Power Button not responding

[jodar]

Okay, kinda posted as a response to another thread, but decided to make it a thread of it's own.

I just finished up an install with my friends v1.0 Xbox and the Xecuter 3CE, and as soon as I hook up power, the thing comes on, and will not respond to the power button at all....it boots to the regular dashboard, and when I put in a game or something seems to mess up. I installed an X3 (not CE) on my v1.6 Xbox with no problems...also, it seems like there was alot more soldering in that install, cause I had the rebuild piece that I had to put on...does none of that matter on this one? Basically I just want to know where to look. I feel confident in my soldering, but can't think of what else to look at. Also, the eject button works just fine. Please help...

Note: if I bypass the eject/power adapter thing, and run the yellow wires straight to the motherboard, then the power functions normally, although the screen is very garbled now (normally the screen is fine), and looks like it is going to the blue bios screen......I'm just lost to what is going on?

Josh

 

[jonrees69]

First of all, no, you must not use the LPC rebuild PCB on a version 1.0 box - these are for 1.6 and upwards only.

If you can just about see the Flahs BIOS blue screen, but it's gaarbled, then assuming there isnt an NTSC/PAL conflict and you're using the standard A/V TV cable THEN I think you have solder splash on the video chip (GPU) which is actually quite near to the LPC soldering - a common problem.

As far as the power eject PCB problem goes - you've pretty much solved it. Clean the sticky pad off the back and check/re-touch the solder points on it.

Good luck

J

 

[jodar]

Thanks

Thanks for your help. After I posted last, I did the following:

unplugged the X3
plugged unplugged the power/eject adapter (ran the yellow cable straight to the mb)

I did this in an effort to get the xbox back to an "unmodded" state. When I did this, it worked normally, booting up with Halo in the DVD tray.

With this working, I'm thinking it's not a solder splash or anything like that.

When you say that I have that problem taken care of, I'm not sure I follow what you mean. I can get the power button to work, but only if I bypass the reset/eject adapter, meaning I cannot control the boot modes of the xbox (I believe that's what it would mean). Plus, when I do bypass that adapter, the xbox doesn't go to the flashbios screen, but to the xbox dash, as if it was not modded.

Thanks again, and if you see anything else, let me know, cause I'm still stuck:
Josh

 

[jonrees69]

Are there 2 LED's (blue) lit on the X3?
Is the X on the switch panel blue ?

J

 

[jodar]

Fantastic

Wow, it works now. When I bypass the button adapter, it works (maybe I had a bad connection to the other tv, cause this one doesn't garble)....

Just curious...what will he NOT be able to do with the power/eject adapter not in place? I've never needed it on mine, but this will work fine as long as it is something that he doesn't need that often (and if he does need it, how can I go about getting it to boot into other modes without the adapter).

Thanks a bunch,
Josh

 

[jonrees69]

Without the adaptor board, it just means that the X3 is on all the time, which negates it's use on Xbox Live, as you will get banned straight away. Having said that, people are getting banned anyway.

Also, you wont be able to boot to the backup BIOS, which IS important as you may need this to update the main bios in the future.

I would still remove the sticky pad off the adaptor and check for problems on the soldering. Removing the pad in itself may be enough. Either way you should try and get it working - send it back or get another one (They're quite cheap)

Good luck and well done !

J

 

[jodar]

You're Amazing

Awesome..took off the sticky pad, and sure enough, there was a solder bridge...cleaned it up and the thing works PERFECTLY...thanks alot man.

Josh

 

[jonrees69]

Good work Josh ... glad you got it fixed.

J

 

[TEaPaZ]

just a quick note, you don't need the back up bios to update the main bios. You can do it from the X3 config live. The backup bios is incase the main bios becomes corrupt.