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[Midnight_Rider]

I just got this xbox off ebay and the guy said it started christmas treeing so the mobo needed replaced but when i got it, it started right up and ive been running it for hours now and no christmas lights. I dont know what to do with it cuz i need to resell it eventually but dont know if it'll start christmas treeing again.

[kirky1991]

Just test it for a week, turn it on off a good few odd times a day and play it for like an hour a day! If it doesnt FRAG then its all good!

[HD10291]

Did you check to see if there was a failed mod attempt? If not, you're probably good to go, and if you're reselling, format the hard drive with an original C drive just to be safe.

Also don't tell the person you're selling it to what was wrong (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Midnight_Rider]

No mods on it. Is there an issue with mobos that can come and go?

[Midnight_Rider]

oh yeah. The hdd could also be going out right?

[Alex548]

Hdd should be fine or you'd see an error 07 or something similar on the screen.  
Just test for a couple hours a day and in about a week or so, feel free to sell it as a working xbox (unless the problem comes back).

For all you know, the seller may have just powered it on without the A/V cables plugged in.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[Dano2k0]

Yeah true enough, the seller may not have plugged the A/V cable in, but it seems abit good to be true.

The TSOP can become temprimental sometimes and have a somewhat corrupt flash, meaning sometimes, especially from cold it'll boot, but if you power it on and off a few times, it may refuse to boot again for quite some time, if you leave it unplugged a couple of hours it'd probably boot again.

In some rare cases, ive seen the eeprom do this too, but this causes red flashing only.

Corrupt TSOP can sometimes result in a frag, sometimes a reflash can cure it, or the TSOP itself may be on its way out and would require a careful job of replacement.

I'd recommend once youve had it on for a while, you try and power cycle it a few times and see how you get on with it.

I guess other components could possibly cause some issues, but its not very common.

A real odd one i had yesterday, a motherboard would start up, you could hear sound, good green light, but nothing on screen.

At this point the majority would have said it was a deffinate eeprom issue, wrong it turned out to be a faulty RAM chip, i replaced it and its been working spot on so far, so it just goes to show how different components can have different effects.