XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Someone asked me to fix an old XBOX that turns on immediately after I plugged in the power plug. The on/off button does not seem to work. Is there any fix to this? Thanks for any help in advance.
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Power supply fault or broken tracks on the motherboard?
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Power supply seems ok. I will test with another power supply and report back. Can you specify what do you mean by broken tracks on the motherboard?nidge wrote:Power supply fault or broken tracks on the motherboard?
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
I mean the circuit board tracks may need re-soldering. Be careful if you use another psu, there were several different versions of the original xbox and the psu pin arrangements changed
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Check this out, worked for me on a couple of boxes. If you check the rails on the bottom front edge you will probably have one with a tiny gap http://www.theisozone.com/tutorials/xbo ... on-repair/
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Trace corrosion for sure.
I had the problem on one. Ended up bumping a tiny resistor off the board and losing it before I could see if it worked. There were sections of the board mainly along a bottom edge that were corroded but only saw maybe 3 questionable traces.
I had the problem on one. Ended up bumping a tiny resistor off the board and losing it before I could see if it worked. There were sections of the board mainly along a bottom edge that were corroded but only saw maybe 3 questionable traces.
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Is there anyway to fix this or if it is not even worth fixing?fxmech wrote:Trace corrosion for sure.
I had the problem on one. Ended up bumping a tiny resistor off the board and losing it before I could see if it worked. There were sections of the board mainly along a bottom edge that were corroded but only saw maybe 3 questionable traces.
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Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
You can fix it easily.
Just solder a wire, shorting corroded trace.
http://www.theisozone.com/tutorials/xbo ... on-repair/
Just solder a wire, shorting corroded trace.
http://www.theisozone.com/tutorials/xbo ... on-repair/