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XBox no longer boots
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| Jeff Fink 2005-05-13, 8:35 pm |
| Has anyone seen their XBox die by just refusing to boot? Nothing comes on
the screen and I can't get the DVD drive to eject the disk that's in there.
All the lights on the front are green. Pushing eject seems to spin the
drive but it doesn't eject.
-Jeff
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| Kendrick Kerwin Chua 2005-05-13, 8:35 pm |
| In article <#U$lls9VFHA.1468@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
Jeff Fink <jfinkjfink@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:
>Has anyone seen their XBox die by just refusing to boot? Nothing comes on
>the screen and I can't get the DVD drive to eject the disk that's in there.
>All the lights on the front are green. Pushing eject seems to spin the
>drive but it doesn't eject.
My instinct is to say that this is typical behavior caused by a bad video
cable. The Xbox executes different boot code depending on what kind of
video cable it detects is plugged in. Therefore, if there's a short or a
broken connection in there somewhere that prevents the hardware from
knowing what kind of signal it should generate, it might cause the boot
process to hang up. I would try dropping a known good A/V or RF cable on
the port and see if that makes any difference.
Try that, and come back and let us know your results. We'll go further
with the troubleshooting if we have to, and it'll be free!
-KKC, who can't wait to see what the third-party engineers do with the
inside of the new hardware...
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| Jeff Fink 2005-05-14, 12:31 am |
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"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@eris.io.com> wrote in message
news:w8WdnQ6Xi9gQRhnfRVn-og@io.com...
quote:
> In article <#U$lls9VFHA.1468@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
> Jeff Fink <jfinkjfink@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> My instinct is to say that this is typical behavior caused by a bad video
> cable.
Not the video cable. I actually have 2 XBoxes, the first of which has an
out-of-focus DVD drive. The video and power cables plugged into that box
boot just fine. The second one still doesn't boot using the same video and
power cables (and it's got my Halo 2 disc trapped inside the DVD drive).
I was thinking that I may be able to steal the DVD drive out of the box that
won't boot and stick it into the one with the out-of-focus drive.
-Jeff
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