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I have an xbox with a red blinking ring around the power button. The disc drive will not open and the main screen says I need to get tech assistence. There is more information on the net about the 360 and diagnosing issues by blink codes… I was wondering if the origenal xbox has similar codes and where i might start the troubleshooting process
I looked around and found some guys discussing the blink codes for an Xbox on 2005, so they are most likely discussing the first Xbox. Solid red, overheated.Flashing green, bad bios load.Flashing red-orange, bad video outputFlashing red-green, system faliure (can be alot of things) Here was where I found the thread if you wanted to read through their discussion. As long as its not flashing red and green, it would be safe to assume your Xbox is overheating.
Unplug and reconnect both the hard drive and the DVD drive IDE cable (data cable) to fix the red-green flashing problem. Apparently the contacts get dirty and this cleans them up a bit. Be sure to have the AC cord (power cord) unplugged while doing this.
it can be failure of modchip
i only found out my Xbox was doing the same thing!
Usually the Xbox will display an error code on screen usually in the upper left hand corner, could be like 05 or 06 or something like that.
I have a code 08 in the upper left. Goes past splash screen and immediately to “need service” screen. No set-up (time, date) screen. Flashes red/green
If you have an error 7 , your harddrive most likely died. The only fix is to use the eeprom to build a new drive. If you never modded your xbox and backed up the eeprom , the only way to retrieve it is with an eeprom reader. http://www.instructables.com/id/XBox-EEP…
Okay I just got me a couple of original Xbox consoles on one of them the people who had it accidentally messed up the disc drive tray and it would hardly play because it was going in crooked I guess everything else seem to work okay except also the plugins where you plug your controller into only the third one worked. The other one was a fairly new old Xbox we got out a buddy of mine’s garage and it work and plays great when it’s playing it had the button issue power button you can hit it wouldn’t come on yet unplug it and plug it back in and reset the time of date but at times you got to where it wouldn’t do nothing so I watch the videos on how to take it apart I took it apart there was a lot of dust in the older one I got compressed air and blew it all out after taking the two drives out I was very careful about taking it apart and cleaning it I put the two drives and the two controller ports out of the newer one into the older one I didn’t change the motherboard should I have? Is that why it flashes red and green. Should I have changed the motherboard as well? The code was a 06.
So I have this Xbox I got back in 2001 never used it 2 days ago I open it up and connected to my tv power on and the power button flashing red green also on the tv screen it say 12 please call Xbox support. Well I’m sure it’s long pass the IW time, is any one can help me or point me how to fixed this Xbox, or should I just dump it and buy a new one. Thanks PakoÇ
