The Power Cord Conspiracy, Here's the truth Options

[chilin_dude]

FOCUS DAMMIT!!!!

Anyway, doesnt look too bad to me, what probs are you actually having with it? does it turn on at all?

Have you replaced THE FUSE???

Well I managed to fix it
Just cleaned all the points with cotton buds and alcohol carefully, then I put it back together and it worked

[reZz]

But even if MS decided to recall all XBoxes...I don't think they'd take in any modded XBoxes.

[G0t M4xx 21]

read this:

http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news001_20050328.html

A pretty nice article. I'm famous!!!

The guy sent me an email a few weeks ago asking me to answer some questions to him regarding the issue, its good to see that my reply was used.

I'm not getting anywhere with UL, they are convinced that the cheezy cord is a sufficient fix to the problem.

[JaXbox]

In rare cases, solder joints have broken.

...a rare electrical component failure

Bogus! I opened up my v1.0 box the other day, and guess what, both joints in the FoxLink PSU were loose (I could carefully apply pressure to the solder joints and observe them move as described by others in this thread).

How can this be a "rare electrical component failure" if so many ppl in the scene have experienced this with their PSUs ?
BTW: nice article
Edit: spelling arrows

This post has been edited by JaXbox: Apr 6 2005, 04:31 PM

[Ritchzee]

The completely stupid thing is that the cheap bastards who designed the XBOX only had to allow for two extra screws to hold the power cord recepticle firm and none of this would have happened.

Typical of todays manufacturing standard, they would not even need their bull crap cover story of faulty power cords to cover their arses.

Do they really think people are that stupid??

My Box never gets unplugged so i wont be bothering with it, but i have had a few failed power supplies accross my work bench that had failed for oither reasons than the bad power connections.

cheers

Rich

[MrOnline]

same here... so far i've fixed the solderpoint on 3 foxlink psu for 1.0's
and the shit is only sitting there in solder, nothing else holding the power connector...

did the solder and no sparks came after... also used some hot glue

[Clvsportsman]

Many thanks to GOT M4xx 21 his advise was sound and not to technical. The pictures posted where a great help

I would also like to mention XanTium His post on how to open up the XBOX and get to the parts in question where also very helpful.

Cheers to you both

All I have to say is Thank You!!

As a side note:

30 mins researching the web
$10 for Star wrenches to open the XBOX
$15.00 for the soldering iron
45 Minutes of repair
NOT HAVING TO LISTEN TO THE 14 YEAR OLD COMPLAIN THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO DO AND THE WIFE KISSING ME ALL OVER

PRICELESS!!....LOL

[seriouslysilly]

... AND THE WIFE KISSING ME ALL OVER

PRICELESS!!....LOL

yup, that's is priceless

[FierceGaming]

My xbox version is a 1.0 and I have a delta power supply, the foxlink looks like it has cheaper solder and it seems kinda mellowed, mine looks pretty clean, however it did have one bad solder point which I fixed.
(I also ordered a power cord, will see which one I get)

[Mekapo]

I read through parts of this thread (no time to read 33 pages!) I have a 1.1 xbox and I have gone through 2 PSUs. I have a modded and an unmodded box so i constantly switch the power cable from one to the other and i hear audible sparks a lot of the time but ignore it because im dumb. I want to know what I need to do to prevent my power supply from dying (YET AGAIN!) this 3rd time through. I have the 2nd one still, is there a possibility it is repairable? If the answer is as simple as having 2 power cables and keeping both xboxes plugged in at the same time then that would be awesome. If there is something I need to do in addition to that, then let me know! These PSU's aren't cheap (and getting more expensive by the day, now that more and more of these are failing.) Thanks in advance for the help guys. Thanks!

-Mekapo

[minura600]

i think i blew my xbox's psu's fuse but i cant find whr the fuse is. i posted pics of my psu in the links below. can someone pls help me!

pic 1
pic 2

[ex_peludo]

I pluged my xbox and it made a sparking noise. I quickly unpluged it and noticed a faint burnt smell. I opened the xbox to let it cool down and logged in to the forums to see related problems. I read a similar tale and the problem was the dreaded power supply joints. I removed my power suply( a delta power supply by the way!) and found one of the points had NO solder on it!!! It was just stiking out. I took some pictures and then put some solder on it. I'm going to wait until tomorow to try it out.

[G0t M4xx 21]

i think i blew my xbox's psu's fuse but i cant find whr the fuse is. i posted pics of my psu in the links below. can someone pls help me!

pic 1
pic 2

in your first pic, its the little black cylinder behind and to the left of the power connector, labeled "F1" on the board.

[liam]

I've got a 1.3 box, and they just sent me the normal looking cord.

i havent checked to see what PSU i have, but i will check later today.

[1212kiwi]

my friend had a 1.4 box, but it has a foxlink.. i fixed it