I Really Messed Up Help! Options

[PENTIUM75]

I was changing my leds around in the front right, no problem easy, i went to boot it it up and i *think* i saw a small puff of smoke, not sure anyways now it boot up does the three trys to boot then leaves me with the the yellow/red changing continulously, but the other thing is the friggin X3 chipset heats up like a god damn oven, please dont tell i fryed it, there is no visible damage to anything on the board and there are no solder splashes




if it is fryed where in the hell can i get a modded box fixed (theres visible modifcation inside i couldnt change if i was god)

cry sob SHIT!

[LepPpeR]

Smoke is never good and I really dont know of a place that has a lot of spare parts for xbox's. Power runs rampent through there and if it has a connection any place where is should not there is a good chance that you fudged it up. You can try and contact an Xbox Mod-installer and ask their for info

LepPpeR

[nonamer66]

maybe this guy can help you out.
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/parts.htm

[PENTIUM75]

Hey thanks man that gave me a good idead ill buy the 35$ case replacement and go return it at compusa its gonna suck some major ass flashing the the bios on the new one though, any others ideas about fixing the one I have would be appreciated

Thanks

[PENTIUM75]

-Updating situation

Powers up for about 1 sec
Turns off
Turn back on
Chipset istantly hits like 100+ degrees
I unplug it so the chip dont die (if it isnt already)


Im think it would be a bad resistor or solder splash but I haven't seen anything wrong with the board


Again any help apprectiated

Thanks

[nonamer66]

? Chipset hits 100 instantly? Are you talking about the GPU?

[PENTIUM75]

The chip that says "nVidia MCPX X3"

[nonamer66]

you should not be worried so much about heat because it will surprise you how hot your CPU and GPU get and probably the same goes for that nVidia MCPX X3 chipset.

go to this thread...
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...=18511&hl=temps

[PENTIUM75]

hmm must of not noticed that before but ok, im gonna stick a heatsink on it for now just in case while i mess around with it for a bit


thanks alot for your help nonamer66

[PENTIUM75]

Update--final

the gpu is smoking i think it is dead


FUCK!

[nonamer66]

sorry dude. I guess its ebay time.

[floam]

put it all together and sell it on ebay as a dead dvd drive and make monies (may have to sabatoge it and cut the dvd ide ribbon)

note: don't really do this

This post has been edited by floam: Jan 2 2003, 10:38 AM

[senator]

QUOTE (PENTIUM75 @ Jan 2 2003, 06:27 AM)

I was changing my leds around in the front right, no problem easy, i went to boot it it up and i *think* i saw a small puff of smoke, not sure anyways now it boot up does the three trys to boot then leaves me with the the yellow/red changing continulously, but the other thing is the friggin X3 chipset heats up like a god damn oven, please dont tell i fryed it, there is no visible damage to anything on the board and there are no solder splashes  :(  :(  :(  :(  :( if it is fryed where in the hell can i get a modded box fixed (theres visible modifcation inside i couldnt change if i was god) cry sob SHIT!

Who let the smoke out, who, who, who !!!!!!
Once the smoke is out of the box you need to go back to the
tee pee, do a smoke dance and summon the smoke gods to reinject the smoke back......Sometimes you get lucky depends on how much smoke you let out.......

[PENTIUM75]

You see I just have really really bad luck and im screwed wherever I look. it started with my TV taking a shit then my monitor starting aflame, now my GPU is dead,(what i go blind next?) I have no money, no credit card for ebay and im stuck with a door stop and two boat anchors, a 19" POS tv wich is really a securty monitor, and a tiny 14" monitor thats older then dick clark

Now what?

"I need to find a darkened corner,
A darkened corner, A blackless corner
where its safer and calmer."

[floam]

hm. what dvd drive does your (now dead) xbox have? maybe I can take it off your hands for a price