GENERAL Just bought this xbox slim today and it needs some serious work...

[rghpro]

Well, let me explain briefly how I end up with these consoles.

I have a deal with a few local pawn shops in my area and surrounding areas, I buy their broken stuff they cannot sell, I usually buy anything I can fix with my reflow station or my soldering iron.

I usually buy Xbox 360's and PS3's and Wii's if I can get them less than $10, since there not worth much, I buy HDTV's that turn themselves on and off as a reflow fixes that too..

Any who, the story today is I was working in the office when my wife went to the pawn shop up the street (ez pawn) and bought 3 Xbox 360 units for $70. Two of them were Falcon boards in ok cosmetic condition that both have stuck trays, one reads discs and the other one does not, both easy fixed at a total cost of less than $10 for the laser, the stuck tray costs practically nothing to fix, just a new drive belt on each and a good clean up and maybe some lithium grease on moving parts, no biggy. She got those two for $15 each, she did great.

She also bought a Slim, Trinity 2010 model, now I have not even attempted to power it on at all, someone has literally massacred the both Standard AV port and the HDMI port (photo below), she only noticed this after she bought the "AS-IS" item.

I have a scrap Trinity motherboard and it has a good AV/HDMI port block, I wanted some opinions if it would be worth repairing the slim by replacing the port block or just parting it out, I do plan to sell the console after its repaired, it will be sold as an RGH or as a flashed LT console. $40 is what was paid for it, it would need the obvious repair, which I will do and then the accessories.

I use a Aoyue 968 and pre heater, not a fancy ACHI or Scotle.

Thanks for your opinions.

 

[chase]

hoping the AV block is the only issue with the console, I would attempt to fix it since the other trinity board is scrap anyways.. depending on where you live, you may get a descent price once RGH'd

 

[rghpro]

Well, one additional thing I forgot to mention was it appears to have an in-tact warranty seal, which leads me to believe that this is the only issue. Obviously the console will not boot up with no detection of a display connected so maybe the pawn shop thought the issue was worse than it actually is. (hopefully)

About the repair itself, I wanted to see if anyone did anything like this before?
I repair DC charger jacks on laptops almost everyday easily, this is similar, however instead of 3 to 8 connections we're talking about 20+ in this situation. Would using my reflow station to heat up the area be a good idea as I doubt a soldering iron alone will do this with any ease?

Is there any guide that is good to follow?

 

[chase]

I've done few of these on phats but I use a desoldering gun.. works great

a pre-heater and hot air will probably work, but you have to make sure you don't overheat it as the plastics inside it will deform.. also doubt there is any guide for this but you may be surprised by what you can find on youtube

 

[rghpro]

Yea, that's the thing, I have no care for the broken port, but I still have to remove the good port from the scrap board and keep it in good shape.

If removing it was as simple as installing it, that would be grand, lol. I think I will try to save it, but when I get more time, I do get very busy, that last few weeks have been murder for me, no time for nothing.

I thought I may get some time for myself since the Xbox One and PS4 just came out, but nope, still many 360 and PS3 consoles coming into my shop for repair, busy as hell, lol.

Thanks for your opinion, which flux did you use? I use Kingbo usually, but I've never removed a port block of this size and this many pins before, so any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks again.

 

[chase]

I use kingbo rma218 i think.. good stuff

 

[rghpro]

I have that stuff actually.



I will try it out and report back during or after I'm done.

 

[rghpro]

Sorry for dbl post, but if for some reason I cannot remove the good port without destroying it, would this one fit?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-X...g_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item1c392b9cc7

It does say all, but as always, I'm going to check before I buy.

I need a port for a Trinity motherboard.

Obviously from the Image the HDMI port cannot be seen, but its to big to be an opus or xenon port, confused...

Also..

•For sale Xbox 360 AV Audio Video port block. 
•Fits all Xbox 360 consoles with HDMI.
•Working replacement tested before removal. 
•These are used but in very good condition. 
•You need some soldering skills to replace this part. 
•SHIPS FAST (next business day). 
•14 Day return if not satisfied.

 

[siren215]

Looking at the picture, it seems like someone has deliberately done it to prevent kids from playing..lol. Anyways coming back to the point, i find no harm in trying out the piece which is available on ebay. The basic connections of the pins on the connector are same regardless of the console. But i dont see any HDMI port there. So if u can make some modifications on the old board(checking continuity,etc) use the old one, provided you have not damaged it much. Or give this ebay one a try. I think manual soldering/ desoldering would be required.

 

[rghpro]

Looking at the picture, it seems like someone has deliberately done it to prevent kids from playing..lol. Anyways coming back to the point, i find no harm in trying out the piece which is available on ebay. The basic connections of the pins on the connector are same regardless of the console. But i dont see any HDMI port there. So if u can make some modifications on the old board(checking continuity,etc) use the old one, provided you have not damaged it much. Or give this ebay one a try. I think manual soldering/ desoldering would be required.

The classic de-soldering wick method, I think I will try this, but with the addition of the heat from a pre-heater too, we're dealing with lead free solder here, for the de-soldering part anyway.

I don't think using the pre-heater will hurt, as long as I use a heat shield on the caps and some other parts. I was planning on placing the board upside down on the pre heater, obviously rising it some, then manually removing the solder from the solder points and grounds on the av port using soldering wick and a soldering iron, then hoping it and basically falls out of place almost on its own, then collecting the piece for use on the bad console. At the same time I'm thinking it will be a long time before I get enough pre-heater heat through the entire port to heat up the actual solder points where the pins connected to the motherboard enough to help the lead free solder to become soft enough to release the port, without melting the plastic parts of the port block.

So its a motherboard upside down and let gravity help me, or motherboard the correct way, as you would for a reflow and try to lift the port block, I'm still trying to figure out the best way.

 

[TX_F1ERCE_TX]

Here you go sir!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rURNojcw5k0

Hope I helped!
&
Good luck!

 

[rghpro]

Thanks for your reply, I already found that video earlier, it did not offer any help as the removing of the port was the biggest concern and that video basically only showed someone doing it at a distance with a poor view.

But Thank you very much for helping, I understand this is something that's not covered so much as its a repairs that's rarely done. So I don't expect many replies.

 

[XMonsterModsX]

Just use the aoyue and slowing pull on it while apply heat. Had to do a phat the other day plus the usb to.

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[rghpro]

Its been a while, but results are in..

No pictures, but I managed to attach an HDMI to this otherwise dead mobo and sell it to someone who dont care for the standard definition, The standard definition, you ask, Well I was unable to add the standard port, I lost a resistor during the change, changing ports is not as easy as it seems at a glance.

 

[rghpro]

This xbox found its way back to me, what a coincidence. The person I sold it to brought it back to sell for parts, it got the red dot, the condition was much worse than how I sold it, I guess it was abused, plus the previous abuse it received may have contributed. Nevertheless, its parted out now.

This console is officially dead, forever.

 

[jweb6102]

i know this is quite an old started thread but just to give you some guidance on removing hdmi ports and a/v ports do you mask off the area surrounding them? and also using a hot air wand like an atten is a bad idea. as you already found out the hard way by blowing resistors off the board near the port, my advice to you if you intend on doing further similar repairs is to use an infra red wand just google search PUHUI T-835 thats what i use to remove multi pin ports.