aarondatechguy

Yes. 

Oh my god. that is one dirty board. Nice work on cleaning it! cant believe it still works

Fan was fine. Had the system running Forza 5 for over an hour and like you said thermals are already pretty high in the console. But this seemed to work just fine. Fan sped up when it needed to.
 
Happy Days all round

Evening All,
So I have this Xbox One recovered from a house fire. That happened 4months ago and while removing the whole we found it.
The unbelievable thing is it actually still works. 
I have cleaned boards before nothing like this.
Looking for some suggestions about the best way to do it.
I was thinking of submerging it in Isopropyl alcohol and then just gently rubbing it off with a microfibre cloth but just not sure how the capacitors and stuff will go submerged.
Even a bit concerned about the APU. I need to work out how to take the cross bracket thing off and obviously I would replace the thermal paste but yeah, more just want a bit of guidance 
Has no value to me, just doing it for something to do. We played on it for about an hour this arvo and didn't have any trouble.
 
TIA
 

I might be wrong, but it looks to me like it's just getting a bit old.  Since it has fluorescent bulbs inside that light up the screen, it'll get dimmer over time.  Usually after running a few minutes they get brighter as the bulbs warm up, but over the years they just get dimmer and dimmer, unfortunately.  I have an old Acer monitor from around the same time and it's starting to have the same issues.