The reach console will ALWAYS be special to me. It was the first 360 I bought while stationed in Iraq. The sounds it makes are a special little touch you dont see often. The color for it is amazing! I just love it.
At the moment I am trying to rebuild a Star Wars Edition slim. Got it for 20 Euros with an OG Xbox Duke controller and some games (quite a weird bundle actually, one of the games was GTA 4 for PC). All panels except for the side panels and the blue brace on the disk drive were replaced with panels from a black Xbox 360 slim (non-glossy). The sidepanels were still in really good condition, except for a minor scratch. The special sounds and everything still works. Now I am looking for a defective one, don't even care what defect it has, as long as the front panel is in good condition. And of course I need the C3PO controller. Might take a year or two for me to find a defective one, but I know I'll get it eventually.
It's so good to see you on video again. I've been a subscriber for a while, and have always enjoyed your videos. I genuinely wish a speedy recovery. I hate that you're going through so much...one of my really good friends growing up was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, and I've been calling him every other day trying to get him online to play games etc. I bought him a Steam Deck just so we can play together. So your situation hits really close to home, and I wish you and your family all the best! Stay positive, my friend, and thank you for sharing so much of your work and journey with all of us online idiots! :P
Sorry to hear about your friend. Colon cancer is rough. Online idiots, lol. I usually refer to my audience as my "internet friends" but I might like online idiots better lol
"It doesn't smell like roaches." Roach infestation is such a unique smell. I used to work at Gamestop for half a decade and you could ALWAYS tell when a buggy (roach infested) console came through the door as soon as the person put it up on the counter for a trade-in. It was so disgusting. That smell is something you won't soon forget. Even now, 10 years later, I can still recall the sweet yet offensive smell. It just fills your nose.
As a building manager, I have developed a keen sense for detecting the presence of rats. In the building where I used to work, we had a severe rat infestation that took years to eradicate, and now I can detect the presence of rats from a distance.
No body talks about it, but that ESD Booster takes an insane amount of heat to remove! Same with the Redriver and even the port lol Another job done! Always making it look easy Steve! :)
I check on your videos time to time, I cant even solder 2 wire. I just found out your condition. I wish u all the best bro! Keep saving these filthy consolse!
I saw a short of you and I was shocked how your look changed drastically so I know something is wrong. Glad you are still making vids man, I salute you. Like you I'm a tinker, when I see something is broken I always feel the urge to disassemble and hopefully fix it. Everything started at first grade where I destroyed most of my toys and as I grew, wandered around and found myself working on electonic repair shop and cellphone repair shop. As years pass by I noticed my health is degrading. Visit a doctor and he said that my immune system is probably not in a good shape and asked me a bunch of questions. When he found out about my passion he said which is tinkering on electronic devices while using soldering iron and lead he instantly said to get aways from those things at least for a year. Turns out chemicals, fumes, and other things that is involved on an electronic device are bad for your health. Fumes can cause some damage on lungs and can affect your immune system. Soldering lead is also bad because after touching those you would most probably touch your eye or mouth which is a bad thing. These things doesn't harm you in a day but it will go unnoticed until it's too late. If I were to decide I want you to stop but I know that this is your passion, stopping is like not living. My tip is just that be more careful, wear gloves, mask and something to protect your eyes. Wash your hands after repairing something or much better is to take a bath and putting those broken things away from your home(like put it on a warehouse or something) would lessen your exposure to hazardous things. I hope you get well soon and I hope you fix more things.
Hi Steve! Considering someone mismatched the fan and there is actually no startup chime, I believe you have either dead or mismatched SSD on that xbox, not a problem with a HDMI circuit. If thats a case, you wouldnt be able to fix those first boards anyway. Great video!
Hey there steve, it's been awhile but I used to frequently watch your channel. Just found out about your condition, so sorry to hear that but I hope you make a full recovery soon. Because of you I managed to learn valuable skills in repair especially in consoles and it really helped me start somewhat of a business for myself repairing old consoles.
Love you're videos dude. You are doing what I always wanted to do growing up. I went the route of computers though. Electrical engineering was haaaaard. Keep up the great videos!
Hey my friend I don’t usually comment or like videos but I dropped a like and wanting to let you know I’ve seen some of your videos before and now seeing this one which I hadn’t seen any In a while I want to say my mother is a cancer survivor and hope this comment and like helps your pocket I’m glad to read about your health and see your doing better , prayers 🙏
Found your videos about a month ago. Good stuff. Thanks for listing your equipment and providing links. You inspired me to upgrade my 1980s antiquated tools for some new iFixit and Hakko replacements, so far about $300 worth. Keep up the good work and stay healthy!
Happy you're doing and looking better. You've been a valuable part in the development of my personal skills and a great informative channel to just watch. Hoping for decades more videos❤
I haven’t watched in a while and you popped up in my in my feed and I was like oh no. My wife finished treatment for NHL back in March. I’m glad you had the best response to treatment. My wife did too. Anyways, hope all of your future scans show it’s gone for good. Great videos by the way.
hey steve,wish u a speedy recovery i really hope u get well soon,it's been a while,i just found out. I will watch all your videos that i missed cause buddy you are the BEST . THANK YOU for everything
Man i love watching you repair such sensitive electronics and get it to work every time. iam very impressed how you pull this over to work again. Greetings from Austrian
I haven't seen a video of yours in over 3 months and I really didn't know what you were going through 😕 I wish you a good recovery sir 🙂and also a thank you because thanks to you i fix my xbox and the laptop by myself. Greetings from Albania
20:14 - So important to cleanup and inspect after a repair. Fried a few boards by not following this simple step. I tend to even inspect other areas of the board afterwards also. Those components are so small they fly everywhere (9th dimension).
Am sure am not the only one who comes back home after a long day at work grab a bite fire up a video and just chill so therapeutic keep up the good work man and thank you
Bought one of these new. I rarely play on it so its still like new. Such a nice console. Looks good to Steve! Hang in there we are all rooting for you.
Enjoyed your thorough breakdown during the repair process, especially when diagnosing the HDMI problem. Wish the original motherboard could have been fixed.
Awesome channel. Are there any more disaster fixes you have? I’ve seen a few of your “this was in a fire” videos and I find it amazing to see your reaction with attempting to fix these trainswrecks.
Because of you my ps5 went from cutting out when gaming to being clean completely thank you so much if you have a good soldering tutorial i'd like to learn
Hi ! I recently bought a broken series x halo edition just like this one ! I thought that if it wasn't repairable, i would swap all the components inside with those of a standard working console... Then i thought about the special startup sound that i would no longer have... until i came across this video!!! I will show this video to the technician so he can do the same thing if the console is not repairable ! thank you so much, i hope you are doing well!
My cousin is recovering from a very aggressive cancer. Chemo sucks... Man, I know you can beat that f*ing illness. My best wishes and strength to you! I hope you recover soon!
Just curious why you never use electronic specific swabs for cleaning instead of the cotton swabs?? The foam swabs are so much better and leave no fibers behind. Love your videos.
Stupid question. When you replace the chip at 10:30 how do you know it’s connected properly? When you move it around does it kind of lock into place at some point?
Great to see you finally getting a paid partnership with BW100. I know you've always been a huge proponent of the product and it's great to see them value that.
@@Tronicsfix I just wish xbox didn't have that security partition that makes series consoles useless without original. Otherwise love your content Steve. All the best and love from South Africa 🇿🇦🎮
I enjoy watching your repair videos. If you ever need a PS2 Slim to dona repair video on for nostalgia, let me know. I have one that doesn’t load discs.
I normally tend to dislike repairs that replace the entire board, but in this case it's justifiable since there is nothing special about the broken board other than the costum sound components which gladly everyboard had the pads for, so transplanting that from one to a good board is much more entertaining and is good to see a special console ready to be used again
Whatever you're going through I hope you feel better and make a full recovery. You're a good dude and I wish you the best
Great to see that you look better. Have the Halo Edition of all xbox`s so far. Love the x360 - Reach Editon.
That's an awesome colletion!
The reach console will ALWAYS be special to me. It was the first 360 I bought while stationed in Iraq. The sounds it makes are a special little touch you dont see often. The color for it is amazing! I just love it.
I was gonna collect them too. So far I have a halo edition OG xbox and a Halo 3 xbox 360 on the blades dash
@@YM124Damn, that Halo 3 with Blades is incredible. I desperately want one some day, currently just have the Halo 4 special edition.
At the moment I am trying to rebuild a Star Wars Edition slim. Got it for 20 Euros with an OG Xbox Duke controller and some games (quite a weird bundle actually, one of the games was GTA 4 for PC). All panels except for the side panels and the blue brace on the disk drive were replaced with panels from a black Xbox 360 slim (non-glossy). The sidepanels were still in really good condition, except for a minor scratch. The special sounds and everything still works. Now I am looking for a defective one, don't even care what defect it has, as long as the front panel is in good condition. And of course I need the C3PO controller. Might take a year or two for me to find a defective one, but I know I'll get it eventually.
How you feeling man? Praying for you in my household. You're my go to for repairs man. Makes my day better and helps me realign for the day.
It's so good to see you on video again. I've been a subscriber for a while, and have always enjoyed your videos. I genuinely wish a speedy recovery. I hate that you're going through so much...one of my really good friends growing up was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, and I've been calling him every other day trying to get him online to play games etc. I bought him a Steam Deck just so we can play together. So your situation hits really close to home, and I wish you and your family all the best! Stay positive, my friend, and thank you for sharing so much of your work and journey with all of us online idiots! :P
Sorry to hear about your friend. Colon cancer is rough.
Online idiots, lol. I usually refer to my audience as my "internet friends" but I might like online idiots better lol
"It doesn't smell like roaches." Roach infestation is such a unique smell. I used to work at Gamestop for half a decade and you could ALWAYS tell when a buggy (roach infested) console came through the door as soon as the person put it up on the counter for a trade-in. It was so disgusting. That smell is something you won't soon forget. Even now, 10 years later, I can still recall the sweet yet offensive smell. It just fills your nose.
Yep, same! Something you never forget
@@SmokeGSU did you take it anyway?
As a building manager, I have developed a keen sense for detecting the presence of rats. In the building where I used to work, we had a severe rat infestation that took years to eradicate, and now I can detect the presence of rats from a distance.
Whats the smell similar to? I've always been curious and never want to actually find out lol
@@shaynekatchmark810 Almonds
No body talks about it, but that ESD Booster takes an insane amount of heat to remove! Same with the Redriver and even the port lol
Another job done! Always making it look easy Steve! :)
Yep, these boards are THICK and take a ton of heat.
I check on your videos time to time, I cant even solder 2 wire. I just found out your condition. I wish u all the best bro! Keep saving these filthy consolse!
I saw a short of you and I was shocked how your look changed drastically so I know something is wrong. Glad you are still making vids man, I salute you. Like you I'm a tinker, when I see something is broken I always feel the urge to disassemble and hopefully fix it. Everything started at first grade where I destroyed most of my toys and as I grew, wandered around and found myself working on electonic repair shop and cellphone repair shop. As years pass by I noticed my health is degrading. Visit a doctor and he said that my immune system is probably not in a good shape and asked me a bunch of questions. When he found out about my passion he said which is tinkering on electronic devices while using soldering iron and lead he instantly said to get aways from those things at least for a year. Turns out chemicals, fumes, and other things that is involved on an electronic device are bad for your health. Fumes can cause some damage on lungs and can affect your immune system. Soldering lead is also bad because after touching those you would most probably touch your eye or mouth which is a bad thing. These things doesn't harm you in a day but it will go unnoticed until it's too late. If I were to decide I want you to stop but I know that this is your passion, stopping is like not living. My tip is just that be more careful, wear gloves, mask and something to protect your eyes. Wash your hands after repairing something or much better is to take a bath and putting those broken things away from your home(like put it on a warehouse or something) would lessen your exposure to hazardous things. I hope you get well soon and I hope you fix more things.
Hi Steve! Considering someone mismatched the fan and there is actually no startup chime, I believe you have either dead or mismatched SSD on that xbox, not a problem with a HDMI circuit. If thats a case, you wouldnt be able to fix those first boards anyway. Great video!
Yeah i also think that, if that SSD isn't the original one or if is faulty that could be the problem on this XBox.
Doesn't it power right back off if it's an SSD problem? This seems to be keeping the white light on.
The Power Chime can be turned off in Settings
If the SSD is good and you make an image then clone it into a different SSD, would it work?
@@LagrangePoint0 yes, considering you have correct SSD and that specific piece of data is not corrupted and you are actually able to clone it
Hey there steve, it's been awhile but I used to frequently watch your channel. Just found out about your condition, so sorry to hear that but I hope you make a full recovery soon. Because of you I managed to learn valuable skills in repair especially in consoles and it really helped me start somewhat of a business for myself repairing old consoles.
thats some next level repair job, great work Steve!!
I suppose I haven't checked out your channel in a while.
Whatever going on, I hope you get better and the treatment works! ❤
I had cancer, got treatment, now in remission
@@Tronicsfixgreat to see you’re in remission bud.
Keep pushing through mate , you have got this man , hope you feel better .
This guy has a great smile! I hope you are doing well in your recovery!
Another awesome repair, great job Steve!
I am on the hunt for the mythical SpongeBob Xbox if a broken one ever pops up.
I didn't even know that existed until I read your comment. I am also now on the hunt, lol. BUT I'm looking for a broken one.
On the off chance I find one I’m sending it over for the video
They have a SpongeBob Xbox? 😂
It’s brand new btw
@@TronicsfixI found it on eBay but I can’t send the link here,it keeps deleting
Love you're videos dude. You are doing what I always wanted to do growing up. I went the route of computers though. Electrical engineering was haaaaard. Keep up the great videos!
This edition is really special and I love the design. Great video. Your videos are always very informative!
Neat to see another one of my favorite You Tubers here too!
Hey my friend I don’t usually comment or like videos but I dropped a like and wanting to let you know I’ve seen some of your videos before and now seeing this one which I hadn’t seen any In a while I want to say my mother is a cancer survivor and hope this comment and like helps your pocket I’m glad to read about your health and see your doing better , prayers 🙏
Found your videos about a month ago. Good stuff. Thanks for listing your equipment and providing links. You inspired me to upgrade my 1980s antiquated tools for some new iFixit and Hakko replacements, so far about $300 worth. Keep up the good work and stay healthy!
Happy you're doing and looking better. You've been a valuable part in the development of my personal skills and a great informative channel to just watch. Hoping for decades more videos❤
Always enjoying your work dude!!
I wish you a full recovery from whatever you are going through from the bottom of my heart!!!
My Nintendo switch has a weird problem with the charge chip, causing a blue screen of death. I don't know if you've seen that before
Search the 5 broken switches video from him, minute 27:15 appears a blue screen of death
Blue screen is usually an issue with cracked solder balls under the APU.
@@MizuhoChan Yeah I tried that one trick by applying pressure in the area and that didn't work
I haven’t watched in a while and you popped up in my in my feed and I was like oh no. My wife finished treatment for NHL back in March. I’m glad you had the best response to treatment. My wife did too. Anyways, hope all of your future scans show it’s gone for good. Great videos by the way.
I used to watch your videos everyday got hooked during lock down ....damn bro glad you made it ,stay strong brother
I love watching your fixes. I had a xbox series x but it got stolen 4 days after i got it. I love seeing the ins and out of your knowledge
was your Xbox Series X stolen by a friend or a relative in their home while they borrowed it from you or in your home?
Hey brother I hope all is well. My prayers for your recovery man. I just found your channel and really enjoy you work.
hey steve,wish u a speedy recovery i really hope u get well soon,it's been a while,i just found out. I will watch all your videos that i missed cause buddy you are the BEST . THANK YOU for everything
Man i love watching you repair such sensitive electronics and get it to work every time. iam very impressed how you pull this over to work again. Greetings from Austrian
Dude best Friday so far new upload I've been watching all you're recent videos
Would be great if you showed the actual fix time at the end of the video.
Gives a better indication of how much effort was involved
Great video
I love how most of the fixes starts with some nasty gunk underneath the surface 🤣
18:49 those are parts?! I thought those were solder specks you were removing. Great job getting it working again!
I haven't seen a video of yours in over 3 months and I really didn't know what you were going through 😕 I wish you a good recovery sir 🙂and also a thank you because thanks to you i fix my xbox and the laptop by myself.
Greetings from Albania
Love you Steve glad to see you working on micro components. Keep up they hard work your amazing. ❤❤❤❤
18:20 Really liked this side by side segment!
Love your content! Best wishes to you From Finland 🙏❤
Never been a Xbox guy, but this one is definitely cool and one I would like to pickup. Thanks for sharing with us bud!
20:14 - So important to cleanup and inspect after a repair. Fried a few boards by not following this simple step. I tend to even inspect other areas of the board afterwards also. Those components are so small they fly everywhere (9th dimension).
Man Kudos to You! I fixed many consoles, but that "Sniff" is what I try to avoid every time and U just go for it XD!
Respect !!
Am sure am not the only one who comes back home after a long day at work grab a bite fire up a video and just chill so therapeutic keep up the good work man and thank you
Glad to see the swelling has gone down brotha!! Wishing the best and a speedy recovery!! Love your content keep it up 👍
Bought one of these new. I rarely play on it so its still like new. Such a nice console. Looks good to Steve! Hang in there we are all rooting for you.
Enjoyed your thorough breakdown during the repair process, especially when diagnosing the HDMI problem. Wish the original motherboard could have been fixed.
Awesome channel. Are there any more disaster fixes you have? I’ve seen a few of your “this was in a fire” videos and I find it amazing to see your reaction with attempting to fix these trainswrecks.
8:31 It looks like there's a stray solder blob. I wonder if there's more stray solder somewhere else on the board that's shorting something out.
Because of you my ps5 went from cutting out when gaming to being clean completely thank you so much if you have a good soldering
tutorial i'd like to learn
There’s a soldering course he did linked in the description
The great TronicsFix tore some pads! I'm amazed. Lol just playing. Love your content steve!
Hoping all is well with you! Love all your videos! I learn so much from them.
I held my breath when you moved those ultra tiny tiny components over. Good work as always.
Hi !
I recently bought a broken series x halo edition just like this one !
I thought that if it wasn't repairable, i would swap all the components inside with those of a standard working console... Then i thought about the special startup sound that i would no longer have... until i came across this video!!!
I will show this video to the technician so he can do the same thing if the console is not repairable !
thank you so much, i hope you are doing well!
It’s great to see you better. Love you brother ❤️
Glad to see that you got this unit repaired after investing so much work into it.
Wow, Steve pulls it off again. Great job and video. I have learned so much from your content. Thank you
Glad to see you getting better! Is there any chance we can ask for a guide to thermal paste on youtube?
I just saw & figured something was up & sorry to hear what been going on so Godbless & I pray you get cured. Take care.
Woah man, been watching since middleschool. Now that im on my own its crazy to see youre still fighting like hell
Hey,keep smiling! I am a cancer survivor since 1996. will send prayers!
My cousin is recovering from a very aggressive cancer. Chemo sucks... Man, I know you can beat that f*ing illness. My best wishes and strength to you! I hope you recover soon!
I do appreciate your videos and wish you a fast recovery. God bless you ❤
Should sell custom speaker chips that say "I need the perfect amount of thermal paste!"
I'm sure those chips are somehow programmable. That would be amazing!
@@Tronicsfixand controller speaker chips that say “I’m thirsty for some BW-100”.
Just curious why you never use electronic specific swabs for cleaning instead of the cotton swabs?? The foam swabs are so much better and leave no fibers behind. Love your videos.
Hope your doing good. Keep up the great videos. Love watching your stuff, you are very talented
Dude awesome!!! That swap was amazing!
3:02 I'm pretty sure that Fan IS an original fan as the one you are thinking of is for a different special edition xbox console
This is what the fan should look like in these: ua-cam.com/video/uL2DvzP-dvQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ulwztSXnjm9LGC5y&t=238
@@Tronicsfix ahh i see, never mind then. disregard my comment above then
Stupid question. When you replace the chip at 10:30 how do you know it’s connected properly? When you move it around does it kind of lock into place at some point?
14:27 when was the hardware revision made on the series x and are there any benefits to newer revisions? I can’t find anything online about it.
I wish youu all the best my friend stay strong a keep your head up.Tnx so much for your briliant videos
You can turn the chime off in the settings on the xbox it might not of been broke. Great video as always
bought this for my son for xmas one year. hes 17 now and has had it since. great looking console
I like your soldering skills, I will definitely be purchasing your course, I want to learn more
Great Video Steve, love this Xbox.
im always betting on you being able to fix it. great video!
God bless you and your family glade your fighting the good fight best wishes to you and you wife and family🙏🏽 love your videos
Wish I'd of picked up this limited edition as so cool looking .
Great video as always fella
A great console and a great repair as usual. Hope you're doing better now.
Hey there Steve loved the video it was super cool to see this working could you possibly do a video on any Xbox 360 systems with the cool sound chip?
Thanks for the videos and hope you're doing well 👍
Awesome fix Steve!!
nevermind about the xbox, followed up your blog about your health instead. awesome that you beat the illness.fingers crossed it stays this way.
Great video! Hope to find this console one day!
That was an adventure. So happy it worked at the end!
Great to see you finally getting a paid partnership with BW100. I know you've always been a huge proponent of the product and it's great to see them value that.
Excellent work.
Nice xbox steve! great video as always!!!!
Thanks! Yeah, this is a cool one.
BW-100 also isn't conductive, so works on live circuits. Love that stuff!
😮 impressive work!!!
That non original fan would bug the hell out of me for eternity.
Yeah, it’s annoying
Stay strong brother ❤
wonderful work as always :)
Hi Steve. You look great. Just a quick question. Is the original m.2 still on the board?. So far i know it wont work or display without original M.2
As far as I know it's original but I don't know a way of checking that.
@@Tronicsfix I just wish xbox didn't have that security partition that makes series consoles useless without original. Otherwise love your content Steve. All the best and love from South Africa 🇿🇦🎮
Yep, I hate that they do that.
I wish there was more part 2s for stuff that like this. A motherboard thats tricky to fix so a deeper dive into it.
I enjoy watching your repair videos. If you ever need a PS2 Slim to dona repair video on for nostalgia, let me know. I have one that doesn’t load discs.
Nicely done Steve!
Amazing repair
This guy let's nothing stop him from doing what he loves!
I normally tend to dislike repairs that replace the entire board, but in this case it's justifiable since there is nothing special about the broken board other than the costum sound components which gladly everyboard had the pads for, so transplanting that from one to a good board is much more entertaining and is good to see a special console ready to be used again
I've owned this Xbox since it was released. It's by far my favorite limited edition console I've ever owned. Never had any issues either 😀
@20:25 there seemed to be a load of blue/white gunge above top left chip pin. Whats that?
Many surprises in store scary at the same time omg 😱