I Bought A Broken Xbox Series X On eBay And It All Went Horribly Wrong!

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@TheCod3r Год назад

***** Spoiler update alert ***** I did contact the seller and open a dispute, where I eventually decided to take a £50 partial refund. The reason was I couldn't really be bothered to wait 10 days with eBay for a resolution. To be clear, the seller should have noted all the issues in the description. After contacting the seller they claimed it went to a repair shop, again that should have been in the description and it wasn't! I still truly believe this was intentional deceit but £120 for a couple of donor boards, a disc drive, psu, fan, battered case and a working SSD ( which is worth £150 alone) isn't too bad of a deal.

@Classic80sFanboy Год назад

These clowns need to be banned from selling any gaming device/accessory on ebay...period!.

@Consolerepairstore Год назад

That's some bullshit.. I hate when eBay sellers are not up front and honest about what they sell. I always contact them with many questions before I purchase.. that's on anything I buy especially if they have a return policy if what they are selling is not legit. I feel for you man.

@coaty79 Год назад

I used to repair all consoles phones and laptops but I stopped 8 years ago unless for friends and family. eBay sellers were just becoming worse and worse and the amount of people over paying for broken rubbish was crazy. Everytime I think about having another look on eBay I watch your videos and they bring me back to my senses thanks for that lol anyway good luck for the future better luck next time take care

@stansteez Год назад

"I've opened it but can't see what the problem is". :D Next time, ask for detail pictures of the board…

@fink32 Год назад

At least you got a partial refund and broke even. Frustrating for you to receive a console in this state. There is no reason that the ssd should be locked to the console when ssd’s start reaching EOL the console is as good as dead.

@beverlyhyso7553 Год назад

That makes me sad, whoever did that does not care about the work they do and should never work on anything ever again. It makes me glad there's people like us that care about the repair work they do.

@TheCod3r Год назад

I agree mate. Hopefully they don't last long in the industry and I can imagine they probably won't

@beverlyhyso7553 Год назад

@@TheCod3r I hope your right

@TheCod3r Год назад

@Ellis The DJ I agree mate we're always going to get rogue traders in every profession. Sadly, it's just part of life 😪

@Godslayer1975 Год назад

Lol poor retards do this throw it trash buy new one, makes u sick yet I bet American far left . This guy is fucking twat buys used crys dent go buy it new or shut up

@carletonrutherford1799 Год назад

8:17 "All the wrong screws in all the wrong places" Sounds like a country song.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Haha yep maybe we should come up with a hit single 😂

@daveshork2797 Год назад

right to repair is going to be a huge fight for consumers.

@ajaks7636 Год назад

Every video and live stream you do is educational. It's never a waste of time. Keep up the Great work! Thank You.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Thanks mate really appreciated

@yomomisabia Год назад

Just wanted to say, You're a super dope guy. Really digging the channel man. Glad i found you after watching a tronicsfix video lol. Instantly subbed. I appreciate the fact that you document your repairs and explain them in an understandable way for us that aren't as well versed in board repair. I can honestly say that my skill and knowledge have both greatly improved since I started watching your videos. Thanks, man!

@TheCod3r Год назад

Thanks mate I really appreciate that

@AussieYobbo83 Год назад

Don't stress I think I speak for all your viewers when I say you haven't wasted our time. Yes that was a waste of money but not a wasted video you made great discoveries and have informed your loyal viewers of buyers discretion when it comes to items like this. Great work keeps it up.

@philc5332 Год назад

I know I joke a lot when watching your lives, it’s part of the reason why I enjoy your channell because you have that connection with your viewers but jokes aside.. I want to say I am loving these new edits, the extras you have added are really cool, and it really helps your videos stand out. Thank you for the entertainment and education

@TheCod3r Год назад

Cheers mate I really appreciate that, thanks for taking the time to let me know you like the changes. Feedback really helps and I try to listen and action any feedback I get. Much appreciated buddy

@fenman1954 Год назад

This annoys me with some seller's, I have a shed full of cardboard boxes and packaging materials to send items to buyers. I have never had a item I have sent arrive damaged. Also I am always honest on my listings.

@TheCod3r Год назад

I've had one or two here and there either go missing or turn up crushed, but yeah, it's so annoying when the seller doesn't even try to protect them

@tyronenelson9124 Год назад

When I find random screws in things that I am disassembling, I always expect the worst.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I had a bad feeling too as soon as I saw the random screws. Same old story mate

@tyronenelson9124 Год назад

@@TheCod3r Yea to be honest send the xbox right back and maybe warn others of this seller.

@pault4955 Год назад

Pairing the SSD, that's like something I'd expect from the likes of apple. Hugh Jeffreys has some good videos on the difficulty of fixing the new iPhones.

@WickerMan73 Год назад

There are very little honest people left, lady luck will shine on you soon, keep up your great work

@TheCod3r Год назад

I agree, cheers mate

@xavierayayaell546 Год назад

Love the raging mate, refreshing to see someone tell it how it is. Top man.

@RetroTechCorner Год назад

@15:58 I guess it's an art... Or equivalent of "modern art" to be more precise (as opposed to classical art) ;) One of the (many) reasons I enjoy electronics repairs is that it never stops - you'd thing you saw it all but nope. Another day, another surprise ;)

@1xICExVIPERx1 Год назад

I'm not going to lie I can't repair any Electronics but I found your page as a recommended Channel and I subscribe to you after I watch you fix PlayStation 4 you're amazing keep doing what you do

@TheCod3r Год назад

Thanks very much, I appreciate that 😊

@JamezGrimm Год назад

Bought a new Jabra headset case since I didn’t have the parts to fix my roommates. The seller sold it as “new” it arrived in a bag wrapped in plastic wrap. 😑

@TheCod3r Год назад

I'd have definitely sent that back immediately mate

@iitsbrad7987 Год назад

Really enjoy your content buddy, keep up the great work 💯!! Here's to 100k+ subs.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Thanks bud, hopefully we keep growing and building a solid community 👍

@kevinhamlett1400 Год назад

Same case with the Disc drive. The mainboard inside drive is assigned. I used to fix consoles.

@jasonemanuel9070 Год назад

Love this channel don't get down bro,your too funny for that,chin up from stoke!

@JamezUK123 Год назад

You could try testdisk to recover the deleted partitions. I haven’t tried this myself, but it’s worth a shot.

@waifuowner911 Год назад

I’ve purchased a laptop from eBay before that had a broken screen and what I received was a laptop with broken screen and missing ram and ssd. So these disgusting people really do think they can scam us easily and that we wouldn’t send it back. Lots don’t even mention things missing or what they’ve done to destroy it

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah bud, I'm honestly sick of them. It's not even like we lose out because we can get our money back, but it's just a huge waste of our time

@captaincrunch1707 Год назад

Wow , that seems like the seller is fishing for a buyer who won’t bother holding them accountable by getting a refund.

@nigelpratt1831 Год назад

Yeah I feel for you phill I bought xbox one x off ebay and the seller said it was an unknown fault and not loading games and it turned up with no disk drive with the usual e code so it was a brick without the drive. After going through the process finally got my money back and best was they said I took out the disk drive I hate ebay scammers and it must be very hard for a good guy like yourself to keep sane over these people and their antics. i wish you all the best you are good at what you do shame about the "have a go crew" out there thanks so much for all the good content you bring us take cheers mate 👍

@DeathofRats09Gaming Год назад

Glad you got things sorted

@TheCod3r Год назад

Cheers bud

@shanebrookes1878 Год назад

Super work from previous owner!!

@TheCod3r Год назад

Indeed, I'd definitely trust them with my consoles lol

@jonthecont Год назад

I used to buy xbox 360 on ebay for RROD, the amount of junk I would get sent, where all screws missing and differed DVD drives, damage to the board, it wasn't a sustainable way to make any money, so I gave it up. I'm not surprised this sort of behaviour is still going on now.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah seems it's been happening for years. Luckily ebay are wising up to it though

@gjp_1987 Год назад

Truely shocking mate. It’s nice to see people do something about it though, there’s too many people that say “that’s the risk with eBay”. If it’s not as described then you still have rights whether it was listed as spares/repairs or not.

@TABSF1 Год назад

Pretty insane Microsoft locks the system to the SSD. These drives could be dead in 10 years and no more Xbox Series X. I get how they are paired in iPhone etc (even then it should be optional) for security, but a game consoles. Mind blown! Microsoft has security for Windows 11 but you can recover it, insane!

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I agree, all these drives will die eventually and Microsoft had absolutely no reason to pair them to the console

@u4ia_fubar_75 Год назад

It sucks you couldn't fix it Phill🙁. Hopefully you make your money back big man 🤞

@TheCod3r Год назад

It does mate but I should at least make my money back on the parts. I ended up with a £50 partial refund so that makes it easier to cover my losses

@Unchained_Alice Год назад

I was thinking I'd probably do that if I tried but I don't think I'm that bad. But then I'd never attempt to work on a modern console either. Idk how someone can make such a mess of something and think they should be allowed near a soldering iron. We all have to start out somewhere, but that's why you work on easier things or use practice kits. Been binge watching your videos and it's making me want to get back into learning again. Had to stop due to health issues but I think I can start again now

@ashfrost2050 Год назад

Found this a really interesting video to be honest even though it wasn't a repair as such 👍🏻

@andreasallberg8487 Год назад

Can't you use partition recovery software on Xbox ssds to restore the partitions?

@TheCod3r Год назад

Possibly, I'll be looking into that soon :)

@pjpleiss Год назад

Does MS still format the internal storage with XTAF with signatures to secure the data?

@TheCod3r Год назад

From what I've seen they're using an encrypted partition formatted as XBFS. That partition contains just over 130MB of data which appears to contain some highly encrypted keys (but we can't see the contents of the partition). It seems to me like at least RSA 2048 or RSA 4096 encryption so cracking that may be impossible

@jstro-hobbytech Год назад

I have a series x with light water damage. Never opened or turned on. I live in nova Scotia. System had nothing plugged in at the time. I will be posting it on kijiji cape Breton ns as interesting trades excepted.

@DevilbyMoonlight Год назад

Professionals are predictable... but the world is full of dangerous amateurs..

@TheCod3r Год назад

Definitely mate

@shaunmckay8550 Год назад

Damn, I seen some but not like that! Just abused it and you are right there with the sdd card. This person should be fired for it or by chance a business owner should close the shop permanently. Great Scott!!!

@samanthagriffinv2.08 10 месяцев назад

You probably could’ve ran that sdd though a recovery program it probably would’ve recovered the partition cuz idk if you know this but once you delete something it actually does get deleted the data is still physically there still most likely

@CrazyMan_Engineer Год назад

so no way to recover data from the erased partitions?

@eeledahc Год назад

Maybe you can use this scenario to attract customers with an option to clone their drives for future failures. But then again if there's an update and the backup is older, would it still work?

@TheCod3r Год назад

I believe the key changes every time you update, so unfortunately we can't do that 😕

@idko5452 Год назад

If SSD was only formated and no data was writen to it, there is possibility that You will be able to recovery almost all files from it and if You know about file that You are looking for, You will be able to tell imidiately after recovery if it was success or fail... I really hate people wich are doing this, or repair shops wich are removing parts (and not installing them back) as You said, they make non repairable expensive brick...

@jhdd5334 Год назад

At 9:33 where is the metal plate covering the socket back?

@digipimp75 Год назад

Omg whoever worked on this console needs to stop immediately. Horrendous work!

@totalgaara Год назад

could you maybe use a "recovery patition tool" to fix the ssd or it's deeper than this ? like does formating it "lock it" or something else ? otherwise if the guy only deleted all the partitions and create a new one, well, maybe there is still something to recover?

@TheCod3r Год назад

It depends really mate, because the partitions have been deleted it depends how the controller on the SSD handles that. If it just marks the partition as deleted until another partition overwrites it then maybe, but if it actually deletes it immediately then that's very unlikely to be recoverable. Conventional drives mark the space as deleted but don't delete anything until it needs that space and then it'll overwrite the old data, but these controllers could be doing anything. I will be trying it though to see how far I can go with conventional tools to recover the data

@Discretesignals Год назад

Honestly, the housing looks like it would make a nice tissue box or you could use it as a planter and grow some beautiful ferns or lilies.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Haha a planter sounds good 🤪

@Andorianin Год назад

Может быть там удалены просто заголовки разделов, а сами данные ещё остались в каком-то виде? Есть такой шанс?

@dean9776 Год назад

good jesus that is a mess indeed well & truly' i feel for you mate that does not look like the same console on the picture to me' and i bet it was probably a easy fix to start with before somebody got there hands on it such a shame its wrecked.

@wastelander89 Год назад

Is it possible to buy a used xbox series x with just a broken disc drive for a good deal? I can't afford a new one and don't use disc's anyway.

@BerfroidMorzen Год назад

I can feel your pain mate :(. Personally I'm not a fan of Xbox but I hope that in some future hackers could find an exploit where allow us to replace the SSD for a brand new one without needing to clone the corrupted one.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I hope so too mate just for the sake of repairing these things. Microsoft have really screwed us over. Hopefully they get punished because they're giving hackers a reason to work on them

@Discretesignals Год назад

Maybe the best thing to do would be to clone a backup after the warranty expired, so if the original ever did take a dump, you're not up shit creak without a paddle.

@BerfroidMorzen Год назад

@@TheCod3r besides, I think that the fact that Microsoft decided to put a removable SSD is way better than a soldered SSD just like in ps5.

@Tysman909 11 месяцев назад

It's still better then a ps5. Microsoft again is one step ahead with a more durable console with less led of death and no annoying liquid metal.

@Sliddon Год назад

Maybe one day like with the 360 we can grab the keys but even with the 360 you needed a hdd.bin to clone hdds unless you chipped it and with the original xbox you needed to lock the hdd unless running a modchip

@GhostMotley Год назад

I'm really surprised they lock the SSD per console. I swapped the HDD in an Xbox One X a few years ago and I had to format the HDD with a script, so it had the right GUID values but once this was done it installed OSU fine. Surprised something like this doesn't work with the Series X|S

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah the xbox one consoles were perfectly fine, this is nothing more than a deliberate attempt by Microsoft to prevent repair. There was no reason to ever lock them down but they did it anyway. They're asking for trouble because the only reason people have never hacked the xbox one consoles is because they had no reason too. Easy emulation and easy to repair, yet these ones people have a reason to try and they will very likely succeed. There are much smarter people in the world than the boffins at Microsoft and I truly hope they inflict a world of pain on them for their corporate greed

@GhostMotley Год назад

@@TheCod3r I've no doubt a workaround will be found, the repair community finds a way around most artificial locks.,

@TheCod3r Год назад

@@GhostMotley fingers crossed mate, a few of us ( I can't say who) are looking into it

@andysierra6934 Год назад

Doesn't British postage have insurance here in the states anything over a pound is insured for $100 and you can get more insurance, you can't blame the seller for damage caused by the people shipping your package.

@TheCod3r Год назад

They do depending on the service, but most people just use the cheap ebay shipping option or don't pay extra for insurance. Technically it is the sellers fault though. I've sent several Series X consoles to customers and never had one damaged because I package them correctly

@kylelee4209 Год назад

You didn't waist my time good to know what to keep an eye put for

@border056 Год назад

I just purchased a high value Game Boy game on eBay that was listed as “doesn’t read”. I took it apart to find that the previous owner destroyed several legs on the RAM module when changing the battery. How would you handle that? I was able to swap the ROM to a $4 donor and the game is fully functional and is worth more than what I paid for it. I sent the seller a message asking if they knew it was physically damaged.

@TheCod3r Год назад

That's a tough one, but I'd say as you've attempted a repair there's not really much you can do

@markhitchen5489 Год назад

Hi Phil is there any chance of using recovery software to recover the key ?

@TheCod3r Год назад

@mjc0961 Год назад

Not a waste of time. Learned about how stupid this SSD pairing is. And learned never to buy from this absolute clown on eBay. Thank you for not being afraid to name and shame them, BTW. Too many people will complain about something like this but not say who it was so that the rest of us can avoid them.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Cheers mate. Funnily enough the guy even said if I publish his username he will sue me. Bring on the lawsuit 😂

@kikihun9726 Год назад

I wonder what is the difference between two freshly installed drives. Can you dd 2 series drive and hex compare them? Maybe the hardcoded serial is the only difference.

@TheCod3r Год назад

There is a 136MB file located on a partition at the start of the drive but as of now it's unreadable. The partition type is set as XBFS and also encrypted so at the moment we can't do hex comparisons, but it's being worked on

@KingPinTheBowler Год назад

I feel like Xbox should make it to where you can format the SSD because of right to repair or at least do something where you can’t erase the data on the SSD unless it is in the Xbox it cane with

@CrazyMan_Engineer Год назад

If i was not on the other side of the pond i would buy the case for the price you mentioned.

@dazhigh9208 Год назад

After watching full vid, dude fair play thought it was gonna be something else not what happened to you. How did they dare even sell it in ebay in first place?????

@wesley071177 Год назад

I'd say 99% of the time ebay will side with the buyer. Hence why I've stopped selling spares and repairs items on there. Even with a full disclaimer of what was wrong with the item, an iPhone was returned to me as the buyer just "couldn't fix it". Phil, you got burnt on this occasion but it is just potluck unfortunately. Keep up the good work, for us viewers everyday's a school day and you never put out bad content 😁

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah they do tend to side with the buyer most of the time. I've won a few cases as a seller though. Depends who you speak to on the phone really. Unfortunately ebay policies are messed up sometimes

@jcbdiggers1 Год назад

How do you know he did not😮 swopped the case or even the same xbox

@harry9889 Год назад

the person who has done this to a expensive console and formating the SSD not researching it first and not knowing that it's paired to the console a discrace. Why are there people even doing work like this that don't have a clue how to repair consoles. if mine went faulty i would always come to people like you TheCod3r with you i know it gets the job done professionally.

@TheCod3r Год назад

I agree mate, some people are just too stupid to be honest

@alexlucyrep9948 Год назад

jesus what have they done omg nice brick ...... hope you got your money back wow

@andrasszabo7386 Год назад

You say "why does someone format the SSD?" I say why would anyone marry an SSD to a console, making it a non replaceable part?

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah that's a question I've been searching for an answer to since the console was released 😮‍💨

@paulthatcher563 Год назад

You are well within your rights to return it for not as described from the damage to the case alone before you even opened it up. It could well be a different one to the one pictured in the advert

@kcordiustechnology Год назад

Your looking proud 😂 nice vid

@TheCod3r Год назад

Haha thanks mate

@stinker1000000 Год назад

Can MS re-pair a new SSD to it?

@sneezyferret6482 Год назад

There's a slim chance you might be able to recover data from an SSD even after it's been formatted. Did you try? The only other way would be to extract they key from the CPU, and I don't think anyone's been able to crack open this puppy yet. Agreed, there's absolutely no reason for Microsoft to do this.

@Ghost572 Год назад

Yeah people on ebay who don't state that there has been work on a device you are buying are deceptive because they know full well it would lower the price of what they are selling. I don't get who they are kidding either, even if they are saying oh its just for parts, it should state we are selling it for parts becuase we tried repairing it and it didn't work out, that way the buyer can decide whether its worth that value or not.

@Plan-C Год назад

Annoying mate. There are a lot of scammers on ebay. I won a phone fair and square. When it came to pay, the seller cancelled the auction because they didn't think the price was high enough. I was fuming lol. Some people are just arseholes. Keep up the great videos please.

@Nas_Allie Год назад

What’s annoying is that the ssd is pair to the console what 😅 so if the ssd completely fails & isn’t recoverable your Xbox is dead for good ??

@dschultz9466 9 месяцев назад

Makes me wonder if you actually got the same console in the ad

@jayer898 Год назад

this might be a shot in the dark but cant you use a data recovery tool to try and recover the data that was on the SSD before it was formatted, could that even work? Excellent Content by the way keep it up.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Cheers bud, yeah I do plan to try that in Linux, but I have a feeling even if I can restore the partitions I might not get the full unique encrypted key back 😮‍💨

@wybuchowyukomendant Год назад

damn, you would have a ball buying on polish auction sites. Full of cheap dead consoles, easy to return even to the private sellers when somethings not right, free delivery...

@TheCod3r Год назад

I'd love to find some more auction sites to be honest, just never find the time to look

@dazhigh9208 Год назад

I don't get why they formatted the SSD????

@RBKing80 Год назад

Pisses me off when people lie on description and fail to package stuff correctly

@andymann1231 Год назад

Hiya yes spares or repair that means it can be repaired or broken up for its parts and should be discribed as if the unit just fails but in this case you are right to ask for ypur money back good video and informative Ebay needs to set out rules for spares or repair sales keep up the good work mate

@TheCod3r Год назад

Thanks mate, yeah the seller was definitely intentionally deceptive in this listing. If he had been honest from the start I'd never have bought the console at all

@hughblount1983 Год назад

I'd be tempted to lightly sand and spray it to make it a custom

@TheCod3r Год назад

That could be an option mate, maybe make a cool purple or two tone colour

@hughblount1983 Год назад

@@TheCod3r ye go for it possibly use a a little filler on dents if it's that bad

@timtoomuch Год назад

Wth are people doing with these consoles? I see some that look 10 years old with dents and looks like someone dragged it down the street

@KennyTheB Год назад

It's probably just an illusion or the angle the solder settled at, but at 16:01 it almost looks like they tried to use a type of small gauge tabbing wire to connect those right leads. Also, at those times when I feel like my own mediocre wiring and soldering skills are sub par, it's comforting to know that there's people out there who are much much worse at it. Years back I used to take scrap electronics from the junk pile at work to teach myself how to do simple things, like take ICs off or swap various parts without destroying them. Starting out was a complete shit show. This thing... Has that same energy. Just to guess, I wonder if this was originally a bricked machine that was used as a practice piece to teach someone new how to do some component replacement/repair. That or someone's XBox broke and had a friend who told them "I know a guy" [that could fix it for cheap].

@sinbrad Год назад

You've been totally had with this one 🤔

@wastelander89 Год назад

This is why I'm afraid to spend money on broken consoles .cuase they could all be possible like that console Where the seller lies or hides details

@stevetealey2804 Год назад

All that is good for is parts well if there our any good parts left.

@ventrue6516 Год назад

If the SSD is married to motherboard, then you may use it (or sell it) as a PC part instead.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah the SSD will work fine in a PC as there's nothing physically wrong with it

@joehedley6964 Год назад

Q does xbox1s 512gig fit a 1trbite box or vice versa

@chrish43291 Год назад

You should be able to partition the ssd with xfix xbox one script and use osu1 offline update to reinstall the os back on all xbox including the series s or x.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Unfortunately it contains a unique partition which is encrypted and cannot be rewritten by any available software. The series x and s drives are paired to the console with a unique key

@samyhx896 Год назад

This is why we need Hackers that's can develop tools to reprogram and unlock "locked" features by Microsoft. Such as unlocking a DVD Drive or copying the Nand. Hopefully they find a way to replace the original SSS with a spare.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I agree. I'm sure Microsoft are going to be the target for hackers since they're giving hackers a reason to target them

@MizuhoChan Год назад

At least it wasn't melting someone's limited edition switch after breaking it fully and keeping it for quite a while eh.

@TheCod3r Год назад

What are you referring to?

@DJStKittz Год назад

This video angers me on so many levels. As a general electronic repair shop , I will repair anything from a TV to a Xbox to medical test equipment. I'm not an expert on one device, and honestly value technicians like @TheCod3r who specialize in certain areas. However if there's one skill you have to have ALWAYS is proper Soldering skills, ( both hot air and soldering iron). If your lacking common sense or can't see when solders melting get a microscope or at the very least a magnifying glass. I wear a jewelers magnifying glass and have the microscope because I accept that at 42, my eyes aren't what they were. Aside from all that, I do not know WHY eBay sellers think selling as "parts not working" is a get out of jail free card.... I'm not even going to lie, I have ended up with plenty of free or very cheap PS4s because the seller utterly lied or isn't educated enough. Anytime a listing says "it's an easy fix I'm sure..." I call bullshit and 8/10 times a console described as no HDMI ended up being BlOD. It's not about if I can fix it or not, it's the fact sellers utterly lie!! And yes, we are 100% protected by eBay. So stop lying in your listings, it'll only hurt yourself in the end. Side note: I wish broken systems were reasonably priced on eBay.ca I've been trying to buy series x or ps5 but when they leave maybe $50 profit it's just not worth it. That being said, I sincerely appreciate your hardwork and willingness to research and Repair for the rest of us educated / competent technicians lol.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I agree wholeheartedly here mate. Incompetent idiots thinking it's OK to pass their failures on and lie through their teeth just to try and recoup their losses, with no concern for other people who end up with their crap

@bblod4896 Год назад

So when the SSD with the operating system is installed, it's mated permanently to the console? What would happen if the SSD failed in the future? Actually, you answered the questions on the video. Thank you.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah if the SSD fails completely it's GG! I've had one instance where I had an SSD die with only 1hr of use. Luckily I managed to get it working just long enough to clone the keyed partition by reflowing the IC. Unconventional but it did work enough to get the boot partition and be able to install a new SSD

@bblod4896 Год назад

@@TheCod3r I'm not a gamer (back in the 70s, yes...today, too complicated) but that fact Microsoft has such a lock on ownership of equipment just makes it an easier decision to never to purchase Microsoft branded hardware.

@TheCod3r Год назад

@@bblod4896 agreed mate, it's kinda the same with every console now. The switch, ps5 and xbox all have locked storage

@jontait1095 Год назад

That's annoying at least you will get your money back with ebay guarantee you might not need to even send it back its happened to me a few times

@cheapasstech Год назад

who did those breakfast cutting boards ?

@TheCod3r Год назад

Travis 😂

@gregjarvis1232 Год назад

Hi Mate didn't know that about the Xbox series ssd at least you where able to recover some of your $ I find no matter where you buy things from a lot of people don't pack things properly for post That would a seller's or repair shop nightmare 👀 a console you have worked on end up your channel in that condition I've had some dealings with good and not so good console repairers

@Khashraan Год назад

but even thou you have the spare-parts and donor boards, it's a scam-sell anyways. that is the gamble with ebay nowadays. And this "repair Shop" it went in, should consider to shut the doors permanently. Because obviously they don't know, what they're doing.

@TheCod3r Год назад

Yeah I agree mate, either way the seller tried to scam someone here. That person who worked on this should be ashamed of himself/herself

@wastelander89 Год назад

I wish I had the knowledge u have cuase then I could buy 2 broken ones and fix one to use.cuase I can't afford a new one

@kcordiustechnology Год назад

I Need to get into electronics repairs again I have done it in years

@TheCod3r Год назад

Hell yeah mate I would if I were you

@Bunceythegreat Год назад

Hey Phil, this sucks for you dude. With regards to the SSD, is there not a way to manually add the partitions, or mimic another ssd, I assume standard ssds in a PC is different. Just when I got a ssd for my laptop, I had to format it and create a new partition, for laptop too work. That's why just curious if there was a way ?

@TheCod3r Год назад

There technically is mate but without the original SSD we don't have the ability to pull the original encrypted file needed to get the drive to boot into safe mode. It basically has a 130ish MB installed file on a custom XBFS partition at the start of the drive and the console looks for that when booting up. If it doesn't see the file or if it doesn't match what's stored on the flash rom on board it'll instantly turn back off. Unfortunately that file also mutates every time you reinstall the system too

@Bunceythegreat Год назад

@@TheCod3r that sucks pal, if only someone had designed a peice kit, that you could pull the motherboard serial with what suppose to be the matching serial and rewrite

@TheHandsomeman Год назад

You got screwed.

@teknozombie4893 Год назад

Another Frankenstien build, All parts of different consoles. So common now.

@flyersluver4eva Год назад

Always check feedback. I wouldn’t go nere a seller who sold 3 items,

@cfunkbooya Год назад

I am 1000% confident that you could get that dent out sand down the case paint it what ever color you want and you could sell it for more than 50 quid I'm a yank so dont hurt me too ad if i said that wrong lmfao. But on a serious note do it up nice and auction it off to patron's or subscribers.