I Paid £33 for a BROKEN Xbox One S - Can I Profit? #profit #xbox

I buy faulty electronic items from eBay, attempt to fix them, and sell them on for a profit.This is an Xbox One S that I paid a grand total of £33 for.Supposedly, the fault on this one is that we have no power.However, if we look at the warranty sticker, it has been tampered with before.So, like all good things, let's give this a test.Do we get power?

And when they say no power, sometimes they mean beep on, beep off.So let's see.Ah, completely dead.Okay, I'm excited about this.I like these ones.Could be something like a power supply or something a little bit more complex like a short on the 12 volt rail and it might end up being a MOSFET.

Right, first off, we're going to test the power supply, so DC voltage and just make sure we get 12 volts coming from it.If we don't get 12 volts coming from this, then it's just going to be a new power supply, which I have a lot of donors for.Looks like it's going to be reading though, as you can see from top right.12 volts?Yeah, 12 Vs. We don't have a short.Yeah, that MOSFET is obviously going to be okay.

Yeah, 12 volts is fine.Interesting then.So where's this falling over?Let's just have a look at the ports.So now I'm confused.Every single rail is present.

If I'm being honest, it doesn't make sense.So I've plugged the board back in.Do we get power now?We do.I heard a beep, but no light.Oh, there we go.

So it does work.It beeps off straight away, but we don't have anything else plugged in.Wait a minute.

Let's just clear up the thermal paste and see if there's maybe something like the disk drive causing a short or even potentially the hard drive.I don't know.Fans in.Oh, and it's spinning.So clearly, it's got power of some sort.Maybe it was just set to always on, which is why it's just coming on.

That looks like it's powering on.I mean, it's not beep on, beep off at the moment.Let's attach the hard drive.And why not the disk drive as well at this point?Plug in power.Press power.

Yeah.Oh, wait, wait.And this is trolling me.Let's try again.No power.OK, so it's either the disk drive or the hard drive.

Let's try disk drive first.So taking that out.All of the pins that we have for the disk drive here look OK. I'm just going to unplug and put it back in, just to make sure.I'm getting a beep now, and it's spinning.

I think the light will come on in a second.The fan's spinning.It done this last time, didn't it?Light's not come on.Let me just push it now.Light's come on.

Could it potentially be this disk drive then?Interesting, because this is on now.The disk drive is causing a short, because look, that's not powering on now.This here is the connector and these two, so that one and the one below it are the two corresponding ones to the board.And I put that one there and this one there.That's 12 volts and ground shorted.

That is shorted to ground.Starting with a very, very low 0 .5 volts to see if anything gets warm.Right, I think we found our culprit.This on the thermal camera, I'm injecting 0 .5 volts.And look at that, this cap here is our culprit.Power's on, because again, the instant on.

There we go, we get the light.What an intriguing little fix.