it is your xbox, you can try to look on youtube for a tut on how to fix

Specialk17 wrote Trying to fix my old falcon so I don't have to trash it. When I turn it on, it all begins to power up (fan starts), then almost instantly goes to 3 Red Rings and the fan powers down. My power brick is still orange. Any ideas as to what may be my issue?

Towl Trick it? that works

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Find the secondary code. Hold the sync button and press the eject button.
4 lights - 0 1 light-1 2 lights-2 3 lights-3. Find it out then we can help you more

So I tried this, and I just kept getting 4 flashing red lights flashing really fast.

Edit:
Just kidding, they go 4 - 4 - 3 - 1

Solution: YouTube.com

Yeah. I looked it up. Had to be a short. Loosened by heatsinks and at least it boots up a little bit now. Now I'm just stuck on 1 red light with a 1033 error. But its progress.

Specialk17 wrote Yeah. I looked it up. Had to be a short. Loosened by heatsinks and at least it boots up a little bit now. Now I'm just stuck on 1 red light with a 1033 error. But its progress.

1033 is e79 in rare cases it doesnt display that on the screen but with a jtag it is allways a a nand related problem it is likely you flashed an image with the wrong smc or one of the smc wires came loose, a solution could be to send it to someone for a reflash or solder up a nand flasher yourself and reflash that way

I realized that a JTAG wire connecting to my RF board had come off. Soldered it back on, now were at 1 light, 1022. Getting closer.

Sorry for posting all this, helps me work through it when I can see what I've done.