Topic: Solid Orange Power Led (help!) (Read 115 times)

eebeejay · « **on:** February 27, 2006, 09:14:00 AM »

Xbox 1.6 (not sure 'a" or 'b")
Xenium ICE
LPC Rebuild (looks fine)

When powered on, the power LED ring stays a constant orange (no flashing/blinking), and I get NO video whatsoever. I've found a few frag meaning lists, but none contain a meaning for a constant orange LED. Anybody got any idea what it could be?

ShannanC · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2006, 08:03:00 PM »

If I remember correctly....solid orange means that the Xbox is overheating or there is a damaged motherboard. Its not good regardless but let me do a little research and I will post again when I find something out. In the meantime - what will the box do? Anything? Can you even get to the Xenium OS? Let me know and I will try and help.

Ok. I was wrong:
orange flashing is solder splash or possible overheating
solid red is hardware failure or overheating

My Xbox would turn orange on the eject button light when I was running Dvd2Xbox .68 and I was flipping out until I posted here and someone told me to check my Dvd2Xbox settings and I found that the option to change led color was checked yes. I changed to no and haven't had any problems like that again.

I know its not the same problem but somewhat similar. Just tryin to spark some creative problem soling.

Let me look some more.

ShannanC · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2006, 08:31:00 PM »

What bios are you running? X2 5028 and later you could set the eject light through your bios and orange is one of the options. I haven't found ANYTHING on solid orange. Sorry.

cerealkillajme · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2006, 10:40:00 AM »

Solid Orange does mean solder splashes on the mobo. From the looks, since it is the first time you booted, it is definatly your soldering. Look all around the mobo for any splashes (even away from the solder points, solder can jump far, I almost got my eye last week). Maybe even use a magnifying glass. If you still can't find any post pics.

Can you boot unmodded? And if so, what happens there? If you still get orange when booting unmodded, it's 100% a solder splash.

eebeejay · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:57:00 PM »

It's working now. How? I don't know. I went out of town for a few days, and it booted up fine when I returned. (poltergeists)

JonBOY · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2006, 10:58:00 PM »

what version xbox doyou have and what install method/adapter did you use?

Also, are you certain the chip is positioned on the adapter correctly. If you have a 1.6 and using the SP adapter, there wont be any spare pins so you just need to make sure the 'X' in the word Xenium os toward the back of the box.

If you have a pre-1.6 box and used the black solderless adapter with the d0 hook, there will be spare pins. In this case the chip needs to sit as close to the front of the box as possible (spare pins toward the rear of the box).

If your chip is orientated correctly, double check that you have used the correct d0 hole. Use this guide...

http://www.teamxodus.....0d0 point.pdf

If your d0 is correct, try performing a Xenium OS recovery. You'll need to make a XOS recovery disc, check the tutes section for that. Then power up the box with the disc loaded and the chip in recovery mode (activate recovery mode by moving the tab/switch on the side of the chip toward the top of the chip). If the recovery function is working you should see a Xenium splash screen with a picture of a chip, and hopefully it'll say 'success....got from DVD'. Let the box power down by itself. Switch the chip out of recovery mode, put the box back together and try powering on again.

G0t M4xx 21 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2006, 10:17:00 PM »

hmm I got a box that acts pretty funny, booting unmodded or to Xenium os it FRAO's, but if I boot in recovery mode it boots to solid red, but doesn't restart or anything.

I'm trying to figure out what's up with the thing, i think it hasa bad ram chip, but i'm not entirely 100% sure.

And dont give me some BS answer like "check your soldering," I know what I'm doing. it's a sad truth, but it seems a lot harder to geat real answers on x-s these days

JonBOY · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2006, 12:04:00 AM »

QUOTE(G0t M4xx 21 @ Apr 24 2006, 05:24 AM)

hmm I got a box that acts pretty funny, booting unmodded or to Xenium os it FRAO's, but if I boot in recovery mode it boots to solid red, but doesn't restart or anything.

when flipped the switch on the chip and booted in recovery mode, did you have a recovery disc in the DVD-ROM. By the sounds of it theres no way your Xenium is going to find your harddrive recovery.bin file even if you did have one on your harddrive, so that means a DVD/CD recovery disk is most likely going to be your only recovery option, if a corrupt Xenium OS is indeed the problem.

Also, what AV pack are you using? and finally, is this a fresh install of the Xenium or has the box been workinbg fine previously and is only just now presenting troubles?

QUOTE(G0t M4xx 21 @ Apr 24 2006, 05:24 AM)

And dont give me some BS answer like "check your soldering," I know what I'm doing. it's a sad truth, but it seems a lot harder to geat real answers on x-s these days

......at the risk of being viewed as a spoon feeder I actually make a point of going out of my way to add that little bit extra to help out.

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