracy, especially someone dedicated enough to tear it apart trying to figure out how it works, honestly the biggest barrier is probably the online components and games not even being stored on the disk itself anymore.
@@vgamesx1 I mean the disk drive on the 360 was a major way to mod the software on the console... there's a reason that hasn't happened on the xbox one and onwards. If it had I assure you there would have been legions of people using the Series X as a desktop pc. To be *very* clear, there absolutely should be a way to get verified parts to replace stuff like this and a method to re-pair the parts. But this is a case where having pairing at all at least can be somewhat justified
Love the old-school Batman transition 🤣
this video makes me wish I kept my ps4 after hurricane Ian flooded out my apartment. the amount of mud and water damage done to it most likely would've been unfixable but could've sent it in as a fun attempt. love your videos
Yeah from now on any of my broken electronics (or any that anyone I know has) are going to be offered up to the Tronics collection plate.
Ah, yes, that could have been a good video
it's unfortunate that microsoft does not let you just swap the disc drive, on the other hand the all digital versions of consoles kinda doesn't get affected by this
It's more annoying that when the SSD breaks you're screwed. With a dead drive you can atleast remove the drive board and put it in another drive, but when the SSD fails, that's it.
Yeah, but with digital versions you can’t ever buy or sell used games, and if your account is banned for whatever reason, you don’t lose everything.
Great video Professor. I'm really surprised it was working at all with all the rust. You are just like Scotty from Star Trek, a miracle worker!
I was surprised too!
as long as it wasnt powerd on when water got there its fine still wonder how that chip got blown
The perfect amount of thermal paste fixes everything! 😄
Yes!
Does it fix BF2042 ?
Steve is my absolute only RUclips guy I refer to for motherboard repair and addressing a repair project one step at a time. Bravo Steve
I am flabbergasted that you managed to save it! Great job, Steve!
😆 nice -Batman- TronicsFix Man transition!
Incredible! Between this and the one with all the soda, I get the impression the Series X is a pretty well-made machine! Minus the board-pairing BS. Also must be nice to find a use for a plate from a donor machine like that, I assume you don't get to reuse those non-electronic components very often.
What in the sam hell happened to that box mang. I don't understand how such an expensive piece of tech gets abused like this. Thank you for saving the box and hopefully it finds its way to an owner that will care for it like a puppy >
Probably some asshurt parent with anger management problems who wanted to "teach their kid a lesson" for getting a C in gym class or something.
Why does this scream flood damage to me. Great work as always Steve.
Could have been in a flood
It’s a fighter, Microsoft’s design team out did themselves with this one.
Welp, these spreadsheets can wait for just about...14m49 seconds or so. Dang. Nice job, Miracle Max.
Lol!
Have fun fixing da console!
You do realize that Arctic Silver 5 can be capacitive (however not conductive) when you use that on direct die chips with dozens of surface mount parts surrounding the die? On top of that it has a burn in time of 200 hours before it's optimal? Why not Use MX4, NTH1, Master Gel, or a dozen other carbon based pastes that have neither of those caveats and are cheaper and perform better.
My mind is blown on how that even turned on. I've worked on a lot of consoles with corrosion, but never on that level. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
That Xbox was really dirty! Its really cool that it worked even covered in mud and all crusty
Nice fix Steve, that crashed drone was the worst water/liquid damaged i've ever seen but this one was also very surprising because almost all important parts aren't affected and everthing else was...
Don’t be surprised about water damaged consoles. There was just a huge hurricane in Florida. Tons of houses were under water. Consoles and TVs and lots of boats and cars will make it to the used market
Thank God for that panel over the disc drive connector. They'd have been way more screwed if it wasn't there
Did the previous owner go off roding with the Xbox? Unbelievable. I keep my PS5 prestiine and no dust too!! People are just so careless with consoles. Great video!
Wow! This has more water damage than a Michael Bay movie
I once worked on an Xbox one, the inside was just FULL of roaches and rust and corrosion, i left it outside for the longest time through rain and everything, eventually opened it, and found there wasn't ANYTHING wrong other than the outlet power supply was bad, i hadn't wanted to try to turn it on with all those bugs in it
Edit: forgot to mention, when I plugged it in with my power supply from an old Xbox it worked fine
Gotta love channels like this. Straight to work and entertaining.
I think Microsoft should have made a service mode procedure to marry a new disc drive to the motherboard.
Example. I repair copiers and printers for a living. I repaired a Kyocera TASKalfa copier where I had to replace the main board. There was a procedure I had to simply execute in the maintenance mode so that the engine board and main board serial numbers would match. Really simple. The new main board copied over the serial number from the engine board without issue.
Copiers = business partners/customers
Game consoles = stupid retail consumers
It's not that simple. Process of remarry requing primary console keys. And this is most secret thing for game console. In disc drive it can grant you ability to install custom firmware and let you run pirated games.
@@Newerawe They can always make it check online and verify with MS servers to allow the adoption of a used drive.
This all said, OG Xbox you could swap optical but not hdd.
@@robertt9342 actually no. The basic thing about console protection is that you cannot extract these keys. You have 2 private keys for doing a handshake. Keys matched - good drive. Keys unmatched - replaced drive or changed firmware. If a console is capable of extracting those keys, then hackers can do it either, so it is kinda useless.
For example, on PS3 hackers managed to find private key because NVIDIA fault. Result - you can do with console whateverer you want.
Hands Down My Favorite Video how on earth did it turn on at all? The fact it even turned on in the condition it was in blows my mind. Great Console Microsoft
Interesting how nice the outside of that thing looked for clearly having been in mud... someone did a good job cleaning the outside before selling it...
True shocked it still worked. Spot on repair. I didn't know Xbox chips were married i would learn to except it from Sony.
Love your work Steve, but I thibk you're wrong about why the disc drive is married to the board. I believe it has more to do with anti-piracy rather than anti-repair.
Probably one of the more extensively water-damaged consoles I've seen you work on. Maybe an ex-wife/ex-girlfriend had enough of her man's excessive vaping and gaming and tossed it in the mud. Awesome job on the repair!
Thanks, yes, I was surprised that this one worked as well as it did
@@Tronicsfix A long time ago, you said one day you would do a video on the damage you have seen "ex's" do to gaming consoles. I think that would make a funny, different video to hear those stories.
I was shocked when you opened that after powering it on 😂😂
Curious how come you used IPA and not the BW-100 Electronic cleaner you usually do? Is there a different benefit to using the IPA in this case that I'm missing? Thanks for the new video and keep up the awesome content! :)
I would bet that this was someones garage console, or back patio/pool area console. I think most of that rust is just humid/dirty environment. Like a screened in back patio of someones beachhouse.
Love the ‘60s Batman scene transition! 😂
Wow, mission accomplished Steve. Keep it up!
How the hell did this thing even turn on? Yeesh, nice job on this one.
With all that rust and corrosion I was wondering if it was going to be problem after problem but you did a good job excellent work
The video title did not prepare me enough for this xD
You are the best!
You've got a good point. I might change the titel
It amazes me the condition of some of the consoles that are listed as completely broken or not working properly on places like eBay. Do people not take proper care of their things? From suffocated in dust to actual bugs it's horrible.
im so amazed by this console, even with all that damage it turned on and started working just fine, thats impressive. its almost like it didnt ant to die, thank you for not killing it but fixing it all th way, this fighter of a console deserved it
I have to say that this is your best video in my opinion 😁👍
Wish you did more every week
Drive swaps have been a pain since the 360/ps3 days. Coincidentally Wiis absolutely did not care at all what drive you used in it. If you replace a non backwards compatible wii with one that is, it will totally load gamecube games.
Man I would love to hear the stories behind how these consoles get damaged. Wild stuff I bet.
Love the channel, keep it up. Watching your videos has allowed me to diagnose and repair several issues with my xbox consoles over the years.
Another excellent fix! Also love your enthusiasm and determination, makes half the video for me :)
My friend looked at this video who’s an insurance adjuster and they said this looks like damage from a flood
It definitely could have been from a flood
A knowledge in this video is priceless.. Thanks bro..
Glad you liked it!
Liked it very much..
Nicely done Steve!
I wonder what happened to that Xbox too. My thought is that the residue and partial corrosion of the insides does make me think a moist environment, perhaps salt water. Beach homes have all kinds of crazy corrosion you would never imagine. Perhaps the thing was used outside on a beach house porch for awhile and and maybe a muddy wave crashed over it one day. So it wasn't fully submerged, but got some muddy water inside. And the rest was just from use near a body of salt water. That's the best I could come up with without actually knowing the story behind the damage.
I'm convinced that Tronics can fix anything
I wish!
Hurricane survivor. That is crazy it works with the amount of corrosion and rust.
Amazing it still worked with all that liquid damage. Great job as usual.
Another video from Steve, I can’t wait to see it.
Thanks for the support!
Now THAT was straight up to the point from the first second on
Coolest tech channel on RUclips! :)
Great work 👍
Kudos to the Xbox engineering team, apparently the console can survive anything, they come a long way since the 360 debacle.
You seem like a cool guy and because of that it would be cool to feel like we could hang out with you on Saturday sometimes. Having a lifestream or a super long video would be greatly appreciated. I’ve got some time to kill today and watching your video is perfect. I just wish it was longer. Thanks for the awesome content.
I wish you could fix my pacemaker. Good video.
What a mess with that Xbox, you did a great job of cleaning. Best regards
If it is Rusted Steve knows how to fix it. But we all know it's The Perfect amount of Thermalpaste that really fixed it
Holy Schmitt! That was a LOT of Corrosion! I'm a bit shocked, really. Moreso over the fact the damned thing booted in the first place. Nice Job!
Holy moly that’s a TON of rust!!!
Dang, with all those issues, good thing GameStop didn't try to "fix it" first. There would be a dead hamster on a wheel inside.
WOW can't believe you got that working....YOU ARE THE MACHINE at this point lol
I am honestly amazed that this xbox even turned on at all
with all that corrosion you'd expect any device to fail instantly but that proves that many Xboxes are just built like literal TANKS
but with that I have to honestly just say WOW how did that even work. I was genuinely expecting nothing more than a puff of smoke from the power supply. but instead it proved me more wrong by being FULLY FUNCTIONAL even after supposedly being destroyed internally.
oh well just put the perfect amount of thermal paste on the CPU and game on that thing in the condition it's in. Don't worry I've seen much worse.
Hey Tronicsfix how much would it cost for you to repair a original nes system just wondering
Wow looks like that thing was thrown in a ocean...
Pretty nice save 👍
amazing job!
The will to live of that Xbox is making me emotional
Interesting note, Microsoft doesnt use X Clamps for the Series X.. I believe its called the X Spring now.. think the X Clamp is still in the Series S though
That Xbox can handle water better than most Spartans…….
That was impressiv. Keep it going and thank you.
Man that’s sad to see such a beautiful console in such condition.
you blurred the email/username at the end but not at the start of the video fyi, congrats on the fix though!
Pretty cool how you can open these xboxs a determine what caused it to be disfunctional
I love a happy ending 😊
Didn't you have an ultrasonic cleaner? With IPA in it could clean these kind of mess within a few second.
We used a smaller one in a waterpump factory's electronic assembly for final cleaning after the manual big part solder and final test (at our site before the proper assembly).
It’s probably from one of the hurricanes and was in a flood, at least that would be my guess since it has mud in it
Another great video 👍. I bet you wished you had looked at it back in May and it may not had been that bad with the corrosion 🤣.
Seems it might have been in a house fire and hot hit with the firehouse or extinguisher from surrounding fire or something
Amazing and perfect work as always steve but why not just replace everything from a broken system that will be way cleaner and much better just my opinion love the video as always keep it up 👍👍
Well, that MS/Sony thing of pairing drive to mobo is almost certain some form of anti-tampering/anti-piracy feature. And trust me, doing all that stuff is, effectively, a waste of money - except third parties won't support your platform if you don't do enough of it, unfortunately.
Shorts are taking over you, i mean your videos are now shorts ready...lol
no idea how that partially worked in the 1st place when all it takes is a bad resister or connection to fail
I’m wondering if there would have a been a difference if you opened it up in may.
Possibly