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Hardware and Tech / Re: Original Xbox with Failed Motherboard
« on: October 06, 2020, 10:30:34 pm »
Original Xbox motherboards typically fail due to trace corrosion from leaking clock capacitors Etc . Trace corrosion is fixable but is going to require a lot of precise soldering to fix . If the xbox was modded with a tsop or chip (not a soft mod ) you can always swap the hdd into another tsop xbox and flash the eprom without losing data I believe. Original Xbox motherboards and HDD's were always paired together with a key so it's not going to be as simple as just swapping out the motherboard for an easy fix, I always recommend backing up your hard drive through FTP in case of situations like this.