Family owned original Xbox dead
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:05 am
When I learned of the capacitor plague on the original Xbox I immediately got my family Xbox out to find out which one I had. It seems to be a 1.0 system and it is the system I have the most nostalgia for growing up. I would just get another unit but I'm desperate for this one to work again purely due to the fact that it's what I grew up playing on back in the day.
When I opened the system and discovered the capacitor had indeed leaked, I removed it and attempted some trace repair and failed. It still booted so I attempted to softmod and flash a new bios to then swap in a new hard drive so that I could save the old drive that was close to failure. I went to use the game exploit to then find out putting in a game does absolutely nothing because the dvd laser had failed. So I then attempted to do the drive unlocking truck to backup the HDD contents on an older desktop I have lying around. This also failed. I also then botched a modchip install. The system still powers on and it mostly functional and I believe it is still fixable.
I just desperately want this relic of the few fun times with my cousins, sister, and I to live on. It means more than anything to me sentimentally and I'd pay for everything that needed to be done. I'm at a loss at this point and just can't afford to pay for a maybe or what if.
I expect this post to possibly be deleted or moved or something. I'm just scared this Xbox will never work again so I'm shooting this miniscule shot as best I can. Wouldn't even care if this were shared in a video or anything. I'm just extremely desperate.
When I opened the system and discovered the capacitor had indeed leaked, I removed it and attempted some trace repair and failed. It still booted so I attempted to softmod and flash a new bios to then swap in a new hard drive so that I could save the old drive that was close to failure. I went to use the game exploit to then find out putting in a game does absolutely nothing because the dvd laser had failed. So I then attempted to do the drive unlocking truck to backup the HDD contents on an older desktop I have lying around. This also failed. I also then botched a modchip install. The system still powers on and it mostly functional and I believe it is still fixable.
I just desperately want this relic of the few fun times with my cousins, sister, and I to live on. It means more than anything to me sentimentally and I'd pay for everything that needed to be done. I'm at a loss at this point and just can't afford to pay for a maybe or what if.
I expect this post to possibly be deleted or moved or something. I'm just scared this Xbox will never work again so I'm shooting this miniscule shot as best I can. Wouldn't even care if this were shared in a video or anything. I'm just extremely desperate.
