A tray that refuses to open is one of the most common faults on a console this age, and it is also one of the easiest to fix. In most cases nothing is broken: a rubber belt has gone soft and no longer grips. First, get it open With the console switched off, look underneath […]
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A console that does nothing when you press the button is rarely a mystery. The Xbox tells you what it thinks is wrong, and it does that with the ring of light around the eject button — before it has managed to put anything on screen at all. Start there. On a 1.0 you have […]
This is the part where people get caught out, and it is worth being blunt about why: an Original Xbox power supply that physically fits is not automatically the right one. The connector changed during the production run, and then changed again in a way you cannot see. Three connectors, not one There are three […]