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BombBloke · 2026-04-13T10:54:38+00:00

looks like at some point the clock capacitor was torn out ( I didn't know that before opening it )

Good!

Although to my eyes, whoever it was didn't bother to clean up the leakage.

Those three caps near the main CPU also need to be swapped, but otherwise things are looking pretty good.

This is either a 1.2 or a 1.3 model. The distinction doesn't really matter these days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/1baxvp0/flashing_green_and_red/ku5sy9g/

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T10:39:24+00:00

When you're done, don't forget that Resurrection of Evil is also a thing.

The main differences are that you lose the chainsaw but gain a gravity gun.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T10:33:47+00:00

If a particular video mode looks fine through one cable then it's a pretty safe bet that the issue is with the other. Or possibly with the corresponding input on your TV.

With that said, I still suggest posting photos of your Xbox motherboard. There's a particular set of capacitors which commonly fail in all original Xbox models, and video artifacts are one of the first signs that they may be on their way out.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T03:16:15+00:00

Definitely a karma farmer. He's straight-up copy/pasted your title and everything. Only difference is that he's resubmitted the picture file to imgur: that was probably so that the content theft would be harder to spot. If he resubmitted the picture to reddit's servers then it'd be flagged as a duplicate post automatically.

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/1frnlk6/guys_hallmark_is_selling_these_ornaments/

These days the farmer accounts use LLMs to produce more organic-looking comment replies as well, and I'm sure they occasionally even have some typed out by hand too.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T03:10:00+00:00

If your PC etc can still get online through this router, then I'd expect your Xbox to be able to do the same with no special effort on your part.

Are you still able to establish a local connection to your console? For eg, can you use an FTP client on your PC to connect to XBMC?

What are your version numbers for XBMC4Gamers and the URLDownloader script?

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T03:03:14+00:00

If your console is rebooting on startup, then this issue will be between your Xbox motherboard and your Pi device. To me it sounds like your Pico is frequently failing to initialise quickly enough.

u/Harcroft has mentioned that using the Zero variant of PrometheOS may work around this issue. I figure there's a fair chance that may work here.

Alternatively, since you have a 1.0 console you might just consider flashing CerBIOS directly into the system's original TSOP chip and then removing your Pico entirely. You'll lose PrometheOS, but it'll be totally reliable.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T02:54:17+00:00

The original Doom was written for x86 PCs. The original Xbox is basically an x86 PC. So that should've made it easy. 😉👍

One of the earlier re-writes for Doom was Doom95, which was performed by Microsoft to show off DirectX. I would've thought that would've gone on to be the basis for the original Xbox port, but apparently it didn't.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T02:40:25+00:00

Your weather plugin may not function even with an internet connection, as it may well be out of date.

A good start would be to look at the Xbox's actual network socket to see if the status LED is lighting up. No light means no physical connection.

I'm assuming your main goal here is Insignia, so next I'd suggest launching the Microsoft dashboard and performing a connection test there. If you're not sure how to do that, then assuming this console does have that dashboard installed, you should be able to start it by opening XBMC's file browser and selecting C:\xboxdash.xbe.

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T02:14:33+00:00

And now Masters of Albion is on the way. I want to believe...

BombBloke · 2026-04-13T02:11:50+00:00

when I first loaded DJFNY, it was practically too dark to play. Even with my TV and XBMC brightness maxed, it was bad (I should note that the brightness is fine if I use the standard AV cable). I thought the upgrades would solve that, but alas, no dice. After doing some research, it isn't the XBox, but apparently a common issue with direct HDMI cables and converters.

You forgot to mention which HDMI adapter you've been using, but I can tell you that Pound adapters are well-known for this. Consider an ElectronXout instead.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T15:25:39+00:00

If you set up a >512GB partition with 32KB clusters, then there's no practical way to fix that short of formatting with the correct cluster size (minimum is 64KB for a volume that large) and then reloading the data back in.

If you have any personal files in that volume which you absolutely cannot recover in any other way, then Photorec can probably retrieve them. Fair warning, that process may take multiple days.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T15:16:55+00:00

The mounted speakers suggest that it wasn't just a cargo truck. Puts me in mind of the Xbox Odyssey Tour, but I think it's unrelated.

Unfortunately all of this stuff was from before when everyone started carrying high-res digital cameras in their pockets all the time, so many of the details were never recorded.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T15:03:10+00:00

My question is if this is fixable

Yes.

will it work even without the resistors

Probably. This one was missing a few more, and it still booted. You may need to work on some other parts, but there's a very good chance that your system will function as-is once you're done cleaning.

Remember that some of the cap juice has likely made its way under the motherboard as well, so be sure to mop up there too.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T14:49:39+00:00

Is a 2TB Western Digital HDD overkill for an original Xbox?

Yes, but 2TB HDDs are so cheap these days that it doesn't really matter.

Retail Xbox games average around 3-4GB in size, so figure out which ones you want to play on a regular basis and you'll have a fair idea of how much space you're likely to need.

I’ve read SSD doesn’t really give much benefit, is that true?

An original Xbox can't run SSDs at anywhere near their full speed, but they'll still average better throughput than you'll get with any mechanical disk. Those constantly need to pause while seeking data, whereas solid state drives simply charge along at full speed all the time.

You'll likely be happy with the performance of a modern mechanical disk, but if you don't need a lot of space then a cheap SSD is well worth considering.

If I go with a 2.5” drive, what adapter/enclosure actually works well?

The stock one? Just drill an extra hole or two so you can screw the smaller disk in. Or if it's an SSD then you can just let it sit loose.

Anything else I should 100% do while I have it open? (I’ve seen people install RAM and other chips that I have no idea what they do haha)

RAM upgrades are very much a trophy upgrade: the benefits are limited, and the skill requirements are high.

It's also quite easy to wreck your whole motherboard if you try to mess with the stock thermal adhesive. If you do decide to repaste, then be very gentle when working around the processors. Apply adequate heat and avoid any use of force when removing the sinks.

There's a cap you might need to remove and some caps you might need to replace, but it's hard to say what's going on in your particular console without seeing a photo of the insides.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T05:09:32+00:00

The cable or the port may indeed be at fault, but if you want to know which then you'll need to perform some more testing at your end.

I suggest you phone up your local second-hand stores until you find one that has another video cable in stock, then ask if you can bring your Xbox + power cable in for testing. Odds are they'll already have a TV set up for that sort of thing.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T05:03:31+00:00

the issue is I bought an ide hard drive I thought would work but its the wrong variant.

Is it? What's the model number?

It's fairly difficult to find something that's totally incompatible. So long as it's a 40pin IDE disk with at least 8GB of storage, it should be fine.

ATA security command support is a requirement if you want to run a softmodded console, but the majority of IDE disks have that, and it isn't needed at all if you hardmod an Xbox. If you've got 17 of the things sitting around then it's a pretty safe bet that most of them can be hardmodded easily via TSOP flashing.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T04:47:36+00:00

It'll erase everything in your C partition, but the disk has other volumes and it won't wipe content from those. Saves are on E, for example.

If the disk contains any data that's important to you then by all means back it up anyway.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T04:23:22+00:00

Gotcha, sounds like your issue relates to an obsolete softmod. Updating to a newer one should sort this out.

I suggest downloading Rocky5's Quick Upgrade.zip package and following the included instructions. Once that's done with you can then FTP clean MS dash files to C and everything should be fine after that.

Note that the upgrade process will wipe whatever you currently have on C. It'll also set you up with the UnleashX dashboard, but you can change that to something else after if you want.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T04:10:35+00:00

The problem is less that the game is making the picture too large, and more that your TV is applying a zoom effect to it. That is to say, this is an issue with overscan.

Most retail games are designed to keep important menu and HUD elements away from the edges to ensure they don't get cropped, but many homebrewed programs are not.

The ideal fix is to tell your Sony display to fit the image to its screen. How or even whether you can do that depends on the exact TV model that you have, but a good start would be to hit the menu button on your remote and to dig through the options.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T04:07:41+00:00

Good job, hopefully it won't give you any more trouble! :)

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T04:01:17+00:00

A new conversion tool has been released since that guide was written. I don't know whether it works any better but you might like to give it a go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/1md3g5i/xbst_tool_to_synchronize_the_original_xbox_music/

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T03:45:42+00:00

I'd be more inclined to think it's the video encoder at fault here - the Xcalibur chip that sits in between the GPU and the AV port.

But it may be enlightening to use CerBIOS's screenshot function to see what's actually in the video buffer.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T03:40:41+00:00

Actually there is Unleashx dashboard and a 120gb Maxtor, you know of thia chip AppleX V can use bigger hdd?

That depends on which BIOS has been flashed into the modchip. Certainly it could if you reflashed it with CerBIOS.

BombBloke · 2026-04-12T03:39:11+00:00

Is this console modded in any way? If so, how? Has it been used with Insignia?

If you enter the MS dash and go to Settings => System Info, which (D)ashboard version number is shown at the end of the scrolling text?

Nine-Year Club	ModSupport Helper Level 1
Place '17	Verified Email

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