4/3/2025: Console Madness!

song of the post: Consequence - Incubus

today (techically yesterday at the time of writing this) i found an original xbox in my garage!!!

this was a pretty random find, but my garage is full of all kinds of random things. i just saw it sitting on a shelf! since i was too scared to walk over there, i made my mom go over and get it.

it was really dusty, obviously. so i took it inside and cleaned the poor thing like it was some stray dog. because it is! who would leave an xbox all alone in a hot garage like that ?

anyway, it was time to see if it WORKED! i plugged it in, and to my surprise it did! ...sort of?

it was good to see the disc tray still worked, because it opened immediately!!! and The Xbox Demon you will soon learn why i call it that gave me a little gift. a Halo: Combat Evolved disc. i already have two of these but it's always nice to have another.

i also noticed it's fan was really loud. weird, but i'm not surprised. i thought that'd be all the noise it'd make... until:


What The Actual Fuck. i have never heard anything make that noise Ever.

that was scary... but i continued on.

the first time i turned it on, i didn't do with the AV cables plugged in. so, i did it again. with the cables. and i got greeted by a lovely error message:
Your Xbox requires service. Please Xbox Call Customer Support.
... damn.

it showed "Error 07", which is an HDD error. that explains the weird noises... it's fixable, i think, but i'm not the best at this sort of stuff. i'm going to try and learn anyway. i need this xbox to work!!!

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it may be broken, but i'm glad to have it join my xbox roster. he's a bit of an outcast, considering all of my other xboxes are "s" or "slim." i love him the same regardless.

he's not dead dead, but like...