@Despair'sLast22 had a day 0 that I bought from a Walmart from their display since they were out of 360s. Red ringed in like 3 months and got tossed out. Really wish as an adult now I had of kept it to try and fix.
@Matthew Tunstill I feel bad, my father's original 360 red ringed in 2009, my mom bought him the Xbox 360 Core (Arcade) and he traded it in for a Xbox 360 Elite which I ended up breaking. There are like 30 Day 0 360's left.
Almost all of the capacitors are bulging/leaking on the motherboard, so replacing those might be a potential fix since the gpu and cpu are very specific about what voltage they run at.
@@g1rld1nn3r The tops of them are bulging, which means that they are bad. They don't have to be leaking to be bad, if they are bulging they need to be replaced.
replacing the heatsinks and capacitors will be safer as they are bulging but wont fix the issue most likely. The main reason xenons fail is because of the flip chip design of the gpu, which replacing would be a better fix if you have a jasper with spare parts and some experience
@@Mikes360JTAGS I wonder if you can use Liquid Metal with that copper plated heatsink? And does it actually perform better with the OG Heatsink on the 90nm Xenon CPU? The later revisions are bigger with bigger fins, but aluminium. I’d assume bigger would be better.
@@8bitnation419 Liquid metal isn't worth the hassle. A high quality thermal compound meant for cooling at normal temperatures (so not for sub-zero LN cooling) will perform just as well without you having to worry about perfect application and leaking.
As with everyone else, I would advise starting with replacing the capacitors on the motherboard. A majority of them look quite swollen. And when that happens, their electrical filtering that they do is below par with what the circuits require. There are tons of videos about what they do. And one of them is to filter jagged electrical flow going in and smoothing them out. That would explain the video issue and lack of RROD.
my xbox 360slim got a RROD after 11years of working and the capacitors looked good when i checked still rip xbox 360 blades dashboard looks like GPU was like nah man 18years is enough for me to work good bye world than broke. this just a joke this may be what everyone is saying that capacitors are the issue which is highly likely but there might be another thing making the green box 360 blades dashboard green maybe its as well a problem with RGB but who really knows the exact problem is
@@KiraSlith Because storage was expensive back then. Do not forget they were selling them without the HDD. A 20GB HDD at launch was 100 bucks. I forget what the formatted size was, but a launch title like project gotham racing took up 6 gb, perfect dark was 4.9 gb, and call of duty 2 was 5.3, which is a 1/4 of the drive for each game at least.
@@BouncingZeus Not really no. That was just Microsoft scamming people via proprietary storage, the same shaz Sony tried with the PSVita. My $600 HP laptop in 2005 had 200gb of HDD space, that was considered average at the time, used the same type of 2.5" hdd too, just without Microsoft's proprietary shell.
@LokiTheChad2011 didnt someone on youtube successfully do it though? :o "Josh Davidson" with a video called "Xbox 360 Xenon motherboard retrofitted with Jasper GPU"
@@TheGlitchyMario I don't have the tools to reball unfortunately. Might try replacing some caps as some other people suggested. Or I might just accept the fact that I now have an even more unique blades dashboard 360 (the pattern does look kinda cool 😂 it's not like I was ever going to use this console for anything other than looking at the blades dashboard)
Like a few people have mentioned already with keen eye, replace the capacitors. I didn't even notice at first until i watched it back but the caps are definitely bulging and that console was indeed manufactured during the "capacitor plague". This could very well solve the issue you're having and explain the lack of RROD.
1:55 This is different because it's actually a Japanese console. I got one just like it and I had no idea it was Japanese until I looked into it after some of my games were saying it was the wrong region. (A lot of games are region free, and a lot are not. It's hit and miss) That label difference is how you can apparently tell. This was a Japanese console that was just set to English
Thanks for the tip, if i try anything, that'll probably be the first thing I try then (or I might just live with it, the waviness of the screen looks kinda cool and I'm never gonna use this console to play games)
@@jrob0021 For sure, none the less enjoy watching your videos, i used to repair these pretty often and the caps cause some unusual behavior so figured it would be a cheap thing to try if you planned on trying to restore it "if its not the gpu failing".
@@bryanobrien2726 that caught my eye as well and my OG Xbox from 2005 recently had to have all of their caps replaced as well. I was amazed that that it was still working before said re-cap as well.
@@CecilTheDarkKnight234 Most of my experience is with recapping OG Xboxs as well and this 360 is very similar to what happens to those . Same orange leakage and bulging for sure .
I agree man. Would be nice if XBOX would re-release The Xbox 360 but this time with a 1TB HDD, the option to chose between the blades dashboard and NXE dashboard, 100% backward compatibility with the OG XBOX, a blu-ray player etc etc….
Im tired of wishing this same thing. That's why I AM GOING BACK BABY! I'M GOING BACK TO THE BLADE DASHBOARD!! With my rgh, and when ever the hell I feel like it, I can switch over to the NXE dashboard. I can finally relive those memories of when I was really young back in the day first experiencing the xbox 360! God I can't wait!
This specific model - and this is said in the video - is a launch console. It was sold the day after the system started selling. It has no text on the flat space above the power connector, and a few of the text layouts are different, but mainly the same. So, what I can assume is either not all the text was printed and so they were getting so many sales that they needed a quick sell, and probably sold this one, or it was a prototype that slipped through the cracks. That is unlikely because if it were a prototype, there would be differences in the production quality, most likely a bunch of 3D Printed pieces, though that wouldn't explain the fatter power symbol.
The reason for red ring of death is because the GPU was always defective. That’s why a lot of old PS3 fat had the same issue. They fix the problem by remaking the GPU better on newer model
I bought a untested 360 off of eBay for £8, that had been shelved for an unknown amount of time after it got the RROD. After removing a single screw that was causing a short, I booted it up to find it was a fully functional Blades 360, hadn't been touched since 2007
Man, i got my 360 in feb of 06 and it was AWESOME. I love the blades dashboard and everything about that launch 360 (minus the red ring). It was SUPER LOUD! Always was. Very nostalgic and brings me back to high school.
Blades runs so goddamn smooth on the 360. I got a blades 360 a few months ago which has since red ringed, but when it was operating, it was such a great experience.
Most likely seems like it's related to AV cables/port. Try another cable (sure you have) or check/clean the port. I've have this before with a system and it was a dirty port making bad contact but could be a few things.
Yeah that could be the case too, but it's probably the gpu by removing the heatsink, it got more loose. Probably dislocated before it because it got too hot and removing the heatsink and clamp it gave it the killing blow
AV port was my first thought, but it seems to me that the AV port being the issue is unlikely. The port looks good, pins look good, traces look good, the port has been cleaned out, and I have a bunch of different AV cables I've tried. And it seems odd that the AV port would stop working just from taking the console apart (since taking the console apart puts very little stress on the AV port - where as taking the console apart puts plenty of stress on the CPU and GPU since you have to remove the x clamps). The port had no issues before I took the console apart. I've never worked on a 360 with a bad AV port, so I could very well be wrong here, but it just seems unlikely to me that the AV port would be the issue
@@jrob0021 have you tried recapping and if that doesn’t work, try pushing pressure on the GPU. Well you try to turn it on if possible if it suddenly starts working, it’s definitely the GPU but those capacitors look sketchy.
This console literally released the day after I turned 5. Both the 360 and Xbox One were released on my birthday. Also our bird died on my birthday. And my grandparents dog died on my birthday, which was also on Thanksgiving day as well. Good times, and bad times. Just thought I'd share that.
I personally preferred the NXE dashboard. Mainly because it was on my first 360 and my cousin's. Lot of nastalgia with the dashboard sounds. Way better than the latest dashboard. Lot of good memories with the first left 4 dead and getting achievements.
For your issue at the end, have you tried a different AV cable? Would also make sure that the AV port is free of major dust or dirt as well. Also, I had a similar issue like this back in the day where my launch-model 360 power supply was plugged into the same outlet that my LCD TV was plugged into, and there wasn't enough voltage on the circuit to provide adequate power to the console. Those early 360 power supplies are absolute tanks in terms of power consumption, so maybe try a different outlet as well. I know what you're thinking "it was working off of this outlet before I opened up the console" Yep, my 360 was working for months off of the same outlet as my TV as well until one random day that it just wasn't working anymore and it was all determined to be a power consumption issue with other devices on the same circuit. Also, I wish they would have given 360 users the option to switch back to previous versions of the UI. Not necessarily downgrading the consoles software version, but just having the ability to swap between dashboards at your own leisure. It's just a user interface. Even if they added other blades TO the blades dash to accommodate the rest of the crap they added over the years, then at least you could still use the blades dashboard. Same with NXe as well...
I miss the blades dash. Crazy to think it has been alsmot 20 years since it was originally released. I got my first one back in 06, died in 2010 and the MS repair service sent me a black elite one which I sold.
As everyone else has said, if you want to revive it you should replace the capacitors. They all seem in pretty bad shape. It could also be a problem with your AV cables, but that's unlikely.
I got an old Walmart demo disk that was free. When you put it into any xbox 360, it will launch in the blades menu. Pretty cool so you can get the nostalgia without having to buy an old og Xbox 360 and just use whatever Xbox 360 you have.
You have unlocked a new mode of the Xbox 360: Green Mode! This is where the whole screen uses only shades of green (and thus is limited to 256 colors), so you can experience the Xbox 360 in a way that you have never experienced before.
I think the best thing about the blades dashboard is that it's not made by the people at microsoft. they love overcomplicating everything, but the blades dashboard is just designed so well because they stuck to the design guidelines. I would love if the new xbox used the blades dashboard. we need something simple and sleek.
@@felixlutticken5694 the ps3 didn't have a 50% failure rate though and cost Sony 1 billion in repair costs... while it had issues the 360 is the worst console (design wise) at launch. it'a an objective fact.
Man i still remember the old vids without camera and the videos of you putting different discs in different systems LOL youve come a long way Love your content man! Keep it strong!
and the grafics glitch you had there, i had that on one launch console i got in for repair. tested it and told the gal forget it, its a combined gpu means its basicly not replaceable, told her to buy a new used one. but yeah could be it flexed or it was already minimal loose and by taking of the clamp and heatsink, it dislocated further and broke it. unfortunate it happend on a valueable blades one but rip and use it for parts. great video as always my m8
I had this exact issue happen to me in 2008 while playing though Mass Effect for a second time on my OG Launch day 360. It went all inverted and funky green colours mid game and then red ringed about 10-15 mins later.
i fondly remember my Xbox 360 having the blades dash on it, i remember browsing the marketplace for demos and stuff and it was so cool man.. then nxe came and i was like whoaaa
I definitely did love the blades dashboard. I lived in Harrisonburg VA going to JMU and my roommate in 06/07 had the blades. I had my first personal xb360 in early 08 and I think it had blades but I absolutely remember navigating that UI.
I had a launch 360 that was manufactured October 2005. Original GPU but ended up replacing paste and cleaning it out. Never game me any issues. Ran GTA 5 on it too lol.
Blades is the best interface. I remember the move to the newer interfaces and I just never got on with them even up to the most recent one. Give us blades 2.0!
Jacob i have a none HDMI 2005 model still working with the beast 203 watt power supply . But i made a few modifications firstly replaced thermal paste on both chips. Secondly put the newer style heatsink on ( the one with the heat pipe ). Then soldered an 120MM fan directly to the that heatsink blowing heat away . Finally removed the crap OEM exhaust fan and replaced it with a full 12v fan the fan is on 100% nearly all the time regardless of temps. Still alive in 2023 but time will tell
I just had this happen with a Xenon motherboard. it turns out when you remove the X-clamps you tend to make it so the GPU is pushed around in different ways and even the smallest uneven amount of pressure can cause a solder ball that has already been weakened to crack. I work at a Retro console shop. I took the system apart again to look at my job and didn't see anything wrong so I put it back together again and it had a red ring (error code 0110) so I tore it back down and reflowed the GPU and left it to cool overnight. the next morning I came back into work, put it back together and plugged it in and it was working again. I played 4 movies in a row and it didn't have any problems. but I was to scared to actually stress the GPU by playing games. Id recommend that you give it a good reflow and don't try any gaming on it if you want it to last.
no, Jacob puts a green screen on the tv and then puts something related to the video on that screen, like whenever he makes his Hampton hall or Texas load videos, that tv has a green screen on it, and in this video, the Xbox is broken, so he put the broken Xbox logo on there.
When i ran a game console repair business i used to save warranty stickers. I still have them on a sheet of wax paper somewhere at my parents house lol
i never had a 360 on my own but many of my friends had 360s. oldest dashboard i met was the NXE dashboard on the 360 slim, later metro with 360E. Even though i personally think the blades dashboard is a bit confusing i still think that all dashboards fit the 360
I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the AV port I get the same issue with my Slim with the HDMI port, I usually wiggle it around a bit and or reseat it and it works perfectly fine after. I have had a couple 360's graphics go bad and it always has blotches on the screen and freezes a lot and evenly turns off and gives you the red ring. Hope this helps :)
@@LokiAndShadow Sure that can solve it but it being rusty as he showed it could be corrosion on the pins in the port and so when he plugged it back in his cable got corrosion on it from the port and interfeard with the connection
It happened to me a few months ago with a 360 Slim. Bought it for cheap, still had guarantee stickers. Tried it, worked but it was super dirty. After a good clean and change thermal paste it had a glitch on screen (like little grey squares), everything I read says that it needs reballing, what a shame.
I've found that its super easy to knock components loose on these boards. Something as simple as missing passive component might be the issue. Unfortunately I think you're right that the GPU is dead or needs to be reballed.
if i remember correctly.. i still have a blades dash or early nxe dash all in pieces for over 10 years for the day i get around to installing JTAG to it.. worst case is it will just sit in the box taken apart lol.. it was my first 360 which is the arcade phat model from 2008 (spent 300$ or there about in 2008 for it) came with the disc full of demos and i spent hours with it on just to grind out however far i could in the demos.. if i ever get around to it ill also change the thermal paste since its already open lmao
so i noticed the capacitors are swolen replace them aswell when you fix it if those fail they leak onto the board then well it can be gone for good if not regulated and cleaned and replaced
I imagine that a lot of these Xbox 360’s that weren’t continuously updated for Xbox Live compatibility throughout their life were past RROD victims. Of course, unless you’re buying new in box
Honestly I thought the "Gone wrong" part was going to be the XBox automatically updating to the latest Dashboard the moment it connected to your WiFi, because they tended to do this.
My assumptions on what could have happened or what you could do to fix (also other peoples) 1) you flexed the GPU and it came loose 2) replace the capacitors 3) component cables (rgb cables) came loose (specifically r&b) 3) something is shorting 4) GPU failure 5) loose a/v port
I still use the JX720 blade theme on Kodi, this UX is really one of the best UI designs ever made, it's sad that MS eid not keep it and used that weird un-metroed metro UI with glossy elements from the older UI revisions.
12:05 more than half of those capacitors are swollen probably not related necesarily but i'd replace all of them and give it another shot also keep in mind, there are Atari 2600 consoles that are still working with the default capacitors or motherboards from the 90s with no capacitor issue, yet a 2005 console has this happen. Talk about cutting corners.
Love your videos Jacob. You take a chance on buying some of these so we can see how it turns out. As an Xbox Series X user now I still have nostalgia for the OG Xbox 360 and I'm thinking about buying one again along with an OG Xbox. I do remember how excited I was to get my 360 and had to queue up (remember that) for the the night for the midnight launch. The 360 core package was all they had in my local Gamestop and I had to buy an external HDD for it. I also bought Perfect Dark which funnily enough I'm playing now on Xbox Series as part of Game Pass.
Actually thinking of the 360 I had to get mine replaced twice by Microsoft due to the Red Ring of Death. It must have cost them a fortune replacing all of them as they would send UPS to come and pick up the faulty console and then UPS would deliver a new one a week or so later. I'm thinking if I buy a 360 now it would be best to get the slim model as it would be less likely to fail.
so funny story my Xbox 360 had that same problem. (almost) and the colors and sound were really glitchy. it wasnt as glitchy as this guys one but i remember crapping my pants when it happened...
I had thought thatmy old 360 died on me a few weeks ago that I had replaced the old AV cable with one of my HDMI cables that it is working again. I kept my 360 for games that is not on the xbox backwards compatibility list like Honor of Medal and Honor of Metal: Warfighter.
I would consider recapping the board because by the looks of it almost every single capacitor is bulging/swollen and look like they are all on there last legs and about leak in a few minutes or days cause how bad they look capacitors can also create this problem as well when they go bad
I bought one of these og white 360s a while back for 10 bucks but I don't have the power supply, now I definitely want to get it running to see if it has the blades dashboard
I’d recommend either sending it to someone I know who actually retrofits 80nm gpus that are reliable onto the xenon boards, idk if he offers it as a service but you can ask and see if he’s willing to do it
It is so funny that this happened to you. Last night the same thing happened to mine. I even posted on Reddit asking for help since I was not sure what it was. Everyone said it was a GPU problem. Now I see your video and think oh wow what a coincidence.
Which Xbox 360 dashboard do you think is best?
Idk 🤔
Whatever you call the latest update one- I still don’t like it. Only one I’ve ever had unfortunately. I just don’t like the store layout either
All of them
Blades all the way, I would like it as a theme for my series x lol
100% Blade dashboard. It just gives the gaming console vibe.
Not to mention, the UI looked like a xbox 360.
The Manufacture date was November 23, 2005 meaning it is a Day 1 Xbox 360 which are rare. Day 0 is November 22, 2005.
Day 0? What's so different with those
@Khentendo a Day 0 Xbox is the rarest type of Xbox that isn't a limited edition. Most Day 0 Xbox 360's red ringed so it is very very rare.
@Despair'sLast22 had a day 0 that I bought from a Walmart from their display since they were out of 360s. Red ringed in like 3 months and got tossed out. Really wish as an adult now I had of kept it to try and fix.
@Matthew Tunstill I feel bad, my father's original 360 red ringed in 2009, my mom bought him the Xbox 360 Core (Arcade) and he traded it in for a Xbox 360 Elite which I ended up breaking. There are like 30 Day 0 360's left.
I had a year one, disc drive stopped working so I gave it to a friend since I didn’t have internet at the time
Almost all of the capacitors are bulging/leaking on the motherboard, so replacing those might be a potential fix since the gpu and cpu are very specific about what voltage they run at.
could also be the ANA chip since thats responsible for the AV output
@@flaxuh3784 it's the capacitors
almost none of them are leaking thats a marker pen from factory
@@g1rld1nn3r The tops of them are bulging, which means that they are bad. They don't have to be leaking to be bad, if they are bulging they need to be replaced.
For a Xenon 360 i recommend replacing the paste and Heatsinks with the later revision heatsinks. Replacing the capacitors may also be necessary.
I 2nd the capacitor replacement. There were some on that motherboard that look hella swole lmao
Only the Gpu heatsink I’d replace with newer. The cpu one is quite good with the thick copper plate and heat pipe.
replacing the heatsinks and capacitors will be safer as they are bulging but wont fix the issue most likely. The main reason xenons fail is because of the flip chip design of the gpu, which replacing would be a better fix if you have a jasper with spare parts and some experience
@@Mikes360JTAGS I wonder if you can use Liquid Metal with that copper plated heatsink? And does it actually perform better with the OG Heatsink on the 90nm Xenon CPU? The later revisions are bigger with bigger fins, but aluminium. I’d assume bigger would be better.
@@8bitnation419 Liquid metal isn't worth the hassle. A high quality thermal compound meant for cooling at normal temperatures (so not for sub-zero LN cooling) will perform just as well without you having to worry about perfect application and leaking.
As with everyone else, I would advise starting with replacing the capacitors on the motherboard. A majority of them look quite swollen. And when that happens, their electrical filtering that they do is below par with what the circuits require. There are tons of videos about what they do. And one of them is to filter jagged electrical flow going in and smoothing them out. That would explain the video issue and lack of RROD.
my xbox 360slim got a RROD after 11years of working and the capacitors looked good when i checked still rip xbox 360 blades dashboard looks like GPU was like nah man 18years is enough for me to work good bye world than broke. this just a joke this may be what everyone is saying that capacitors are the issue which is highly likely but there might be another thing making the green box 360 blades dashboard green maybe its as well a problem with RGB but who really knows the exact problem is
@@Alexminecrafter1your slim got rrod??? Now that is super unlucky
Blades is nostalgic, but NXE was such a huge leap forward, installing games to hdd or a usb stick was amazing.
It's stranger HDD installation wasn't a feature on Blades from the getgo, so many early games had issues with the speed of the drive and padding.
@@KiraSlith Because storage was expensive back then. Do not forget they were selling them without the HDD. A 20GB HDD at launch was 100 bucks. I forget what the formatted size was, but a launch title like project gotham racing took up 6 gb, perfect dark was 4.9 gb, and call of duty 2 was 5.3, which is a 1/4 of the drive for each game at least.
@@BouncingZeus Not really no. That was just Microsoft scamming people via proprietary storage, the same shaz Sony tried with the PSVita. My $600 HP laptop in 2005 had 200gb of HDD space, that was considered average at the time, used the same type of 2.5" hdd too, just without Microsoft's proprietary shell.
Permanent fix: replace the gpu with a jasper one
it will break it more due to the time gap and tech used yeah, incompatibilities
@LokiTheChad2011 didnt someone on youtube successfully do it though? :o "Josh Davidson" with a video called "Xbox 360 Xenon motherboard retrofitted with Jasper GPU"
@@ZonkedOutTCM it depends on some models
@@LokiAndShadow it’s possible to do, but it’s insanely difficult. Reballing, as well as data/power reworking are required.
@@TheGlitchyMario I don't have the tools to reball unfortunately. Might try replacing some caps as some other people suggested. Or I might just accept the fact that I now have an even more unique blades dashboard 360 (the pattern does look kinda cool 😂 it's not like I was ever going to use this console for anything other than looking at the blades dashboard)
Like a few people have mentioned already with keen eye, replace the capacitors. I didn't even notice at first until i watched it back but the caps are definitely bulging and that console was indeed manufactured during the "capacitor plague". This could very well solve the issue you're having and explain the lack of RROD.
1:55 This is different because it's actually a Japanese console. I got one just like it and I had no idea it was Japanese until I looked into it after some of my games were saying it was the wrong region. (A lot of games are region free, and a lot are not. It's hit and miss) That label difference is how you can apparently tell. This was a Japanese console that was just set to English
“Replaced the capacitors. As we all know, it will either do absolutely nothing or magically fix everything” - MattKC
well that did fix the wii
@@RADIS370 yeah
i would start with replacing the capacitors, There is so many bulged caps there around the CPU/GPU it could very well be causing the problem.
Agreed , at least one is leaking a small spot of dried orange goo on top .
Thanks for the tip, if i try anything, that'll probably be the first thing I try then (or I might just live with it, the waviness of the screen looks kinda cool and I'm never gonna use this console to play games)
@@jrob0021 For sure, none the less enjoy watching your videos, i used to repair these pretty often and the caps cause some unusual behavior so figured it would be a cheap thing to try if you planned on trying to restore it "if its not the gpu failing".
@@bryanobrien2726 that caught my eye as well and my OG Xbox from 2005 recently had to have all of their caps replaced as well. I was amazed that that it was still working before said re-cap as well.
@@CecilTheDarkKnight234 Most of my experience is with recapping OG Xboxs as well and this 360 is very similar to what happens to those . Same orange leakage and bulging for sure .
check the capacitors on that board they looked like they were bulging and ready to leak
Man The Xbox 360 hit different! If only we can go back.
rgh…
I agree man. Would be nice if XBOX would re-release The Xbox 360 but this time with a 1TB HDD, the option to chose between the blades dashboard and NXE dashboard, 100% backward compatibility with the OG XBOX, a blu-ray player etc etc….
The marketplace shut down... 😢
Im tired of wishing this same thing. That's why I AM GOING BACK BABY! I'M GOING BACK TO THE BLADE DASHBOARD!! With my rgh, and when ever the hell I feel like it, I can switch over to the NXE dashboard. I can finally relive those memories of when I was really young back in the day first experiencing the xbox 360! God I can't wait!
This specific model - and this is said in the video - is a launch console. It was sold the day after the system started selling. It has no text on the flat space above the power connector, and a few of the text layouts are different, but mainly the same. So, what I can assume is either not all the text was printed and so they were getting so many sales that they needed a quick sell, and probably sold this one, or it was a prototype that slipped through the cracks. That is unlikely because if it were a prototype, there would be differences in the production quality, most likely a bunch of 3D Printed pieces, though that wouldn't explain the fatter power symbol.
The reason for red ring of death is because the GPU was always defective. That’s why a lot of old PS3 fat had the same issue. They fix the problem by remaking the GPU better on newer model
I bought a untested 360 off of eBay for £8, that had been shelved for an unknown amount of time after it got the RROD. After removing a single screw that was causing a short, I booted it up to find it was a fully functional Blades 360, hadn't been touched since 2007
Man, i got my 360 in feb of 06 and it was AWESOME. I love the blades dashboard and everything about that launch 360 (minus the red ring). It was SUPER LOUD! Always was. Very nostalgic and brings me back to high school.
Great vid that ora sponsor was smooth Asf didn’t even see it coming
Blades runs so goddamn smooth on the 360. I got a blades 360 a few months ago which has since red ringed, but when it was operating, it was such a great experience.
Most likely seems like it's related to AV cables/port. Try another cable (sure you have) or check/clean the port. I've have this before with a system and it was a dirty port making bad contact but could be a few things.
Yeah that could be the case too, but it's probably the gpu by removing the heatsink, it got more loose. Probably dislocated before it because it got too hot and removing the heatsink and clamp it gave it the killing blow
AV port was my first thought, but it seems to me that the AV port being the issue is unlikely. The port looks good, pins look good, traces look good, the port has been cleaned out, and I have a bunch of different AV cables I've tried. And it seems odd that the AV port would stop working just from taking the console apart (since taking the console apart puts very little stress on the AV port - where as taking the console apart puts plenty of stress on the CPU and GPU since you have to remove the x clamps). The port had no issues before I took the console apart. I've never worked on a 360 with a bad AV port, so I could very well be wrong here, but it just seems unlikely to me that the AV port would be the issue
@@jrob0021 have you tried recapping and if that doesn’t work, try pushing pressure on the GPU. Well you try to turn it on if possible if it suddenly starts working, it’s definitely the GPU but those capacitors look sketchy.
Check the pins on the AV connector and cable. Since it's only green that makes me think an RGB issue. Might be as simple as getting another cable.
This console literally released the day after I turned 5. Both the 360 and Xbox One were released on my birthday. Also our bird died on my birthday. And my grandparents dog died on my birthday, which was also on Thanksgiving day as well. Good times, and bad times. Just thought I'd share that.
I personally preferred the NXE dashboard. Mainly because it was on my first 360 and my cousin's. Lot of nastalgia with the dashboard sounds. Way better than the latest dashboard. Lot of good memories with the first left 4 dead and getting achievements.
For your issue at the end, have you tried a different AV cable? Would also make sure that the AV port is free of major dust or dirt as well. Also, I had a similar issue like this back in the day where my launch-model 360 power supply was plugged into the same outlet that my LCD TV was plugged into, and there wasn't enough voltage on the circuit to provide adequate power to the console. Those early 360 power supplies are absolute tanks in terms of power consumption, so maybe try a different outlet as well. I know what you're thinking "it was working off of this outlet before I opened up the console" Yep, my 360 was working for months off of the same outlet as my TV as well until one random day that it just wasn't working anymore and it was all determined to be a power consumption issue with other devices on the same circuit.
Also, I wish they would have given 360 users the option to switch back to previous versions of the UI. Not necessarily downgrading the consoles software version, but just having the ability to swap between dashboards at your own leisure. It's just a user interface. Even if they added other blades TO the blades dash to accommodate the rest of the crap they added over the years, then at least you could still use the blades dashboard. Same with NXe as well...
Yeah we tried different cables, composite and component output, and different resolutions. Definitely something wrong on the board.
I miss the blades dash. Crazy to think it has been alsmot 20 years since it was originally released. I got my first one back in 06, died in 2010 and the MS repair service sent me a black elite one which I sold.
As everyone else has said, if you want to revive it you should replace the capacitors. They all seem in pretty bad shape.
It could also be a problem with your AV cables, but that's unlikely.
I got an old Walmart demo disk that was free. When you put it into any xbox 360, it will launch in the blades menu. Pretty cool so you can get the nostalgia without having to buy an old og Xbox 360 and just use whatever Xbox 360 you have.
You have unlocked a new mode of the Xbox 360: Green Mode! This is where the whole screen uses only shades of green (and thus is limited to 256 colors), so you can experience the Xbox 360 in a way that you have never experienced before.
I think the best thing about the blades dashboard is that it's not made by the people at microsoft. they love overcomplicating everything, but the blades dashboard is just designed so well because they stuck to the design guidelines.
I would love if the new xbox used the blades dashboard. we need something simple and sleek.
If avatars weren't a thing I would say Blades is the best dashboard. Back when games consoles felt otherwordly and awesome.
The caps are definetely shot. The console probably wasn't turned for a while and the caps charged to fast
Rip, man the early 360s were designed terribly inside.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe the early PS3s were even worse, the undersized heatsink in kombination with a slow fan killed almost all graphic chips.
@@felixlutticken5694 the ps3 didn't have a 50% failure rate though and cost Sony 1 billion in repair costs... while it had issues the 360 is the worst console (design wise) at launch. it'a an objective fact.
You and your channel is what keeps my retro console tinkering alive, even tho I do it less I find it more fun than messing with my pc 👍
Man i still remember the old vids without camera and the videos of you putting different discs in different systems LOL youve come a long way Love your content man! Keep it strong!
5:09 "man this thing is loud, let me put the mic closer"
Even my slim that I had for a brief time, was loud as hell when a disc was spinning
and the grafics glitch you had there, i had that on one launch console i got in for repair. tested it and told the gal forget it, its a combined gpu means its basicly not replaceable, told her to buy a new used one. but yeah could be it flexed or it was already minimal loose and by taking of the clamp and heatsink, it dislocated further and broke it. unfortunate it happend on a valueable blades one but rip and use it for parts. great video as always my m8
I had this exact issue happen to me in 2008 while playing though Mass Effect for a second time on my OG Launch day 360. It went all inverted and funky green colours mid game and then red ringed about 10-15 mins later.
How do you have a screenshot of the failure on your monitor before you open it up?
Once you lifted that old heat sink the 360 started to scream…. THE SACRED SEALS!!!
still remember my first xbox 360 elite with the blades dashboard the ammount of halo played on that console... thanks mom.
i fondly remember my Xbox 360 having the blades dash on it, i remember browsing the marketplace for demos and stuff and it was so cool man.. then nxe came and i was like whoaaa
I have an Xbox from 6/8/2006 and it's still chugging along. Never had problems with RROD which is lucky and incredible.
13:05 It's also weird that you aren't getting the E74. Because the glitchy graphics would tell me that an E74 is about to happen.
I definitely did love the blades dashboard. I lived in Harrisonburg VA going to JMU and my roommate in 06/07 had the blades. I had my first personal xb360 in early 08 and I think it had blades but I absolutely remember navigating that UI.
I had a launch 360 that was manufactured October 2005. Original GPU but ended up replacing paste and cleaning it out. Never game me any issues. Ran GTA 5 on it too lol.
Blades is the best interface. I remember the move to the newer interfaces and I just never got on with them even up to the most recent one.
Give us blades 2.0!
Jacob sponsor transition is elite af 🤣
Jacob i have a none HDMI 2005 model still working with the beast 203 watt power supply . But i made a few modifications firstly replaced thermal paste on both chips. Secondly put the newer style heatsink on ( the one with the heat pipe ). Then soldered an 120MM fan directly to the that heatsink blowing heat away . Finally removed the crap OEM exhaust fan and replaced it with a full 12v fan the fan is on 100% nearly all the time regardless of temps. Still alive in 2023 but time will tell
I just had this happen with a Xenon motherboard. it turns out when you remove the X-clamps you tend to make it so the GPU is pushed around in different ways and even the smallest uneven amount of pressure can cause a solder ball that has already been weakened to crack. I work at a Retro console shop. I took the system apart again to look at my job and didn't see anything wrong so I put it back together again and it had a red ring (error code 0110) so I tore it back down and reflowed the GPU and left it to cool overnight. the next morning I came back into work, put it back together and plugged it in and it was working again. I played 4 movies in a row and it didn't have any problems. but I was to scared to actually stress the GPU by playing games. Id recommend that you give it a good reflow and don't try any gaming on it if you want it to last.
What up Jacob? Just found the channel few weeks ago and love it!! Keep up the great work
8:54 the screen is like that even before being took apart?
no, Jacob puts a green screen on the tv and then puts something related to the video on that screen, like whenever he makes his Hampton hall or Texas load videos, that tv has a green screen on it, and in this video, the Xbox is broken, so he put the broken Xbox logo on there.
dude your always finding a creative way to slip the sponsorship into these videos 🤣
When i ran a game console repair business i used to save warranty stickers. I still have them on a sheet of wax paper somewhere at my parents house lol
i never had a 360 on my own but many of my friends had 360s. oldest dashboard i met was the NXE dashboard on the 360 slim, later metro with 360E. Even though i personally think the blades dashboard is a bit confusing i still think that all dashboards fit the 360
You may want to replace the capacitors on that board, a lot of those caps are looking like they're starting to bulge.
I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the AV port I get the same issue with my Slim with the HDMI port, I usually wiggle it around a bit and or reseat it and it works perfectly fine after. I have had a couple 360's graphics go bad and it always has blotches on the screen and freezes a lot and evenly turns off and gives you the red ring. Hope this helps :)
resolder a new av port on it
@@LokiAndShadow Sure that can solve it but it being rusty as he showed it could be corrosion on the pins in the port and so when he plugged it back in his cable got corrosion on it from the port and interfeard with the connection
thats got to be the smoothest AD drop I've ever saw lol
Every xbox DVD drive was mostly banque light on Hitachi drives and Samsung. Those were the drives that came on the Xbox 360.
It happened to me a few months ago with a 360 Slim. Bought it for cheap, still had guarantee stickers. Tried it, worked but it was super dirty.
After a good clean and change thermal paste it had a glitch on screen (like little grey squares), everything I read says that it needs reballing, what a shame.
That was the cleanest sponsor I've ever seen
Blades is nostalgic even though you never had one sure...
Prey is such a good game. What a great intro. Shame Prey 2 didnt carry it on
I've found that its super easy to knock components loose on these boards. Something as simple as missing passive component might be the issue. Unfortunately I think you're right that the GPU is dead or needs to be reballed.
Are you using the component cable or just the AV cable?
if i remember correctly.. i still have a blades dash or early nxe dash all in pieces for over 10 years for the day i get around to installing JTAG to it.. worst case is it will just sit in the box taken apart lol.. it was my first 360 which is the arcade phat model from 2008 (spent 300$ or there about in 2008 for it) came with the disc full of demos and i spent hours with it on just to grind out however far i could in the demos.. if i ever get around to it ill also change the thermal paste since its already open lmao
so i noticed the capacitors are swolen replace them aswell when you fix it if those fail they leak onto the board then well it can be gone for good if not regulated and cleaned and replaced
Blades for day, NXE was beautiful too. World at war, GTA 4, halo 3, 1v100.
12:46 lol it looks like you entered the gateway to green heaven
That blade dashboard was truly one of the best dashboards I ever used *chef kiss*
Try another AV cable and check for cold (broken) solder joints around the AV port. I'd be surprised if it's actually the GPU that's the problem there.
I imagine that a lot of these Xbox 360’s that weren’t continuously updated for Xbox Live compatibility throughout their life were past RROD victims. Of course, unless you’re buying new in box
I just got my series s a year ago. Was still rocking a 360 before that. Didn’t know I was a retro gamer! Haha.
Its crazy that the xbox 360 is basically retro, espeically sense im not even 20 yet and the game console i played as a kid is basically retro
That 360 has been recapped. Some look swollen and others have Sharpie dots, marking capacitors that have been replaced.
I remember that first xbox 360s had a Switch near the AV port to select SD or HDTVs (it was located on the connector)
That was a really clean transition into a sponsor
bro the paste was like glue and when you tried to get the pcb out the gpu might just got ripped out
Honestly I thought the "Gone wrong" part was going to be the XBox automatically updating to the latest Dashboard the moment it connected to your WiFi, because they tended to do this.
My assumptions on what could have happened or what you could do to fix (also other peoples)
1) you flexed the GPU and it came loose
2) replace the capacitors
3) component cables (rgb cables) came loose (specifically r&b)
3) something is shorting
4) GPU failure
5) loose a/v port
The Kinect dashboard and the early metro dashboards were really cool
I believe that the power button size is relevant to it being an arcade version 360, as the disk drive is painted and not chrome
White drives were Arcade, chrome drives were Core and black models with chrome drives were Elite.
I still use the JX720 blade theme on Kodi, this UX is really one of the best UI designs ever made, it's sad that MS eid not keep it and used that weird un-metroed metro UI with glossy elements from the older UI revisions.
My first Elite did a similar thing but in red not green before it RROD. I traded it to GS for a discount on a Jasper model.
Looks like the caps are blown as well. But might be the camera angle.
12:05
more than half of those capacitors are swollen
probably not related necesarily but i'd replace all of them and give it another shot
also keep in mind, there are Atari 2600 consoles that are still working with the default capacitors or motherboards from the 90s with no capacitor issue, yet a 2005 console has this happen. Talk about cutting corners.
Should I get a Jasper and put a small switch on the back that cuts off the temperature sensor so I can prank my cat into thinking her Xbox is broken
Love your videos Jacob. You take a chance on buying some of these so we can see how it turns out. As an Xbox Series X user now I still have nostalgia for the OG Xbox 360 and I'm thinking about buying one again along with an OG Xbox. I do remember how excited I was to get my 360 and had to queue up (remember that) for the the night for the midnight launch. The 360 core package was all they had in my local Gamestop and I had to buy an external HDD for it. I also bought Perfect Dark which funnily enough I'm playing now on Xbox Series as part of Game Pass.
Actually thinking of the 360 I had to get mine replaced twice by Microsoft due to the Red Ring of Death. It must have cost them a fortune replacing all of them as they would send UPS to come and pick up the faulty console and then UPS would deliver a new one a week or so later. I'm thinking if I buy a 360 now it would be best to get the slim model as it would be less likely to fail.
My first 360 was the 360 arcade with the NXE dashboard. I miss the nxe welcome video
Microsoft should've gave us the option to keep old dashboard but being able to connect to xbox live
so funny story my Xbox 360 had that same problem. (almost) and the colors and sound were really glitchy. it wasnt as glitchy as this guys one but i remember crapping my pants when it happened...
I had thought thatmy old 360 died on me a few weeks ago that I had replaced the old AV cable with one of my HDMI cables that it is working again. I kept my 360 for games that is not on the xbox backwards compatibility list like Honor of Medal and Honor of Metal: Warfighter.
Honestly I'd keep it like this, it's the green filter xbox, right on theme
I love the blades and have very fond memories with it but I'd have to say my favorite dashboard was the NXE.
12:05 Looks like you have a lot of bulging capacitors there.
I would consider recapping the board because by the looks of it almost every single capacitor is bulging/swollen and look like they are all on there last legs and about leak in a few minutes or days cause how bad they look capacitors can also create this problem as well when they go bad
Only time I had an issue like that I had torqued my stuff down too hard and had to go about just remount the coolers
I bought one of these og white 360s a while back for 10 bucks but I don't have the power supply, now I definitely want to get it running to see if it has the blades dashboard
It is usually a sign the gpu is failing in my experience unless the caps appear visibly swollen or they are leaking they tend to be good
Not having an HDMI is certainly a bummer.
Thanks I needed that fat line of nostalgia 😅 the bubbly shininess of the graphics
I’d recommend either sending it to someone I know who actually retrofits 80nm gpus that are reliable onto the xenon boards, idk if he offers it as a service but you can ask and see if he’s willing to do it
It is so funny that this happened to you. Last night the same thing happened to mine. I even posted on Reddit asking for help since I was not sure what it was. Everyone said it was a GPU problem. Now I see your video and think oh wow what a coincidence.