Posted in Xbox Hacks Tagged capacitor, capacitor failure, capacitor plague, real time clock, rtc, xbox Post navigation Video after the break.Įdit: As noted by, this scourage only effects pre-1.6 Xboxes later models don’t suffer the same problem, and shouldn’t be modified in this way. We’ve seen dive into consoles before, burning his own PS1 modchip from sourcecode found online. also points out that this is a good time to inspect other caps on the board for harmful leakage. The fastidious can replace the part, though the Xbox will work just fine without the capacitor in place you’ll just have to reset the clock every time you unplug the console. The solution? Removing the capacitor and cleaning off any goop that may have already been left on the board. Over time they leak and deposit corrosive material on the motherboard, which can easily kill the Xbox. The problem is that these capacitors were made during the Capacitor Plague in the early 2000s. Instead, a fancy high-value capacitor was used, allowing the clock to be maintained for a few hours away from AC power. Due to the RTC hardware being included in the bigger NVIDA MCPX X3 sound chip, the current draw on standby was too high to use a standard coin cell as a backup battery. The original Xbox does include a real-time clock, however, it doesn’t rely on a battery. Leaving this in the console would inevitably cause major damage. Despite looking okay from above, the capacitor inside the Xbox had already started leaking underneath. has explored the issue on Microsoft’s original Xbox, built from 2001 to 2009. Of course, time rolls on, and new generations of machines are now prone to this risk. A common cause is leaking electrolytic capacitors, with RTC batteries being an even more vicious scourge when it comes to corrosion that destroys motherboards. Fans of retro computers from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras will be well aware of the green death that eats these machines from the inside out.

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