Original Xbox boot issues

[FUNKO]

I recently picked up an original Xbox for pretty cheap at a Goodwill. At first it appeared to be working fine. it does work perfectly for the most part. However, once it has been on for a bit if I try to turn it off and back on it starts to have problems. It will power on but it does not boot up and the disc tray will not open. If the disc eject button is pushed repeatedly it will sometimes boot up at this point and work fine from there. I am having trouble finding this specific problem or how to fix it. I have found a 30 second Youtube video that portrays this problem but nobody has helped him out either. I will post a link to this video at the end of this. It seems like it might be an overheating problem but I was hoping to find out exactly which component might be overheating and causing this problem. I do still need to clean all the dust out of the system and if that fixes it I will update this. By the way I believe this xbox is a version 1.4 or 1.5.

 

*update - It may be due to improper grounding of the board or bad transistors.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQjqVXu8O-M

Edited September 12, 2013 by FUNKO

[Osgeld]

or rotten capacitors, be careful around those things in the power supply section, they bite

[FUNKO]

*Update

 

I cleaned the system out entirely. It is in fact a version 1.4 and through testing this the board does appear to be grounded. The only bad capacitor I found was the clock capacitor. I took it out and cleaned up the leaked acid around it. The problem still occurs. Next step is to check the transistors.

[Greg2600]

Most of the time it is a leaky clock capacitor that gunks up the motherboard. I don't think that one being bad is the problem so much that it can damage traces on the mb resulting in problems like yours. If not it might be the power supply board itself.