The Xbox, Not as Pretty as it was when I bought it 7 years ago. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7254 The Xbox, Not as Pretty as it was when I bought it 7 years ago. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7254 To begin dissasembly, flip the console so it is upside-down. Remove the 4 Rubber Pads with a flathead screwdriver, or a heavy duty spudger. It takes a little force to get them off. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7255 To begin dissasembly, flip the console so it is upside-down. Remove the 4 Rubber Pads with a flathead screwdriver, or a heavy duty spudger. It takes a little force to get them off. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7255 Doing this should reveal 4 T10 Torx Screws, But, there are 2 More hidden by stickers. The other 2 are shown in yellow. Removing the 2 screws hidden by stickers will void your warrenty, even though, I'm sure that your warrenty has already expired. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7256 Doing this should reveal 4 T10 Torx Screws, But, there are 2 More hidden by stickers. The other 2 are shown in yellow. Removing the 2 screws hidden by stickers will void your warrenty, even though, I'm sure that your warrenty has already expired. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7256 Doing this should reveal 4 T10 Torx Screws, But, there are 2 More hidden by stickers. The other 2 are shown in yellow. Removing the 2 screws hidden by stickers will void your warrenty, even though, I'm sure that your warrenty has already expired. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7256 Removing the 6 T10 Screws. Hmm, where heve we seen these before? My Xbox 360 Teardown, of course! /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7257 Removing the 6 T10 Screws. Hmm, where heve we seen these before? My Xbox 360 Teardown, of course! /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7257 To remove the top half of the console, flip it upright, and use a flathead screwdriver to seperate the two halves. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7258 To remove the top half of the console, flip it upright, and use a flathead screwdriver to seperate the two halves. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7258 To remove the top half of the console, flip it upright, and use a flathead screwdriver to seperate the two halves. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7258 Simply lift the top half off. This reveals the drives. From Left To Right: The DVD-ROM Drive, And A Seagate 8GB Parallel ATA Drive /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7259 Simply lift the top half off. This reveals the drives. From Left To Right: The DVD-ROM Drive, And A Seagate 8GB Parallel ATA Drive /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7259 Removing The Drives Start By removing the ATA Cable from both drives. There might be a piece of double sidded tape holding the ribbon cabble in place. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7260 Removing The Drives Start By removing the ATA Cable from both drives. There might be a piece of double sidded tape holding the ribbon cabble in place. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7260 Then Remove the power cables from the drives. The Hard Drive Uses Standard Power Adaptor, but the DVD-ROM drive, uses a proprietary xbox connector similar to that of the xbox 360. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7261 Then Remove the power cables from the drives. The Hard Drive Uses Standard Power Adaptor, but the DVD-ROM drive, uses a proprietary xbox connector similar to that of the xbox 360. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7261 Removing the DVD-ROM Power /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7262 Removing the DVD-ROM Power /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7262 Before we can continue, there are 3 T8 Torx screws hidden here that we need to remove. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7263 Lift the hard drive and the plastic attatched to it out, you will need to route the power cable so you can get it out. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7264 Lift the hard drive and the plastic attatched to it out, you will need to route the power cable so you can get it out. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7264 Removing the DVD-ROM Drive. Lift the DVD-ROM drive and the plastic attatched to it out. This reveals the logic board. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7265 Removing the DVD-ROM Drive. Lift the DVD-ROM drive and the plastic attatched to it out. This reveals the logic board. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7265 Removing the DVD-ROM Drive. Lift the DVD-ROM drive and the plastic attatched to it out. This reveals the logic board. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7265 The Logic Board /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7266 Removing the Heatsinks. The Big one to the right, is the CPU, the smaller one to the left is for the GPU. Lift the black tab up on the cpu heatsink. this will release the tension on the chip. Then use a flathead screwdriver to remove the clip. Then Lift the CPU heatsink out (this may take some force) /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7267 Removing the Heatsinks. The Big one to the right, is the CPU, the smaller one to the left is for the GPU. Lift the black tab up on the cpu heatsink. this will release the tension on the chip. Then use a flathead screwdriver to remove the clip. Then Lift the CPU heatsink out (this may take some force) /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7267 The CPU So What's Under Door Number One? An Intel Pentium III CPU running at 733Mhz. This is actualy a surprise, because almost every other console out there uses an IBM PowerPC CPU, this makes us wonder, could this console emulate windows? It also raises the question, why did Microsoft Switch to PowerPC, around the same time Apple switched to Intel? /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7268 The GPU Push on the tab on the GPU Heatsink, While doing this, use a flathead screwdriver to push on the tab, so when released, it clears the latch Be Careful, if you break any one of these tabs, then, your heatsinks will not be usable, and your console will fry, if you try to run it. Removing the GPU heatsink, revealls a NVIDIA Custon Chip. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7269 The GPU Push on the tab on the GPU Heatsink, While doing this, use a flathead screwdriver to push on the tab, so when released, it clears the latch Be Careful, if you break any one of these tabs, then, your heatsinks will not be usable, and your console will fry, if you try to run it. Removing the GPU heatsink, revealls a NVIDIA Custon Chip. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7269 The GPU Push on the tab on the GPU Heatsink, While doing this, use a flathead screwdriver to push on the tab, so when released, it clears the latch Be Careful, if you break any one of these tabs, then, your heatsinks will not be usable, and your console will fry, if you try to run it. Removing the GPU heatsink, revealls a NVIDIA Custon Chip. /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7269 The Logic Board Overview: The CPU: An Integrated Intel Pentium III CPU Clocked at 733Mhz with a 100Mhz Front Side Bus The GPU: A Custom NVIDIA Chip. I can't find much info on this chip, but I will try to update this. The Power Supply: Be Carefull When Working on this, you can get shocked by this if you touch it. The power connector is similar to that of an AT Power Supply found in 90's computers The ATA Header: This connects both drives to the Xbox Logic Board. The A/V Ports The Ethernet Port /Teardown/Xbox-Teardown/1324/all#s7321