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XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 1:18 pm
by wchusky
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.
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 1:47 pm
by nidge
Power supply fault or broken tracks on the motherboard?
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 3:50 pm
by wchusky
nidge wrote:Power supply fault or broken tracks on the motherboard?
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?
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 5:30 pm
by nidge
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
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:21 pm
by Ging3rguy
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/
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 4:47 am
by seriouslycgi
Clock cap leaking?
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:45 am
by fxmech
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.
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 11:17 am
by spicemuseum
fxmech wrote:Trace corrosion for sure.
Correct.
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:52 pm
by wchusky
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.
Is there anyway to fix this or if it is not even worth fixing?
Re: XBOX turns on immediately after you plug it in
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:40 am
by MrMajst3r
You can fix it easily.
Just solder a wire, shorting corroded trace.
http://www.theisozone.com/tutorials/xbo ... on-repair/