I cannot believe it powered on after seeing all that damage! In some videos, one tiny bit of corrosion can kill a system, but here, all the corrosion was for the most part not crippling. Incredible.
Microsoft's engineers did an awesome job with the Series X. Even here most liquid was kept away from the internal components (except for the disk drive).
It's kinda understandable, if something gets wet and is powered for just a quick second, it can run power where it isn't supposed to, easily killing something important, but if it just sits and dries off, that may or may not cause issues partly depending on how corrosive it is.
What a testament to the design of the Series X. Those sponges did what they were supposed to do. It does look like that one got a lot more water damage than the sponges were designed for. Makes me really wonder what happened to this Xbox.
Also, the disc drives have 2 or more chips, and the quad flat square package is the main diskdrive microcontroller and its married to the xbox motherboard but the other chip, a texas instruments motor driver chip (drives laser assembly) is replaceable. A tip! searching up the numbers and data sheet of the chips always helps cause the custom microsoft arm chip does not show up results but the texas instruments one does, also when the chip has a metal square in the middle it means its a power chip (heat dissapator) and can be replaced, hope this info helps :)
Incredible! Between this and the one with all the soda, I get the impression the Series X is a pretty well-made machine! Minus the board-pairing BS. Also must be nice to find a use for a plate from a donor machine like that, I assume you don't get to reuse those non-electronic components very often.
this video makes me wish I kept my ps4 after hurricane Ian flooded out my apartment. the amount of mud and water damage done to it most likely would've been unfixable but could've sent it in as a fun attempt. love your videos
Did the previous owner go off roding with the Xbox? Unbelievable. I keep my PS5 prestiine and no dust too!! People are just so careless with consoles. Great video!
Nice fix Steve, that crashed drone was the worst water/liquid damaged i've ever seen but this one was also very surprising because almost all important parts aren't affected and everthing else was...
The board marry issue is quite simply atrocious. I get why they do it, break it buy a brand new one, but still its so incredibly wasteful. An entire console dead because of an easily replaceable part. Great fix and great video Steve. One of the highlights and a great way to close off the week. 👍
It is a security measure to stop piracy. And considering that the disk drive was a main entry point on the Xbox 360, I can kind of understand why Microsoft does it. Of course it's annoying for fixing it.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Even so, I bet it doesn't do much to stop piracy, especially someone dedicated enough to tear it apart trying to figure out how it works, honestly the biggest barrier is probably the online components and games not even being stored on the disk itself anymore.
@@vgamesx1 I mean the disk drive on the 360 was a major way to mod the software on the console... there's a reason that hasn't happened on the xbox one and onwards. If it had I assure you there would have been legions of people using the Series X as a desktop pc. To be *very* clear, there absolutely should be a way to get verified parts to replace stuff like this and a method to re-pair the parts. But this is a case where having pairing at all at least can be somewhat justified
What in the sam hell happened to that box mang. I don't understand how such an expensive piece of tech gets abused like this. Thank you for saving the box and hopefully it finds its way to an owner that will care for it like a puppy >
Curious how come you used IPA and not the BW-100 Electronic cleaner you usually do? Is there a different benefit to using the IPA in this case that I'm missing? Thanks for the new video and keep up the awesome content! :)
Hands Down My Favorite Video how on earth did it turn on at all? The fact it even turned on in the condition it was in blows my mind. Great Console Microsoft
Don’t be surprised about water damaged consoles. There was just a huge hurricane in Florida. Tons of houses were under water. Consoles and TVs and lots of boats and cars will make it to the used market
im so amazed by this console, even with all that damage it turned on and started working just fine, thats impressive. its almost like it didnt ant to die, thank you for not killing it but fixing it all th way, this fighter of a console deserved it
it's unfortunate that microsoft does not let you just swap the disc drive, on the other hand the all digital versions of consoles kinda doesn't get affected by this
It's more annoying that when the SSD breaks you're screwed. With a dead drive you can atleast remove the drive board and put it in another drive, but when the SSD fails, that's it.
I once worked on an Xbox one, the inside was just FULL of roaches and rust and corrosion, i left it outside for the longest time through rain and everything, eventually opened it, and found there wasn't ANYTHING wrong other than the outlet power supply was bad, i hadn't wanted to try to turn it on with all those bugs in it Edit: forgot to mention, when I plugged it in with my power supply from an old Xbox it worked fine
You seem like a cool guy and because of that it would be cool to feel like we could hang out with you on Saturday sometimes. Having a lifestream or a super long video would be greatly appreciated. I’ve got some time to kill today and watching your video is perfect. I just wish it was longer. Thanks for the awesome content.
You do realize that Arctic Silver 5 can be capacitive (however not conductive) when you use that on direct die chips with dozens of surface mount parts surrounding the die? On top of that it has a burn in time of 200 hours before it's optimal? Why not Use MX4, NTH1, Master Gel, or a dozen other carbon based pastes that have neither of those caveats and are cheaper and perform better.
Interesting how nice the outside of that thing looked for clearly having been in mud... someone did a good job cleaning the outside before selling it...
Amazing and perfect work as always steve but why not just replace everything from a broken system that will be way cleaner and much better just my opinion love the video as always keep it up 👍👍
Love your work Steve, but I thibk you're wrong about why the disc drive is married to the board. I believe it has more to do with anti-piracy rather than anti-repair.
It amazes me the condition of some of the consoles that are listed as completely broken or not working properly on places like eBay. Do people not take proper care of their things? From suffocated in dust to actual bugs it's horrible.
Interesting note, Microsoft doesnt use X Clamps for the Series X.. I believe its called the X Spring now.. think the X Clamp is still in the Series S though
I would bet that this was someones garage console, or back patio/pool area console. I think most of that rust is just humid/dirty environment. Like a screened in back patio of someones beachhouse.
I wonder what happened to that Xbox too. My thought is that the residue and partial corrosion of the insides does make me think a moist environment, perhaps salt water. Beach homes have all kinds of crazy corrosion you would never imagine. Perhaps the thing was used outside on a beach house porch for awhile and and maybe a muddy wave crashed over it one day. So it wasn't fully submerged, but got some muddy water inside. And the rest was just from use near a body of salt water. That's the best I could come up with without actually knowing the story behind the damage.
I think Microsoft should have made a service mode procedure to marry a new disc drive to the motherboard. Example. I repair copiers and printers for a living. I repaired a Kyocera TASKalfa copier where I had to replace the main board. There was a procedure I had to simply execute in the maintenance mode so that the engine board and main board serial numbers would match. Really simple. The new main board copied over the serial number from the engine board without issue.
It's not that simple. Process of remarry requing primary console keys. And this is most secret thing for game console. In disc drive it can grant you ability to install custom firmware and let you run pirated games.
@@Newerawe They can always make it check online and verify with MS servers to allow the adoption of a used drive. This all said, OG Xbox you could swap optical but not hdd.
@@robertt9342 actually no. The basic thing about console protection is that you cannot extract these keys. You have 2 private keys for doing a handshake. Keys matched - good drive. Keys unmatched - replaced drive or changed firmware. If a console is capable of extracting those keys, then hackers can do it either, so it is kinda useless. For example, on PS3 hackers managed to find private key because NVIDIA fault. Result - you can do with console whateverer you want.
Drive swaps have been a pain since the 360/ps3 days. Coincidentally Wiis absolutely did not care at all what drive you used in it. If you replace a non backwards compatible wii with one that is, it will totally load gamecube games.
I cannot believe it powered on after seeing all that damage! In some videos, one tiny bit of corrosion can kill a system, but here, all the corrosion was for the most part not crippling. Incredible.
Microsoft's engineers did an awesome job with the Series X. Even here most liquid was kept away from the internal components (except for the disk drive).
It's kinda understandable, if something gets wet and is powered for just a quick second, it can run power where it isn't supposed to, easily killing something important, but if it just sits and dries off, that may or may not cause issues partly depending on how corrosive it is.
Not as bad as it looks.
Xbox has improved their hardware alot since the Xbox 360 red ring of death era. I'm also impressed this series X is still alive.
If I saw the state that was inside I would never imagine that it would be possible to turn on the xbox. Amazing video like always!
What a testament to the design of the Series X. Those sponges did what they were supposed to do. It does look like that one got a lot more water damage than the sponges were designed for. Makes me really wonder what happened to this Xbox.
Dang! Can't believe how much corrosion was on this and it still turned on! You're a wizard and I love learning from these videos!
Also, the disc drives have 2 or more chips, and the quad flat square package is the main diskdrive microcontroller and its married to the xbox motherboard but the other chip, a texas instruments motor driver chip (drives laser assembly) is replaceable. A tip! searching up the numbers and data sheet of the chips always helps cause the custom microsoft arm chip does not show up results but the texas instruments one does, also when the chip has a metal square in the middle it means its a power chip (heat dissapator) and can be replaced, hope this info helps :)
Yes it helps a lot. Know I now.
It baffles me how many people treat their electronics so poorly.
wonder if they ran this thing outside... you would be surprised what electronics here in fl look like after a while of being outside..
That again falls under poor treatment. You never run sensitive electronics outside where moisture is in the air
It baffles me how it's always the perfect amount of thermal paste. Electronic magic!!
Baffles me also
called exes..........
Imagine one day there's a video where he powers the broken unit on, it works, reads disc, plays with nop issues and then the video ends
Lol, I should do that someday!
That'd be a great April fool's video.
that would make a pretty boring video though
It would be hilarious to see that happen and the issue was the person he bought it from the breaker popped or surge protector died
"No problems found, how about a Let's Play?"
This was my old console when I was living out on the Bayou. Damn gator grabbed it out my gaming shed!
It was so satisfying seeing that disk tray repair working at the end. Thumbs up for right to repair!
Great video Professor. I'm really surprised it was working at all with all the rust. You are just like Scotty from Star Trek, a miracle worker!
I was surprised too!
as long as it wasnt powerd on when water got there its fine still wonder how that chip got blown
Steve is my absolute only TH-cam guy I refer to for motherboard repair and addressing a repair project one step at a time. Bravo Steve
I am amazed the damn thing survived not only being thrown into mud but also remaining wet long enough for most of the metal parts to rust.
That thing had to of been in a flood with that much water damage and sand in there. I'm surprised it even turned on.
That or it fell out of a window.
I am flabbergasted that you managed to save it! Great job, Steve!
Looks like someone got mad at the owner and threw it outside lol
Congratulations on winning the 50 50 gamble on which chip was married to the mobo Steve!😀
It wasn't totally 50/50. I used to know, it's just been so long since I've done that job.
The fact that it still worked with all that damage is nothing short of a miracle. Wow.
Incredible! Between this and the one with all the soda, I get the impression the Series X is a pretty well-made machine! Minus the board-pairing BS. Also must be nice to find a use for a plate from a donor machine like that, I assume you don't get to reuse those non-electronic components very often.
Gotta love channels like this. Straight to work and entertaining.
Love the old-school Batman transition 🤣
I have to say that this is your best video in my opinion 😁👍
this video makes me wish I kept my ps4 after hurricane Ian flooded out my apartment. the amount of mud and water damage done to it most likely would've been unfixable but could've sent it in as a fun attempt. love your videos
Yeah from now on any of my broken electronics (or any that anyone I know has) are going to be offered up to the Tronics collection plate.
Ah, yes, that could have been a good video
Great work 👍
It’s a fighter, Microsoft’s design team out did themselves with this one.
Nicely done Steve!
Did the previous owner go off roding with the Xbox? Unbelievable. I keep my PS5 prestiine and no dust too!! People are just so careless with consoles. Great video!
The video title did not prepare me enough for this xD
You are the best!
You've got a good point. I might change the titel
Why does this scream flood damage to me. Great work as always Steve.
Could have been in a flood
Wow, mission accomplished Steve. Keep it up!
A knowledge in this video is priceless.. Thanks bro..
Glad you liked it!
Liked it very much..
😆 nice -Batman- TronicsFix Man transition!
Nice fix Steve, that crashed drone was the worst water/liquid damaged i've ever seen but this one was also very surprising because almost all important parts aren't affected and everthing else was...
My mind is blown on how that even turned on. I've worked on a lot of consoles with corrosion, but never on that level. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
The board marry issue is quite simply atrocious. I get why they do it, break it buy a brand new one, but still its so incredibly wasteful. An entire console dead because of an easily replaceable part.
Great fix and great video Steve. One of the highlights and a great way to close off the week. 👍
It is a security measure to stop piracy. And considering that the disk drive was a main entry point on the Xbox 360, I can kind of understand why Microsoft does it. Of course it's annoying for fixing it.
It should simply be illegal to do that
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Even so, I bet it doesn't do much to stop piracy, especially someone dedicated enough to tear it apart trying to figure out how it works, honestly the biggest barrier is probably the online components and games not even being stored on the disk itself anymore.
@@vgamesx1 I mean the disk drive on the 360 was a major way to mod the software on the console... there's a reason that hasn't happened on the xbox one and onwards. If it had I assure you there would have been legions of people using the Series X as a desktop pc. To be *very* clear, there absolutely should be a way to get verified parts to replace stuff like this and a method to re-pair the parts. But this is a case where having pairing at all at least can be somewhat justified
Cool video, thank you!
That was impressiv. Keep it going and thank you.
Love the channel, keep it up. Watching your videos has allowed me to diagnose and repair several issues with my xbox consoles over the years.
Great job sir !
Another excellent fix! Also love your enthusiasm and determination, makes half the video for me :)
What in the sam hell happened to that box mang. I don't understand how such an expensive piece of tech gets abused like this. Thank you for saving the box and hopefully it finds its way to an owner that will care for it like a puppy >
Probably some asshurt parent with anger management problems who wanted to "teach their kid a lesson" for getting a C in gym class or something.
Wish you did more every week
Love these videos dream job
Welp, these spreadsheets can wait for just about...14m49 seconds or so. Dang. Nice job, Miracle Max.
Lol!
Have fun fixing da console!
The perfect amount of thermal paste fixes everything! 😄
Yes!
Does it fix BF2042 ?
Curious how come you used IPA and not the BW-100 Electronic cleaner you usually do? Is there a different benefit to using the IPA in this case that I'm missing? Thanks for the new video and keep up the awesome content! :)
Thank God for that panel over the disc drive connector. They'd have been way more screwed if it wasn't there
That Xbox was really dirty! Its really cool that it worked even covered in mud and all crusty
True shocked it still worked. Spot on repair. I didn't know Xbox chips were married i would learn to except it from Sony.
Great job
Hands Down My Favorite Video how on earth did it turn on at all? The fact it even turned on in the condition it was in blows my mind. Great Console Microsoft
That Xbox can handle water better than most Spartans…….
Good job!
Wow! This has more water damage than a Michael Bay movie
Don’t be surprised about water damaged consoles. There was just a huge hurricane in Florida. Tons of houses were under water. Consoles and TVs and lots of boats and cars will make it to the used market
im so amazed by this console, even with all that damage it turned on and started working just fine, thats impressive. its almost like it didnt ant to die, thank you for not killing it but fixing it all th way, this fighter of a console deserved it
With all that rust and corrosion I was wondering if it was going to be problem after problem but you did a good job excellent work
it's unfortunate that microsoft does not let you just swap the disc drive, on the other hand the all digital versions of consoles kinda doesn't get affected by this
It's more annoying that when the SSD breaks you're screwed. With a dead drive you can atleast remove the drive board and put it in another drive, but when the SSD fails, that's it.
Yeah, but with digital versions you can’t ever buy or sell used games, and if your account is banned for whatever reason, you don’t lose everything.
I was shocked when you opened that after powering it on 😂😂
Dude awesome!
I wish you could fix my pacemaker. Good video.
Amazing it still worked with all that liquid damage. Great job as usual.
Another video from Steve, I can’t wait to see it.
Thanks for the support!
I once worked on an Xbox one, the inside was just FULL of roaches and rust and corrosion, i left it outside for the longest time through rain and everything, eventually opened it, and found there wasn't ANYTHING wrong other than the outlet power supply was bad, i hadn't wanted to try to turn it on with all those bugs in it
Edit: forgot to mention, when I plugged it in with my power supply from an old Xbox it worked fine
You seem like a cool guy and because of that it would be cool to feel like we could hang out with you on Saturday sometimes. Having a lifestream or a super long video would be greatly appreciated. I’ve got some time to kill today and watching your video is perfect. I just wish it was longer. Thanks for the awesome content.
You do realize that Arctic Silver 5 can be capacitive (however not conductive) when you use that on direct die chips with dozens of surface mount parts surrounding the die? On top of that it has a burn in time of 200 hours before it's optimal? Why not Use MX4, NTH1, Master Gel, or a dozen other carbon based pastes that have neither of those caveats and are cheaper and perform better.
Love the ‘60s Batman scene transition! 😂
Nice Steve 😃
Thanks!
Interesting how nice the outside of that thing looked for clearly having been in mud... someone did a good job cleaning the outside before selling it...
I'm convinced that Tronics can fix anything
I wish!
Amazing and perfect work as always steve but why not just replace everything from a broken system that will be way cleaner and much better just my opinion love the video as always keep it up 👍👍
Another great video 👍. I bet you wished you had looked at it back in May and it may not had been that bad with the corrosion 🤣.
Love your work Steve, but I thibk you're wrong about why the disc drive is married to the board. I believe it has more to do with anti-piracy rather than anti-repair.
It amazes me the condition of some of the consoles that are listed as completely broken or not working properly on places like eBay. Do people not take proper care of their things? From suffocated in dust to actual bugs it's horrible.
How the hell did this thing even turn on? Yeesh, nice job on this one.
Interesting note, Microsoft doesnt use X Clamps for the Series X.. I believe its called the X Spring now.. think the X Clamp is still in the Series S though
Holy Schmitt! That was a LOT of Corrosion! I'm a bit shocked, really. Moreso over the fact the damned thing booted in the first place. Nice Job!
It’s probably from one of the hurricanes and was in a flood, at least that would be my guess since it has mud in it
Man I would love to hear the stories behind how these consoles get damaged. Wild stuff I bet.
I would bet that this was someones garage console, or back patio/pool area console. I think most of that rust is just humid/dirty environment. Like a screened in back patio of someones beachhouse.
What a mess with that Xbox, you did a great job of cleaning. Best regards
Hey Tronicsfix how much would it cost for you to repair a original nes system just wondering
Hurricane survivor. That is crazy it works with the amount of corrosion and rust.
Noice 😁
great video
I love a happy ending 😊
you blurred the email/username at the end but not at the start of the video fyi, congrats on the fix though!
I wonder what happened to that Xbox too. My thought is that the residue and partial corrosion of the insides does make me think a moist environment, perhaps salt water. Beach homes have all kinds of crazy corrosion you would never imagine. Perhaps the thing was used outside on a beach house porch for awhile and and maybe a muddy wave crashed over it one day. So it wasn't fully submerged, but got some muddy water inside. And the rest was just from use near a body of salt water. That's the best I could come up with without actually knowing the story behind the damage.
I’m wondering if there would have a been a difference if you opened it up in may.
Possibly
I think Microsoft should have made a service mode procedure to marry a new disc drive to the motherboard.
Example. I repair copiers and printers for a living. I repaired a Kyocera TASKalfa copier where I had to replace the main board. There was a procedure I had to simply execute in the maintenance mode so that the engine board and main board serial numbers would match. Really simple. The new main board copied over the serial number from the engine board without issue.
Copiers = business partners/customers
Game consoles = stupid retail consumers
It's not that simple. Process of remarry requing primary console keys. And this is most secret thing for game console. In disc drive it can grant you ability to install custom firmware and let you run pirated games.
@@Newerawe They can always make it check online and verify with MS servers to allow the adoption of a used drive.
This all said, OG Xbox you could swap optical but not hdd.
@@robertt9342 actually no. The basic thing about console protection is that you cannot extract these keys. You have 2 private keys for doing a handshake. Keys matched - good drive. Keys unmatched - replaced drive or changed firmware. If a console is capable of extracting those keys, then hackers can do it either, so it is kinda useless.
For example, on PS3 hackers managed to find private key because NVIDIA fault. Result - you can do with console whateverer you want.
My friend looked at this video who’s an insurance adjuster and they said this looks like damage from a flood
It definitely could have been from a flood
Good content
Glad you enjoyed!
Drive swaps have been a pain since the 360/ps3 days. Coincidentally Wiis absolutely did not care at all what drive you used in it. If you replace a non backwards compatible wii with one that is, it will totally load gamecube games.
Holy moly that’s a TON of rust!!!
That was a looooooooooot of corrosion!! Realy surprised it still powered on
WOW can't believe you got that working....YOU ARE THE MACHINE at this point lol
Man that’s sad to see such a beautiful console in such condition.
Wow looks like that thing was thrown in a ocean...
Pretty nice save 👍
The will to live of that Xbox is making me emotional
Seeing that there is mud in there, I am wondering if this could have been in a house that was flooded by a river?
It's a miracle it's working