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Condition & GradingThe Original Xbox Clock Capacitor Is Eating Your ConsoleEvery 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 1.5 boards it has a well-earned reputation for leaking electrolyte as it ages. That fluid is corrosive. It creeps out from under the capacitor, eats the copper traces around it, and does all of this silently while th

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