Retro Consoles

Condition & Grading

The Original Xbox Clock Capacitor Is Eating Your Console

Every unserviced original Xbox from the early production runs is carrying a small time bomb on its motherboard. It's called the clock capacitor – a stubby little component whose only job is to keep the system clock ticking while the console is unplugged – and on revision 1.0 through

Original Xbox

The Original Xbox, the Duke, and the Capacitor Time Bomb

Somewhere inside almost every early original Xbox, a capacitor the size of a fingernail is quietly deciding whether that console lives or dies. If yours has been sitting in a loft since the Halo 2 days, the decision may already have been made – and you won't know until