Snip Snip: Removing the Original Xbox Clock Capacitor

Goal: Remove the ticking time bomb (poorly made capacitor) attached to the original Xbox motherboard (on most revisions of the console).

There are plenty of good tutorials with pictures and videos on how to do this so seek those out if looking to do this project yourself. Overall pretty easy to do if you have the proper screwdriver bits and are willing to just remove the cap and not replace it with a higher quality one or other power source.

The un-touched board.

The clock capacitor.

Board after cap removal.

Post-removal test. Seems to be working…

…yep, success!