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[shadowfangz]

Hi guys, need some help here. I've completely NOOBED the whole process up.

While doing some soldering I find time after time I was getting the error Could Not Detect Flash Controller from Nandpro, experimented with soldering and resoldering. Came down to the DB1F1 area and carelessly lifted the pad, searched around found that FT1U2 was a alternative, lifted that too. Yes I'm a noob with a solder but this isn't even the part where I f'd things up majorly.

Desparate for an alternative I did some more searching and found that some people had success soldering to a trace they dug up, so I tried that to, with a knife.

I must have cut the trace while doing the damage, and now when I plug the power supply to the Xbox the light turns from Orange to Red immediately, power supply is fine, tested on another non-damage box.

The image below is not mine but stolen from another post, ignore the yellow wire and concentrate on the textboxes, unfortunately I do not have a camera available to take a pic.
(IMG:http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1472/brickwh.jpg)

Before anyone calls me a NOOB or a retard I already know I am so please save your time and don't tell me something I already know and deeply ashamed. I may have done other damage to cause this but I am unsure of it however until I started scrapping the box functioned fine (with no JTAG).

So I need some help, hopefully to fix and salvage what I can, but if not then apply for possible warranty and hope they over look things but worst case scenario trash it.
The box is new, brought just for homebrew...

[eyric101]

You can probably pick up a used, pre-xbr system from Grim for pretty cheap.  Chalk the cost up to an expensive lesson learned,and go burry your soldering iron in the deepest darkest hole you can find.

[shadowfangz]

Expensive lesson indeed, not quite ready to bury my iron yet tho, after all I didn't get it for fun!
It was rash of me to jump straight into modding without sufficient skill and now I have paid dearly, the lure of homebrew was far too attractive at the time..

I have however stumbled upon an interesting topic http://www.team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9334 regarding repairing traces, perhaps this is exactly what I need, don't think I can do that much more damage to the Xbox anyway...

This post has been edited by shadowfangz: Jan 1 2010, 09:59 AM

[ToBbErT]

You have got a electric short somewhere. The red light means that the power supply is shutting itself down to protect your 360. Search for a short on the motherboard and you might get it working again.

[shadowfangz]

QUOTE(ToBbErT @ Jan 2 2010, 01:16 PM)

You have got a electric short somewhere. The red light means that the power supply is shutting itself down to protect your 360. Search for a short on the motherboard and you might get it working again.

I see, if you don't mind me asking exactly how would I be able to locate the short on the motherboard? I've got a multimeter at my disposal but no clear idea how to locate the problem.

[ToBbErT]

I dont know how to seek the problem with a multimeter i am also a big noob  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) I responded to this thread couse this problem happend to me twice and i got it solved quickly. In my case it were obivious issues that were causing the short thats why it was easy but if you dropped solder on the motherboard it can be hard to trace. Return the motherboard like it was original (removing any modification you did). Take a magnify glass and good light and start searching (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by ToBbErT: Jan 2 2010, 02:53 PM

[shadowfangz]

Ah I see, I have taken all my modifications out already and the thing still won't boot. Hopefully it's a blown fuse or something but with my luck its probably a broken trace which I have almost no clue about.

[ToBbErT]

I think a broken trace would only lead to 3 red lights. And im pretty sure a red light on the power supply means that either the power supply is broken/to hot (wich isnt the case) or you've got a short somewhere (wich im pretty sure is the case). Anyway i hope you succeed, goodluck!

This post has been edited by ToBbErT: Jan 3 2010, 11:38 AM