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You can rewire the Yellow Power/communication cord plugged into the back of the Xbox DVD from the Xbox Motherboard. I found that there are 2 ways to do this. Get a spare Yellow Cable for the DVD to cut and connect to a PC power cable (the red black and yellow ones) or, what I found is that you can use other cables plugged into you xbox motherboard as several use the same connector to plugin to the motherboard as the back of the xbox DVD. For instance, I had a spare XBOX case and used the cable/plug from the part that plugs from one of the four front controller ports into the motherboard and cut this.
I then re-arranged the cables and dis-regarded the ones I didn't need from the diagrams at the bottom of this post. -eg, unplugged the seperate cables from the plug.
Here are some technical bits and pieces you may find handy:
Where the yellow cable plugs into the back of your Xbox drive there are 12 pins:
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-|07 08 09 10 11 12|-
1: Ground
2: +12 V
3: Tray In (goes to tray out solder pad)
4: Tray Out (goes to tray in solder pad)
5: Ground
6: +12 V
7: Ground
8: +5 V
9: Ser. Data - NOT USED ?
10: Ready (goes to M1 solder pad)
11: Eject
12: +5 V
IGNORE everything but the power pins and the ground pins for the PC - Even the DVD eject cables as the DVD can be ejected from within windows!
Here is a config for the PC Power cable:
Drive power connectors, both large ("Molex") and small (floppy power) should have one red (5V), one yellow (12V) and two black (ground) wires. Some brand name PCs have PSUs with weird wire colouring, though.
Wire both 5v cables from the Pins to the one red PC cable, wire the 2 12v cables into the yellow 12v cable, then wire the 1 ground into one of the PC ground cables and one into the other.
When this is complete, plug in the cable and things will work PERFECTLY - HAS BEEN TESTED.
NOTE: Make sure you don't plug in the new DVD plug upside-down into the DVD as it can be done and it can harm the DVD or your PC.
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