The Power Cord Conspiracy, Here's the truth Options

[Shebang]

Just thought I would throw my two cents in here. Look at my Foxlink that I pulled out last night to fix. Look at how much the arcing burnt the underside of it, man that's ridiculous.



This post has been edited by Shebang: Feb 26 2005, 06:29 AM

[mr_chips]

Just thought I would throw my two cents in here.  Look at my Foxlink that I pulled out last night to fix.  Look at how much the arcing burnt the underside of it, man that's ridiculous.

yeah, holy #$@!. Even that black plastic clip has snapped. Definately a fire hazard.
MS, why I oughta

[m.e]

atfirst i thought this was a scheme for them to get serial numbers so they can find out whos got modded xboxs when they get banned from live.

I never thought of it like that but now I'm scared.

[ferrari_rulz_02]

Just thought I would throw my two cents in here.  Look at my Foxlink that I pulled out last night to fix.  Look at how much the arcing burnt the underside of it, man that's ridiculous.

well by teh looks of that, with the soldering, i woudl say that it was a shit soldering job. its juist got a dry joint.
as for teh plastic, you must have been using some force to plug/unplug the cord. either that or putting a lot of force on it up/down

[Slofsky]

Just got my big ol' power replacement cord. But the problem is, I've got 2 Xbox'es. One was old, so I had to replace the powercord, but the other one is a spanking new Crystal. I might have switched the powercords of those two, so I've got a bit of a problem.

How can I identify the screwed up powercord from the one that came with my crystal? If I can't tell the difference, there is a 50-50 shot that I change the wrong cord and I'd still be using the one with the flaw.

Thanks a lot!

[ferrari_rulz_02]

Just got my big ol' power replacement cord. But the problem is, I've got 2 Xbox'es. One was old, so I had to replace the powercord, but the other one is a spanking new Crystal. I might have switched the powercords of those two, so I've got a bit of a problem.

How can I identify the screwed up powercord from the one that came with my crystal? If I can't tell the difference, there is a 50-50 shot that I change the wrong cord and I'd still be using the one with the flaw.

Thanks a lot!

compare the plug that goes into teh xbox. one of them will be fatter. that one belongs to your 1.6

[Slofsky]

compare the plug that goes into teh xbox. one of them will be fatter. that one belongs to your 1.6

Thanks a lot .

[ferrari_rulz_02]

Thanks a lot .

no problems. glad to help out

[muphicks]

Three replacement cables arrived today. One of them has the box in the middle, the other two are just normal looking cords. So the question is, how are we supposed to know which xbox the box is meant for?

All three boxes have delta power supplys, although one of them has recently been replaceed, can't remember what the original was, so I'm guessing that the clunky box is for that one..

This post has been edited by muphicks: Feb 26 2005, 02:42 PM

[aweelz]

The xbox's serial number is in the label on the package. Wont be any use though unless you know which cable came with what package.

[Shebang]

I never moved the thing was the problem, I don't know how it could get like that.

[toyato89]

Same here. Just desolder the whole power supply connector, and then solder it with better quality solder. Any n00b can do it, but you can make $$$ doing it for those who don't know how (It's what you know that they pay you for, not the maintainance .

BTW, andybody think maybe a lot of the reasons for the replacement is because M$ wants to find out who's xbox is whose? I wont give 'em my info. I'd rather resolder a joint than get a bulky cord that I'd have to wait for. You have to give them your serial and address, so they can track you (and w/ serial they can track you online w/ HDD and IP, and possibly find if you have a mod, modded eeprom etc.) Sounds kinda familiar to me... RFID tags anyone?

Not everyone is in the same boat as you. I don't use Live! but I don't like giving my address to MS either, but luckily I am living in Germany this year, so I gave them my German address, which is only mine till July 31st anyways, so bonus. Just for fun I ordered the European adapter.

For the PSU it originally came with a Foxlink one (I'm 99% sure) and I've since replaced that with a Lik-Sang dual-voltage manually switchable one because of coming to Germany. There was no probs with the Foxlink though, only switched it because it was not compatible with the Euro standard 220v. The specs (as I remember them) seemed to be 127V 50/60Hz...

Anyways, since my serial should turn a Foxlink supply, I'll see which one I get. Hopefully not that stupid AFI one...

[Code-Runner]

I have a V1.0 with a Delta PSU so I'm guessing I'll be getting the plain cord, I'm going to edit the post and let you know once it comes in.




This post has been edited by Code-Runner: Feb 26 2005, 09:22 PM

[BoringJ]

I went to turn my XBOX on today and no light no power. I Came here knowing I would find an answer. My power connection began to get lose 6-8 months ago then came the horrible picture which got worse until I learned a trick! The loose power cord was some how affecting my picture and sticking a bottle cap under the end of the power cord where it connects fixed it .
Im going to open her up tonight to see if the solder is the problem I have a couple questions though.
1. Why would the power cord affect my picture?
2.What precautions should I take when handling the power supply?

[loserkid182]

Mine arrived yesterday but I was at work so I had to pick them up at the Main Office today:

Both of mine are like this one (UK Ver though - duh)

Both my boxes are 1.1, I have some tiny surge protectors that I have used on both of them for a couple of years now. (really they are super small)

So now I have plugged in one of the new cables with the other surge protector dongle also (the tiny one has a light on so you can see if the power is on, saves digging around to find the block on the new cable.