Tutorial written by : Superfro

Time to clean house

Don’t be afraid to use a little electrical tape, as you can see I’m stuffing my chip inside, and running the 4 wires out of the back along the side (top of picture).

All buttoned up…

Ready to put it back in the XBOX

Now to get this drive to fit in the black tray, (it’s a little wider), in the corner near controller port #1, that black plastic thing is just in the way, so I’m going to Dremel it down to make it fit, you could just cut it off but I think it will work better just trimming.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It’s a tight fit but you can see that I shaved off half of the O, and its now more of a U. The screw from the bottom still fits, it just sits between half plastic and half metal casing.

Cosmetics

You should be able to unsnap the Front Plate from your old DVD-Rom, and the one that was on your new DVD-Rom, mine didn’t fit exactly, I had to trim the tray a little but it looks good now…

Playing with the EJECT button now…. (evil cackle here).

In closing

Make sure you try to route all your wires down (like the splitter for power) or else you’ll never get that top back on. And when putting the drive in the black plastic holder you need to make sure you align it up far enough towards the front so that it opens/closes correctly, Don’t be afraid to bundle up some masking tape or something to lift the front of the drive up or anything. And if you want to tape the whole drive down to the plastic thing to keep it from moving it’s a good idea too. Now you’ve had a lot of fun with this you can wire in some new LED’s so you can see the LED activity. Man this thing sounds like its going to fly away when reading CDR’s.

Once everything is hooked up you can play with a audio CD and the MS Dashboard, if you don’t have any signals hooked up it goes nuts and starts skipping tracks. The light should be flashing green while the tray is open, and stop once the tray closes.

Hopefully I didn’t screw anything up, I tried to document what I did exactly. It should be enough info to get it working.

-Superfro

Greets to everyone in the homebrew scene.