Man those were good Days, when X-box playstation and Nintendo 64 came out, when I was a kid, I REMEMBER very well..!!, 2D Super Nintendo before that in the '90s..!!
Clicked because of his name, got angry for a millisecond, quickly realized I’m dumb and don’t read, and you’re a good content creator in your own right, got a supporter in me.
It is a bit close to Techmoan. I've gotten that a lot. I was given the name by my 6th grade science teacher. He would call me Technoman because I'd always bring my electronics projects to school. I was also basically the schools tech support. I'd get called to the office to fix computers during class. I like the name and the branding it has allowed me to create and I am sure that people will learn to distinguish. I am working on being more active. I really enjoy content creation. I just find it hard to get motivated sometimes with everything I've got going on.
Either way that would've been good for just the case itself for $85. And having a working DVD drive. You made out good. People are paying $200 for a broken one with a broken drive. That's crazy. I understand the Love for the system. I have 3 of them hard modded and custom painted them.
I clicked here because I thought your channel name was The Techmoan and wondered how the hell that was allowed. I'm glad you're not attempting to impersonate my favorite electronics-dedicated channel!
Great job fixing this Xbox. Love seeing people resurrecting old electronics. Great first video. Keep up the great work, can’t wait to see more vids from ya.
When it comes to the feet of the console, the first tutorial i ever saw said that I should only pry it up enough to get to the screws to remove them. I still follow these advice and even to this day I never had to remove the feet of an Xbox completely. I just put a bit of pressure on the feet after I repaired a console and most people didn't notice it. P.S. I don't care about warranty seals when repairing consoles and I also disclose it when I had to open up a system for repair before selling it.
Really good video, thanks for creating this. I really should re-cap my OG Xbox (I removed the clock battery but the others seemed fine). I was planning on doing a RAM upgrade and porting a newer Linux version to it eventually. Somebody had already modded it so it came with an original Aladdin 64 with LCD screen and copious amounts of hot glue.
That was awesome I enjoyed your video... I've owned one of these OG Halo edition Xboxes since like 2008. At one point the power button stopped working and the only way to turn it off or back on was to physically unplug it. So I swapped out the little board that goes behind the eject and power button and that solved it apparently the traces on those boards are prone to not working right after sometime or conditions. So then it worked great and then I thought I would redo the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU well I was never able to get the GPU heat sink off it was just stuck on there like glue. So I put it back together having only replaced the CPU thermal paste And it never turned on again. So I ended up just getting a donor regular Xbox and swapping out the entire board and power supply. The only thing I reused was the DVD drive. And it works great again. Thanks great video
Some inspiration bro! I found a couple of these broken units but was hesitant on buying .. was thinking even if the board /system couldn’t be fixed I’d atleast have the shell to drop a nice working board in..
Having spare parts is always nice! I believe this is a Rev. 6 board so yours may look different but this seems to be the most common failure on these units. I wish included more of my troubleshooting process in this video but I didn't film it. I also tested the power supply and power button board to insure that the caps were the problem. I will get better at making these types of videos as time goes on :)
@@_Technoman_ hell yeah bro! And damn 1.6 that’s a bit unforunate, only a mod chip can be installed into those… sometimes u can get lucky and get a 1.4-1.5 board and be able to TSOP’ flash them. Very nice video tho keep up the work bro! :)
@@Gwapanese you can soft-mod a 1.6 just fine, if that's what you meant with "only a mod chip can be installed into those". I soft-modded mine and replaced the stock hard drive with a 40GB unit I had lying around. I'm currently trying to resurrect it, so I can fix the dumb timebomb in the softmod, which puts you in a clock loop unless the system time is less than somewhere in 2019, and change the dual boot to the XDK dash, so I can better toy around with development on it.
5:00 You actually can replace the top metal RF shielding, you just gotta bend the metal tabs back down so they're digging into the plastic again and wont pop out. I always remove the top part so I can more easily clean the plastic shell in a soapy bath.
The shield was heat staked into place. While you could get it off without breaking the plastic parts with some patients and bending, in the case I just broke them off. The case looks better without it anyway since you can see the disc and hard drive :)
I have gotten a laptop from what appeared to be a smoker's home, because of its smell of cigarette smoke. I booted it up and IT STILL HAD THE ORIGINAL COPY OF WINDOWS 7 AND ITS ORIGINAL HARD DRIVE! But when I started CrystalDiskInfo, the boot drive said “Caution” and not “Good”, even though I did not mess with any setting. It’s a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB and CrystalDiskInfo said that the drive was SATA/300, meaning that that drive was SATA II, not SATA III, but I have some 320GB SATA III disks and even 250GB SSDs! I'm planning on replacing that hard drive with a SATA III drive to hopefully speed things up.
you should always remove or replace the clock capacitor on these when working on them because they all leak and ruin the motherboard completely , the 1Farad supercap, the 1,6 version requires a cap in place but I use to just put a normal 1000uf cap there on them instead. and those caps fail 100%, the 1,6 does too but it takes a bit longer before they do compared to the older versions
Those Xboxes came from the factory not working right, (December 2002 standard model). I took mine back and got a lot of lip but they swapped it. Made in Mexico one skipped loudly. Ah the good ole days.
Great Job! New Sub: Dryden, MI I Just Re-Modded mine, Cleaned it up, and Restored it Again RePainted the Case: This was an Epic system My first Accomplished Mission into Modding in the 2k's, I had everyone I knew trade in their PS2s and go Hog Wild. I had a Windows 2000 Server Setup in the corner of the basement as my Workshop
I wonder what they are. Filter capacitors for the CPU? I have actually had some contact with the Senior Electrical Engineer of the Original Xbox but he doesn't seem to keen on talking about the past. He is at a different company now and I'm sure he is a very busy man. I had originally contacted him about some information on the development of Microsoft Actimates, which was an interactive kids toy, really interesting, because I wanted to make a video about it. He was the Senior Electrical Engineer on that as well.
I have a failed 1.6 board. I testes caps outside circuit and they seem good. Motherboard is dead, it turned off and never turned on again. I guess is the PWN Signal Generator chip for the VRMs.
Thank you man! I really appreciate you saying that! This is my very first video on this channel and I just uploaded it a few days ago so I'm sure the views will increase with time :) Expect more videos in the future! Technology has always been a passion of mine and I thank you for helping make it possible to share this passion with the world. Technoman actually came from the nickname my science teacher gave me in middle school. Our school didn't have an IT guy on staff so they would usually turn to me to fix their tech problems. Also you are my first commenter on this channel! I have another channel about motorcycles. I haven't uploaded any videos on that channel in a while but I still get about 1k views a month on there.
Very good sir, u know it IT stuff. U may as well mod that Xbox to unlock a plethora of new features. Softmodding worked best for me when I had an OG Xbox. But I don't play on console no more, I have a gaming PC
I wouldn't recommend using a Screwdriver with the Micro Fibre Cloth. I would recommend a blunt tool like a plastic spudger which isn't likely to scratch plastics. As strong as the Micro Fibre Cloth is, if you are not super careful, the Screwdriver blade will peak through and scratch the plastic. I have been there, seen it, done it and got annoyed about it afterwards.
if i was you i would do a softmod on it and retireve the unlock key for the emedded key thats on the harddrive or firmware so if it goes bad you can atleast prepare another drive like ive got a used og xbox and it turned out when i got it the HDD was in really bad shape and softmodding mine saved the xbox though i need to eventually get another psu for it as the at style psu got shorted out by bugs
@@dawn1berlitz I believe in you! You can get it working! Even if there is other problems, there are plenty of tutorials here on RUclips to fix all kinds of problems!
@@_Technoman_ bugs shorted out the psu hopefully the mainboard isnt trashed i have it softmodded as when i bought it the hdd wasnt in good shape but i got it for sotmodding as i wanted to try a method i had seen the psu is one of the at style connector instead of ATX
I've ran into this same issue. I've only noticed the black capacitors having an issue. I've had some better luck with the blue/green ones but time will tell if those eventually crap out. Still one of my favorite consoles to work on.
Of the two Xboxs that have come through my collection, this is the only one that had any problems. It was fun to work on! I'm sure I would have no problem repairing another Xbox in the future if I got my hands on a non-working one again. This one was also super rewarding. Getting something that doesn't work and breathing new life into it is thrilling!
I never knew the Xbox was dead when you go on your Xbox series X I see Xbox and Xbox 360 Xbox one all still here Microsoft doesn’t kill their store or consoles like Nintendo does Nintendo Switch is about to be dead next before the PS3 xbox 360 they will shut their and close their Nintendo eshop cause they just don’t care
This is cool man, what other consoles do you work on? I have a fat ps3 that keeps overheating when I last turned it on years ago. Maybe i can send it your way as a donation for the channel? Might make for a cool video. Subbed.
I've never worked on a PS3 but I have been working on some PS2s lately. I just got 4 broken ones and have fixed all four. Should've made a video of it! Maybe I could give it a go! I'm looking at getting a PO box for donations now that you mention it. Would also be good for putting on my eBay labels so I'm not giving out my address.
I bought an Xbox 360 it doesn't read discs I adjusted the screws on the laser it works for a little bit then the game freezes I bought a new laser for a VAD 60 38. Will I have to do anything, download software to make my new laser work? Or can I plug and play it once I install The new laser
You should be able to just replace the laser with a new one. I replaced the laser on my PS2 by just swapping it out. Maybe I should calibrate it, but it's been working without calibration just fine, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You got a good deal! After I fixed it and listed it, this unit sold for $265. These units were limited edition and are rare. A regular Xbox in working condition with all accessories can be had for around $100 at the moment.
@@_Technoman_ i think you kind of got scammed too, or at least i personally would not have bought at that price. og xboxs are like 20$ per untested unit. good that you made it work again. have a nice day.
@@VD-cc4hx For a standard unit, yes this would be a horrible price. This was the Halo Special Edition however. They are worth a lot more than a standard unit. Like I said, I more than made my money back on this unit.
Man those were good Days, when X-box playstation and Nintendo 64 came out, when I was a kid, I REMEMBER very well..!!, 2D Super Nintendo before that in the '90s..!!
Clicked because of his name, got angry for a millisecond, quickly realized I’m dumb and don’t read, and you’re a good content creator in your own right, got a supporter in me.
It is a bit close to Techmoan. I've gotten that a lot. I was given the name by my 6th grade science teacher. He would call me Technoman because I'd always bring my electronics projects to school.
I was also basically the schools tech support. I'd get called to the office to fix computers during class. I like the name and the branding it has allowed me to create and I am sure that people will learn to distinguish.
I am working on being more active. I really enjoy content creation. I just find it hard to get motivated sometimes with everything I've got going on.
Either way that would've been good for just the case itself for $85. And having a working DVD drive. You made out good. People are paying $200 for a broken one with a broken drive. That's crazy. I understand the Love for the system. I have 3 of them hard modded and custom painted them.
It's such a nice console. I greatly enjoyed working on this one and allowing it to have more use.
That's crazy IDK if these are NA prices, but i can find a OG xbox working for $25 crystals for around $40.
@@Kiritomens - Please. Let me know where to find a Crystal at then.
@@TPRES_74 Well i live in the netherlands, so marketplace (or marktplaats in Dutch).
@@Kiritomens - I hear they're cheap over there and UK. I guess you have to know someone there. Especially with Shipping.
I clicked here because I thought your channel name was The Techmoan and wondered how the hell that was allowed. I'm glad you're not attempting to impersonate my favorite electronics-dedicated channel!
I am a great fan of Techmoan lol I would never try to copy him. I am not worthy of his name!
Great job fixing this Xbox. Love seeing people resurrecting old electronics.
Great first video.
Keep up the great work, can’t wait to see more vids from ya.
We've got to keep these consoles out of landfills! We have to keep them working!
I like the twist at the end with the hard drive
We all make mistakes! Don't let anyone convince you that things always work on the first try. That's why I kept it in the video :)
When it comes to the feet of the console, the first tutorial i ever saw said that I should only pry it up enough to get to the screws to remove them. I still follow these advice and even to this day I never had to remove the feet of an Xbox completely. I just put a bit of pressure on the feet after I repaired a console and most people didn't notice it.
P.S. I don't care about warranty seals when repairing consoles and I also disclose it when I had to open up a system for repair before selling it.
This console was missing a foot to begin with. If it hadn't been, I would've put the originals back on :)
Really good video, thanks for creating this. I really should re-cap my OG Xbox (I removed the clock battery but the others seemed fine). I was planning on doing a RAM upgrade and porting a newer Linux version to it eventually. Somebody had already modded it so it came with an original Aladdin 64 with LCD screen and copious amounts of hot glue.
I like RF shields as I listen to AM radio from time to time.
Great first video buddy, look forward to seeing more repairs 👍🏻
the man himself is here : )
The next video I am planning is comparing a GBA LCD mod from 10 years ago to one that is available today. I think it would be an interesting video!
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That was awesome I enjoyed your video... I've owned one of these OG Halo edition Xboxes since like 2008. At one point the power button stopped working and the only way to turn it off or back on was to physically unplug it. So I swapped out the little board that goes behind the eject and power button and that solved it apparently the traces on those boards are prone to not working right after sometime or conditions. So then it worked great and then I thought I would redo the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU well I was never able to get the GPU heat sink off it was just stuck on there like glue. So I put it back together having only replaced the CPU thermal paste And it never turned on again. So I ended up just getting a donor regular Xbox and swapping out the entire board and power supply. The only thing I reused was the DVD drive. And it works great again. Thanks great video
Some inspiration bro!
I found a couple of these broken units but was hesitant on buying .. was thinking even if the board /system couldn’t be fixed I’d atleast have the shell to drop a nice working board in..
Having spare parts is always nice! I believe this is a Rev. 6 board so yours may look different but this seems to be the most common failure on these units. I wish included more of my troubleshooting process in this video but I didn't film it. I also tested the power supply and power button board to insure that the caps were the problem. I will get better at making these types of videos as time goes on :)
@@_Technoman_ hell yeah bro! And damn 1.6 that’s a bit unforunate, only a mod chip can be installed into those… sometimes u can get lucky and get a 1.4-1.5 board and be able to TSOP’ flash them.
Very nice video tho keep up the work bro! :)
@@Gwapanese you can soft-mod a 1.6 just fine, if that's what you meant with "only a mod chip can be installed into those". I soft-modded mine and replaced the stock hard drive with a 40GB unit I had lying around. I'm currently trying to resurrect it, so I can fix the dumb timebomb in the softmod, which puts you in a clock loop unless the system time is less than somewhere in 2019, and change the dual boot to the XDK dash, so I can better toy around with development on it.
5:00 You actually can replace the top metal RF shielding, you just gotta bend the metal tabs back down so they're digging into the plastic again and wont pop out. I always remove the top part so I can more easily clean the plastic shell in a soapy bath.
The shield was heat staked into place. While you could get it off without breaking the plastic parts with some patients and bending, in the case I just broke them off. The case looks better without it anyway since you can see the disc and hard drive :)
I have gotten a laptop from what appeared to be a smoker's home, because of its smell of cigarette smoke. I booted it up and IT STILL HAD THE ORIGINAL COPY OF WINDOWS 7 AND ITS ORIGINAL HARD DRIVE! But when I started CrystalDiskInfo, the boot drive said “Caution” and not “Good”, even though I did not mess with any setting. It’s a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB and CrystalDiskInfo said that the drive was SATA/300, meaning that that drive was SATA II, not SATA III, but I have some 320GB SATA III disks and even 250GB SSDs! I'm planning on replacing that hard drive with a SATA III drive to hopefully speed things up.
you should always remove or replace the clock capacitor on these when working on them because they all leak and ruin the motherboard completely , the 1Farad supercap, the 1,6 version requires a cap in place but I use to just put a normal 1000uf cap there on them instead. and those caps fail 100%, the 1,6 does too but it takes a bit longer before they do compared to the older versions
You could call those “vents” ridges, since they are ridges.
Cap kits for consoles just like CRT drive boards 😆Thanks for recording your experience
Those Xboxes came from the factory not working right, (December 2002 standard model). I took mine back and got a lot of lip but they swapped it. Made in Mexico one skipped loudly. Ah the good ole days.
Old trick from the xbox days, strip the cases off and put them through the dishwasher, they will look like new
Great Job! New Sub: Dryden, MI
I Just Re-Modded mine, Cleaned it up, and Restored it Again
RePainted the Case: This was an Epic system
My first Accomplished Mission into Modding in the 2k's, I had everyone I knew trade in their PS2s and go Hog Wild. I had a Windows 2000 Server Setup in the corner of the basement as my Workshop
Awesome! I had 4 PS2s come through my shop recently.
Those 5 caps on 1.6 boards fail 4 times out of 5. Even if they don't look bad (leaking), I replace them.
I wonder what they are. Filter capacitors for the CPU? I have actually had some contact with the Senior Electrical Engineer of the Original Xbox but he doesn't seem to keen on talking about the past. He is at a different company now and I'm sure he is a very busy man. I had originally contacted him about some information on the development of Microsoft Actimates, which was an interactive kids toy, really interesting, because I wanted to make a video about it. He was the Senior Electrical Engineer on that as well.
I have a failed 1.6 board. I testes caps outside circuit and they seem good. Motherboard is dead, it turned off and never turned on again. I guess is the PWN Signal Generator chip for the VRMs.
Good job dude, now you gotta mod it
This console is in the hands of its new owner now. Maybe they will mod it :)
You deserve more views man
Thank you man! I really appreciate you saying that! This is my very first video on this channel and I just uploaded it a few days ago so I'm sure the views will increase with time :) Expect more videos in the future! Technology has always been a passion of mine and I thank you for helping make it possible to share this passion with the world. Technoman actually came from the nickname my science teacher gave me in middle school. Our school didn't have an IT guy on staff so they would usually turn to me to fix their tech problems.
Also you are my first commenter on this channel!
I have another channel about motorcycles. I haven't uploaded any videos on that channel in a while but I still get about 1k views a month on there.
Nice starting a new channel!
Thank you Mario :)
Very good sir, u know it IT stuff. U may as well mod that Xbox to unlock a plethora of new features. Softmodding worked best for me when I had an OG Xbox. But I don't play on console no more, I have a gaming PC
I wouldn't recommend using a Screwdriver with the Micro Fibre Cloth. I would recommend a blunt tool like a plastic spudger which isn't likely to scratch plastics. As strong as the Micro Fibre Cloth is, if you are not super careful, the Screwdriver blade will peak through and scratch the plastic. I have been there, seen it, done it and got annoyed about it afterwards.
True! I will take this into consideration :)
if i was you i would do a softmod on it and retireve the unlock key for the emedded key thats on the harddrive or firmware so if it goes bad you can atleast prepare another drive like ive got a used og xbox and it turned out when i got it the HDD was in really bad shape and softmodding mine saved the xbox though i need to eventually get another psu for it as the at style psu got shorted out by bugs
This Xbox has found a new owner. Maybe they will have some fun with modding it!
@@_Technoman_ im hoping my xbox still works after i get the money to replace the PSU
@@dawn1berlitz I believe in you! You can get it working! Even if there is other problems, there are plenty of tutorials here on RUclips to fix all kinds of problems!
@@_Technoman_ bugs shorted out the psu hopefully the mainboard isnt trashed i have it softmodded as when i bought it the hdd wasnt in good shape but i got it for sotmodding as i wanted to try a method i had seen the psu is one of the at style connector instead of ATX
I've ran into this same issue. I've only noticed the black capacitors having an issue. I've had some better luck with the blue/green ones but time will tell if those eventually crap out. Still one of my favorite consoles to work on.
Of the two Xboxs that have come through my collection, this is the only one that had any problems. It was fun to work on! I'm sure I would have no problem repairing another Xbox in the future if I got my hands on a non-working one again. This one was also super rewarding. Getting something that doesn't work and breathing new life into it is thrilling!
Yo i do a lot of game console repair on removing the old caps just snip them on the board like you did while in the packaging
I never knew the Xbox was dead when you go on your Xbox series X I see Xbox and Xbox 360 Xbox one all still here Microsoft doesn’t kill their store or consoles like Nintendo does Nintendo Switch is about to be dead next before the PS3 xbox 360 they will shut their and close their Nintendo eshop cause they just don’t care
Great video
This is cool man, what other consoles do you work on? I have a fat ps3 that keeps overheating when I last turned it on years ago. Maybe i can send it your way as a donation for the channel? Might make for a cool video. Subbed.
I've never worked on a PS3 but I have been working on some PS2s lately. I just got 4 broken ones and have fixed all four. Should've made a video of it! Maybe I could give it a go! I'm looking at getting a PO box for donations now that you mention it. Would also be good for putting on my eBay labels so I'm not giving out my address.
I bought an Xbox 360 it doesn't read discs I adjusted the screws on the laser it works for a little bit then the game freezes I bought a new laser for a VAD 60 38. Will I have to do anything, download software to make my new laser work? Or can I plug and play it once I install The new laser
I have no experience with the Xbox 360 sadly. However, the internet is full of resources! I would urge you to search online.
You should be able to just replace the laser with a new one. I replaced the laser on my PS2 by just swapping it out. Maybe I should calibrate it, but it's been working without calibration just fine, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
please new video you are amazing
Life has been hectic for a while recently. I am hoping to make a new video soon.
Just sad that the shipping for the coppasators are around 60 dollars
I certainly didn't pay that much for shipping. That would be an absurd amount for them. They are very small and light.
i haven't play my Xbox before i moved to new home about 2 months ago
i bought ps3 slim it was sold is it is for $30 al it need os reinstall ones are working they them $80 i save some money
U forget something bro: dont touch à caps until u décharge it....
These capacitors operate at a very low voltage. They do not pose any danger. Thank you for your concern though :)
See one bubbled
85??? I Bought One With 2 Controllers And A Game For 30 From A Yard Sale/CarBoot Sale
You got a good deal! After I fixed it and listed it, this unit sold for $265. These units were limited edition and are rare. A regular Xbox in working condition with all accessories can be had for around $100 at the moment.
@@_Technoman_ i think you kind of got scammed too, or at least i personally would not have bought at that price. og xboxs are like 20$ per untested unit. good that you made it work again. have a nice day.
I mean, the Halo editions are far more sought after than the standard black ones. $85 is a hell of a good deal on a Halo model.
@@VD-cc4hx For a standard unit, yes this would be a horrible price. This was the Halo Special Edition however. They are worth a lot more than a standard unit. Like I said, I more than made my money back on this unit.
Whoops wrong account lol
Do you have a discord? If not do you want me to make one??