bag of worms ,my friend...i am sure the first thing that went was a mosfet(s) (most are 3 or 5 volt stand by)
the power supply turns red indicating there is a short in the motherboard...you can pull the mosfets and check them...water will direct short them way before the power supply can shut down....

forgot about the sandpaper bit to...

ok i am done..........sorry....and i will pass on the xbox-scene bs you said..

ain't this a General Discussion?

just off chances it can also be the cpu let along what Arakon posted....

one of the solder-balls can be mended to another causing a direct short....
which calls for a re-balling to either .......
3/4 of the time when a cpu gets this way...its a user error on a reheat/reflow-gone-bad!

that's what the hole HD section is used for

Most of the bad pics posted here look like a 14 year old who drank 2L of Mountain Dew and tried to rush through the job in order to get his "backups" working.


MINT

well this is called xboxhacker not xboxhackEmUp.......and post your worst...lol

I do know most don't have your common scene so

and some also think that 3.3 volts when soldered wrong won't cause harm when they short them out.
(ERASE THAT FROM YOUR BRAINS...and you ask why is my PSUs light RED)that is false in many ways...I won't even post about this.you should know why
if you can lay down a pin head of flux and tin the wire place it on the pad and then let the tip softly down..
if you have to "push that tip hard" with that pinhead of flux on that spot ...........STOP.........

THE ABC's of soldering for noobs  
A)Your iron is to hot (yes iron not gun don't use a radio shack f****** semi gun(as big as a truck for these spots).
B) Your tip is not clean and tinted (not tinted tips = solder will stick to the tip if not sides of it trying to tin it up and your holding the iron on the pad/hole to f****** long and starting to overheat and or burn a pad or areas of traces off, so make sure the tip is tinted..
C)your iron is either warn out and can't heat because it's to brown/black or a 'lock screw tip' (screw on ones are more solid and or stations)

EXAMPLE: I dunk my tip in my flux (850f tip) wipe it on my handy sponge(not pants:P) then solder the area to be soldered.....

good day!

Sorry if this was the wrong forum

correction!
Sorry if this was the wrong section....

anyways, time for a new DVD-drive.....give us a should back when your ready to go......

what in the f*** is with all this "i though i can solder $#!t" "what did i do wrong my pad is 2mm and my tip is 15mm"...lol
do these noobs know this ain't some pos toy to just f*** it up and it will repair itself?

I am surprised not 1 noob asked for a SOLDER-LESS JTAG setup........

my freaking 10 year old can solder better then half the $#!t i seen on this forums.....
#$#$!#@$$#$$!# god does this piss me off......
ok done venting.....
  

you can also do the first check of any dvd-drive...clean the lens off.....I use my breath with a cotton swab...works great(no comments on the dragon breath please..lol)

just wanted you to be aware of it...that it's been posted...
good job though it's nice to see good soldering...as you know we freak out when we see ...OMG i f***ed my box up..don't know why look at my great soldering......nOT...lmfao
and being such a short distance your ok with the wiring..
P.S if you don't mind can you just post this in the ALT section? and add it to the rest of the pics?
P.S i trace these boards alot...man it gets tricky when your eyes can't focus perfect down the paths freakin 32 gauge copper:)

that would be greattttttttttttttt...lol

wtf is  soldering pants...lmfao
I never wore any

lmfao Gazcoigne.....

Im not asking you to be a dick...
no your not, and i am a prick...... kids ain't got nothing to do with learning all this...
I have 6 kids and no wife and only me to care for them and run my shops ...that don't stop me...NEXT...you have no f****** excuse...
your excuses are pure lame...maybe you can pop on over to xbox-scene and get spoon fed there...they love that $#!t....

P.S you climbed in the wrong boat pal....now sink!
 

nice fins bs, we posted on this alt spots already.......

Gazcoigne, you are using inductors in that pic......how they working out?

freaking noob.....what a waist of my time...

please don't reference me to it there are a million links and alot of information to go through and it isint really worth my time sifting through it all for two consoles that were bought for 25$


start reading you lazy f***...
what are you special that you can't read and learn...a console is a console it ain't about the money ....it's about learning

compiled huh?
use Xexmenu then load redline99's flash360 from a usb drive to flash xbr_3a along with your kv and config...
no need for SPI/LPT wires anymore

damm very!.....
funny thing is ebay don't give a $#!t.....for that price he's paying good listing fees to them

sounds like it.. re-flash 3a
if you have a remote, try the xbox button....