Gain New Life For Your Xbox With Four Simple Steps

Your original Xbox is ready for some TLC. Let's do it together to add years of life to your system.

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Heat Gun (just don't use it to dry your hair 🤣)

Thermal Paste Remover

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste

Bamboo Toothpicks

Never Ending Compressed Air Kit

Nexus 70mm Fan

Zip Ties Set

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[blainelocklair]

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[MR.Peanut]

There where a few caps near the gpu/cpu that need to be replaced since they are bulging

[mkfreak]

Just a tip for removing the DVD drive or working on the mainboard.
The HDD always goes out first and goes in last. This is why the DVD drive caddy has this nose on the side.
You don't need to fiddle around like you did in this video.
The thermal paste was always like this even when the console came out. It's more like a glue then a paste.
I wish I had this remover for it back then. 😅

[KuraV]

Great guide as usual! I got an xbox a few months ago and did these steps back then but this is the best tutorial on yt! I've just got a PS3 and been following your guides on jailbreaking with the Evilnat CFW and setting up webman and multilane for playing backups!

[tybread]

One other thing I would recommend is replacing the rubber band in the DVD drive. I haven't had an issue with the Phillips drives with that, but every Samsung drive had an issue with it. I've saved so much money buying a couple of Xbox's with a "stuck DVD drive" that the only issue was needed a new rubber band.

[Spade_Blade]

Nice I've had a classic Xbox in my closet for a bit thinking about modding it helpful guide

[clydecashDEEP]

I have no Xbox, but that didn't stop me from watching 3 of your xbox videos in a row. 👍

[ghostvgm]

I hate that gunk under the heatsinks. WD40 on a rag takes care of that paste really well. Just wipe off the WD40 with some alcohol after. For those tall caps by the CPU and GPU, with those bulging, the console will eventually stop powering on. I ran into several, and those are almost always bulging. Console5 is a great place to get capacitors for multiple retro consoles.

[soap]

Very nice vid! when is the hdd upgrade video coming?

[Siege_J]

Thank you Blaine for this video. I have this console but unfortunately it's up in my closet with the RROD. I wish I could get it back up and running, it was my favorite console growing up

[SantiGiuffrida]

I think you also need to replace all those bulged caps.

[CarsandCats]

You have bad (swollen) capacitors around your CPU and they need to be replaced. I just did this job on a 1.6 that would not turn on after sitting for a year.

[MichaelM]

Why didn't you swap the IDE hard drive for a Sata hard drive or SSD?

[lucag.lisickza]

elbow grease in english
olio di gomito in italian
Thanx for this guide dude

[leonarddurecki]

I have a 2002 Xbox so I'm definitely worried about the clock capacitor, is it hard to remove?

[linuxviking]

Is it not recommended to replace the clock cap?

[LuisRamos-ojfd]

Hey there no need to unplug the power button cables to remove the power supply

[Bman-fcth]

Can you make a video on how to play online on ps3 with cfw without a psn account I don’t have one and you can’t make them anymore?

[boostednationkrew]

Is their anyway you can mod a Xbox 360 slim without soldering

[KennyFrierson]

I guess you could call it a head dryer