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Electronics Repair (sci.electronics.repair) Discussion of repairing electronic equipment. Topics include requests for assistance, where to obtain servicing information and parts, techniques for diagnosis and repair, and annecdotes about success, failures and problems. |
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Anyone repair XBOX's?
I have never repaired an XBOX but I saw this in a local for sale
newsgroup and thought that if it may be a simple fix I can e-mail the guy and fix it for him: "I have a broken xbox that has never been opened or modded,Im not sure whats wrong with it,it loads up to the starting logo then the microsoft word pops up at the bottom.I tried to reboot about 30 times and once it went straight to the clock settings.I don't know maybe its still good to mod or someone deals with xboxs can work out a trade plus cash for a working machine?Email if you have an idea.Thanks" I tried to look up repair tips at the below XBOX dedicated repair sites but did not find any tips for this problem: http://gameconsolerepair.com http://www.lnkworld.com/xbox.shtml http://www.megagames.com/console/console.shtml http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/repairs.htm Sidney My Yahoo email account can hold 250 MB of data Dartmouth,Nova Scotia Canada http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesda/May02/May18.html http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesda/SonyAudMod.html http://www.newark.com/product-detail...ge/32-9495.jpg http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesda/Oct02/Oct028.html http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesda/Oct02/Oct029.html http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesda/Oct04/Oct041.html |
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I have never repaired an XBOX but I saw this in a local for sale
newsgroup and thought that if it may be a simple fix I can e-mail the guy and fix it for him: I've done a few repairs. But, the only repairs that are really possible for anybody would be the power supply or the DVD-ROM drive. If the hard disk or motherboard are what's wrong, the only people who can fix it are those working at a Microsoft service center. Each motherboard and hard drive pair are locked by a keycode. The motherboard has the keycode while the hard drive is locked until the mobo unlocks it with the programmed keycode. This is a problem because you can't simply take any old X-Box motherboard and any old X-Box hard drive and expect it to work as each X-Box mobo-HD combo has their own unique keycodes. The keycode from the mobo won't unlock the unmatched hard disk and the X-Box will return with an error code. The only solution in this case outside of Microsoft is to mod your X-Box which will allow it to accept unlocked drives and slap a new and larger hard disk with a hacked kernel and dashboard loaded into it. Of course, this kind of modification is illegal. "I have a broken xbox that has never been opened or modded,Im not sure whats wrong with it,it loads up to the starting logo then the microsoft word pops up at the bottom.I tried to reboot about 30 times and once it went straight to the clock settings. Does the box bring up any error codes accompanied with a "This X-Box requires service" message in several languages, or does it just hang there on the X-Box splash screen? Does the hard disk make any kind of noises? Also, go ahead and leave the box on for several minutes. Eventually, if there is a problem, the green power light will start to flash red and green and a multi-language "service required" screen will pop up with a white number on the upper part of the screen. This number indicates the error code, which helps to steer us into finding out what's wrong. - Reinhart |
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"xbox" wrote in message oups.com... check out www. they are good! Any place that spams the usenet is suddenly not good enough for me to consider. |
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