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Well I kept reading about how you should remove the RTC capacitor @C7G2/C7G3 because its known to reportedly fail 100% of the time. Which could cause the Board to short out and die. I went to cheek it yesterday and found the Three large Caps at C1E1, C2E3 & C3E2, were getting ready to go pop! Which they all did… But thankfully only after I got them all off the board!
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But unlike the RTC Cap. I’m guessing that those Three govern the power to the CPU, and are needed. Its just that unlike the RTC Cap that seems ok to me. Those in the Pic clearly were not.
Its an old XBOX v1.2 Mainboard just below the Intel Celeron CPU.
I guess they just got old. Those kinds of Caps have an electrolyte in them that can eat away at the PCB. (Thus the brew haha over the RTC Cap. Which is not in the Pic BTW).
Most Modders will just pull this cap off as all it does is hold the time for a bit while the XBOX is unplugged.
So imagine my disapointment when I saw that. (which is.. Or was my XBOX at the time. Before I removed said Caps. Now I have to wait for replacement parts to come in before I can rebuld it again.
FYI This is the First XBOX ~ca. 2002 not the, One or a Failbox360. Nothing particularly new about this Eleven year old Console. Which was built in 2003.
So are the caps just faulty or are they an unnecessary addition?