HAVE YOU REMOVED YOUR CAPACITOR YET?!
If you own an original Xbox and you haven't done this process yet…you should! Original Xboxes have a capacitor in them which is used to keep power to the internal clock if the main power is disconnected. Unfortunately the capacitor Microsoft chose to use is of terrible quality and is incredibly prone to failure. One of the side effects of this failure is that the console's time and date settings get reset whenever the console loses mains power. However, an additional and much more worrying side effect of this failure is that the capacitor will almost certainly start leaking highly-acidic fluid all over your console's motherboard!!
Fortunately it's fairly easy to remove this capacitor and your Xbox will function perfectly fine without it (aside from the fact that the console will no longer store the date time settings once main power is disconnected). As you do this process, it's important you determine which version your original Xbox is. This is because different versions of console have different motherboard layouts, and you don't want to go removing the wrong capacitor!
To help determine which version your console is, you can use some handy links such as these ones:
Fortunately it's fairly easy to remove this capacitor and your Xbox will function perfectly fine without it (aside from the fact that the console will no longer store the date time settings once main power is disconnected). As you do this process, it's important you determine which version your original Xbox is. This is because different versions of console have different motherboard layouts, and you don't want to go removing the wrong capacitor!
To help determine which version your console is, you can use some handy links such as these ones:
I have four original Xbox gaming consoles. Below are some photos of me removing the problematic capacitor on my favourite console, the one that I do all my original Xbox gaming on and which has served me faithfully and faultlessly during more than a decade of solid original Xbox gaming. Using the first link above I was able to determine that this console must be a version 1.4 or a version 1.5. I was then able to find a capacitor-removal tutorial on Youtube that exactly matched my console. Unfortunately the exact video I watched is no longer on Youtube, but there are plenty more out there. Make sure you find one that's specific to your console version though if you can!
Anyway, below are the pictures of what I did for this particular console and I am very, very glad that I didn't leave it any longer to do this than I already had!!!
Anyway, below are the pictures of what I did for this particular console and I am very, very glad that I didn't leave it any longer to do this than I already had!!!