Fixed an broken DVD drive

20Mar2011

December 2010 I got my second Xbox 360, to Jtag it. But before I was able to Jtag it I did something wrong. You see this picture? its the xbox 360 freshly opened and unmodded. 2 minutes later there was some smoke and smell of burning pcb.

Let me tell you, It was all my own fault. But I learned allot and this story is going to end Good... well Its not over yet. read on after the break.

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You can see this ? its the main pcb of the dvd drive of my working Xbox 360... Before killed it...

Lets take a look, you see all nice resistors, capacitors and a big IC... nice family isn't it?

let reconnect it to the xbox and play some games... data cable, done, power cable, done, power on, done.... wait ... what is that smell ?

SMOKE... NOOOooo... Yea switch it off... damm, what did i do wrong?

NEVER connect the power connector upside down ! or you blow out some serious parts.

Its a bit shinny here, but you can see and compare the following parts: U7, R204 and R207 are a bit changed.

Actually, R204 is now a resistor of 356 Ohm and R207 1K5 and something and... Increasing !! 1117 is kinda ok.. I dunno how to test it. He just tells me he got a headache... time for a soldering iron and replacement parts...

To find this part wasn't that hard. Ill add some URL's I found along the way. Actually I you look good on the original board you see a 1117-18 and on X-S they have many similar situations and all related to the reversed power connector.
according to the internet its a regulator, and a replacement part is just a few cents away. I have some left, so check out the store if your looking for some.

Datasheet:
http://www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/iru1117-18.pdf

Random website with the same problem, some tried a firmware Hack:
http://forums.360mods.net/showthread.php?23333-Problem-Pcb-74850c-When-Open-Drive-or-dead-laizer

Anyway, Its a easy fix if you made just this mistake and nothing more is broken.

• Resistors of 0 Ohm is replaceable by bare wire or a new one of 0 ohm... (Ill replace my fix with some real 0 ohm when I found my donor board back)
• 1117 is a cheap component and easy to replace. Keep in mind, for this pcb its a 1.8 Volt version. Fixed so to speak

Its not very beautiful, but it works and looks it doesn't come of anytime soon.

Another closeup of my 5 minute fix:

Total fix cost?

€ 0.225 and 5 minutes soldering. (Xbox was already disassembled.)

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