Can't say you were ripped off nothing is guaranteed with salvage. You get what you get and cross your fingers. Except for the devious glued in ports. That was shady and deceptive. Sorry it didn't turn out better for ya.
It's like papa franku said *"there are certain types of people in this world, that should not be here, who should breath far far far away from here"* I guess that person is one of those people...
In retrospective, I wish I had spent my time otherwise ... not reading the title of part 3 _entirely_ (including the truncated part not showing up in the video list) was my fault, tough.
I used to fix old RROD issues on the 360s. Most of the time it was the thermal paste that needed replacing. Made a good chunk of change and the ones I didn't get repaired usually got to keep and used for parts for other broken 360s. Glad to see people still DIY. In my opinion, having a basic electronic troubleshooting knowledge and a willingness to void warranty is much cheaper and less headache then sending unit in.
Ya, no way all of those Xboxes are "accidentally" missing some parts. Somebody definitely combed through those consoles, removed what was working and sold them as broken ones.
@@asmodeusml all from the same seller. Again obvious but not that big a deal. Just seem so common for people to point out the obvious in RU-vid comments nowadays
@@ryanabarca8616 and why having one console in the lot of 18 being an obvious scam automatically means the rest of them is a scam, too? Glued one is obvious, sure. The rest of them, not so much. Having a couple of consoles missing working parts and being full of bad ones is probably normal for a salvage lot, but when all of them are like that it is just something else. Which I pointed out in my comment.
You got ripped off. The guy who sold these just put together his pile of unfixable machines that he'd already gone through, and got you to pay way too much for them.
Unlucky Steve, still very entertaining though. Gluing in the ports....wow...speechless!!! Hopefully you will get some of the others working in the follow up vid :-)
For the record... I have what I would consider only surface-level electronics skills and absolutely NO desire to be digging into consoles and troubleshooting component-level problems. BUT I have been following this series along the whole way and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Did I skip a minute here or there... sure but the fact is that as a relative outsider you've earned my sub and I'm looking forward to your future endeavors. HOPEFULLY for YOU, more profitable ones. =) Thanks for the great videos, smiles, and reluctant sighs. ;)
I had this happen to me about 10 years ago. I bought a huge lot of ipods for a couple grand. I get them in and realized they had all already been gone through and put back together with bad parts. They each had 3 or 4 unrelated problems which was just too much to be a coincidence. I ended up selling some of them but lost money for sure. Lesson learned.
I had the same thing happen with Xbox 360s. I thought I was going to make major bank by doing a bunch of x-clamp fixes on some 360s, only to find out that the lot I bought had already had those x-clamp fixes attempted and were beat to hell. I also learned the x-clamp fix really wasn't a long term solution. I got a few of them to work by baking the boards in the oven, but those were still flakey as well. I ended up just selling the whole lot on to the next person to break even, minus the shipping costs. I'm weary about trying to ever get into the refurb business because of that experience.
I think the "empty" Xbox One X is just a sample/placeholder/exhibition model . Down here in Argentina they use these things on big stores so if one gets stolen is just a fake model and the store doesn't lose any money. Maybe the seller got it mixed without knowing.
Without knowing... Yeah sure, tell yourself that. They probably nicked it. Pity they didn't fit a chip that showed a screen reporting it as stolen and identifying the decoy device.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k it's pretty commone here in Italy too, shops do the same with ps3/4 and xbox360/one, they just put together a placeholder with spare parts to show off, and if it gets stolen it's not a problem
Hate to say it but I think you may have bought a lot of broken Xbox's from a man who repairs them himself. Doesn't hurt to look at the seller and if they are selling a lot of electronics/consoles it's probably a good idea to avoid that lot. You will get genuine "idk what's wrong" from time to time but there also seems to be just as much "I know what I'm doing and I have no clue what's wrong". I guess the point is don't buy lots from folks who repair consoles for a living because if it was easily fixable they would have most likely done it themselves. Also this goes for everyone in general as I'm sure more than a few people here are also buying similar things themselves hopefully they can take this advice and avoid learning the lesson the hard way :)
Yeah, I buy a lot of faulty stuff to repair from eBay and, while most of it is genuinely faulty or accidentally damaged, there is the occasional batch of things that have had botched repair attempts that there's no way the seller didn't know about. If I can't repair something, I only sell it on if I think someone else has a fair shot at repairing it or there are some usable parts, and I describe it honestly - like 'I had a look and this seems to be the problem, but that's beyond my skillset to repair so maybe someone with better tools and knowledge could fix this.' I'm certainly not going to trash it and then just sell it as 'not working'.
@@fadetonoirfilms That is kinda covered under the "salvaged" description. This is the main reason why I don't want to get into repairing electronics at home. When you're not dealing with absolutely unfixable devices that the seller knows are unfixable, you're dealing with bad parts. For example the most time consuming thing about repairing phones is waiting for the parts. And when you get a faulty part, that's maybe another month of waiting for a replacement. Too much shit to deal with.
I don't believe that. He didn't fix 3 of the 5. the other 2, he did very minor repairs. The peeling the layers of the board back over a holding point, some people may not know that most boards only have the universal grounds on those layers that close to the edge so, if you don't know that you're less likely to dig in, so to speak.... The other one he replaced the HDMI port which is a minor operation. A few he removed and put parts back before testing the simplest solutions and didn't get anywhere with... The other 3 needed updates or a different hard-drive ( not what I'd call 'fixing', but what I'd call updating or replacing parts ).
I was watching the video about the ps4 and ps4 pro comparison, and I've saw the "I void warranties" t-shirt and hoodie, just ordered both in white, since I buy broken iphones, fix them and resell, I've found that absolutely hilarious, good luck with your job man I'll keep watching your videos :)
awww man i was so sure that one of the XBOX one X's woulda been fixed \m/ awesome video, now im going to watch the 10 NINTENDO SWITCH's video \m/ keep up the great work bud
I got recommended this video because I had the same issue with my One X. Error E200 and E500. I tried factory resetting multiple times which fixes the problem for maybe an hour before the Xbox crashes and on reboot shows the same error code. I also tried all manner of updates to no avail. Eventually, I sent it into Xbox to be repaired and they just sent me a whole new console... I’m guessing because Microsoft cut too many corners to get the price down and introduced some unfixable bugs... which they do a terrible job of addressing online. Look up those error codes. So many people have the same problem with their X and there is no good solution.
@@phoneme52xxx6 That's the thing they don't want you to fix them they want you to either send them in so they can charge exhorbant prices or just go and buy a new one they hate ppl like Tronics that actually knows how to fix them
Great channel. Love your repairs! I wanted to share my own personal fix real quick. I bought an Xbox One X that wouldn't power on. It would chime without light, no power off chime, no picture, no fan movement what-so-ever. It actually had a small click sound after about a second or two when it would just give up and shut off. Inspected the board and found the 7403 MOSFET near the fan connector was blown. Ordered me a couple off of Digi-Key, but first I removed the 7403 that is between the optical disk drive connectors and replaced the blown one near the fan connector. It came back from the dead and everything works perfectly! I shut it off until I get the 7403's in and I'll add one to the ODD side where I removed the other one. Just a heads up to look for that in the future as it can be a 64 cent fix like mine! :)
Just watched your three videos back to back. I love how you deliver your videos. Easy to understand, informative and interesting. BUT you didn't tell us whether you put them on eBay and if so, what money did you make after your initial outlay. I'd like to know. :) Really enjoyed the videos.:)
For the disc drives you have to swap the marryd daughterboard from the disc drive, that worked for me. I tried to say this in ep 1 and 2 but no response. 😂
Yeah but I think he is saying that you can take the board from the disc/hard drive. Move that to a new working drive and it should work because that board on the drive is married not the whole drive. I have absolutely no clue it just seemed like you misinterpreted the comment.
sithlordmaster181 hes not a rookie, he has a company who fixes Xboxes and i bet he searched it online, many people have the problem but Xbox just makes it soo cheap that they have created many many errors
The reason I only have an original xbox, it can be hacked. Ffs Microsoft, on a PlayStation you can change the hard drive. I know they want to stop piracy but locking down the hard drive like that is just a PITA.
I use to fix PCs and consoles as well as misc electronics. This reminded me why I switched to fabrication and building. I was temporarily tempted to look at getting back into repairs but I’ll leave it to pros like you. I’ll just cheers you and wish you luck
Doubt your see this commet but with the partial power xboxes try heating the console up there is a thermal sensor which you need to reset ive personally done this to xboxone s and x versions
Imagine going through all that effort to screw someone over... Surely they didn't make much on the deal and even so the time they spent isn't worth it. I've really enjoyed these videos though. Keep it up!
Nah, I reckon the seller bought them just to pass them on or at least tried to fix some maybe, but I'd say their business is flipping them considering they had so many in the one listing. Salvage sometimes means just parts, simple as that. ⅓ isn't so bad. I know the moneys not there but 6 out of 18 is not a terrible result.
Regarding the Xbox with the full short on the power: You can apply some (limited) current with a lab power supply and check which component is getting hot. You can use an infrared camera for that or you an use a sales slip which will turn black where the heat is generated.
Conclusion: Not cost effective to repair a batch of faulty Xbox's for a living but as a hobby only for the self satisfaction feeling when you do find ONE or more that is repairable! Interesting to watch never the less
Hey mate. allways interesting to watch your work, keep on the great videos. Maybe try to swap fans with known good ones on the xbox's with power problem, i read they often have internal faults that can cause this type of Problem. Hope it isn't to late for this tip :D
I absolutely loved watching your videos! I always wanted to experiment on circuit boards and such for electronic devices and this was very interesting to watch! It was sad you didn’t make a lot of money off this but you did a fantastic job at having a shot at it though!
For the last xbox one x with the e200 code I've had an xbox with the same code. Tried many different hdd. Finally I was able to repair it by not letting it connect to the internet forcing it to load up non updated via USB. Then once inside, I used the ip for an open dns in network settings and updated it through there. Also, using an ssd instead of a hdd also worked when I didn't change the dns to an open server ip.
Tronicsfix, your videos are strangely relaxing and addictive. Please, one small criticism. When you use a verb, please use the adverb 'well' to describe it, instead of the adjective 'good'. :)
had the same problems with my ex, she would power off every time i wanted to play, i even applied paste but...didnt work....went to the bar that friday and looked for a newer model..
I’m confused you’ve said the hard drive is married to the motherboard, but then you’ve been replacing them with other hard drives to test. What’s that about?
@@IIh1tm4nII You slowly heat up the pcb until the solder reflows. Often old electronics that heat cycle with have small cracks in the solder over time that then causes a chip to flake out. By reflowing you make the connections again. I have been buying old video cards for my collection and have revived several this way.
@@IIh1tm4nII It real factories the boards are soldered with "ovens". Not as simple as a toaster, but they are oven anyway. Bare board have solder paste applied on each point of soldering, components are put by using and automatic machine. Component reamin stuck to is place due to the paste. The board is sent into an oven that will melt the paste and solder every single point an the same time. After extensive use, due to heat / col cycling, solde joints can crack and give up developing all kind of failures. Many joints are not even visible, are sandwiched between chips and the board, By reheating the board you are trying to re-melt the solder and recover the connections in the points that are cracked.
Did you ever fix number 8? I bought a console that turns on, stays on for a minute and shuts off, took it apart and it was missing a harddrive. Don’t wanna put the money into buying the harddrive if the harddrive doesn’t end up updating :/ please let me know! Love your videos man, looking to start fixing and flipping consoles myself, you’re definitely my number one inspiration!
I like how you keep on improving your technique overtime, especially on how you tried to just plug in the HDMI and turn it on just to see if it will work on this video
i think the glued crap was too much. this is deliberate... sadly you cant really do something. i feel with you. i am making this , but with laptops and iphones... buying and repairing . but in 4 years it has never happened to me that someone deliberately fooled me on a broken product. still ... better luck next time
Number 16, I think it has a hard drive problem, that sound it's when the hard drive fell off and something brokes, it probably the writing thing (I'm Spanish so I don't know how to say) that's in contact whith one of the disks causing a read/write problem
For the “system error” consoles, why don’t you do a factory reset? That’s what I do. You don’t need a controller for it. The consoles work after that 9 times out of 10 in my experience
