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[axemurderer]

First of all.. Hats off to all of you guys that are working on these issues. You guys rock.

Ok, Here is my story...
I have a 1.4 or 1.5 xbox.  I purchased this on ebay, so I dont have any history on it. I purchased it as broken. It was never opened when I got it. So i boot it up and voila.
I am having the same, Once, Twice, Third time I Frag problem.


I have been reading this post from the beginning. My eyes hurt and my ass is killing me.
I am by far no elronics dude at all.

I am just wondering if my problem is the same as discussed here with the failing trans and stuff. The only other info i can give you is, i put it in the freezer for about 4 minutes and booted it up no problem. It is the first time i saw the ms dash since i recieved this box.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[UB6_IB9]

hey ive read thru the forums and cant seem to find a complete fix for this. can any1 tell me how to fix this problem?

[kingofxbx]

Hey folks,

I fixed my FRAO problem. The problem was that there was a solder ball connecting two of the memory legs.
After the solder was removed & the box was working fine. (Luckily the memory chip was not fried all this time I was turning on the box).        

[AeX]

Hi

My box flashes red/orange after 2 reboots with green lights. That's Green - reboot - Green - reboot - Red/orange flash. It has 0.2V on LPT 5 and 0V on LPT 1.

If the AV cord is not plugged in/no DVD/no HDD then its Green/Red flash - reboot - Green/Red flash - reboot - Red/orange flash.

last time it worked i had xbmc with shoutcast on. After some time it locked up with a B/W screen.
After that its not booting anymore.

I tried the standard AV cable.

I have a 1.1 softmod xbox 80Gb IR Mod lg8163.

Can this be repaired or should i buy a new one?

This post has been edited by AeX: Sep 7 2006, 04:52 PM

[unspun01]

The FRAO problem is most commonly (if not always) the result of a poor solder connection at one of the RAM chips. There are 4 RAM chips (2 on top of the motherboard and 2 below). There is little use trying to determine which one pin is the problem, since it could be more than one.

If you are good at soldering, apply some rosin flux (NOT acid flux) to all pins of each RAM chip and reflow the solder for each pin on each chip using a 15-25W soldering iron. Each chip has about 100 pins so it could take some time, but I have not had a FRAO motherboard that I could not bring back to life using this technique.

Be sure to check with a magnifying glass for any solder bridges that you may create since this could cause your XBOX to exhibit even more strange behavior such as no power on, etc.

Regards.

[DarkMatter]

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DarkMatter