Sounds stupid right ? But it's a bit like repairing laptops. Customer come's in, you start the thing and it says "no bootable device". In your head it's good news, it's a bad hard drive (usually) so it won't be a pain to troubleshoot.
@@sr0mc34 I mean, there's still humor in the fact that, if the console is working well enough to tell you that something is wrong, then it's already 90% of the way towards working compared to the rest.
Satisfying to watch, and track your ranks. You spent $1000 for props. Made 2 videos. Spent 20 hours on shooting, and editing. YT revenue appears to be in the $8k range. Now THAT is satisfying!!!
@sylenceexposed Yep, exactly. At least as a career on it's own(not counting any possible TH-cam viewer income/ad income) this was only a chance at being profitable if he'd gotten them for an average of about $40/Xbox. The market pays what it's willing... there's a reason I don't leave my common warehouse job anyone can do getting paid almost $22/hour.
You dont need OSU1 anymore.. OSU2 is all you need E100 Error during a system update is a DISC Drive issue you can check out the log files on the HDD for more details. Most likely issue here is that the console isnt able to flash the DISC drive here... Try to replace the SATA cable of the Disc Drive. Sometimes helps.
@@Carnology I don't quite understand the reasoning behind making it impossible to replace the optical drive. Does it mean that when the BD drive stops working, the whole unit is automatically useless and thrown into electronics recycling? That sounds insine to me, but then again, MS Surface is a block of glue with zero repair possibilities, so I guess it could be just Microsoft's amazing environmental sustainability. I'm sure the drive is calculated to last until warranty expires, if nothing else.
@@herrakaarme It was the same with the Xbox 360 except that the console got hacked and you could jtag them and change the drive over. Microsoft are the only ones that can replace a drive, I think it's for security reasons to prevent piracy.
@@Carnology So, warranty repairs can fix a broken drive, but once out of warranty, it's also out of luck. Or do they have an official repair service that would replace the drive for like 100 dollars, or something? All in all it seems like something that would annoy customers quite a lot. Thanks for replying!
@@herrakaarme essentially the drive is locked to the motherboard and Microsoft is the only one with the key. Official repair centres can swap drives over with the key and will do for free during the warranty period. Outside of the warranty period they will still do it for a fee.
Hi, I enjoy fixing things and apparently I enjoy watching someone fixing things as well. I have some advice for You regarding the shorted or partially shorted circuits. This is a much faster way of finding a shorted component then just disconnecting anything you guess is on the shorted power rail. Get a regulated power supply, set it to correct rail voltage and set Amps to something that may just generate some heat (like a 5W for beginning). Then take a thermal camera and inspect the board if it does not show up, go higher with amps until it shows up. And You can get the bad component easily - sometimes the components that heat are just pass-thru, so pull up such component and continue on the drain side of that component. You can use hands instead of thermal camera, but the thermal camera is just faster, nicer and more precise.
If you ever decide to buy an Xbox one x be prepared to watch a lot more videos on trying to figure out what's wrong with the 4th Xbox one x you just had replaced in two months that has an issue too.
@@LionofPower Start reading about power electronics and all the different components along with basic electricity. Find something to fix, preferably something that has a circuit diagram you can reference off of and try to fix it. Keep at it until you figure it out.
This video is so inspiring that I buy 10 broken xboxes and try to fix them, after a month of hard work I was able to convert them into 10 chopping boards. ^my mom love it!
Keep in mind any Xboxes that are on a newer dash then release (preview alpha/beta/delta/omega) you will not be able to use OSU files. You can however read the nand and try to grab the matching system files or newer ones so that you can boot the console and update over internet. Edit: This is also the case for system versions that are significantly lower than that of OSU files. AKA 6.X going to 10.0_19H1
@@Nighterlev this is completely incorrect. I read the nand off of consoles to fix them as a lot of Xbox ones on eBay do not have hdds. You cannot modify the nand but you can read it. It's just an eMMC chip with a total nand size of 4.9 GB. The nand has was first dumped back in 2013 so this has been possible for a while. It uses the same hardware scheme as the Xbox 360 Corona models with eMMC modules.
@@Nighterlev the firmware on the drives is unencrypted on a few models but the keys are not stored on the drive itself. They are stored in the nand and cannot be changed at all. To read the nand you can use an SD card breakout board and connect the corresponding pins for eMMC but you need to disable the motherboards clock and pull the SMC low so that the console does not accidentally power on or fry itself.
OMFG! How many of these Xboxes just needed an update ?!? What rich person keeps throwing these out and buying another whenever the update screen comes up?
@@cam2354 That's not always possible. Some of these people may not have enough money to pay for better internet (perhaps they got the Xbox as Christmas present or gift) or live so remote that the only internet available is just a few kilobits - or worse.
"Missing parts" is not a diagnosis, it's a consequence of something else being broken. Otherwise, I have no idea why someone would decide to take parts out of a perfectly working Xbox.
Exactly. In fact it's even worse than that. Why would somebody have a collection like this, where many have been opened, bits, missing, etc? OK maybe the seller ended up with them (not sure how?) and doesn't have the time or knowledge do deal with them... But much easier to imagine is: they fix a lot of these, have made a tidy profit on the easy cases, and sold you the unrepairable junk! (Although the ones just requiring update are a bit of a puzzle)
Sometimes when you send it in for a fix to somewhere (of course not at microsoft) they say to you that it's unfixable (when it's actually not) and many people will say that then they don't need it, the service takes out some eorking parts for another console and looks like it sells it for $60 each
Man I could watch you tear down xbox's all day. Hey think of it this way, if you don't fix them all at least you have a good amount spare parts to help other people. Thanks again Steve.
This is weirdly fascinating to watch - love it! Makes me want to get into soldering and start fix broken hardware, but I haven't got the slightest clue about it 😂
Something funny I saw - after fixing the HDMI port on #11, you forgot to put a hard drive in, but through the magic of videography, it was hard to catch. I got a chuckle out of it, as I am sure you did as well. Great videos!!
Awesome! 3 in a row working with easy fixes. I want to do this sort of work, microelectronics, etc. I got a /decent/ X-Tronic soldering station with heat gun and a pack of nice Hakko tips for it. I've had the station for about 7 months of weekly use and no issues. I just need to get a decent video scope now and start practicing desoldering the tiny stuff.
Not into repairing but I have built a PC and to have a look inside the xboxs as well as watching you fix them is very entertaining. I'll be looking out for next Friday's video!
I think he just wanted to check the bios first then plugin the harddrive if it worked fine. I would do that as well if i wanted to check something serious instead of break the harddrive.
I find you so clear and easy to understand, that you made this a great experience to watch and learn. Thanks and I look forward to checking out more of your video series.
chirping power supply is usually bad caps or other components in the secondary section. the primary chopping circuit is working, but the feedback to the secondary is failing causing the supply to go into protection mode!
you think? Maybe, but i think ram chip. Bad RAM chip broken solder joint from drop or bad RAM chip from overheating due to faulty thermal pad alignment at the factory.
Mimi Gorbonzo +1 on RAM chip issues. Probably that Xbox was also crashing mid-game every once in a while. Should be easy to fix by swapping all the RAM ICs.
Man dont you all just love the old-school gaming consoles that still works after 100 years, after watching you making all the crapy new counsels that we have right now greating from the Netherlands lol
Dude I always enjoy watching you do your Mr.Fix-it thing. I've been with you since you only had a hundred subscribers. It's very impressive to see how much your channel has grown. Just wanted to say thank you for all you do to keep us informed on what all can and does go wrong with console's. I hope you will continue doing what you do because we all really appreciate your time and insight. It's really amazing how much you know and are able to do with fixing all the different console's. So please keep up the AWESOME work and I'll keep coming back for more and sharing your video's with as many people as I possibly can. 👍💯👍
The shorted out one i would just take a bench supply with a low voltage, high current and apply it to the board. Then cover the board in freeze spray, turn on the supply and watch where the "ice" melts first. Then you have the place it shorts and no of the other components will be damaged by the low voltage.
Pretty much the same, except using thermal camera; those cameras are godsend for detecting short - interesting enough he tried all the mosfets but no capacitors, which are often the culprit.
@@stanimir4197 Agreed, capacitors are often the component shorted out. Back in the day when i did electronics, we had loads of tantalum capacitors in products that would go bad and short out. Electrolytic capacitors usually lost their capacitance, and there you had to test them with a capacitance tester that had different testing frequencies. A capacitor that was just in range at 1 khz could easily drop significantly at for example 10 khz :) Those were the days, now people dont want their electronics repaired, as it is a lot cheaper just getting a new device.
No zombies, no explosions, no boy-gets-girl, no fat people jumping into a pool and splashing everyone no murder mystery (only to find out that it was the butler.....it's always the butler). And yet these videos are addictive.
His enthusiasm is so different beginning of this one compared to the the other video.. I wonder if he ever thought " wow this is way more work then i thought it would be"
Ive never seen your content before this video but damn its good, really clear explanations of what youre doing and why and just generally good pacing and entertaining. New sub from me!
I did and I'm proud of him for everything he has achieved through his TH-cam channel. The guys a genius and certainly knows what he is doing. Well done tronics fix you deserve a billion views on youtube.😊😊😊👍👍👍♥️♥️
Sounds like bad RAM to me. I had a PC that wouldn't install windows and would crash past a certain percent. When I removed the faulty RAM stick the problem went away.
Hopefully you covered your losses by the number of views of this video :D Awesome video, I love watching skilled people who are passionate about repairs rather than just instantly throwing away stuff that may be fixed.
A variant of this is to apply a lower current but enough voltage to see on a meter and then you can go around the board looking for the lowest voltage.
@@harrysvensson2610 A Flir cammera will do the trick. The are affodable now. You can diagnose from electrics, to cars. Even plumbers are using it to detect big pipe leaks inside walls due to the temperature difference.
Great watching these videos. From the first, it was great learning some basic troubleshooting tips and fixes. Made the second video fun because I found myself attempting to guess what the issue could be. Thank you, Steve
Hey bud, you inspired me to take on a broken Xbox One S from ebay... ended up being a DOA Segate hard drive ; and M$ didn't make it easy on me to do a system restore with all of the HD partitioning, etc.. but found that script which made it easier. Long story short, don't pre-format the drive NTFS or the script will ultimately fail at creating all of the partitions required for a restoration.
Why don't you just apply ~1V and about 2-3A to power rail and see which IC starts to heat up instead of removing each MOSFET and their driver to find the one that shorts to GND?
because it won't be that interesting, no fire, no magic smoke and no SMT soldering lessons ;) Ever since i bought a FLIR this is my first step of bringing up a new design. Greetings from Bulgaria, mate!
@@embis3824 you don't need a thermal camera, use your fingers or pour some isopropyl alcohol on top of ics - it will quickly evaporate if chip is heating.
I'm totally inspired by you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've started my own console repair business in New Zealand. Couldn't have done it with out your videos a big thanks and subscribe🤙
Me before these two videos: whut huh how? Me in the middle of the second video: Hmm probably gotta put a known power supply and check whether the short comes from a faulty one
I am learning so much about electronics from watching your videos. Thank you for uploading such interesting repairs and making information like this accessible to those who are curious like me. I have mad respect for you.
Also female XD I love learning about this stuff and in fact have started wondering if I should buy a console for cheap with an issue easier to fix so I can use it for myself XDD
Well,I don't know how much you actually make for over 1M views(on the first xbox video) on youtube but I am pretty sure it's well over the grand that he payed for the broken xboxes to start with. So no matter what happens he has still made profit,and good luck to him,he deserves it.
Damn, you have a steady hand under your microscope my dude! I have watched quite a few people using a microscope doing solder jobs and they are all over the place.
Just found this channel, love it. Ran through your videos and didnt see any subscriber take ins.... wouldnt that be cool? I still have my ps4, from the day it was released. And it has pretty much been ran every single day since. By either me or the wife. And has NEVER been opened up. And is still running well. Rather dusty though. I'd legit pay you to take it apart and check it out and replace anything youd think needed replacing. Anyways great channel. Time to binge watch all your videos ✌
I Dont understand how people can be so easy thinking. NO My Xbox wouldnt update!. Its broken!. Theres no way to fix it! "Has you tried to restart ya Xbox, See if that work?" NO WAAAAY. Its broken its gone. Might as well sell it. FREE Xbox for everyone!
I think part of it is comon sense regarding the less technical parts. But when it comes to motherboards many people learn though the internet. There are tonnes of resorses online and tonnes of video tutorials for fixing problems x
Well, the first 6 didn't go that well! Who thinks I can fix more this time?
TronicsFix even if you didnt atleast you got 1m views on the first vid
That one went crazy!
How do I start my own business for repairing electronics ? I am good at fixing things.
Fix an Xbox 360 red ring!
DjGabuza eBay
I just spent 15 minutes watching random dude fixing xboxes and really enjoyed it
and i never even played xbox xD
Same here, and absolutely have no xbox or plan to buy one... What is happening to me! lol
Am I the only one that looked up broken Xboxes on Craigslist because I feel like an expert?
Try Louis Rossman, he's fixing macs on a similar level. Although much more swearing and anti-apple preaching :)
Me too, don't even know why I'm watching, enjoyable though!
This is the next evolution of satisfying videos
Glad you're enjoying them!
@@Tronicsfix I really enjoy when you solder & I hope you include how to diagnose as well as what you use to diagnose when you solder repair.
If you like this youll love Louis Rossman's yt channel. Unless you're an apple fanboi lls
13:50
Something went wrong
"Ok, great news!"
Sounds stupid right ? But it's a bit like repairing laptops. Customer come's in, you start the thing and it says "no bootable device". In your head it's good news, it's a bad hard drive (usually) so it won't be a pain to troubleshoot.
That's pro level.
@@benjaminwilson8183haha yeah i understand but it just seemed funny that he sounded happy about an error
Optimism, am I right?
Ahahaha he forgot to connect the hard drive and he was waiting something to show on the screen 😂😂
13:50
Something went wrong
"I see this as an absolute win"
He knows what is a bargain, deuce, or losing money and time.
@@sr0mc34 I mean, there's still humor in the fact that, if the console is working well enough to tell you that something is wrong, then it's already 90% of the way towards working compared to the rest.
Are you ian?
@@akamk18 no, he is Jorge
Satisfying to watch, and track your ranks.
You spent $1000 for props. Made 2 videos. Spent 20 hours on shooting, and editing.
YT revenue appears to be in the $8k range. Now THAT is satisfying!!!
That's how Mafia works...
Stonks
I don't even own an Xbox but I love to see the interior of those devices!!! I don't know why this is so addictive!! 🤔
Glad you're enjoying these!
same -.-
same haha
Same here :d
@sylenceexposed Yep, exactly. At least as a career on it's own(not counting any possible TH-cam viewer income/ad income) this was only a chance at being profitable if he'd gotten them for an average of about $40/Xbox. The market pays what it's willing... there's a reason I don't leave my common warehouse job anyone can do getting paid almost $22/hour.
You dont need OSU1 anymore..
OSU2 is all you need
E100 Error during a system update is a DISC Drive issue you can check out the log files on the HDD for more details. Most likely issue here is that the console isnt able to flash the DISC drive here...
Try to replace the SATA cable of the Disc Drive. Sometimes helps.
Could it be that the disc drive was replaced by someone else and because the drive is not paired it will not function?
@@Carnology I don't quite understand the reasoning behind making it impossible to replace the optical drive. Does it mean that when the BD drive stops working, the whole unit is automatically useless and thrown into electronics recycling? That sounds insine to me, but then again, MS Surface is a block of glue with zero repair possibilities, so I guess it could be just Microsoft's amazing environmental sustainability. I'm sure the drive is calculated to last until warranty expires, if nothing else.
@@herrakaarme It was the same with the Xbox 360 except that the console got hacked and you could jtag them and change the drive over. Microsoft are the only ones that can replace a drive, I think it's for security reasons to prevent piracy.
@@Carnology So, warranty repairs can fix a broken drive, but once out of warranty, it's also out of luck. Or do they have an official repair service that would replace the drive for like 100 dollars, or something? All in all it seems like something that would annoy customers quite a lot.
Thanks for replying!
@@herrakaarme essentially the drive is locked to the motherboard and Microsoft is the only one with the key. Official repair centres can swap drives over with the key and will do for free during the warranty period. Outside of the warranty period they will still do it for a fee.
Hi, I enjoy fixing things and apparently I enjoy watching someone fixing things as well. I have some advice for You regarding the shorted or partially shorted circuits. This is a much faster way of finding a shorted component then just disconnecting anything you guess is on the shorted power rail. Get a regulated power supply, set it to correct rail voltage and set Amps to something that may just generate some heat (like a 5W for beginning). Then take a thermal camera and inspect the board if it does not show up, go higher with amps until it shows up. And You can get the bad component easily - sometimes the components that heat are just pass-thru, so pull up such component and continue on the drain side of that component. You can use hands instead of thermal camera, but the thermal camera is just faster, nicer and more precise.
I have a PS4 but for some reason, I enjoy watching a random guy repairing xboxes
If you ever decide to buy an Xbox one x be prepared to watch a lot more videos on trying to figure out what's wrong with the 4th Xbox one x you just had replaced in two months that has an issue too.
Joseph Carmine Jesus how do you break so many Xbox’s what problem do your Xbox’s have
@@kittenkaboodle5877 jesus(pbuh)
I play on PC but enjoy watching electronics repair. Consoles are alright, I own an xbox one, I just cant stomach paying for multiplayer
Definitely the next Olympic sport. Two people with 18 xboxes infront of them, who can fix the most. ha ha
Great idea!
Too much variance in who gets lucky with easy fixes and unlucky with unfixable.
@@Sorest2 r/whoooosh
Sorest yeah, that went right over your head buddy..
@@chawkz Oh the sarcasm. Can be hard to catch on the internet sometimes :^)
Considering you’ve spent over 1000 dollars on Xbox’s and you’ve only fixed a few, you seen incredibly upbeat and positive . Love the vid
He can easily get 150 - 250 each and so far he fixed 5? Means he may have some profit soon?
I've been repairing electronics for the last 50 years and I love this! Especially the SMD components skills you have with the soldering.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying these!
indeed steady hands.
What's the bet way to learn to fix electronics?
@@LionofPower Start reading about power electronics and all the different components along with basic electricity. Find something to fix, preferably something that has a circuit diagram you can reference off of and try to fix it. Keep at it until you figure it out.
This video is so inspiring that I buy 10 broken xboxes and try to fix them, after a month of hard work I was able to convert them into 10 chopping boards. ^my mom love it!
This guy deserves more attention for being humble
👍👍👍👍
Keep in mind any Xboxes that are on a newer dash then release (preview alpha/beta/delta/omega) you will not be able to use OSU files. You can however read the nand and try to grab the matching system files or newer ones so that you can boot the console and update over internet.
Edit: This is also the case for system versions that are significantly lower than that of OSU files. AKA 6.X going to 10.0_19H1
@@Nighterlev this is completely incorrect. I read the nand off of consoles to fix them as a lot of Xbox ones on eBay do not have hdds. You cannot modify the nand but you can read it. It's just an eMMC chip with a total nand size of 4.9 GB. The nand has was first dumped back in 2013 so this has been possible for a while. It uses the same hardware scheme as the Xbox 360 Corona models with eMMC modules.
@@Nighterlev the firmware on the drives is unencrypted on a few models but the keys are not stored on the drive itself. They are stored in the nand and cannot be changed at all. To read the nand you can use an SD card breakout board and connect the corresponding pins for eMMC but you need to disable the motherboards clock and pull the SMC low so that the console does not accidentally power on or fry itself.
@@proferabg isn't the nand encrypted?
@@giornikitop5373 yes certain parts are but some files are not. Look up NandOne.py it's a python script on GitHub to extract the files from the nand.
@@giornikitop5373 partially. Some parts are encrypted, some aren't.
I love watching your videos. Makes me learn something and helpful in same time. Thanks for the amazing content you are doing keep up the good work
Glad you're liking these!
OMFG! How many of these Xboxes just needed an update ?!? What rich person keeps throwing these out and buying another whenever the update screen comes up?
Yup
The ones with poor Internet
You have to remember some people have really bad internet and the updates would time out before completing, meaning they can't be installed.
crocodile2006 then those people need to just get better internet.
@@cam2354 That's not always possible. Some of these people may not have enough money to pay for better internet (perhaps they got the Xbox as Christmas present or gift) or live so remote that the only internet available is just a few kilobits - or worse.
"Missing parts" is not a diagnosis, it's a consequence of something else being broken. Otherwise, I have no idea why someone would decide to take parts out of a perfectly working Xbox.
Yeah
Exactly. In fact it's even worse than that. Why would somebody have a collection like this, where many have been opened, bits, missing, etc? OK maybe the seller ended up with them (not sure how?) and doesn't have the time or knowledge do deal with them... But much easier to imagine is: they fix a lot of these, have made a tidy profit on the easy cases, and sold you the unrepairable junk! (Although the ones just requiring update are a bit of a puzzle)
John Ineson they obfuscated that fact by including some working ones
Sometimes when you send it in for a fix to somewhere (of course not at microsoft) they say to you that it's unfixable (when it's actually not) and many people will say that then they don't need it, the service takes out some eorking parts for another console and looks like it sells it for $60 each
It's probably the parts were bad and needed to be removed.
Finally, someone who makes videos about electronics and doesn't have a weird accent. Great!
Repairs and EE in general is frankly not popular in the US anymore, this industry is mostly left for foreign countries
Me as a German must say he got the hell of a American accent xD
@@TheGogeta222 Better than people from India...
@@wiredelectrosphere why
I hope the X1X's go well for you this week bro because they're the profit maker$
Man I could watch you tear down xbox's all day. Hey think of it this way, if you don't fix them all at least you have a good amount spare parts to help other people. Thanks again Steve.
Yep...lots of spare parts!
@@Tronicsfix Chin up champ you got this!
So entertaining to watch for some reason. Great job, you’re very intelligent!
It's so satisfying. If you would repair 100 pieces, I would watch every single one of them. Hope to see more!
This is weirdly fascinating to watch - love it! Makes me want to get into soldering and start fix broken hardware, but I haven't got the slightest clue about it 😂
I was worried that only 2 0f 18 were fixed
Is that dsp on your pfp
Looking forward to next Friday, great series of videos :-)
Thanks Vince!
i dont even have an x box why is this recommended to me :D but i enjoy watching random dude fixing x boxes
Something funny I saw - after fixing the HDMI port on #11, you forgot to put a hard drive in, but through the magic of videography, it was hard to catch. I got a chuckle out of it, as I am sure you did as well. Great videos!!
Awesome! 3 in a row working with easy fixes. I want to do this sort of work, microelectronics, etc. I got a /decent/ X-Tronic soldering station with heat gun and a pack of nice Hakko tips for it. I've had the station for about 7 months of weekly use and no issues. I just need to get a decent video scope now and start practicing desoldering the tiny stuff.
it is about time I was waiting for you to make a video
IKR!
Me: watching some random videos still not owning a single xbox in my life.
TH-cam: Hey! wanna see that guy fix even more xboxes?
ps4 ftw :D
🤣🤣🤣 I just got done watching the joycon lot. I do not own a switch or xbox. I do own a ps4 though🤣🤣🤣
Microsoft products are cheap garbage so you're not missing anything.
Microsoft release that information so we can enjoy this great content and so this man can make a living!
Not into repairing but I have built a PC and to have a look inside the xboxs as well as watching you fix them is very entertaining. I'll be looking out for next Friday's video!
That desoldering stuff is really awesome. Wish I had that when I was taking Basic Component & Circuit Analysis class!!!
13:42 you forgot to plug in the harddrive, 13:45 his thoughts: "no one will notice" :D
Omg good eye brother 😂😂
I think he just wanted to check the bios first then plugin the harddrive if it worked fine. I would do that as well if i wanted to check something serious instead of break the harddrive.
I noticed it.
Been waiting for this part 2. Keep it up man, your vids are great! Well, now I hope you at least get your invested money back.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying!
2 Am:ohh i think its time to watch someone fixing xbox 1
Man how did u know its 2 am
It’s 2:36 am 😂😂😂
Literally me right now xd
Its 2:13 am
2:41 am and still watching
I find you so clear and easy to understand, that you made this a great experience to watch and learn. Thanks and I look forward to checking out more of your video series.
Why are these videos so addictive? Really excited for the next part, this is like a TV series. :D
Glad you're enjoying them!
The more you fix, the better I feel. Greetings from Germany.
Hi Germany!
I saw that sneaky edit with number 11 forgot to plug the hard drive in lmao
chirping power supply is usually bad caps or other components in the secondary section.
the primary chopping circuit is working, but the feedback to the secondary is failing causing the supply to go into protection mode!
What a wonderful way of repair! To take parts one by one until short is gone instead of tracing it using the scheme...
Great videos! Strangely therapeutic.
Number 11 is a problem with the BluRay believe it or not. I keep hitting this one as well.
you think? Maybe, but i think ram chip. Bad RAM chip broken solder joint from drop or bad RAM chip from overheating due to faulty thermal pad alignment at the factory.
Mimi Gorbonzo +1 on RAM chip issues. Probably that Xbox was also crashing mid-game every once in a while. Should be easy to fix by swapping all the RAM ICs.
Great video Steve, hope you can fix Some more diving deeper into them. I still aim for a 50% fix so 9 xboxes in the end.
Me: I could totally do this.
Also Me: does that mean there's a baby chick in the power supply?
Man dont you all just love the old-school gaming consoles that still works after 100 years, after watching you making all the crapy new counsels that we have right now greating from the Netherlands lol
Dude I always enjoy watching you do your Mr.Fix-it thing. I've been with you since you only had a hundred subscribers. It's very impressive to see how much your channel has grown. Just wanted to say thank you for all you do to keep us informed on what all can and does go wrong with console's. I hope you will continue doing what you do because we all really appreciate your time and insight. It's really amazing how much you know and are able to do with fixing all the different console's. So please keep up the AWESOME work and I'll keep coming back for more and sharing your video's with as many people as I possibly can. 👍💯👍
The shorted out one i would just take a bench supply with a low voltage, high current and apply it to the board.
Then cover the board in freeze spray, turn on the supply and watch where the "ice" melts first.
Then you have the place it shorts and no of the other components will be damaged by the low voltage.
Pretty much the same, except using thermal camera; those cameras are godsend for detecting short - interesting enough he tried all the mosfets but no capacitors, which are often the culprit.
@@stanimir4197 Agreed, capacitors are often the component shorted out. Back in the day when i did electronics, we had loads of tantalum capacitors in products that would go bad and short out.
Electrolytic capacitors usually lost their capacitance, and there you had to test them with a capacitance tester that had different testing frequencies. A capacitor that was just in range at 1 khz could easily drop significantly at for example 10 khz :)
Those were the days, now people dont want their electronics repaired, as it is a lot cheaper just getting a new device.
No zombies,
no explosions,
no boy-gets-girl,
no fat people jumping into a pool and splashing everyone
no murder mystery (only to find out that it was the butler.....it's always the butler).
And yet these videos are addictive.
Great comment!
Been watching both vids up to this point, I love seeing the green screen, LMAO. All the best, new sub BTW
I’m transfixed by these repair videos... soothing for my brain watching things getting fixed. Xbox entropy :)
His enthusiasm is so different beginning of this one compared to the the other video..
I wonder if he ever thought " wow this is way more work then i thought it would be"
Ive never seen your content before this video but damn its good, really clear explanations of what youre doing and why and just generally good pacing and entertaining.
New sub from me!
Who else came from his first video that went viral??
Hee
Guilty as charged
I did and I'm proud of him for everything he has achieved through his TH-cam channel. The guys a genius and certainly knows what he is doing. Well done tronics fix you deserve a billion views on youtube.😊😊😊👍👍👍♥️♥️
That first video showed up in my recommended feed which is how I came to subscribe to the channel.
me
About number 11... could it be corrupted RAM? How difficult would it be to swap the RAM ICs with ones from the non-repairable ones?
Sounds like bad RAM to me. I had a PC that wouldn't install windows and would crash past a certain percent. When I removed the faulty RAM stick the problem went away.
I don't think it's the RAM I think it's the System NAND.
Hopefully you covered your losses by the number of views of this video :D Awesome video, I love watching skilled people who are passionate about repairs rather than just instantly throwing away stuff that may be fixed.
Why does the replacing of chips feel so satisfying to watch
on number 7 put a low voltage with a high current to burn out probable a bad capacitor
A variant of this is to apply a lower current but enough voltage to see on a meter and then you can go around the board looking for the lowest voltage.
Or pour some 95% alcohol over the PCB and see where it evaporates the most.
Or just pour alcohol to see what gets hot. A higher tech variant is to use a thermal camera.
@@harrysvensson2610 A Flir cammera will do the trick. The are affodable now. You can diagnose from electrics, to cars. Even plumbers are using it to detect big pipe leaks inside walls due to the temperature difference.
@@muhammadr1853 no its not. A lot of russians had this experience and survived, lol. Me as well.
Something went wrong
Nobody:
Him: this is actually great news
tronicsfix listens to disc drive without plugging the hdmi cable in: hmm sounds good
Ayyyyyy love your vids man
Thanks! I love that you watch them!
Not gonna lie I've been waiting for the sequel of this to pop up. This is honestly so interesting.
Great watching these videos. From the first, it was great learning some basic troubleshooting tips and fixes. Made the second video fun because I found myself attempting to guess what the issue could be. Thank you, Steve
On Number 11 I would try cloning the hard disk drive.
@@Nighterlev Is there RAM that could be swapped out? It might be hitting a corrupt spot in the memory module.
@@Nighterlev It's possible to read it, but writing it doesn't work.
@@Nighterlev OMG NERD.
@@Nighterlev a NAND reading/writing tutorial has been available from Team Xecuter since the end of 2013...
Hey bud, you inspired me to take on a broken Xbox One S from ebay... ended up being a DOA Segate hard drive ; and M$ didn't make it easy on me to do a system restore with all of the HD partitioning, etc.. but found that script which made it easier. Long story short, don't pre-format the drive NTFS or the script will ultimately fail at creating all of the partitions required for a restoration.
Nice work!
@@Tronicsfix Thank you for your videos !
Why don't you just apply ~1V and about 2-3A to power rail and see which IC starts to heat up instead of removing each MOSFET and their driver to find the one that shorts to GND?
because it won't be that interesting, no fire, no magic smoke and no SMT soldering lessons ;) Ever since i bought a FLIR this is my first step of bringing up a new design. Greetings from Bulgaria, mate!
@@sanches2 Well, if you need some magic smoke escaping - just ramp up amps :) Should be a nice firework! Hello from Australia :)
He has done that before with a thermal camera but maybe there wasn't heat idk
@@embis3824 you don't need a thermal camera, use your fingers or pour some isopropyl alcohol on top of ics - it will quickly evaporate if chip is heating.
I'm totally inspired by you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I've started my own console repair business in New Zealand.
Couldn't have done it with out your videos a big thanks and subscribe🤙
Wow, awesome! Love hearing this. Good luck with your business!
I'm looking forward to the final chapter to this series. Thoroughly enjoyed watching the first two parts and definitely learned a thing or two!
0:46 known problem... Bird nesting in that xbox.. You can hear them chirping
Me before these two videos: whut huh how?
Me in the middle of the second video:
Hmm probably gotta put a known power supply and check whether the short comes from a faulty one
Nice!
Can't wait for the One X
I am learning so much about electronics from watching your videos. Thank you for uploading such interesting repairs and making information like this accessible to those who are curious like me. I have mad respect for you.
why is this so entertaining??? I feel so good just watching these kind of videos
i like these videos, have you done fixing PS4 videos?
No, but that's coming up!
TronicsFix Like I said on your other video about how you’re still checking the comments 4 months after it’s release... I’m proud btw love your vids.
I assume that over 95% of your audience are men?
And this IS the kind of things dudes enjoy watching！
96.6% actually! It's like a dude drama!
Female here. I think it's fun
Also female XD I love learning about this stuff and in fact have started wondering if I should buy a console for cheap with an issue easier to fix so I can use it for myself XDD
I prefer computers (Laptops, PCs) but consoles are really cool
Hey females im a male. Soooo..what's up
It's surprising that even if the xbox doesn't work you don't get sad.
Edit:Dont give up😊
Well,I don't know how much you actually make for over 1M views(on the first xbox video) on youtube but I am pretty sure it's well over the grand that he payed for the broken xboxes to start with. So no matter what happens he has still made profit,and good luck to him,he deserves it.
I like the cut @13:43 where he missed the hard drive. Very well done :)
Came for Xbox one tear down, stayed for this humble man reviving monstrous machines....
"Good news , its black!"
13:45
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A film by Jordan Peele
The devil Made me say it lol
So we won't have to pay it?
thermal FLIR is excellent for finding high temps due to shorts!
Me:
TH-cam Recommendations: Want to watch a guy fix some broken consoles?
Me: Huh. Sure.
phoenixjustice lmao keep stealing
@@layymoon4781 Huh?
You have so much patience my dude! I would've had to bleep out half the video for excessive cursing
hahaha!
Learning a lot from your channel. I am glad you are one of the recommended videos. Subscribed!
Is it me, or does >$60/xbox seem like a lot for xboxes that have already been parted out?
adfaklsdjf That was an average. The parted out ones were most likely cheaper.
Him: Listen carefully,
Me: all I can hear is your background music
I can hear the cd rom and the hdd
Do you have an online class for purchase? That will teach beginners how to do this type of stuff?? 🔥
For some reason I am loving these vids, thanks man.
Glad you're enjoying them!
Lol I’ve been watching you for a week and I’m just like “THIS IS SO SATISFYING, YOU BASICALLY GOT A FEW WORKING XBOXES WITHOUT FIXING ANYTHING”
It's rediculous that the optical drive is married to the mb. Whoever came up with that should be flogged...
They make it so you can emulate it on an HDD and run pirate game. They did that with the 360.
What's that liquid he uses to disengage parts from motherboard?
jizz
Flux
Don’t worry bud you will make triple the revenue for these videos so it’s all good
Damn, you have a steady hand under your microscope my dude! I have watched quite a few people using a microscope doing solder jobs and they are all over the place.
Just found this channel, love it. Ran through your videos and didnt see any subscriber take ins.... wouldnt that be cool? I still have my ps4, from the day it was released. And it has pretty much been ran every single day since. By either me or the wife. And has NEVER been opened up. And is still running well. Rather dusty though. I'd legit pay you to take it apart and check it out and replace anything youd think needed replacing. Anyways great channel. Time to binge watch all your videos ✌
Clicked so fast I left a dent on my touchpad
Ha, ha..great comment!
I Dont understand how people can be so easy thinking. NO My Xbox wouldnt update!. Its broken!. Theres no way to fix it!
"Has you tried to restart ya Xbox, See if that work?"
NO WAAAAY. Its broken its gone. Might as well sell it.
FREE Xbox for everyone!
How did you learn to fix consoles and motherboard related issues
I think part of it is comon sense regarding the less technical parts. But when it comes to motherboards many people learn though the internet. There are tonnes of resorses online and tonnes of video tutorials for fixing problems x
Never thought I will be so eager to see the next one after watching a recommended first video.
Im not a gamer but i enjoyed these posts, Smell is a good way to test for burnt out bits.. and dam impressed with the SMD work.