I have not modded my xbox but soda was spilt on it 3 years ago. I brought it out a few days ago and turned it on and it gave a BLANK SCREEN......FRAG....."CHRISTMAS LIGHTS".....I went ahead and opened it up and there was no blown traces or sticky residue.....the dvd drive sounds like its reading but the hdd just knocks a few times and then nothin....I know that there are probably a lot of things that could be wrong but is there a few main places i can look at to see if there is anything wrong?
I'm afraid there's not a lot you can do about Xmas lights. Normally it's a BIOS corruption and a modchip tends to be the only fix!