Toasted Xbox, poof Options

[Lugnut]

I'm just wondering what could of possibly caused a problem i had recently with a 1.0 xbox that was tsop flashed, It had a samsung dvd drive 8 gig wd and a madcatz controller, I went to boot it up, and i hit the eject button on the dvd drive and it opened halfway and the xbox freaked out and died, i tried to restart it, It just flashes orange, Ok i figure something got fried but heres the weird part, i took the samsung and the hard drive and put it in another xbox they are both totally dead and the madcatz controller is also blown ( It just rumbles when you plug it into a good xbox) What the heck could of happened? The only thing that survived was the power supply. I just thought it was weird that whatever happened that it actually went as far as frying a controller too.

[scubyben27]

My xbox had a short in it one time, on the power supply. I looked the power supply up and down for a long time, but couldn't find any errors. I took the mobo out, and found a blown 12V trace. I fixed that, but then a couple of weeks later, the mobo blew again, and when my friend borrowed my PSU, it blew a trace on his mobo. So the apparent cause of the broken xbox was the mobo, but the root cause was a faulty PSU.

If you completely and utterly rocked the 5V output on the PSU, it has the potential of blowing your mobo, kicking your DVD drive, smoke a controller, and still appearing to be fine.

As for the cause of why this happened? With me it was a tiny shard of metal left over from a case mod, but with you, it might not even be a short (though I have seen a pic of a guy that had a PSU that was shorted by a tiny lizard. Don't ask, don't tell.).

Keep it real, and good luck.