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I worked up the courage today to replace my optical drive on my Xbox One (Day One Edition). I followed the steps, put it all back together, and now I can’t get it to power on. I’ve checked the front plate ribbon, the connectors to the speaker, wifi, and optical drive. I’ve tried powering it on with the button, a controller, and a remote. Can’t get it to power up, no sound, nothing. The power brick is solid orange (I even tried cleaning that out also). While I was working on the optical drive, I also cleaned as much dust out of it as possible, including the fan and heat sink. It was working pretty good before I cracked it open. I’m not sure what I did wrong, or what I could have missed. Any ideas?
Got it working. I feel can’t believe what I did wrong. Short answer, the power cord to the optical drive was plugged in upside down. I decided to take the Xbox apart one more time to see if there was something wrong with the underside of the motherboard. As I was taking out the optical drive, I noticed that I had plugged the power cable into the drive upside down. How did I even manage to do that? Twice! Once I corrected that and got it all back together, it powered up nicely. I spent way to long focusing on the ribbon to the front plate.
