Topic: Motherboard Is Dead? (Read 103 times)

xbox-newbie-modder · « **on:** September 03, 2004, 03:50:00 AM »

btw i did find these similar problems when searching google:

http://www.xboxforum...hp/t-10501.html

http://www.teamxecut...ewtopic&p=77369

thanks

xbox-newbie-modder · « **Reply #1 on:** September 03, 2004, 08:04:00 AM »

Ozy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 03, 2004, 08:43:00 AM »

No, I don't thing your board is broken. FRaging is common and can useually be sorted easily. check the solder point with the black wire. If you don't have a chip on it then your on board bios chip may be gone in which case, buy a mod chip to fix it.

Ozy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 03, 2004, 08:45:00 AM »

Edit - sorry my fault I didn't read your post correctly. It is fraging because you don't have a DVD drive connected. Connect one and it will stop. Sorry about my earlier post.

Ozy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 03, 2004, 09:47:00 AM »

Sorry, misread it again. The anwer will be my first post. Sorry for getting it wrong twice.

Ozy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 03, 2004, 09:55:00 AM »

A new mod chip should sort it, but it could also just be a broken trace or solder splash or a blow capacitor that could be doing it.
Yopu can't really tell untill you try a chip.
Sorry I can't help further.

Vaere · « **Reply #6 on:** September 03, 2004, 11:10:00 AM »

Did you find a solution to this problem? Friend of mine gave me his xbox to fix and it has the same problem.. its something to do with the motherboard as I put his MB in my case with all my equipment including Xenium and it still gave the same problem.

I even tried the 12v fan mod and replacing the cheap heatsink gunk with proper compound.

His xbox is Tsop flashed

thedustycelt · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2004, 12:01:00 PM »

A frag plain and simple...

It means that the motherboard is unable to load a bios. The most common reason is a broken d0 trace. Inspect the trace on both the top and bottom of the board.

There are a lot of other things that can cause the bios to not load. the easiest is a broken trace or solder splash. The worst case senario is a fried MCPX chip.

I would also look and see if someone soldered the jumpers to do a TSOP flash. If sombody screwed up a flash, you will get the same problem.

You DO NOT have to have a dvd drive or harddrive pluged in for the board to boot.

xbox-newbie-modder · « **Reply #8 on:** September 04, 2004, 02:05:00 AM »

anyone?

xbox-newbie-modder · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2004, 11:51:00 AM »

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