I Bought the First Broken Xbox Series S on eBay - Let's FIX It!

[@Tronicsfix]

The best place for custom PCB manufacturing. JLCPCB: $2 for 1-4 Layer PCBs, sign up to get $18 new user coupons; jlcpcb.com/RHS What do you think of my "fix"?

[@0zux45]

you could've done a custom Flex PCB with a HDMI Connector as a Fix, you even have JLCPCB as sponsor :D

[@onasazi]

Nice fix Steve! Really impressed!!!!

[@technicmasters7936]

Depending on the HDMI cable you have, it may fit without any modufication...

[@willedarcher3174]

I have a problem. My mom a40 wont charge or turn on and i need help

[@caoslegit]

i have a digital edition ps5 that is not showing on tv. Can you fix to me? And how how?

[@richmello2710]

I love how he goes from having hair, to not having hair during the sponsor ad, to having hair again all while wearing the same tshirt LOL

[@2002THEBOY]

he's tricking us lol

[@enginstud8852]

@@2002THEBOY His videos looks very weird,It's sure he hides things in the editing of his videos

[@casualbachelor]

6:43 The best part of Steve's videos, the PERFECT amount of thermal paste.

[@dequan916]

LMAO he know he trolling people.

[@Tronicsfix]

Lol!

[@KathisEvoli]

I repaired my old backpack because of your videos. I mean it isnt something technical but the idea/spirit of repairing stuff totally get me because of your videos. 😊

[@Tronicsfix]

I love hearing stuff like this. Great work!

[@0errab0]

I think that it's awesome the way that Steve is always moving forward and trying to fix newer devices and being willing to learn as he goes.

[@vinyminotaur2694]

Thanks to you I managed to fix my friends xbox one which was turning off randomly. It was a faulty power supply and it got replaced. Now it's working like nothing happened. Love your videos!

[@Tronicsfix]

Nice work!

[@neox2k742]

Hello Steve I‘m from Germany. I love to watch your videos. Please never ever stop to repair things and do so great videos. Best wishes.

[@Tronicsfix]

Glad you like them!

[@tekkenfan01]

Come visit

[@waltersobchak7275]

You are probably the most dedicated KZbinr I know. All those subs and you still take the time to reply.

[@Tronicsfix]

Wish I had to time reply to everyone but I try to respond to some

[@hectorj.romanp.]

@@Tronicsfix , yes. So far, you and another one that I don't remember are the only youtubers that have liked and answered one of my comments. You are kind , humble, dedicated and competent.

[@SimpleShaun80]

it makes me really angry that they don't make these parts readily available, I really hope the right to repair movement really gains traction.... donated to louis rossman, and happy to fight the cause. good job Steve :)

[@salsinger9985]

louis rossman should see this video 😁

[@juansalas2882]

you know that Microsoft and Sony have 24 month warranty, at least in Europe, so no need to repair anything yourself yet

[@SteWood]

Im gonna guess at the original owner didn’t even get the case off, which with how that T8 looked is a good job haha!

[@Tronicsfix]

Ya, probably not.

[@SteWood]

@@Tronicsfix Ha ha. As always great work Steve!

[@MrJaiimez]

See my first thought was maybe they did, realised they can't get the correct hdmi port, so put it back together using some kind of electric screwdriver and over tightened it until it stripped.

[@Kyharra]

@@MrJaiimez I bet this KZbinr strips their screws a lot then since he uses an electric screwdriver sometimes

[@sunshine_bypolar8769]

ye

[@TheVillan1980]

8:23 wig removed 8:58 wig refitted The perfect amount of hairpiece adhesive...😉

[@Tronicsfix]

Lol!

[@thomasjburns100]

Lockdown haircut, naughty ;)

[@luukie0000]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@FranciscoGoodface]

LOL I can't stop laughing, JLCPCB is so good it blows your mind... or at least your hair

[@Alpejohn]

Haha, best comment 🤣

[@Del_UK]

A trick I was taught with screws with stripped heads, was to use a thin rubber band. Place the rubber band on the screw tip and then you should be able to grip a little better to remove damaged screw head.

[@ControllerSupported]

Dude, I keep finding myself watching you for hours while I play some games. I have started repairing and modding consoles and controllers again, but what you do is at a whole different level. I love the level of detail man! Very impressive, I am taking notes and slowly building my tools up. Thanks for your awesome work!

[@chrisbishop3687]

You truly are the master of making variable length connectors and promo hair cuts work

[@kumaranricky]

Man, i really want a neighbor like him in the next door.

[@cdr_wolfie1636]

You definitely inspired me to get to know electrictronics and stuff! I'll be modding 3ds's with capture boards here shortly and that'll involve some careful soldering, it's going to be fun regardless of what happens! 😀

[@TheJared38]

" *sigh* That's not how I wanted that to go, but oh well". Gave me a good laugh. Extremely relatable. ...good lord, is that relatable.

[@baohoaily]

ooops wrong hole?

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

When you realise that the only moving part in the XSS is the fan.

[@Tronicsfix]

Ha, ha...true!

[@AliYassinToma]

Wait what ? Isn't that the case always ? 🤔 Oh the blu-ray drive

[@ShadowEli94]

@@AliYassinToma and on all models til the series there was a spinning HDD. The series and ps5 have on board SSD

[@raychii7361]

I remember when the louder part of console was the disc drive. So whe now whe calculated the quality of a gaming console on hiw silent is the fan.

[@AliYassinToma]

@@ShadowEli94 Ouch hdd? last time i had one was in 2012

[@joshnorris6238]

My original ps4 recently started overheating, even after a basic cleaning. Because of your videos, I had the balls to completely disassemble it and replace the dried out thermal paste. Works like new again. I would have never attempted that a year ago.

[@crackdownmemestv750]

honestly I'm 13 , and was very interested in console repair and Steve is my role model , great and useful information and tips , kinda funny and cool, I'm currently don't have much knowledge in the console repair realm but none the less want to be the part of that community , great work Mr Steve hope you can make more great and useful content like this.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Godspeed mate, and always remember to take all precautions in dealing in electronics, their power supplies, and capacitors.

[@crackdownmemestv750]

@@MiguelBaptista1981 I'll sure will sir

[@nagyferenc6814]

Nice work Steve. I think you do your best in this case. It's always complicated find the right solution if you don't have the right replace part. Have a nice day!

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks 👍

[@Cat.Gaming]

Wait, this video was uploaded 2 hours ago, how does it say this comment was from a day ago?!

[@kaylons]

@@Cat.Gaming If you look closely at the purple badge they have, you have your answer.

[@surelyyeah]

@@Cat.Gaming become a member and enjoy the benefits just like him

[@joshuabaker784]

Hahahah I have agree, that was a boss level workaround fix right there

[@soviut303]

I wouldn't mind seeing you do a deep dive and attempt to fix that faulty HDMI port. Or at least a teardown to figure out exactly what went wrong with it (it looked split open).

[@nathanlopez5610]

you'd think that it would be impossible to break a Series S unless if you intentionally meant to break it, but alas, here we are

[@Tronicsfix]

Ha, ha...yep!

[@WillFuI]

You would think it would apps be hard to break a ps5

[@fabianweber6937]

@@WillFuI not that hard... it just falling off a table can cause the hdmi port to be badly damaged.

[@TheGamerGuy1981]

@@fabianweber6937 If you put your console in a place that's possible... That person's a special kind of idiot.

[@BasicPixell]

you obviously dont have children. They destroy anything and literally everything

[@Sleepless4Life]

One year later and I still enjoy this guy vids! That's what happens when ur a great and interesting content creator. Let's get up to a ONE MILLION subscribers my man! 🤛

[@Valay.]

Im so happy that an Original Xbox One HDMI Port worked in the Xbox Series S, That makes me feel better with my 8 year old original Xbox One :D

[@Joshuaa1312]

I'm so amazed by your skills. I would love to learn everything you do.

[@Tronicsfix]

You can do it! Just takes practice

[@kylerclarke2689]

I love the look of that console.

[@Tronicsfix]

It's really not bad.

[@kylerclarke2689]

@@Tronicsfix particularly I like the compact engineering a lot. That fan is gigantic! Nothing against the ps5 It's just... You can get great thermals out of anything if it's big enough ;D

[@coylezo]

@@kylerclarke2689 I agree. The ps5 still looks like a console on the inside in terms of the hardware setup, these new x-boxs look more like small factor PCs.

[@zankoebrahim2967]

Ikr

[@kylerclarke2689]

@@coylezo yes! Huge fan of sff PC's and creatively fitting a lot of power into a small package.

[@RexusKing]

I really like these type of fixes, aesthetically not perfect, but functionally perfect. And since you used the part you already had, you didn't create extra carbon footprint by order new parts!

[@JasonFuss1992]

Got to love how you can literally use a part from 20 years ago into something today and it still works

[@AlphaMachina]

Man, you're good at this. Moving those little pins over while soldering them is kind of a pain. You maybe could have reheated the big socket pins, and pressed the entire socket over to that side to make the data pins line up better.

[@zombiekill223]

Nice work around with the hdmi port! It's does seem to be easier to sacrifice soft plastic than hard plastic.

[@Tronicsfix]

Plus, I can always go back and solder in a new port once I can get one that is made for this console. If I shaved off the plastic case I'd have to replace the case.

[@robertdufour2456]

Dude! You are awesome! Each episode is compelling.

[@BlutigerFuchs]

Great video Steve, the horror of stripped screws is very familiar to me, I two stripped Y-Type screws in an Iphone XS when I tried to repair it, had to use my Dremel tool to drill through them.

[@alliseeify]

Northridge fix has the correct hdmi ports in stock. Nice job getting it back up and running.

[@markbailey7369]

Have you ever made, or considered making, a video or series about how to solder? I do phone repair and we don't offer soldering services, I personally have some basic soldering experience but no micro soldering. I love how you explain things and was just curious.

[@Tronicsfix]

Yep! I have an entire soldering course...and the first course is free! www.gameconsolerepairschool.com

[@RedHaloManiac95]

Pretty nice soldering, only thing I like to do (because OCD) is after I get it soldered, I put flux and hit each one with my iron and drag it down so I get nice smooth solder joints with no blobs

[@rrebel9939]

Wow what a way to make good use of old part, kudos to you TronicFix!

[@BlackLotusFlame]

Another great video, I love repair videos and people like yourself and Louis Rossmann that work hard to help those who appreciate the craft.

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks! Love his videos too!

[@12345.......]

And Steve's soldering is better that what Louis can do, "in my opinion" :)

[@mikecruz6916]

Hey Steve great as always i see nothing wrong with the pins when you were putting on the hdmi port

[@AToriginal]

This video is the perfect representation of the word "resourcefulness", you just fixed something that was not supposed to be fixable yet. Excellent!!

[@DrTaunu]

Stripped screws: use a rubber band wide enough to cover the screw and push the band in the hole with the screwdriver and screw it right out. Don't know if it works on hex screws though.

[@Blu3ManiC]

Nice fix! Sometimes you just have to use what you have on hand but that’s no different than using a bodge wire. If it works it works. The only other concern I see is it looked like that hdmi port didn’t have support legs that fit the through hole.

[@qui3041]

Didn't the original Xbox One have HDMI 1.4b? and doesn't the Series S have HDMI 2.1? Is the HDMI functionality built on to the motherboard? I am amazed that you made it work.

[@bluesmokegamer272]

So shaving the cable shroud makes your connector look bigger...........this video brought to you by Manscaped :P

[@plageran]

The cable got 7-zipped XD

[@razzikhan1980]

Watched your max videos, Only man in the world extra extra happy with the perfect amount of thermal paste 🙂

[@luan931]

It's amazing how easy it seems to open and repair this console.

[@sonecaii8306]

Use a piece of rubber in the head of the stripped screw to fill the voids a give grip. Helps a lot.

[@stan110]

1:55 I want to say you kinda inspired me to fix an old Nintendo DS game card I found recently. Years ago I dropped it with my Nintendo DS into the ocean.

[@JimNichols]

To reiterate you can take a rubber band and stretch it over a T socket and make it grip a slightly damaged screw enough to remove with less worry.

[@fabianslyszewski2132]

Steve nice video always entertaining watching you fix the console Keep up the work

[@cipwreck68]

You should really do a video with the retro future. My two favorite repair channels

[@fusi0nn]

Great job Steve! First successful fix of the new Xbox Series S!! World record right there.

[@RedlineRob]

I'm sure there are some electrical engineers that are super picky with solder, but honestly I've always been on the mindset even if it's ugly, if it works, then you're good to go.

[@hi-its-me22]

I'm sure you know already @TronicsFix - on stripped screws - if you throw a "wide" rubber band in between the screw and the screwdriver you can sometimes get a better "bite" to help remove them. :)

[@straubulous9511]

I love the little Spyderco!

[@GiovanniMejiaSantana]

9:06 I felt like I was who repaired the Xbox SS. Excellent video, as always

[@Inev-1]

Great vid it’s really cool to see all the mother boards and parts that go into different things

[@robertandruw7647]

Awesome video as always. I think you may find some HDMI cable where the head is a little bit longer than normal.

[@matthewhardwick8208]

My Series S has that weird electrical smell that's fairly common in new electronics. It's not overheating but if I put my nose close to the black circle vent I can smell it and feel the warm air

[@scern7826]

Same

[@scern7826]

My pc one x and switch all did the same thing tho

[@scern7826]

Series s gets pretty hot because of its size

[@Ouija8]

Awesome fix but does the Xbox series S use a 2.1 hdmi? So wouldn’t u lose quality going back to a 2.0? Or is that only board based, non the less awesome fix!

[@al.d9592]

The amount of thermal paste was perfect!

[@Mr.StrongVII]

Wow this was very cool to watch, keep it up with the new Xbox console repair videos! Would love to see more/ different repairs!

[@redstarwarrior85]

If you want to sell the console, you may want to create a small 2” HDMI extension dongle that will fit or perhaps look outside of the consoles for possible replacement ports like televisions.

[@Tucanazo69]

Your videos are kind of relaxing 😆

[@critikalfade]

I enjoy your videos man, keep it up, I also try to fix my electronic devices, it doesn't always go good but when it does that feeling is incredible

[@jbtec5730]

Jesus, you worked it so well it's actually incredible. Great job Steve!

[@vgamedude12]

Isn't the replacement port going to be an earlier hdmi version and won't work the same and have all the features of newer hdmi 2.1 ports?

[@KindOfHero]

Steve, could you speak a bit more about your working bench, the working matt and what lightning you use? Thanks!

[@marcianzero_yt]

Great to see another console fixed. Good job. I guess with the alien HDMI port it would have made sense to clean the GND holes and align the port with a little pushing to the side. Solder the small Pins first. The GND only after... It looked like that way you wouldn’t have had to bend each pin...

[@sd1rager]

I love my series S. Interesting to see the internals and a repair on one.

[@davidbass6780]

Oh now I think I understand why flux works so well. It keeps you from making a mess with the solder? No accidental unwanted contacts being connected by dripping solder off the iron or whatever is used to press the pins into the solder? And provides some resistance to reduce wobbly hands making a mess?

[@OliverHoerold]

inspired by your videos I started to try to fix old hardware. Now I have an Apple Keyboard that is differently broken than before, a broken 27" iMac that I want to transform to a monitor (I have the parts, but don't dare to replace the electronics), and a disassembled Roomba 3xx that I can't fix. My apartment looks like I am a hoarder, but I still try to fix stuff ;)

[@Tronicsfix]

That's awesome!

[@Rattriix]

So satisfying to see that screw go without a big workaround

[@Tronicsfix]

You're not kidding! It's a great feeling when I'm filming too...don't have to change tools and get everything set up again.

[@SerpentHeart32]

@@Tronicsfix I'll screw you, you screw! :-D

[@thegametable1243]

I'm not a professional, but channels like yours have gotten me to repair countless phones, game consoles, and even appliances.

[@eyesofvenus]

I love the way sponsor segment is from future Steve.

[@Crylhound]

Can you do a video of how to replace the batteries on all PS 4 Models since there is this issue with not being able to play physical games when the battery dies and there is no server connection? I think this is a good opportunity rn to explain the issue and show how to deal with it.

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

If you want to remove a nearly-but-not-quite-stripped screw easier, just put a wide, thin elastic band over the hole and push the screwdriver tip in over top of the rubber.

[@BockworschtSoldier]

To "sacrifiece" a cheap HDMI cable isnt a big price I think. Well done man!

[@G_Machine_Joe]

Good fix, but I don't know if it's sellable now with the way the port sits inside the case. It doesn't have any side-to-side or up-down support around it from the case like the original. You could use a 2-part epoxy around the port on the board to stabilize it I suppose, but then all future HDMI cables would still need to be reworked to fit.

[@Ascending11]

You should buy a set of screw extractors for striped screws.

[@bjarkeistruppedersen8213]

Maybe you should have a talk with Louis Rossmann about his right to repair work 🙂

[@MP-vd1ck]

Yes please

[@lewisbaynham3858]

You have inspired me to start a repair buisness from home, im in wales uk thank you for the videos

[@josipcop1979]

08:23 that is one hell of fast haircut you got there mate!

[@aroundtheworldfacts76]

Hi. Great job on fixing that xbox. Dont you some of that broken xbox series x consoles. The series x hdmi port might be the same as the series s.

[@zohaibsiddiqi715]

I feel like Steve should try to repair vr headsets. It’s probably rare to find a broken one but Steve does the impossible sometimes.

[@Jflo.333]

I love watching these videos, even though I have no clue what you are talking about. Also are you selling the items you fix?

[@picodegallio3255]

Bro your videos are awesome, as an xbox fan this is an amazing and great fix thanks.

[@ethylg7572]

That was super impressive! Nicely done! 👏🏻

[@MrJohniemj]

I think the faulty hdmi port had some kind of extender attached to it. Maybe you can remove that and put it to the new one to make it longer.

[@CocoaEm]

I have been fixing graphics cards. They are quite easy to fix but im definitely going to need to buy a board preheater soon.

[@dean6708]

I've watched enough of this guys videos, finally got subscribed,idk why I do this lol

[@rrutter81]

Super creative fix! Ive had to some jank fixes like that myself every so often. Hopefully right to repair makes it through congress. Im tired of this proprietary parts hording. Xerox is also one of the worst. Cant wait to see more!

[@CHerrera1716]

Nice work man, you are good fixing things

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks 👍

[@ReviewArchiveUSA420]

Beginning of video: I bought the very first broken SouljaGame console on Ebay. Let's see if I can fix it! End of video: Throws it away in the trash. Love the videos dude! Keep up the great Work!

[@mikeshobbiesandrandomstuff]

Great job as always 👍. I would watch a future video of this when the correct parts become available

[@TheDaddyW123]

You should make a custom 1 inch M to F HDMI adapter to ever so slightly extend the port accessibility. That way you could still use any cable and not have to shave it down.

[@tyson145]

Keep fixing everything you can! It's time we stick it to companies HARD! Well done!

[@B0redom13]

Awesome work. Love learning along with your vids

[@Tronicsfix]

Glad you like them!

[@camerongallo5940]

0:28 when you don't have a torx screw driver set but still think you have the ability to repair the console(whoever opened it before you)

[@TRASHBOAT91]

I love these videos and seeing if you can fix it

[@Tronicsfix]

So glad you're enjoying them! They're usually fun to make.