Markiplier is a man who owns 5 ovens. MattKC is a guy who owns 8 total xboxes. MattKC could win the duel because of his higher ammo but Markiplier's ammo, while not in as large of a supply, is heavier and therefore deals more damage. It's a matter of who can throw faster.
1.6 isn't worthless. It can still be soft modded. And if you rebuild the LPC (trivial) you can install most modchips. I've got two 1.6 with Aladdin modchips. Both recapped and supercap replaced. The OG Xbox is an amazing console even today.
Yeh.. bulletproof. I'm late to the party and got v1.6 revision as my first not long ago because Insignia Live.. Samsung optical disc drive the best and don't have to yoke out no date+time capacitor
I did that with my brothers 1.6 xbox. I got a cheap LPC board you could solder to the xbox and I installed connector for an aladdin mod chip. I put a 1TB HDD in it , repasted the cpu / gpu and recapped the motherboard and power supply. replaced the drive belt and it's working pretty good now.
Even the 1.6 Xboxes are starting to have their clock caps leak, you should probably remove your cap sooner rather than later, otherwise you risk board damage.
I bought a lot of four a few years ago, all broken, figured I'd get two working. Fixed all 4. Siblings all got Xboxes for Christmas that year, all completely recapped, new drive belts, thermal compound, etc.
The bytes channel is literally the best as it "frequently" uploads much more than the main MattKC channel. glad im subscribed to both, for more of this guy's technologic speeches.
3:50 There was a huge "recall" back in the day because of this issue, though I think Microsoft mostly just sent out little devices that could detect if there was a bad power connection to the Xbox and shut it down, and only then would you get it warranty replaced. As others have said the PSU is probably still working fine and just needs to be resoldered :)
One interesting thing to note is that caps can die long before they actually start to leak physically they can be tested with cheap ebay lcr meters so it would be a convenient thing to have
Hey Matt, so I had the same issue with my XBOX in 2003! Lightning struck a power line near my house, and destroyed the psu EXACTLY the same way. Only difference was my ram chips were absolutely scorched. Hope this helps!
I recently modded my Xbox and bricked it by leaving the drive unlocked by accident. Had to track down a special IDE adapter that could read ATA security just to lock it back down from my desktop.
It's dead, but he could always use the disk drive to fix the error 12 one. The drives aren't locked to a specific console, so you can basically swap them out without modifying the console. Doesn't even matter which brand of drive you have.
"i accidentally bought six xboxes" definitely not me *accidentally* buying several PC parts for repairing despite not being in the best moment to spend money xD
hey the xbox with the broken power supply just needs its input connector cleaned and resoldered since the solder joints broke off from stress. this is a very common fualt with the power supply since it was not given addiquate stress relief from pluging in the consoles power plug.
3:47 Those are solder fractures caused by the age, improper soldering, or just low solder to begin with, you can revive that bad boy cleaning the old solder and putting copious amount of good and fresh solder
I once bought 5 PlayStations for £10. 3 PS2s and 2 PS3s. 1 PS2 was bust. The other 2 I got working with HDD mod. Both PS3s worked but without BD Drives, CFW fixes that. One of the PS3s was the rare 60gb BC one that I'd been looking for forever. Still can't believe my luck!
Matt, revision 1.6 isn't worthless. Just rebuild the LPC and install a OpenXenium. I have a 1.6 with it's drive removed and it runs like a charm. Also thank you for showing the ogx360 i have one and i love it
Around a year ago now I got 7 XBOX 360s for $60 total, and shockingly all but one ended up being entirely fixable! Took some effort but I ended up with a fairly good one myself that I've been meaning to mod one of these days.
I ended up getting a 360 for $5 from a yard sale as they said it wasn't working. I took it apart, and cleaned it as I normally do, and it turned out to be working just fine. Ended up gifting it to my younger brother. He's quite happy with it.
FYI the sparking power adapter is a well known issue - Microsoft were even aware of it and offered a breaker cable for free as well as repairs to affected units. The PSU itself is absolutely fine, the power socket just needs desoldering. RE: FRAG console, check the other caps. Even if they look good they are 20+ years old now.
You're not alone brother, I've collected five original Playstations for no good reason. They all work (or near enough), the only problematic one is an SCPH-1001 that struggles to read discs. It's because of a bad design choice to use plastic slide rails for the laser seeking and they suffer from premature wear.
I decided to switch on my xbox original just to make sure it still worked. I've had three xboxs bit the dust lately, first one was an attemptive fixer up xbox one s that I bought at a market for 10 pounds, it was water damaged. The second one I bought working after the failure of fixing the first one, condensation managed to damage it which was upsetting. I miss my Stardew Valley farm. Last is my xbox 360 that got a red dot of death and overheated. Anyways just switched on my xbox original and... I got error 7. My place must be cursed.
i found a working wii at the dump the other day while i was at my cousins house. the issues that im speculating are either the sensor bar, since it's not picking up the ir sensor from the wii, or just some problem with the wiimotes themselves.
I really missed your videos!! Glad to see you're uploading again! Last year I bought two og Xboxes for €10. One was working fine, the other had bad CPU caps, no/wrong dash files on HDD and I think even its modchip was broken. Got it working again though :D
3:50 That's probably just a bad solder joint. Especially if they used low quality solder and the last owner plugged and unplugged the power cord, that probably started cracking the solder joint and having a loose connection. The PSU probably still works, it just needs a reflow of the solder joint with lots of flux.
I remembered around 2018 when many of the city garage sales have the original xbox consoles on sale for $5 each. People just wanted to get rid of them because they were bulky and the controllers were bulky. I didn't mind picking them all up. The ones that powered up and read game discs I turned around and sold them at eBay and Amazon. The ones that does not power on, I swapped with another parts console and if it able to read disc then sell that. The disc tray coming out issue or cd reading issue is usually the cd rubber band is too old and just replace with another for $1. Learned so much by buying these and trying to fix them. Even for $10 it is a good learning experience. In your case I would ask him what is the best price he can do for all 6. Most of the time can get them for $50 or even $40, which will make the deal even sweeter. If not no loss and at $60 still a great price.
this reminds me that i actually found a 1.6 xbox with all the trimmings (S controller and cables) back in late november for £13 and it works perfectly. didn't know 1.6s were worthless but i was not gonna leave that there
i "accidently" bought 10 japanese ps1's. they were listed as a lot of vesion1s (which has all the ports plus s-video) but the auction had no pictures of the backs.. with the auction about to expire i pulled the trigger... and got 2 actual v1.0 japanese ps1s and 8 other various models...
Where you the guy trying to out bid me? LOL Should i replace the 2001 model clock cap even if it looks completely fine? Someone previously had some type of mod chip already attached when i opened it up, but i don't think it's necessary anymore. Still booted up fine after i tore it all the way down to individual parts and cleaned everything before i ever powered it on. *can i not do the spliter cell soft mod on my og xbox that has a double power pin instead of the single row for power?
I accidentally found and bought an Xbox 360 (I never had one before, "just" two PS3) plus power supply plus four Wireless Original controller for just 12 USD. Here in Chile, just an Xbox 360 with just a single controller costs like 60USD. The only issue is that the DVD is stuck, but the rubber replacement will arrive this Monday so everything is ok.
that power supply failure is typical expected behavior for that model of psu, if you ever wondered why the xbox had those breaker plugs, thats why, the plug on those psu's is badly mounted and weak and that joint cracks leading to arcing and burning so while it wasnt intended, thats kinda just what foxlink power supplies do if you dont do the maintenance of reflowing the joints periodocally
I bought 5 og xbox's on the weekend for $60 cad, one said the disc drive wouldn't open. Figured I'd just have to replace the belt, opened it up to find $15 shoved in it, jamming it and not letting it open up. Removed the money and console worked 100% haha
What’s funny is everyone sees Matt at the leg island guy, I always see him as the guy who taught me to remove the clock capacitor to save my OG Xbox’s life
I would guess just shipping on one of these would be around 20$ give or take, so all things considered, not a bad deal at all. I remember before the neighbor kid got his Xbox he had a fan pointed where he was going to put it so it “stayed cool”.
This was an awesome find love, watching your videos! I recently found a Star Wars edition Xbox 360 the seller on Facebook marketplace said it didn’t work so sold to me for 10 bucks and when I opened it up all I did was clean the board replaced thermal paste and gave it a new power supply. Now it works awesome.
Fun fact about the PSU. The white "glue" used on these things gets porous over the years, and absorbs moisture from the air. This eventually makes it conductive enough to short stuff out...
Hey Man, love the new video, i myself have 6 xboxs iv been working on at the moment, iv managed to get 3/6 Softmodded. The EEPROM reader you mentioned is definitely something i need to look into as the remaining 3 drives are allways locked for some reason when i connect to them. I hope you do more videos on these as up to date methods in video can be hard to find sometimes, keep up the hard work, You Rock🤟
Surprisingly good deal. Thrifting at Goodwill, I found a Gillette IPL hair removal system. Retail new around $200, average used asking prices around $100. Got it for $8.
Almost like how I accidentally bought 20 Xbox 360 consoles one time.. 20 for $200 on eBay as untested (surprisingly true it seems) a lot of them worked fine and on older dashboards including blades and jtaggable nxe dashboards I still have one I kept as it was my first ever jtag and still somehow works. 😅
The triple boot issue can also be caused (IIRC) by a corrupted or badly flashed BIOS (ask me how I know), I guess (I haven't checked myself) it could also be that the pin that enables the modchip could have gotten grounded somehow? And since there is none, it has nothing to boot from.
dvd drive/error 12; recap the drive pcb + checking the resistor packs on the pcb inline with the ide cable for dead packs. known problem (though not super well known). quite a few drives have been deemed dead, when some just needs these two things addressed. and some have a specific IC on the pcb that died, and short of replacing that chip, its toast.
That first xbox had the same issue as me on the psu! All that was wrong was that someone used too much force on the plug, and if you resolder the connections, it works great, can't say much for the mobo tho....
This wasn't recent, but many years ago, I bought three older consoles off of someone on Craigslist. It was a PS1, PS2, and Dreamcast, and all for only $20. Most of them even came with cords and at least one controller. - The PS1 turned on and ran just fine, but controller port 1 didn't seem to work. Cleaning it did the trick though. Weirdly, the spindle was missing those... thingies (teeth?) to grip the disc, but a little tape around it did the trick. Still works great to this day! - The Dreamcast worked... except controller port 1 again. Cleaning it also did the trick. That's all it took. - The PS2... it took some work. The controller ports all worked this time, but it wouldn't even turn on at first. Giving it a big ol' cleaning did the trick, but the disc drive was really faulty (it'd only sometimes successfully read a disc, and even then, it often took really long). Fortunately, it came with that... modem thingy on the back (I'm so good with technical terms), so I was able to install a Homebrew launcher on the memory card and run my games off the hard drive. I wish I knew how to properly fix the disc drive, but it's no biggie. Plus, one of the loaders lets me use my wireless PS3 controller, so that's pretty convenient! And it's a good thing I can do that, too; the official PS2 controller that came with it was in horrid condition. The plastic was cracked and... I've no idea why, but the left analogue stick worked fine until I pressed down on L3, and then it'd suddenly no longer get the full range. I had to unplug & replug it back in to get it to work right again. I had no idea how to fix this, until one day I discovered that pressing against the underside of the board (particularly those silver soldered pins) would actually stop it from messing up. I've no idea why, but pressing L3 again after that no longer messed it up. I placed a thin piece of plastic on the inside of the controller to keep some pressure on those pins, and thus the controller finally started working right! Or rather... it did, until about a year later, anyway. Suddenly, the buttons stopped working and the controller wouldn't stop vibrating, regardless of many times I unplugged and replugged it back in. If I had your smarts, I probably could've saved it... alas, I had no idea what to do, so I ended up throwing it away.
Ditching the disk drive is the first thing I do on any console. My 360 got last use ripping my games and I won't touch the drive anymore as there's simply no need. I'd rather not deal with belts if I can avoid it.
Re arcing broken plug, I don't think the arcing caused the connector to come loose, I expect the connector took a knock and broke the pads, and that's what caused the arcing and burning
I had something super similar happen to my power supply in my original Xbox. I used to take that thing with my everywhere for LANs, so the plug was constantly being pushed in and pulled out. I had the same issue where the power plug had been ripped off the pad and put a giant scorch mark and would spark when plugging in it. I took the power supply to a local Jaycar Electronics store and the guy behind the counter very helpfully showed me where I should create a bridge with some copper wire. It ended up working and I think the same Xbox is still working today, although if it is I need to replace all the caps.
I remember when my dad accidentally bought a car. the car was "too cheap" on ebay. So he made a bid on it hoping to up the price to the final buyer. (why would you care if you don't want it). No one else bid on it. He won it. Did nothing with it and eventually sold it. The car he did intend to buy he barely touched. Eventually had it professionally restored. Over the years I think he probably spent about 30-40k on it for a car he rarely drives because it's a "classic".
I'm curious, what's worthless about 1.6 models? I've got one (had it since I was a kid, it even has homebrew I screwed around with a lot back then - dunno the method used to do that, though...) and I figured it was the best case scenario since the time capacitors in these generally don't leak. Edit - watched the rest of the video like I should've - That just makes me more interested in knowing why a hardmod is more beneficial compared to whatever softmod mine has.
Two cons with the 1.6. You can't do a flashmod (no TSOP flash) and Microsoft removed the LPC traces from the motherboard to thwart hardmods. But the LPC rebuild is trivial so you can still hardmod. And you can always softmod.
@@nhand42 theres an extra problem, and realistically the real reason modders hate it, the xcalibur video encoder, its bugged, certain video modes just dont work properly just being unflashable isnt much of a deterrent but bugged video modes really pisses off people who put any value into visual quality
I'm glad I am not the only one who accidentally buys multiple Xboxes. I have 2 v1.6 boxes that need new caps....... It's a shame the caps I ordered got smushed in transit! 😁
4:20 I have the exact same problem. I too tried with a modchip but no luck. I haven't found a 1 to 1 replacement capacitor yet (and I haven't had the time to look) to test.
Not really Xbox related, but I did score a 3dfx Velocity 100 (basically a Voodoo 3 1000) for 30 bucks, when 3dfx cards typically go for somewhere over a hundred, so that was a pretty great steal.
Awesome deal, I picked up a pair of OGs last year for £20 and they were both modded, one with an Aladdin and one with an X2.6 which is rare to see here now, also picked up 6 360s and another 4 OGs at one point with a "free" PS3 thrown in for good measure all for repairs, it's all good fun :) That 1.0 has the infamous Foxlink PSU which has no strap on the power socket. The only thing holding that sucker in is the solder joints which fail under stress of plugging/unplugging the console until eventually, it arcs and does what you've seen. Rather than recall and replace, Microsoft sent out a letter to everyone known to own a 1.0 and offered a free trip protection cable as a "patch". The fact it's now FRAGing is likely corroded traces on the very bottom of the board that run from around the clock cap area right across the board, they're super thin traces and corrode easily when cap goo goes everywhere, sometimes it looks like a tiny spec of dirt on the board.
I also did get a good deal recently, 3 xbox 360 kiosk control packs for 4 bucks a pop. Probably going to get cables for them then do something silly with them
this might be a bit weird, but do y'all have any idea what to do with an old thinkpad r500? it can't exactly be librebooted sadly, since it has a AMD GPU, so it's kinda worthless to me.
That PSU issue looks like a dry/cracked solder joint - probably exacerbated by the force applied to the power plug being inserted and removed. That's why it's sparking - because it isn't making proper contact. I've seen that issue on Xbox PSUs before at least. It's unlikely that this would damage anything much further down the line, but it can definitely damage the PSU PCB and surrounding components. It is of course possible that the constant voltage spikes (or just heat from the PCB) fried something else in the PSU that in turn killed something on the motherboard, which would be rather tricky to track down (though hunting for shorts, injecting voltage and looking for hot spots, and tracing voltages across the motherboard to see if they suddenly disappear somewhere tends to all be useful methods).
hmm, out of curiosity, couldn't you access the LPC bus on the broken xbox and connect something like a BIOS POST card to it (There's a youtube video on a DIY BIOS POST card using a raspberry pi pico)? Maybe that can give a more precise error message. Also it'd just be interesting to see if that would even work on an xbox
Lol that is exactly how I got my set of 3 OG Xboxes. Went in to a local retro game shop, needed og xbox parts, shop offered me multiple units of unknown condition at $10/ea. They surprisingly all worked so I used them to fix my xbox and now I have plenty of parts.
I find this quite interesting and actually am curious how often stuff like this comes up. Seeing OG Xbox's for $10 isn't exactly uncommon where I live in the UK. You can frequently go to second hand shops and see, 10, 20 Wii's all the time all for about £3-£6 depending on condition (about $4-8). They all work, as well. Out of curiousity, how much do you find consoles for? I've bought loads of them but never ever bothered to make profit off them, currently having 27 Wii's (it was also an accident...)
Man I sure hate it when I accidentally buy 6 Xboxes
Happens to me all the time
Rookie move
Happens to me with PlayStation 3s
You're talking to someone who accidentally bought 10 Xbox 360s for 115
Same bro, same
Markiplier is a man who owns 5 ovens.
MattKC is a guy who owns 8 total xboxes.
MattKC could win the duel because of his higher ammo but Markiplier's ammo, while not in as large of a supply, is heavier and therefore deals more damage. It's a matter of who can throw faster.
I mean, Matt is an Asian Markiplier
Not to break it to you but Mark is asian. lol@@TylerFurrison
@@TylerFurrison But Markiplier is an Asian Markiplier...
@@TylerFurrison wrong, Matt is Australian Markiplier.
@@itsme_indira imagine this channel with bob and wade
"silly capacitor, that's what the toilet is for" he says while still shitting in the sink
bro
This is my new favorite phrase
@@MattKCBytes bro thinks he's a poet but he's shitting in the sink
me too i love shitting in the sink@@cooperlee-clay9134
silly @@MattKCBytes, that's what the toilet is for
1.6 isn't worthless. It can still be soft modded. And if you rebuild the LPC (trivial) you can install most modchips. I've got two 1.6 with Aladdin modchips. Both recapped and supercap replaced. The OG Xbox is an amazing console even today.
They've even made breakthroughs to make the 128 GB RAM upgrade possible. Even if it's a pain in the ass to make it work.
How does xbox play killer instinct when things after cant
Yeh.. bulletproof. I'm late to the party and got v1.6 revision as my first not long ago because Insignia Live.. Samsung optical disc drive the best and don't have to yoke out no date+time capacitor
I did that with my brothers 1.6 xbox. I got a cheap LPC board you could solder to the xbox and I installed connector for an aladdin mod chip. I put a 1TB HDD in it , repasted the cpu / gpu and recapped the motherboard and power supply. replaced the drive belt and it's working pretty good now.
Even the 1.6 Xboxes are starting to have their clock caps leak, you should probably remove your cap sooner rather than later, otherwise you risk board damage.
I hate when I go out for groceries and I come home having somehow purchased 6 Xboxes. Just the worst, mostly because I can't eat those (anymore)
smh mom said no eating xboxes
I bought a lot of four a few years ago, all broken, figured I'd get two working. Fixed all 4. Siblings all got Xboxes for Christmas that year, all completely recapped, new drive belts, thermal compound, etc.
that rocks takumi
The bytes channel is literally the best as it "frequently" uploads much more than the main MattKC channel. glad im subscribed to both, for more of this guy's technologic speeches.
3:50 There was a huge "recall" back in the day because of this issue, though I think Microsoft mostly just sent out little devices that could detect if there was a bad power connection to the Xbox and shut it down, and only then would you get it warranty replaced. As others have said the PSU is probably still working fine and just needs to be resoldered :)
that poor foxlink needs more than just solder now with that much scorching, but yeah, reconnect the plug and its probably raring to go
I think foxlink made power supplies for Amstrad inside their Sky+ DRX280 Satellite DVRs
1.0 Xbox power supplies are known to have plugs with solder joints that crack easily. Microsoft even made an official surge protector for it.
One interesting thing to note is that caps can die long before they actually start to leak physically they can be tested with cheap ebay lcr meters so it would be a convenient thing to have
I would literally watch you repair all of these. Please upload more
Hey Matt, so I had the same issue with my XBOX in 2003! Lightning struck a power line near my house, and destroyed the psu EXACTLY the same way. Only difference was my ram chips were absolutely scorched. Hope this helps!
I guess that's why all consoles I got for a while kept saying to unplug during a storm...
@@ktheveg me and my friends lost 2 x360 during a LAN party in January 2006.
I still remember calling every GameStop in town asking about stock.
@@ktheveg
Uhh
I have had my Wii plugged in for at least 7 years straight with very few moments where it isn't plugged in...
I recently modded my Xbox and bricked it by leaving the drive unlocked by accident. Had to track down a special IDE adapter that could read ATA security just to lock it back down from my desktop.
What adapter?
better than when i accidently melted one of the chips on a drive
I would love to see the FRAG xbox repair somewhere! Maybe on a live or even in a dedicated video
It's dead, but he could always use the disk drive to fix the error 12 one. The drives aren't locked to a specific console, so you can basically swap them out without modifying the console. Doesn't even matter which brand of drive you have.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo you can fix it, but you do need to lock your drive with the correct stuff, it's not as easy as a swap in repair unfortunately
@nraine No, you don't. Xbox disk drives aren't locked to the console, unlike Xbox 360 drives. You can swap them however you want.
"i accidentally bought six xboxes"
definitely not me *accidentally* buying several PC parts for repairing despite not being in the best moment to spend money xD
hey the xbox with the broken power supply just needs its input connector cleaned and resoldered since the solder joints broke off from stress. this is a very common fualt with the power supply since it was not given addiquate stress relief from pluging in the consoles power plug.
3:47 Those are solder fractures caused by the age, improper soldering, or just low solder to begin with, you can revive that bad boy cleaning the old solder and putting copious amount of good and fresh solder
I once bought 5 PlayStations for £10. 3 PS2s and 2 PS3s.
1 PS2 was bust. The other 2 I got working with HDD mod.
Both PS3s worked but without BD Drives, CFW fixes that. One of the PS3s was the rare 60gb BC one that I'd been looking for forever.
Still can't believe my luck!
Matt, revision 1.6 isn't worthless. Just rebuild the LPC and install a OpenXenium. I have a 1.6 with it's drive removed and it runs like a charm.
Also thank you for showing the ogx360 i have one and i love it
Around a year ago now I got 7 XBOX 360s for $60 total, and shockingly all but one ended up being entirely fixable! Took some effort but I ended up with a fairly good one myself that I've been meaning to mod one of these days.
Honestly, feel like we needed this to be much longer.
Woah - a new video from the Lego Island guy
$60 for 6 xbox, great deal
I ended up getting a 360 for $5 from a yard sale as they said it wasn't working. I took it apart, and cleaned it as I normally do, and it turned out to be working just fine. Ended up gifting it to my younger brother. He's quite happy with it.
FYI the sparking power adapter is a well known issue - Microsoft were even aware of it and offered a breaker cable for free as well as repairs to affected units. The PSU itself is absolutely fine, the power socket just needs desoldering.
RE: FRAG console, check the other caps. Even if they look good they are 20+ years old now.
You're not alone brother, I've collected five original Playstations for no good reason. They all work (or near enough), the only problematic one is an SCPH-1001 that struggles to read discs. It's because of a bad design choice to use plastic slide rails for the laser seeking and they suffer from premature wear.
Matt wanting to Die by Holding the powersupply in his Hand while its still plugged in
As a PlayStation kids I've never owned an original xbox, or even seen one in person. I had no idea they had a hard drive! Crazy.
I decided to switch on my xbox original just to make sure it still worked.
I've had three xboxs bit the dust lately, first one was an attemptive fixer up xbox one s that I bought at a market for 10 pounds, it was water damaged. The second one I bought working after the failure of fixing the first one, condensation managed to damage it which was upsetting. I miss my Stardew Valley farm.
Last is my xbox 360 that got a red dot of death and overheated.
Anyways just switched on my xbox original and...
I got error 7. My place must be cursed.
i found a working wii at the dump the other day while i was at my cousins house. the issues that im speculating are either the sensor bar, since it's not picking up the ir sensor from the wii, or just some problem with the wiimotes themselves.
1:18 I don't know why, but that made me laugh XD
I really missed your videos!! Glad to see you're uploading again!
Last year I bought two og Xboxes for €10. One was working fine, the other had bad CPU caps, no/wrong dash files on HDD and I think even its modchip was broken. Got it working again though :D
this literally happened to a friend of mine a couple weeks ago lmao. basically the same convo, but ps3s, 8 units for 50 bucks. absolutely insane
You should make an individual video for each Xbox. Both your audience and the algorithm is going to love it.
3:50 That's probably just a bad solder joint. Especially if they used low quality solder and the last owner plugged and unplugged the power cord, that probably started cracking the solder joint and having a loose connection. The PSU probably still works, it just needs a reflow of the solder joint with lots of flux.
I remembered around 2018 when many of the city garage sales have the original xbox consoles on sale for $5 each. People just wanted to get rid of them because they were bulky and the controllers were bulky. I didn't mind picking them all up.
The ones that powered up and read game discs I turned around and sold them at eBay and Amazon. The ones that does not power on, I swapped with another parts console and if it able to read disc then sell that. The disc tray coming out issue or cd reading issue is usually the cd rubber band is too old and just replace with another for $1.
Learned so much by buying these and trying to fix them. Even for $10 it is a good learning experience. In your case I would ask him what is the best price he can do for all 6. Most of the time can get them for $50 or even $40, which will make the deal even sweeter. If not no loss and at $60 still a great price.
this reminds me that i actually found a 1.6 xbox with all the trimmings (S controller and cables) back in late november for £13 and it works perfectly. didn't know 1.6s were worthless but i was not gonna leave that there
i "accidently" bought 10 japanese ps1's. they were listed as a lot of vesion1s (which has all the ports plus s-video) but the auction had no pictures of the backs.. with the auction about to expire i pulled the trigger... and got 2 actual v1.0 japanese ps1s and 8 other various models...
Where you the guy trying to out bid me? LOL Should i replace the 2001 model clock cap even if it looks completely fine? Someone previously had some type of mod chip already attached when i opened it up, but i don't think it's necessary anymore. Still booted up fine after i tore it all the way down to individual parts and cleaned everything before i ever powered it on.
*can i not do the spliter cell soft mod on my og xbox that has a double power pin instead of the single row for power?
My only OG Xbox is a 1.6. It takes an Aladdin modchip and works just as good as any other revision. Plus there's no worry of the clock cap in the 1.6.
"Silly capacitor, that's what the toilet is for!"
I accidentally found and bought an Xbox 360 (I never had one before, "just" two PS3) plus power supply plus four Wireless Original controller for just 12 USD. Here in Chile, just an Xbox 360 with just a single controller costs like 60USD.
The only issue is that the DVD is stuck, but the rubber replacement will arrive this Monday so everything is ok.
Petition for Matt to make a video on the 5 other xboxes
that power supply failure is typical expected behavior for that model of psu, if you ever wondered why the xbox had those breaker plugs, thats why, the plug on those psu's is badly mounted and weak and that joint cracks leading to arcing and burning
so while it wasnt intended, thats kinda just what foxlink power supplies do if you dont do the maintenance of reflowing the joints periodocally
i remember back in 2023 i found a 2ds for 30 dollars and it worked perfectly, it still does to this day
W
I bought 5 og xbox's on the weekend for $60 cad, one said the disc drive wouldn't open. Figured I'd just have to replace the belt, opened it up to find $15 shoved in it, jamming it and not letting it open up. Removed the money and console worked 100% haha
What’s funny is everyone sees Matt at the leg island guy, I always see him as the guy who taught me to remove the clock capacitor to save my OG Xbox’s life
I would guess just shipping on one of these would be around 20$ give or take, so all things considered, not a bad deal at all. I remember before the neighbor kid got his Xbox he had a fan pointed where he was going to put it so it “stayed cool”.
This was an awesome find love, watching your videos!
I recently found a Star Wars edition Xbox 360 the seller on Facebook marketplace said it didn’t work so sold to me for 10 bucks and when I opened it up all I did was clean the board replaced thermal paste and gave it a new power supply. Now it works awesome.
Wow that's a lot to classic Xboxes you there and a double the same color too
Can't wait for the XBox port of Lego Island.
Fun fact about the PSU. The white "glue" used on these things gets porous over the years, and absorbs moisture from the air. This eventually makes it conductive enough to short stuff out...
I love Matt’s videos! I can’t wait for more!
Hey Man, love the new video, i myself have 6 xboxs iv been working on at the moment, iv managed to get 3/6 Softmodded.
The EEPROM reader you mentioned is definitely something i need to look into as the remaining 3 drives are allways locked for some reason when i connect to them. I hope you do more videos on these as up to date methods in video can be hard to find sometimes, keep up the hard work, You Rock🤟
I love all of Matt's videos.
Surprisingly good deal.
Thrifting at Goodwill, I found a Gillette IPL hair removal system. Retail new around $200, average used asking prices around $100. Got it for $8.
Almost like how I accidentally bought 20 Xbox 360 consoles one time.. 20 for $200 on eBay as untested (surprisingly true it seems) a lot of them worked fine and on older dashboards including blades and jtaggable nxe dashboards I still have one I kept as it was my first ever jtag and still somehow works. 😅
THIS is why I’m subscribed. Awesome video my dude!
The triple boot issue can also be caused (IIRC) by a corrupted or badly flashed BIOS (ask me how I know), I guess (I haven't checked myself) it could also be that the pin that enables the modchip could have gotten grounded somehow? And since there is none, it has nothing to boot from.
He says he tried installing a modchip but it also didn't boot
coming 2025 : I (accidentally) bought 353 more Xboxes
1.6 are not worthless at all. They are just a bit more difficult to mod.
dvd drive/error 12; recap the drive pcb + checking the resistor packs on the pcb inline with the ide cable for dead packs. known problem (though not super well known).
quite a few drives have been deemed dead, when some just needs these two things addressed. and some have a specific IC on the pcb that died, and short of replacing that chip, its toast.
That first xbox had the same issue as me on the psu! All that was wrong was that someone used too much force on the plug, and if you resolder the connections, it works great, can't say much for the mobo tho....
Its like a textbook math question. If MattKC buys 6 xboxes and 2/3 of them aren't functional, how many working xboxes does he have?
surprising good deal I had recently: bought an original fat DS for
if the first one turns out to really be a parts machine, may I suggest swapping out the sixth one's DVD drive with the first one's?
You better be backing up those HDDs.
This wasn't recent, but many years ago, I bought three older consoles off of someone on Craigslist. It was a PS1, PS2, and Dreamcast, and all for only $20. Most of them even came with cords and at least one controller.
- The PS1 turned on and ran just fine, but controller port 1 didn't seem to work. Cleaning it did the trick though. Weirdly, the spindle was missing those... thingies (teeth?) to grip the disc, but a little tape around it did the trick. Still works great to this day!
- The Dreamcast worked... except controller port 1 again. Cleaning it also did the trick. That's all it took.
- The PS2... it took some work. The controller ports all worked this time, but it wouldn't even turn on at first. Giving it a big ol' cleaning did the trick, but the disc drive was really faulty (it'd only sometimes successfully read a disc, and even then, it often took really long). Fortunately, it came with that... modem thingy on the back (I'm so good with technical terms), so I was able to install a Homebrew launcher on the memory card and run my games off the hard drive. I wish I knew how to properly fix the disc drive, but it's no biggie. Plus, one of the loaders lets me use my wireless PS3 controller, so that's pretty convenient!
And it's a good thing I can do that, too; the official PS2 controller that came with it was in horrid condition. The plastic was cracked and... I've no idea why, but the left analogue stick worked fine until I pressed down on L3, and then it'd suddenly no longer get the full range. I had to unplug & replug it back in to get it to work right again. I had no idea how to fix this, until one day I discovered that pressing against the underside of the board (particularly those silver soldered pins) would actually stop it from messing up. I've no idea why, but pressing L3 again after that no longer messed it up. I placed a thin piece of plastic on the inside of the controller to keep some pressure on those pins, and thus the controller finally started working right! Or rather... it did, until about a year later, anyway. Suddenly, the buttons stopped working and the controller wouldn't stop vibrating, regardless of many times I unplugged and replugged it back in. If I had your smarts, I probably could've saved it... alas, I had no idea what to do, so I ended up throwing it away.
Ditching the disk drive is the first thing I do on any console. My 360 got last use ripping my games and I won't touch the drive anymore as there's simply no need. I'd rather not deal with belts if I can avoid it.
“Say it with me, optical media, BAD” - Bringus Studios
Re arcing broken plug, I don't think the arcing caused the connector to come loose, I expect the connector took a knock and broke the pads, and that's what caused the arcing and burning
I had something super similar happen to my power supply in my original Xbox. I used to take that thing with my everywhere for LANs, so the plug was constantly being pushed in and pulled out. I had the same issue where the power plug had been ripped off the pad and put a giant scorch mark and would spark when plugging in it. I took the power supply to a local Jaycar Electronics store and the guy behind the counter very helpfully showed me where I should create a bridge with some copper wire. It ended up working and I think the same Xbox is still working today, although if it is I need to replace all the caps.
Try replacing the 5 CPU filter caps, even if they don't look bad they can cause issues with boot looping, have had it on multiple occasions now!
surprisingly good deals time. i got a set of $3k klipsch speakers missing the sub for $300 total from goodwill at the end of last year
I remember when my dad accidentally bought a car. the car was "too cheap" on ebay. So he made a bid on it hoping to up the price to the final buyer. (why would you care if you don't want it). No one else bid on it. He won it. Did nothing with it and eventually sold it. The car he did intend to buy he barely touched. Eventually had it professionally restored. Over the years I think he probably spent about 30-40k on it for a car he rarely drives because it's a "classic".
You should really promote this channel more often on your main one. I only found this by accident a few months ago.
Controversial take but I think one (small) reason the Xbox does less well is because the naming conventions are insane.
I'm curious, what's worthless about 1.6 models? I've got one (had it since I was a kid, it even has homebrew I screwed around with a lot back then - dunno the method used to do that, though...) and I figured it was the best case scenario since the time capacitors in these generally don't leak.
Edit - watched the rest of the video like I should've - That just makes me more interested in knowing why a hardmod is more beneficial compared to whatever softmod mine has.
Two cons with the 1.6. You can't do a flashmod (no TSOP flash) and Microsoft removed the LPC traces from the motherboard to thwart hardmods. But the LPC rebuild is trivial so you can still hardmod. And you can always softmod.
@@nhand42 theres an extra problem, and realistically the real reason modders hate it, the xcalibur video encoder, its bugged, certain video modes just dont work properly
just being unflashable isnt much of a deterrent but bugged video modes really pisses off people who put any value into visual quality
I'm glad I am not the only one who accidentally buys multiple Xboxes. I have 2 v1.6 boxes that need new caps....... It's a shame the caps I ordered got smushed in transit! 😁
The power jack issue is easy to resolve. Remove all of the old solder, reflow with a ton of leaded solder, done.
common issue. it's called "trace rot" and it's pretty simple to fix with couple wires
4:20 I have the exact same problem. I too tried with a modchip but no luck. I haven't found a 1 to 1 replacement capacitor yet (and I haven't had the time to look) to test.
It feels so wrong to see 6 Xboxes on matt's table.
They will multiply if left unsupervised
Not really Xbox related, but I did score a 3dfx Velocity 100 (basically a Voodoo 3 1000) for 30 bucks, when 3dfx cards typically go for somewhere over a hundred, so that was a pretty great steal.
When you're Australian and not particularly lucky but by God, some guy is offering cheap Xboxes.
on the bright side you can easily set up Halo and Star Wars Battlefront lan parties
Awesome deal, I picked up a pair of OGs last year for £20 and they were both modded, one with an Aladdin and one with an X2.6 which is rare to see here now, also picked up 6 360s and another 4 OGs at one point with a "free" PS3 thrown in for good measure all for repairs, it's all good fun :)
That 1.0 has the infamous Foxlink PSU which has no strap on the power socket. The only thing holding that sucker in is the solder joints which fail under stress of plugging/unplugging the console until eventually, it arcs and does what you've seen. Rather than recall and replace, Microsoft sent out a letter to everyone known to own a 1.0 and offered a free trip protection cable as a "patch".
The fact it's now FRAGing is likely corroded traces on the very bottom of the board that run from around the clock cap area right across the board, they're super thin traces and corrode easily when cap goo goes everywhere, sometimes it looks like a tiny spec of dirt on the board.
I also did get a good deal recently, 3 xbox 360 kiosk control packs for 4 bucks a pop. Probably going to get cables for them then do something silly with them
Man I missed you so much!💕
Wait, I didn’t need a modchip to softmod my 1.6 Xbox. What’s the advantage of flashing the BIOS over just a softmod?
this might be a bit weird, but do y'all have any idea what to do with an old thinkpad r500?
it can't exactly be librebooted sadly, since it has a AMD GPU, so it's kinda worthless to me.
That PSU issue looks like a dry/cracked solder joint - probably exacerbated by the force applied to the power plug being inserted and removed. That's why it's sparking - because it isn't making proper contact. I've seen that issue on Xbox PSUs before at least. It's unlikely that this would damage anything much further down the line, but it can definitely damage the PSU PCB and surrounding components. It is of course possible that the constant voltage spikes (or just heat from the PCB) fried something else in the PSU that in turn killed something on the motherboard, which would be rather tricky to track down (though hunting for shorts, injecting voltage and looking for hot spots, and tracing voltages across the motherboard to see if they suddenly disappear somewhere tends to all be useful methods).
0:37 shoulda called it the xbox first
hmm, out of curiosity, couldn't you access the LPC bus on the broken xbox and connect something like a BIOS POST card to it (There's a youtube video on a DIY BIOS POST card using a raspberry pi pico)? Maybe that can give a more precise error message. Also it'd just be interesting to see if that would even work on an xbox
Lol that is exactly how I got my set of 3 OG Xboxes. Went in to a local retro game shop, needed og xbox parts, shop offered me multiple units of unknown condition at $10/ea. They surprisingly all worked so I used them to fix my xbox and now I have plenty of parts.
I find this quite interesting and actually am curious how often stuff like this comes up. Seeing OG Xbox's for $10 isn't exactly uncommon where I live in the UK. You can frequently go to second hand shops and see, 10, 20 Wii's all the time all for about £3-£6 depending on condition (about $4-8). They all work, as well.
Out of curiousity, how much do you find consoles for? I've bought loads of them but never ever bothered to make profit off them, currently having 27 Wii's (it was also an accident...)
5:00 Use soap and water. Wash the pcb under the tap.
I got a $20 KDS CRT monitor from ~1999 off Facebook marketplace recently. It's no Trinitron, but I like it just the same!
This is such a steal man, 10$ a pop for an xbox; glad you did try to get that 1.0 working, but hey worst case I'm sure the parts can be used :)